hey welcome back you're just in time for
coffee time with your host ex Google X
Facebook tech lead today I wanted to
tell you about five millionaire habits I
personally have as a male in there and I
must be on my fourth cup of coffee today
shout out to Nate O'Brien by the way who
gave me this idea from his channel and
he did the excellent video and inspired
me to give my top tips as an action
millionaire because I I don't think he
is one the first and perhaps most
important tip I think all millionaires
share and let me know what you think it
is in the comments below
I think it's recognizing and chasing
opportunity like really going after
opportunity when you see it quick pause
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description below so there are two
components here first is having the mind
open enough to recognize opportunity and
then the second is to actually go after
it chase it put in the hard work when
you see it you may have heard me say
before that a lot of my personal success
can be attributed to writing trends very
little of that is from a traditional
path where you go through school grind
your way through the career ladder and
eventually get to a higher position I
think that basic and normal grind while
very comfortable and there's nothing
wrong with it there's little chance of
actually making spectacular amounts of
money through that so it's really about
recognizing opportunity and going after
when you see it and you would be
surprised how many people let other
things stand in their way
some people they don't like a certain
brand a certain person they don't like
how someone looks so they refuse to work
with that person maybe they refuse to
give up their weekends and evening
nights where they're watching Game of
Thrones and people find excuses all the
time I remember back in the day when
apps were still new I would be working
on an app and I would be telling all my
co-workers about it and tell them hey
I'm making so much money on this it was
like $1,000 a day and they were all
programmers I told them to get in on it
too you just had to learn a few api's
and none of them seriously got into it
they barely took the time to read the
documentation they just sat back
laughing at it kind of ridiculing it
these people would be feeling
comfortable maybe even superior in their
nine-to-five jobs but the thing is if
you ever plan to leave that nine-to-five
job you need to have a healthy level of
respect for things outside the
traditional concept of a career I
tend to believe that the best education
you can give someone is the ability to
recognize the opportunity because if you
just tell somebody hey why don't you
just get a chemical engineering degree
and you're gonna grow up and become a
chemist or pharmacist then they learn to
ignore all of the other options that
could be in their paths and every so
often something comes along some new bit
of technology or some new concept that
disrupts entire industries creating tons
of opportunities and all you have to do
is be there at the right place at the
right time prepared to take action and I
think that is one quick way to gain
success
now the second habit I believe is that
milliner's love the game to them they've
learned that success is fun because it
simply takes a lot of long-term
sustained effort to be able to create
something of sufficient value very
rarely do you see success overnight
which is why many people who are in the
game for the wrong reasons like if they
only want to make enough money so that
they can retire and sit on the beach
they're not going to be able to up at
that sustained effort in order to get
there
I would say you need to run the business
for at least a year and maybe two to
three years with a lot of passion and
sustained effort every single day and if
you just don't have that level of
passion for whatever work you're doing
you're not gonna be able to make it
through that which is why you may see a
lot of successful people they continue
to work they don't quite retire I'm not
retired myself I could just go sit on
the beach but I just enjoy making
something of myself
see how far I can push myself what
change I can deliver to this world it's
not really about the money buying
material goods or luxury items it's more
like playing the video game and trying
to beat your own high score alright so
the third common habit is that
milliner's value their time because all
of us have the same 24 hours in the day
and time and money are interchangeable
it just depends on how you're doing that
exchange rate if you're able to use your
time as effectively as possible you can
leverage a lot out of that I've
personally tried to catalogue every
minute of my day and to free up as much
personal time as I can so that I can
chase other potential opportunities the
fact is you don't need a lot of time
maybe just two to three additional hours
a day you can do a lot with if you can
just free up a few hours that are
focused each day you may be surprised
how much you'll be able to accomplish I
encourage you to give that try the
fourth millionaire habit is properly
taking care of your health because
health is absolutely one of your assets
I tried to make sure I get my daily
exercise in as well
for eight hours of sleep so I personally
cannot function well without sleep I
would basically lose the whole day but
what really motivates me to exercise is
knowing that by the time any of us reach
age fifty sixty most of us would have
become millionaires by then because we
would have put in our time everybody
would have put in say thirty forty fifty
years worth of working it wouldn't be
rare to become a millionaire after that
much time but what really separates
people is their health at that stage
whether you were really able to take
care of your body throughout that
journey and plus having good health just
makes you feel good the fact this health
is one of your most important assets and
it's difficult to enjoy your money if
you don't have the health to go with it
and yet so many people they seem to
neglect that and it becomes all the more
easier when you have to go to a
nine-to-five job and then maybe when you
get back from work you have to do a
little bit more overtime take care of
the additional chores in the household
and it's just not a worthwhile trade in
my opinion if you have to be giving up
your health that just wasn't supposed to
be part of the deal and then my last
habit for millionaires is that they have
a get-it-done attitude to many of us out
here are dreamers one trip renews we
imagine things throw ideas and then let
other roadblocks stop us I couldn't tell
you how many times I've heard a
million-dollar app idea and believe me
they probably really are million dollar
app ideas and yet nobody goes out to
actually pursue it because they don't
want to put in the actual effort or work
maybe it's actually sometimes a
half-baked idea in which people maybe
suggest an idea that sounds good but
haven't actually thought it through from
concept through lunch many people are
afraid to accept criticism for their
idea they're afraid of failure they
don't want to be embarrassed in front of
their friends the fact is that ideas are
cheap and execution is what really
matters how many times have you been at
the dinner conversation where people say
hey you know what you should really
build is this and that or you know what
would be a great idea is if we built
this and yet nobody it just seems to go
after any of these ideas people just go
back to their nine to five jobs watch
the Netflix shows surfing Facebook all
day long when in reality it would have
taken just probably two hours a day for
about a month or two to have really
tested out that idea so my advice here
is not to be proud of yourself because
you came up with an idea be proud of
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