Listen, you know that I became financially free at a really young age.
I've made multiple videos on exactly how I did it. But today for the first time
ever I'm going to actually share the 3 psychological shifts that I made in my
mindset that are the real responsibility for why I've been able to create all
this wealth. If you have all the how to's and you don't have the right psychology,
it may not work. So today's video is to finish giving you the rest of the
equation.
There's a lot of people that want to know how I achieve my financial freedom
at the age of 26. And the reality is I've made so many videos for you documenting
my systems and my how to's and how it'll happen. Today's video is going to be
different. Today I want to give you the real reason. You know, we always want to
know how something worked and give me the steps and give me the sequence. Today,
I want to give you 3 different things. I want to share with you 3
things that you may not expect that are the real reason for the success that
I've had in my life. And that I've been able to sustain and level up and call... If
I could go back in time and had a time machine, these are the three things I
would share with myself to say. This is what you need. This is your formula for
being successful. So, I want to break it down and help you understand what its
going to look like and what its gonna take for you to have the level of success
that you want in your life. So, might surprise you. The first thing that you
need is pain. What? Yes. I'm going to break your legs. Now, I'm not talking about pain.
I'm actually... it could be better summarized with this word: Suffering. The
reality is most of us respond to pain versus motivation. So, there's a lot of
people are like, "Oh, Kris. I want to make money so I can help my parents. I want to
make money so that I can take this trip. I want to make this so I can have this
car. You know, I want this lifestyle. I want freedom." You know what? In life, we do
not get what we want. We get what we need. And the reality is we will always feed
our pain. We will not always get what we dream. And so, you take a look at the
difference here between pain and motivation. In my personal life, if I
didn't have that moment with my wife where first my dreams got dashed to
pieces when I got told I was too dumb to become a doctor. Like I just finished
taking this organic chemistry class for the second time and I got a worse grade.
I got a c-minus. The first time I took a got a C. Like that was really
disheartening but it wasn't until I actually sat down with the administrator
of the program that just said, "Kris, please, please, please let me talk you out
of this. Your brain does not think in science ease. it's going to be 10 years of
science for you to be who you want to be. You're going to hate it." And you know what?
They won that day. They convinced me to drop out. And I did. And that wasn't
really what was the real pain point. That made me scared for my future that made
me nervous and questioned a lot of things. But it
wasn't until a couple of days later I was coming home from work and I met my
brand-new wife... I was married young. I was fortunate to find her like the third day
of college. And after we had only been married for a few months, I remember
coming home. And it had been a hard difficult day. But apparently a much
harder day for her. Even when I put my hand on the doorknob, I energetically
just felt like something feels weird, something feels bad. It's like there's
this dark, ominous energy and when I came in to the hallway,
my wife was standing under the only can light. And I remember she was not just
actively crying but her cheeks had been stained with tears. And I thought someone
had died. And I felt I just had a crappy day but she had a crappier day. I said,
"What's wrong?" And then she proceeded to tell me something that I didn't think
would have triggered this level of pain. She said, "Tuition is due in 3 weeks
and we can't pay it." I thought "Probably going to have to go into debt." Which was the
worst thing in the world to my wife. But that's not why she was crying. She said,
"Kris, we have rent due in 5 days. And we already spent her paycheck." And I
could start feeling the fear coming up. But I didn't know if that necessarily
explained the tears. When I saw that my wife was crying because she then
proceeded to tell me that she didn't have money to pay for the groceries and
she came home empty-handed. She had never bounced a check before. I realized my
wife was crying because I had failed to provide the most basic need that I
promised to provide. Frankly, my wife was hungry. We only
bought 5 days of food at a time. You talk about my pain. My pain is rooted in
the fact that I couldn't provide after working full time the most basic needs.
That right there fueled me. I swore that day. I swore in my anger, my frustration,
my sadness, my smallness. I swore I will do whatever it takes to never
have to feel this way again. This is not going to be my life. This is not going to
be my destiny. Pain has served me way more than my dreams. You know, vision
boards and the fast cars and the freedom and that nice lifestyle it all sounds
wonderful. But you know what? When going gets tough, we're willing to ditch our
dreams. We'll never ditch our needs. So, you have
to find a way to tap into your pain. What drives you? What's your pain? If you don't
have a why, what's motivating you and if it's not linked to pain, I give you a
very, very small chance of success. The second thing that I had that to
determine my success was right here. Number 2, I had the discipline to do
this really weird thing called stick with it. My stick-with-itnesswas crazy
because it was driven by the pain of my wife's tears. In fact, that bothered me so
much that four and a half years later after we were financially free, I was
walking on the beach with my wife celebrating retirement. And I was waiting
for that moment when she'd say, "Kris, you're finally enough. You made it. Thank
you for providing. Thank you for making all this money." But to thank you really
didn't come that way. It was me disturbed in my soul inside wanting to feel
validated and I couldn't find that validation. Until later when I got my
hands on this information I decided that I was enough. No, my stick with that
discipline was my very first mentor said, "Kris, for you to make all this money in
real estate?" He said, "Listen, you only need to count to 10. 1, 2 homes. 3
homes, 4 homes. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 homes. A million. 10 homes, a million
bucks. For me it was 25 homes, 1.6 million dollars because I had to
split things with my partners. But the reality is real estate, you do very few
times and you make a lot of money. That is really really really cool. But it
requires a stick with it because you're not going to get rewarded day one. Most
of us are trained that we have to get immediate gratification to stick with
something. And you know what? Real estate is not going to give you that. My game
plan, I had to stick with my game plan for 14 months . I had to get a couple
extra credit cards use them responsibly find a way to save up 5 grand. Stay at
my job so I could get a 2 year history. That was my plan. For 14 months I felt
like I was doing nothing but money and working. Before team months
later I bought my first house. And a year later that led to my second house. And
6 months later, my third. And a year and a half later 25 homes. It was
this exponential curve. For most of you, you have to jump through a hoop to get
that first deal and it's not going to happen tomorrow. You might be able to do
it in 2 months versus my 14 months with the new technology that I have
access to now. But nonetheless, most people are lacking the stick with it. So,
you've got to become a die-hard. By the way, if you really are diehard, you have
got to come out to one of my live events. My live events are life-changing. I've
designed them based on everything that I've learned so that you walk away not
just with motivational rah, rah. But with a million-dollar game plan knowing
exactly step by step what you need to do. And the event will give you conviction,
to maintain that energy until you get that first deal so that you can have
your stick with it factor. The third and final thing that I feel like led to my
financial freedom. And by the way, after this, I've got another video that I'm
going to share with you that's going to actually show you that how I did it. Becuase
if you're watching this and you're like, "Okay. Kris, I'm getting all of the
psychology of success. But what did you do to make the money then? That's the
next video. I'll recommend that shortly up in this corner. What I want you to
know is that the third thing I had to do to affect my psychology... And this one is
going to be weird. But you have to magnify... Like a magnifying glass. Magnify what
works. Which means there's a thousand things that look like they can bring you
success and only a dozen of them work. When you find something that works, you
have to find a way to stick with it so that you can keep playing the game. You
know when I found something that worked in the game of real estate, I bought this
house and I'm like, "Okay, it took me 14 months to get here. How long will it take
to do again?" And the bank said, "Wait 12 months. Once it seasons, you can pull some
money out." So, I dutifully kept on my game plan. I waited 12 months, went to the bank,
pulled out an $18,000 line of credit use it as a down payment
to buy my next house. But then after that I did my next one 6 months later. And
then I got faster and got faster, faster, faster and then it just started popping.
I had to stick with it but then guess what?
I didn't deviate from the plan. By the way, if you don't have a plan, then you
need to find a way to get your hands on a copy of this
book. Those book I actually give away to people for free.
It's called straight path to real estate wealth. This book has created
millionaires. It is the best... This is going to sound arrogant. But this is the best real
estate book I've ever read. And I've read them all. And I wrote this as a how-to
manual to make your first and next million dollars. And so, I wrote it with
you in mind. I wrote it over a decade ago. I just
updated it. This book has created financial freedom for a lot of people.
There's a link below in the description. Get yourself a copy of the book for free.
More importantly, if you don't know how I actually made my wealth, there's a video
popping up over here in just a second that video is actually going to show you
exactly how I retired by the age of 26. With my financial freedom, I went back to
work but not as a you know an employee. I started my own companies and I started
changing lives and helping more people and doing the things that brought about
fulfillment. Because achievement without fulfilment is one of the great failures.
So, yes. I'm going to show you how to make money in this next video. But then you
have to learn how to live in a manner that will produce the fulfillment that
you're really looking for. Listen, I want to thank you for watching today's video.
You've got to find your pain. You got to find the discipline. And then you got to
magnify what works. If you don't have a gameplan, get a copy of my book. Join me
at one of my events. You'll develop the stick-with-itness an attitude that's
gonna change everything for you. And other than that, check out this next
video. This video will actually walk you through exactly what I did to make my
first millions of dollars. I hope you enjoy it. I thank you for being
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