- 12 hour days, seven days a week, first five years.
That's what I did in the beginning of my career.
That is insane.
You know what's fucking insane?
Working eight hours a day, five days a week, 45 years,
and you have nothing to show for.
Now, that's fucking insane.
I never want to project my values on you.
How you live your life is up to you, right.
I paid the price early.
I made a lot of sacrifices, and money's not everything.
Money's never everything, but money is important.
It gives you more choices,
so most people, they work hard their entire lives,
and they have nothing to show for.
You work very hard.
Comment below, right.
You work hard.
You cannot go on that vacation.
You are in debt.
You wanna buy a little something for your family.
You wanna send your kids to college.
You want to just live in a nicer hotel when you travel,
and you cannot even do that.
Do you work hard?
You work hard, I work hard.
I always believe that if I'm gonna be working hard anyway,
I might as well work hard to be financially successful.
I wanna know that I'm working hard,
but I'm also working smart, right.
I want to constantly upgrade my skillsets,
so I can deliver more value to the marketplace
and not just say, oh man, Dan, you work very hard.
You know what, that five years,
yes, I was working my face off.
My friends, partying, drinking, chasing girls,
all this bullshit.
Guess where all my friends are now?
They're fucking broke.
They can't get a job.
They're still stuck.
They have no choices.
They're in debt.
They have no freedom.
Looking back, I'm glad that I paid the price early.
I'm glad that I was working that 12, 14 hours a day,
five years straight.
No rest.
Because I did that,
I did what most people were not willing to do,
what you are not willing to do,
so now, I can live a life
that most people could never dream of.
That's the difference, so you have to make a choice.
By the way, you're already making a choice everyday.
You're making a choice right now.
How you invest your time, how you spend your time.
Before you know it, five years is gone.
It goes by like that.
10 years is gone, 15 years is gone, 20 years is gone.
You're sitting in your living room.
You're watching TV.
You're looking yourself in the mirror, and you say,
where the hell did my time go?
Where am I at?
Am I being the man or the woman that I want to be?
Is this the best I could do?
What about the potential that people are talking about?
Where?
Are you happy?
Or do you feel restricted?
Do you feel that you are chained?
Do you that you're in a cage?
That's what I'm talking about.
I wrote the book Unlock It.
You see the title here?
Let me read the subtitle,
The Master Key to Wealth, Success, and Significance.
The only people that forget about money
are the ones who have money.
Get money out of the way,
so you can live a life of significance,
so you don't have to focus on money so much.
Money's like oxygen.
You're breathing oxygen right now,
you don't think about it 'cause you have plenty of it.
The minute you're underwater,
the minute I take away the oxygen, guess what?
All you can think about is how do I get the air?
That's all you can think about.
Money's the same thing.
When you can't pay the bills,
when you can't make that payment, guess what?
All you're worried about, all the frustration,
all the stuff that keeps you awake at night is money.
When you have plenty,
when you have more than enough, guess what?
You don't have to think about it.
You can spend your time focusing
on other, more important things in your life.
So if you've not read my book, get it from Amazon.
It's 20 bucks.
Read it.
You will know my story,
and you will know how you can unlock the door
to a lifelong financial confidence.
It is that important.