How to Get Wealthy, Buy Your Time Back, and Get Sh*t Done
3 powerful thoughts to change your life
$24,000 please sir.
The original fixed price quote four months ago was $9000. Out of nowhere a supplier to my online business decided like a magical Disney fairy to up the price and think I wouldn’t know.
I’m no tightarse … but that’s a big freaking change in cost with zero warning. Naturally I told the bastards to stick it where the sun don’t shine.
I moved my entire business away from them in 57 minutes. This company was doing what we call in Australia “trying sh*t on.”
They wanted to see if they could get away with extortion.
Anyone can write an invoice and send it to an email address. But the only thing that gets the invoice paid is doing the work and being trusted.
What this dumbass business failed to realize is nothing in life works without trust.
If you can’t be trusted then no article with a sexy title like this one can ever help you in life. You’ll be a deadbeat forever unless you learn to be fiercely honest.
Assuming you’re willing to do that, the rest of this article works like a dream.
1. Get wealthy
I want to simplify the process for you.
It’s too easy to get caught up in complexity that stops goals from becoming reality. To get wealthy you have to find a way to add more value to people’s lives than you’re charging.
The easiest way to do it is with a side hustle.
A side hustle is an experiment you do outside of work hours with the intent to make money on the internet from it (eventually).
It’s this activity that will eventually make you wealthy. But first you have to get good at whatever it is. For me, it was writing.
I spent hours researching and practicing the craft. I became obsessed, the way a teenager becomes addicted to whatever the most popular video game is today.
Once the experiment is validated you then need internet users to know about it. That’s where social media comes in. Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok or Instagram will be your go-to platforms.
Your goal is to get in front of strangers with content and bring them into your world fuelled by your side hustle.
The final step is to intend to do it for 5+ years. You might get wealthy sooner, but for most, 5 years is a healthy timeline.
The best advice I ever got about money came from Naval Ravikant. I insist you read “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky).”
2. Buy your time back
The temptation is to use wealth to buy dumb stuff like luxury cars.
That’s what I call dumbass wealth. The best thing money can buy you is time. I often joke with my business partner that I don’t want to buy a Lambo, all I want is a virtual assistant to do all the tasks I don’t want to do.
That’s true luxury.
The good news is outsourcing parts of your life doesn’t require you to be as rich as Tom Cruise. You can do it for far less. The components you need are:
Zapier automation software
A low-cost virtual assistant for basic tasks
A solid tech stack of software that can run your online life
A higher-priced assistant for tasks that require more creativity
Once the donkey work is out of the way you can focus on doing the creative thinking and tasks that help you increase your overall income – while at the same time continuing to work your job until your side hustle income is higher than your salary.
3. Get sh*t done
This one might sound like it’s going to be productivity porn. It’s not.
Getting stuff done is all about managing your mental load. If your mind is full of crap you’re going to be inefficient and unable to do the tasks that set you free.
The best way to manage your mental load is to pick your battles.
Don’t make every tiny thing in your day into a huge drama. At the start of this article I told you a story about someone trying to extort money from me.
Rather than take them to court and easily crush them, I decided to lose about $3000 and let it go. The time I would lose fighting them would take time away from what I do best, which makes me ten times more money.
If you’re determined to always be right and win every battle, you’ll never have the peace and quiet + mental clarity to get the real work done that moves the needle in your life … and ultimately sets you free. That’s the harsh truth.
Most people are trained to major in minor things.
But it’s the major things you should give a sh*t about if you want to reach a level of success that doesn’t require running on a hamster wheel every day like some pawn in a chess game full of kings and queens.
Bonus strategy for those who want to become extraordinary
This one is on top of my original promise.
How you think determines everything in life. If you don’t have the life you want then you need to change your thinking. The fastest way is to upgrade your psychology.
That’s what I did. I saw a psychologist and went to Tony Robbins’s event Unleash the Power Within. These two things threw a spanner into my brain and jumbled up everything I’d ever learned in life.
Hell, if you want another killer tip then do this: write a badass list of everything you’re fearful of. Start with the smallest fears at the top and work your way down the page to your biggest fears.
What next?
You guessed it: start facing each fear.
Your psychology will change so fast you’ll become unstoppable. With a strong mind no challenge or goal will ever hold you back again.
People will say “NO.” You’ll just keep saying “but what about if we did X.”
Losers accept no. Reprogrammed minds always know there’s a way.
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This article was filtered as "spam" by my email. If I did not care to check what's inside the spam box, I might never have read this. It's a good thing I have not dismissed spam altogether. Really loved that bit about buying back time. There's really nothing more precious. If someone could figure out how to make more of it... Sounds like a business that cannot fail.
Thank you so much for sharing this :) Your advice sounds pretty straightforward and always hits the spot, that one was no exception. After reading your articles, I always feel like I’ve just had a conversation with my elder brother.