- Have you ever wanted to become rich one day?
Have you ever wondered what the secrets were
to becoming rich, or maybe what the bad habits are
that keep certain people poor?
I'm going to share with you one of the simple habits
that keeps people poor forever,
and no, it's not something like being lazy
or not working hard enough.
It's something that only an exclusive
group of people know about.
And I'm gonna tell you what it is
by sharing with you the painful and amazing story of Adam.
Adam was someone who only wanted one thing in his life,
and that was to become rich.
And he wanted this because of something really tragic
that happened to him when he was a kid.
Adam grew up in a very poor household,
with his two sisters, his mother, and his grandfather.
He became particularly close with his grandfather
because his real dad passed away when he was young.
His grandpa would do all the normal dad things with Adam,
like give him advice, discipline him,
play catch with him, and he was
the most important person in Adam's life.
But one day after school, Adam came home
and he noticed that his grandpa
was having some trouble walking.
So the family decided to take him to the doctor's office.
And after some x-rays, he was told
that if he ever wanted to walk properly again,
he would need hip replacement surgery,
which was something that the family could not afford.
So over the next five years, Adam watched his grandfather
just sit in a chair rocking back and forth,
getting older and older and weaker and weaker
and eventually, he died.
The moment when Adam was looking at his grandfather's coffin
at his funeral, was when he decided
that he wanted to become rich.
"Money would have prevented this," Adam thought to himself.
"Money would have solved this problem.
"It could solve my future problems.
"Money will make the pain go away."
Adam literally associated not having money
with unhappiness, death, and despair.
And he associated having money
with happiness, life, and vitality.
But there was a big problem.
Adam had no clue how to become wealthy.
He was just a regular guy.
So the next day, Adam started learning
all that he could about business.
He started watching YouTube videos,
reading books, reading blog posts.
He was trying to learn everything that he possibly could.
But they all kind of said the same thing,
that it takes years of dedication, hard work,
and discipline to build
a real profitable, sustainable business.
But Adam didn't wanna wait that long.
He wanted to start making money right away.
So eventually he discovered the world of daytime investing
where he would invest money into high risk stocks
for the chance of making or losing a lotta money.
And the reason why he did this
was because he would read stories on the internet
about how these regular people were making
like tens of thousands of dollars from a single trade.
So he bought some educational books
and he started investing right away.
And after some time, Adam actually
started to make some money.
He would buy a stock at $1,500,
then sell it for $18,000.
And within seconds, he would make $300.
And after six months of both winning and losing,
he saved up around $25,000.
Adam really liked his results,
but this kind of low risk investing
was not really gonna make him rich.
So he decided to do something very dangerous.
One day, Adam was online and he saw an opportunity
to invest in a stock that looked like
it was about to go up.
He was going to invest the normal amount
of around 1,000 to $1,500, but for some reason,
he started fantasizing about how much he could make
if he invested all of his money into this.
He imagined waking up the next morning
and seeing the stock price go up to $80,000
or $100,000, or even $200,000.
Could you imagine making that much money overnight?
It would literally change your life.
These thoughts raced through Adam's brain
and it released a bunch of dopamine chemicals.
And it was in this blissful imagination
when Adam invested everything he had
into that one stock.
He felt a rush that he had never felt before.
To calm himself down, he did some normal,
boring everyday stuff, like some chores, some gardening.
He would wash his car.
He would drive his sisters to and from school.
But after the day was over, it was finally time for him
to check back on that stock.
He logged on his computer, opened up the stock market,
clicked on the stock, and then he saw something
that he would never forget.
The stock price had risen to $50,000,
which meant that Adam had made $25,000 in a single day.
The feeling that he felt in that moment
was indescribable.
He could literally feel the excitement
and the adrenaline from his toes
all the way up to his head.
The only thing that he had left to do
was to hit the sell button.
Once he did that, he would officially make the $25,000.
But, before he pressed the button,
he figured why not do some research on the stock first.
So he started reading on some online forms
about how that particular stock was projected
to go up even more.
And based on his limited knowledge
that he had learned through the books,
the graph looked like the stock could still go up.
Although his books also told him to never be too risky
and to usually quit while you're ahead.
But once again, Adam started imagining
how much more he could make
and how quickly he could become rich,
which was his only goal.
He just wanted it right now.
So Adam decided to hold back on selling the stock
and he waited until the morning.
The next morning, Adam gets out of bed,
grabs his laptop, opens up the stock market,
clicks on the stock, and within nine hours,
the stock had fallen back down to almost nothing.
And over the next few weeks, the stock price didn't go up.
It looked like it was dead.
In the blink of an eye, everything was gone
and that feeling of having nothing hit Adam really hard
because it immediately reminded him
of his grandfather's death and that dark,
sharp pain quickly returned.
The way this story ends is actually very surprising,
but before I reveal the strange ending,
I want to take a second to talk about
two very interesting things about Adam
that you probably didn't even notice.
Adam is an example of someone who did something
incredibly good and something incredibly bad,
and the bad thing that he did is the simple habit
that keeps a lot of people poor.
The good thing that Adam did
was that he invested in himself.
When he had no money, he started watching videos,
reading books, talking to people.
He had incredible initiative
and you do need this to become successful.
But the really bad thing that he did
was simply being impatient.
He was so impatient that he picked a business
that he wasn't even sure if he liked or not.
He took a lotta risk without having
the proper amount of knowledge.
He became greedy, stupid, he didn't listen
to the advice from the books that he read.
He wasn't able to think rationally.
All because he was very, very impatient.
If you have the mindset of I want money right now
and I wanna make it with the least amount of work
as possible, then you won't take the time
to actually become great at something.
And becoming truly great and offering tremendous value
to the world is the real way to become wealthy.
But if you can't learn to be patient,
then you won't give yourself enough time
to see the results from your hard work or your investing.
It all takes time, so be patient
and give yourself a chance to succeed.
Going back to Adam's painful story,
he actually never became financially rich,
but he did start a very unusual business.
He realized that the main reason why he wanted money so bad
was because he was trying to fill the hole
that his grandpa had left in him.
He felt that money would make the pain go away.
Through this discovery, he became obsessed
with understanding the psychology
behind dealing with death and from this,
he started a business where he would coach
and help other people deal with the consequences
of losing a loved one.
He never made $25,000 in a day,
but he lived a very meaningful life.
Click the screen now to watch the unbelievable story
of my friend Ben.