I'm John Crestani and I've made tens of millions of dollars as an entrepreneur
and I don't say that to impress you but just to impress upon you that there are
certain things, mental mindsets that you need to understand if you want to be on
that path to success. And I'm going to go over the 3 major things you need to
understand of what society pushes on us and why you will never get rich if you
don't understand these three concepts. So, just a quick disclaimer before I go into
these 3 mindset shifts that you need to understand to become wealthy is that
this is hard work and it takes time to actually really truly embody these
principles. And I'm going to be going over one additional bonus principle that has
helped me get all of these down into my brain and help me become fairly wealthy
in my short time. I'm only 31 years old and I'm a multi millionaire. I live in
one of the most expensive cities in the world, in Malibu.
Now, what you have to understand first is stop trading time for money. Poor
mentality that you will always trade time for money whether you working a
wage or working for a salary. The system is built to pay you as little as
possible when you are spending your time and trading it for money. You are never
going to be wealthy or even rich if you are doing that. Now, in order to get out
of that, you need to work towards trading results for money. I do what's called
affiliate marketing where I do marketing for other businesses and they pay me a
commission. I only get paid on my results. But the difference is if I send a
company I'm working with a thousand customers, they will happily pay me $100
per customer which means I'll make a hundred thousand dollars. Now, if I send
them 10,000 customers, they will happily pay me a million dollars that
year. They are fine because they're paying me
for results, not for my time. But if you are working as a just a marketing
employee you are trading your time for money and you will never get rich. Now,
the second thing to understand of why you will never get rich is if you are
renting your house you are literally throwing money down the drain every
single month. You are cutting yourself off at the knees every single month,
whereas owning, even if you have to settle for a less than desirable place,
if you own your house or if you own your townhome or condo it's better to own
always than to rent. And if you can't afford to own a place that you live then
I would suggest to just simply live with a friend or live with your parents or
something like that. Because otherwise, you're just throwing
money down the toilet and you're not allowing yourself to save up the capital
needed to eventually buy a house. It's a downward spiral of renting and you need
to move beyond renting if you really want to start on the path to success.
Okay. So, now this third... This third chart here might look a little weird. We have
stair steps and then we have a weird squiggly line. And what does that
represent? Well, this is the easy path to success.
The easy path to success is straightforward, okay? And we are all
taught what the easy path to successes. And that easy path to success or riches
is you know, go to school, get good grades, go to college, graduate, get a law or a
you know law degree or a medical degree if you... If you can afford it or if your
parents can afford it. Get a mortgage, etc. I mean, getting a mortgage is good. But
all the other stuff, you know, work your way up the ladder. That is the
straightforward path to success. That's the least risky path to success. Most
people believe that if they just stay at their job and they just try to work
their way up the ladder that they are going to get this. If they
just kind of do a good job. Now, the easy path to success is not a path to success
at all. In fact, it's a scam that we've been sold that may have worked sometime
in the 50s or the 60s but it isn't around anymore. And the easy path to
success, the one with the least amount of fear is actually the worst and it's
you're never going to get rich. You are never going to get wealthy if you
believe that this is going to work. And yes, that may seem super scary and it is
kind of scary. But you're not going to be successful
this way and you know it. Now, if you understand what I'm talking about and it
isn't an easy pill to swallow, please in the comments just type in, "I know it." And
others need your encouragement because if you understand what I'm saying,
what we've been sold since birth, it's not real. That easy path is meant to
pacify us but it's not a real path to success.
So, please encourage everyone and type in I know it if you hear what I'm saying
here. Now, the real path to success and riches is actually... It looks more like
this it's a big, freaking squiggly line. It sucks but it will get you there.
There's a lot more uncertainty. There's a lot more learning. You know, you can't
just go to college for 4 years and expect to learn you know what you need
in 4 years and for the rest of your life apply it. That doesn't work anymore. You
have to be constantly learning. You have to constantly be trying out new things.
You have to constantly be growing and sometimes you will be growing but your
income will be falling. And sometimes your income will be growing for no
reason of your own. So, what's great about this is that eventually, if the other
people are on the stair step, they will end up up here. They will end up there
and you will end up up here. It's the harder path. Becoming successful is not
easy. It's hard work. It takes a rig thinking. It takes creative thinking. If
you're following some of these online gurus who say success is simply a button
you press online or it's simply a a program you take and you invest in these
sorts of real estate deals, it's more complicated than that.
It's hard and it takes creative thought and original ideas and you have to
actually be prepared to deal with uncertainty and self-doubt and even
self-esteem issues and move beyond them to stay focused on the ultimate goal. Now,
I'm going to give you one bonus technique. Now, all of this is you know inspiring a
lot of self-doubt and you know maybe really scary, frankly. And when I realized
these 3 lessons, it's not an easy pill to swallow. But what's great is that
once you realize that it is all within your control,
there is no system that you follow that will give you the success results but
you once you realize it's your control and it's your responsibility, then you're
able to affect your own destiny. Wooo! Now, these are hard pills to swallow but
I'm going to give you one bonus kind of success tip that I found that has helped
me out a lot. And part of this is yes, this is all kind of a hard pill to
swallow. Understanding that everything is my fault or everything is your fault. But
one way to keep your self-confidence up and one way to be just a dynamo is your
physicality. Everything flows from your health. If you are healthy, if you are
athletic, if you work out, if you keep your body in your mind and everything in
an energetic state, you will have self-confidence through the roof. Because
nothing kills self confidence more than sitting in a chair hunched over your
entire life. So, I encourage you get out there. Run, be healthy, get good sleep. I
track my sleep with this thing every night and just really take care of your
body, your mind. Read a lot and everything to help you become more successful and
deal with the uncertainty that will naturally come about
when you are on the path to success. Now, if you're on the path to success with me,
type in "I'm all-in" in the comments. And if you want to learn more about how you
can... You know I teach marketing and success for a living here on YouTube. You
can subscribe to my channel. Hit the notification bellow so you can be aware
of live streams that I do on a somewhat frequent basis. And I look forward to
seeing you in some of my next videos. Have a good one and let me know if
you're all-in. Talk to you soon.