Okay. So, how many hours a week should you work to really become a millionaire? How
many hours a week do I have to work? Do I really have to like hustle? Like super
hard. And like forgo sleep to be successful? Or do I just have to like
work smarter and surround myself with better people? Well, if you really want to
get the money... If my money gun would work, you know what? I'll give you my opinion
on this. Because I've heard both sides of the equation. I've heard that people
should just hustle harder and then I've also heard that. You know, it's about
working a little more tactically and smarter and surrounding yourself with
better people and using better software. I address this issue because it's
affecting a lot of people. There's people out there that are just killing
themselves to work super hard. Then there's also people out there that maybe
aren't working hard enough and still not getting the results they want. So, I'll go
into this topic. I'll give you my personal opinion and also give you some
of the facts. Let's get it.
Man, I don't want a hustle. I want to... I wanna I want to get home. I want to go
work out. I love going to the gym, man. I love going to the gym. Then I'm going to
watch some TV, right? Or I'm going to hang out with my girlfriend. And you know, I'm just
going to work smarter, right? That's what I want to do. Then there are these like
guru people like Gary Vaynerchuk. They're just telling me like, "Hustle! hustle!
Hustle! Don't sleep! Never sleep! Hustle harder!"
You know, it's like... "What do I do, right? Like I want to hang out with my
girlfriend. Lead a balanced life and watch TV. Want to... Don't want to make
money. What do you do?" Dude, I struggled with this for a while.
You know, I want the money... I want to be successful. But I want to
live a happy life, right? We only have one life to live. And what is life meant if
it isn't lived? If we're just hustling? And what if we just hustle our whole
lives and have nothing to show for it? That's not necessarily healthy either,
isn't it? Now, I'll give you my opinion on this. Which is I worked personally. I
worked unbelievably hard for about 5 years of my life. I'd say, I worked
14-hour a day. Was single. I had a whole life in front of me. And it was about the
best years of my life. In my 20s. My early 20s. I worked unbelievably hard.
Seriously 14 hours days. I would end up falling asleep at my office. Sometimes, I
look back and I actually kind of regret the fact that I really missed out on a
lot of my 20s because you know, I probably didn't enjoy those years as
much as I could have. I just was working. I was hold up in a square box
with my computer and I was grinding on my laptop trying to learn stuff and
trying to implement stuff and place links and start my internet business.
Right now I run... For those of you don't know me, I run a internet business. And
I'd be interested to know. If you've gone through a period into your life where
you work just incredibly hard. 10 plus hour days or whatever. If so, let me know
what years in your life that was between. You know, if you worked maybe... It was 20,
you know... 20 to 25, right? Or maybe it what for me was I think like 22 to 27 or
something like that. Maybe for you it was 50 to
55. Whatever it was. Let me know. What years though where I would be
interested in knowing? But for me, it was a decision to become (first off)
successful. You know, I could... I can't work that hard now. I have a family. And well
sometimes I do. That's not totally true. But I still work pretty hard. But the
point being... It's not... You know, I have more responsibilities in my life. I don't
just have me to fend for. Now, let's look at some math here, is that if you were to
work 14-hour a days, 6 days a week for 5 years... Which is what it took for me
to become a millionaire. Or you work 8-hour days, 5 days a week for 40
years to hopefully save up a million dollars. In each of these scenarios, this
scenario adds up to about 22,000 hours worked.
Okay? 22,000 hours spent to become financially free. And in this scenario,
you're working 83,000 hours. So, the math makes more sense.
I just believe it's logical if you want to be successful. You are going to hit the
grindstone and hit it while it's hot, okay? A focused period of effort far out
does long term basic effort. There's a time element here. Now, you have to keep
in mind that opportunity. It's not going to come through a job. So you know,
working... You know, getting an hourly wage. If we were just talking about hourly
wages here, you'd have to work the same amount of hours, right? But we're if you
want... If you're going to be an entrepreneur, if you're going to really become
successful which you have to be an entrepreneur to be successful or win the
lottery or marry rich. Which is a great idea. You're going to have much better
success here because of the time element. When you found an opportunity, when
you're selling a product, when you are hot in the marketplace, when you are
making connections, when your social capital is high. Whatever type of
business you're running, with you're selling, particular type product like a
marker; people might not buy markers like this 40 years from today or 30 years
from today. So, these markers are popular. These Sharpie... By the way I love these
Sharpie magnums. They're huge. And they really write nice. But if these products
are hot. You want to sell as many of them right now because they might not be
selling in 35 years. There might be more competitors even a year from today. The
company might change. There's so many things that might happen.
You've got to strike while the iron's hot. And Elon Musk talks about this a lot
of people talk about this. And a lot of entrepreneurs work pretty, pretty, pretty
hard hours. At least for a period of their life. Now, sure you can find
examples like Richard Branson who will say that he relaxes most of the
time. But I'm sure he worked a period of his life where he was you know maybe 5
maybe 10 years maybe 20 years. Where he was just grinding every minute, every
second every hour of every day. So, you've got to take this stuff
seriously. I believe if you want to be successful, you're going to go
the crazy route. If you really want to become financially free, you're going to go
the crazy route and you're going to work those 14-hour days. I did and it hurt. You
know, it definitely hurt and it's mentally wearing. But you got to do it. If
you want to accelerate your success, you could go at it. Working part-time. But
I'll be frank. I teach a lot of people and I have a lot of students and the
people I see become most successful or the ones who take my learnings. And you
know, you can do affiliate marketing as little as an hour a day. The ones who
become successful the ones who are just obsessive and going at it as hard as
they possibly can every 10 hours a day. In a competitive marketplace, how is
somebody who works 1 hour a day supposed to compete with somebody works
10 hours a day, right? It's not going to be possible at all. So, if you want to give
yourself an advantage, work more. Work hard and work for a period of her life.
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