four habits that i've been consistent with daily that have ultimately led to me becoming a
millionaire in my 20s and i'm not talking about cold showers no fap intermittent fasting red light
therapy or zero carb diet sure i've dabbled in some of those things over the past few years but
i wouldn't say they've really aided my financial position what i'm going to reveal today are the
habits that made a real difference in making that first million now the key when you're
first starting out is to keep things as simple as possible you don't need to over complicate things
and do something way too drastic now 6 30 a.m in the morning right now i'm out for a walk in the
local forest and it feels fitting to talk about my first habit change here because that's waking up
earlier now when i first started my company i was working a full-time job and so time was
very limited i needed to squeeze more time out of my day at this time i was waking up at 8am so it
made sense for me to try and squeeze at least a couple more hours out of my mornings and so
when i decided that i set an alarm for 7am for a couple days adjusted to that then 6am adjusted to
that and then 5am finally and adjusted to that the reason i did that and weaned myself in is because
i didn't want to go cold turkey and have my sleep pattern messed up i'd recommend you doing the same
now these mornings gave me so much more time and it almost acted as a entirely new day whilst
everybody else was asleep i had time to read i had time to go to the gym and most importantly i had
time to work on my business and that ultimately led to me quitting my job within two weeks of
starting my company and making my first 2000 pounds which was enough for me to take the risk to
take the plunge but if it wasn't for waking up early i wouldn't have been able to do that
because i simply wouldn't have had the time now some of you watching this might think well i'm not
a morning person you might be a night owl instead so what you need to do is leverage your evenings
more be productive with your evenings don't sit down watching netflix at the end of the day right
because you're gonna need either your evenings or your mornings if you've got full-time commitment
you have to find the time somewhere and you have to condition yourself into using that time for
something productive like focusing on your main thing now secondary to waking up early i get out
in nature every single day and that's the second habit i want to talk about today is spending time
alone in nature now some people would call this a form of meditation in fact i would definitely
call this a form of meditation now normally when i'm out it's either before or after the gym i read
my body depending on the day it depends what how i feel and i'll come out without my phone
and i'll just walk in the forest in the fields wherever i fancy going right now i'm next to
the road as you can probably hear but i walk deep into the forest so i'm so far away from
anyone else that i'm just it's myself and the earth um and the birds and i think that's so
powerful because it pushes us to be in our own forts and it pushes us to figure out our and
establish what we need to do it almost acts as this mental checklist every single day when we're
walking around on our own we're thinking about the things we need to achieve from that day we're
building our priority list and we're forced to work through everything that's within our mind and
so i think that getting out in nature every single day is an incredibly powerful habit for anybody to
take on within their life around you and it just keeps you on your course now presuming that the
majority of you watching this want to start an online business you're going to spend a lot of
time cooped up at home so it's very important we change our environment we get outside we alleviate
stress we have a change of scene and we spend time in our own company and in our own thoughts
that's exactly what i'm gonna do right now so i'll see you guys back in the office okay so the next
habit is learning to say no in all areas of your life now when i first started my business i was
what you would call a yes man right you asked me to come out the weekend i was going out you wanted
to go out for a meal i'd probably turn up so i had a lot of learning curve when i first started
my business and understanding what opportunities to turn down and when to say no to people and this
is really hard if you're somebody who naturally is used to saying yes and living through other people
and pleasing other people because when we say yes to people when we actually want to say no
we build up resentment and we just live for other people instead of living for ourselves now time is
a valuable commodity we all have limited amounts of it and so if we're spending time doing things
we don't want to do then we have less time to spend on the main thing on building our business
on working towards our goals doing the things we actually want to do so now every time somebody
asks me to do something right i ask myself three questions the first question i ask is do i owe
this person a favor okay do i owe this person something right so for example this evening i'm
meeting someone for a coffee for a catch up now this person ironically is someone i reached out
to when i first launched my business i wanted to pick their brains and they met me for a coffee
they've never met me before right and so now when they've reached out to me again
i feel like i owe them the courtesy to reciprocate that favor that they gave me and so if i owe them
a favor i'm gonna say yes now if i don't owe them a favor i'm gonna ask myself if that opportunity
benefits me up front okay what do i gain from this opportunity if i go out if i do this if
i go out for a meal if i meet this person do i benefit from this upfront or does the other person
just benefit if i don't gain anything i'm gonna say no if i do gain something then i'm gonna
weigh this up against my third question which is does this take away from the main thing does this
distract me from my success does this distract me from my business now there are many times
when this does distract me right my friends might want to go out to a party this weekend but i need
to weigh up if the benefit and the joy i'm gonna gain from that party outweighs the fact that i'm
gonna be hungover for a day or two and that might subtract from my monday morning routine when i'm
getting back to business if i've made a calculated decision to say yes i think my happiness
outweighs the negatives i'm gonna go ahead with it if for whatever reason i do not think
the benefit is there i'm gonna say no and it's as simple as that i follow that formula every single
time i'd recommend you doing the same learn to say no to more things then you say yes and you'll live
a happier life and you'll have more time to spend on your business now on the final note of saying
no i want to talk about delegation now when you build a team of people you very often get people
reaching out to you asking questions that they can answer themselves or asking you to do tasks that
they can actually do themselves or they can go to someone else for so you need to think every time
one of these questions comes to your desk can i delegate this or can i push it back to the person
the majority of the time you'll find that you can just push it back or push that person to somebody
else get used to delegating so you don't take up your time doing things that other people can do
now the final habit that made me a millionaire in my twenties is continually investing
in my further education through books through courses through masterminds and through personal
coaching now the pivotal book that i read before i launched my company was the miracle morning by hal
elrod it taught me about morning routines and it immersed me in this entirely new world and
i became addicted to self-help books and further self-education and i set the goal to read a book
every single week now i'm not a reader i never have been a reader before that i literally hadn't
picked up a book since i was like 12 years old but i became addicted to education i
became addicted to learning something new and bettering myself becoming the best version of
myself i could possibly be now that transpired into me buying courses then i ended up buying
mastermind products and i ended up investing in personal coaching in fact literally one month
ago i came back from america where i paid 40 000 for one single mastermind and i already got return
on investment from that i'm addicted to further learning and further education because there is
always something that i can be learning there is always something that i can be improving on and
i also think there's a major difference between spending 10 20 pounds on a book and reading it and
probably not actioning it to spending 1000 10 000 20 000 on a high ticket course or coaching program
because you've got way more skin in the game and you're more likely to action the things you learn
because you're more invested in that product or service so when we have the resources to invest
in high ticket education we should always do so and we should continue to do so regardless of
what stage we are at on our journey because there is always something else to learn and we can pay
to elevate ourselves and skip years of learning curve through the knowledge of somebody else
now look all of this is worthless without consistency a habit is not a habit without
repetition so write all of these things down and put them somewhere where you're forced to
look at them every single day until they become ingrained in your being and that's it cheers