i get messages all the time from different people who have been following my one to one million
journey and they're they're reaching out to say thank you they're reaching out to say hi they're
reaching out to give me like maybe a tip or like an idea but probably the most common message that
i get from people goes along the lines of hey i've been following your journey for a long time
now it's crazy how far you've gotten i want to do something similar where should i get started and
each time i get a message like this i genuinely want to help this person so i try to think through
what is the best piece of advice that i could give them on how to get started and so for me i
just think what's been the most helpful for me on my journey and i usually reply with something like
focus on growing yourself focus on compounding your habits focus on just learning each day
and what i've noticed is when i give a reply like this people tend to almost immediately excuse what
i have to say it's just not the answer that they want to hear see i know what they actually want
to know is like the secret formula for success like go do this thing deposit money here try this
side hustle you've probably heard the story of michael jordan he's one of the greatest basketball
players of all time and michael jordan got cut from his high school basketball team he didn't
make the team because he wasn't good enough to play on the team so what did he do did he go to
the school principal and say hey this isn't fair like i deserve to be on that team because of this
and this and you you need to put me on that team because you know like make an extra spot because
it's not fair no he could have done that and it maybe even would have worked but that's
not what he did what he did instead was he took ownership he said hey i might not be good enough
to be on this team but i'm gonna make myself into the greatest player of all time he focused
on becoming better he practiced longer and harder than everyone else and then he went on to become
one of the greatest basketball players the nba has ever seen instead of focusing on some hacks to get
him on his high school basketball team he focused on becoming so good that they just couldn't ignore
him if you've never seen the show undercover billionaires like one of my favorite shows i
highly recommend it they take a billionaire they give them a hundred dollars they give them a beat
up old truck and they drop them off in a random city in the u.s where they've never been they
change their name take away all their contacts all their influence all their resources and give them
the challenge of trying to make a million dollar business in just 90 days and the first guy they
have do this is a guy named glenn he i think he's the guy that originally came up with the idea for
undercover billionaire because he wanted to prove that success was possible for anyone
at the very beginning of the show glenn hat ends up having a really hard time he's like sleeping in
his truck it's like negative degree weather he's freezing cold he keeps waking up in the night and
just throwing up and what they actually never tell you in the show is at the time they were filming
the show glenn was recovering from cancer and actually undergoing treatment during the entire
filming process of the show he couldn't eat normal food so instead he had a like a feeder that was
connected to his stomach that was hidden under his clothes where he would you know put a little
capsule in that would feed him food and no one in this show actually knew about this so the show
starts and within a month he's already worked his way through different side hustles and turned that
hundred dollars into a house that he's working and renovating and flipping he builds a team
not knowing anyone in the city he's at he raises capital starts a barbecue restaurant
goes and competes in this crazy competition and they won't spoil the ending and how much
he ends up actually making but i will say it is over half a million dollars he did all that
while recovering from cancer which is a hundred dollars in a beat up old truck when nobody knew
who he was and he was able to accomplish that because he had built a foundation for success
that meant he was able to succeed no matter the circumstances i mean almost any book out there if
you read a book by somebody who's hyper successful who went from nothing to just this hyper success
they're going to tell you that they did it by focusing on building the foundation first and then
everything else came secondary which is the exact opposite strategy that 99 of people are attempting
when they're trying to become successful what they're trying to do is they'll say hey
i want to be super successful so what i'm going to do is i'm going to find this super awesome tactic
this super awesome strategy and formula that's going to get me hyper successful and then once i'm
successful you know i'll know how to be successful however what people who have started from nothing
and built out this crazy successful empire say is that they first focus on becoming a successful
person adopting the mindset of a successful person on learning on building better habits
on building a better routine and then success comes to them and i totally understand like i
remember when i was the guy that was looking for the secret formula to success i was focusing on
the tactics on the methodology because i thought that is where i would find the success that i was
looking for but success isn't a formula it's a lifestyle and i'm not talking about driving a
ferrari or owning a yacht or owning a mansion or i'm not even talking about having a lot of money
okay i'm talking about success i'm talking about success in all areas of life i'm talking about
building wealth yes i'm talking about having a successful marriage being a successful parent
building successful friendships living a life that's just filled with joy and peace and just
success radiates in every area of your life how many times have you seen a person who has a lot
of money but they're absolutely miserable their family's falling apart they're addicted to drugs
and everything about their life is just a mess yes they have a lot of money but would you actually
consider them to be successful i personally wouldn't because the thing you want money for
isn't so that you could just have a lot of numbers in your bank account it's not so you could have a
mansion it's not so you have a ferrari the reason you want money is because you want to be happy you
want money so that you can live a life you enjoy you want to travel so you can be happy you want a
mansion so you can be happy you want this ferrari or this nice car or to be able to buy anything you
want because you want to be happy and so if you end up getting all the money and all the things
but you're not actually happy then you haven't succeeded at your goal you're not successful and
usually the people that end up being miserable when they make much money that ends up happening
because that person never originally built that success foundation and that's what i mean when i
say success is a lifestyle it's about becoming a better version of you it's about pushing yourself
to your limits in an awesome amazing way where you live up to your potential and become the best
version of you physically possible and obviously that's not like there is no actual destination
on the scale of the best version of you that is a journey that just never ends and you're always
going to be on but i've personally found that the people that take that journey are happier
they're wealthier they have better families they have better lives and their lives are filled with
peace and joy and they're able to achieve the success that they were after in the first place
you see somebody who's at peace and they're happy people like to gravitate towards people like that
which means they're going to get more opportunity they're going to get more help they're going to
have access to more resources on the other hand people who have not built that success foundation
they're at home they're struggling they're fighting with their wife they're fighting with
their husband they have a horrible relationship with their kids you don't think that that carries
over into their journey of trying to build wealth of course it does you're gonna have a harder time
reaching your goals if you are struggling hardcore at home you're gonna have a hard time reaching
your goals if you have horrible relationships with your friends you're gonna have a hard
time reaching your goals if you're a bitter angry unstable person if you take somebody's
undisciplined unorganized and you're like hey go start a business it's gonna fall apart because
they haven't built that success foundation but if you take somebody who has built that foundation
they're organized they're disciplined their home life's going great they have close friendships
they're a happy awesome positive person they've built amazing habits that they're compounding
every single day and you give them 100 bucks a beat up old truck and drop them off anywhere in
the country it doesn't matter the circumstances they will find a way to succeed because it's in
their nature to be successful success permeates every aspect of their life so that's why when
people reach out to me and they ask me you know how can i do something similar to your journey how
can i start like where do i start at i don't tell them some tactic or i don't tell them some formula
like yes on my youtube channel i do share ideas that i'm trying or different ways i'm trying
to build my wealth and you guys are welcome to follow those follow along with those and
and learn about those but the part that i really try to push across to people and say
hey this is going to make you successful is that part of improving yourself working on
yourself building those habits that you're compounding all the time learning each day
usually the first thing i say is hey listen to audiobooks every single day listen to some of
the most successful people on the planet have them pour into your lives on a daily basis and
that success is going to be contagious watch your life change as you take this in and start applying
it to your everyday this is genuinely what i 1000 believe and although it's not the answer you want
to hear and it's not the thing you want to hear maybe look at that and examine that and say hey
you know if most people want to hear a certain answer and they have tunnel vision because they're
looking for only that answer maybe that's why most people are average maybe that's why most people
don't find success because success is an average and it's in the place that most people aren't
looking and they aren't focusing on and they won't even pay attention to when somebody grabs their
face and says this is what you gotta do which is what happens to me a lot i have friends that are
like they want to to build their wealth they want to be successful i'm like just do this please i i
beg some of these people like please like i i like go do this like here read this book read this book
read this book start this daily habit no matter how hard i try it's just like they they won't hear
it they can't see it i just like it surprised me crazy because i'm like i want to help you so bad
i want to see your life change so badly i want to see you become and reach your maximum potential
anyways like when i started recording this i actually had an entire different topic for
this video that i was gonna get into and i'd like written out like my notes like my you know bullet
points but i ended up kind of getting into this what i was talking about so much and i skipped all
of that so i'll save that for a future video i was going to talk about extreme ownership so i'll talk
about extreme ownership in a future video but today this is what i wanted to share because i
genuinely have this desire that like i feel almost discountability like i feel like all these people
watch me on youtube and i know everyone watching me every single subscriber is a real person with a
real life out there and some of the stories that i've read in the comments where i got messages
from you guys are going through some really difficult stuff some of you guys some of you guys
have been laid off from your job some of you guys are 50 years old you've been working for a company
they let you go and you have no idea what you're going to do some of you guys have lost your life
savings you're about to go bankrupt and i know you guys are listening to what i'm saying and so
i really hope that some of these videos are really helping you guys and so i want to communicate and
i want to give you guys the things that i feel like are the secrets that most people don't
recognize they don't know they can't see i want to share those things with you so you guys can watch
your life change i don't have a course i don't have a coaching program i don't have anything to
upsell you to from this video this is just me being genuine and saying hey i want to help you
and here's everything i got here's everything that i i've learned i'm still learning i'm still on my
journey but here's what i've learned is like these are the things that are getting me to
where at least i'm at currently these the things i'm hearing a lot of really successful people say
and i believe are going to help you and your journey reach where you want to go
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