- Three signs that you'll become rich one day.
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Sign number one:
you have an entrepreneurial spirit at a young age.
Now, Mark Cuban, think about it;
Mark Cuban sold trash bag door to door
when he was 12 years old.
Warren Buffett started selling packets of gum
to his neighbors when he was six years old.
With myself, I started at very, very young age.
I didn't know that it's even an entrepreneurial spirit,
but at a young age, I was always looking for ways
to make money, to make money.
Although, money interests me,
but I liked the game of making money,
I'll give you a perfect example.
So, for Chinese, as Chinese in Hong Kong
at the time was probably nine at 10 years old,
and Chinese we have the Chinese New Year
and in Chinese you would get this
like lucky money kind of red,
you know, red pocket money, right?
From your aunts and uncles and relatives.
So as a young guy I was very popular because you know,
I guess my face got a baby face and was like a Lego.
They loved me, they just, they spoil me
and they would give me these like lucky money
and as a young kid I would always collect
all these lucky money.
Now, because they my uncle and aunt
they were very, very generous.
I'm talking about, think about a 10 year old
I would collect, each they would give me
like each one probably like a couple hundred dollars
of like US dollars equivalent, right?
And with because I have so many aunts and uncles
and relatives and all of that.
And in Chinese when a new year we say,
(speaking in foreign language), right?
And most kids would say (speaking in foreign language)
and they'll give them a little you know, red pocket money
but what I would do is I would memorize like a poem,
a long poem.
So they would say one like a nice congratulations
like lucky saying, I would say like 30 of them
like (vocalizes rapid chugging), like that, right?
In Chinese.
So like all my uncles and aunt they love
they like, "Oh my God, this kid is so smart.
"He's so good."
It's like wishing me good fortune,
they will always give me the most amount of money.
So that's kind of even at a young age
I was learning to close.
That hey, you know what when I say more things
I make more money.
When I say one word being lazy about it, I make less money.
I'm like, screw that 'cause all my cousins and shit
when they say like one word, they get the coin.
I get the paper, right?
I'm like, duh, every year you say the same short shit
you get a coin but I get like lots of money,
you still don't learn the lesson.
Anyway, so I would make like two, three, four, five
thousand dollars, US dollars at 10 years old.
So that's why I never worried about like buying toys
and like buying candy and, and like, like junk food,
chips and all that, as young kid.
And I was always very generous.
So I would like treat all my friends
and my same classmates,
I would always go to their little grocery store
and would buy like those Coca Cola, right?
All the glass one, I would like buy a box of them,
and the whole class would get them.
'Cause to me that's like, at the time, I don't know,
$20, $30, I have enough money that could buy that
all the time, doesn't matter.
But anyways, talking about entrepreneurial.
So Chinese, you know, they love to gamble, right?
So what I would do is I would invite all my cousins,
and I would invite them to my home,
and I will open a little casino, right?
Like at an age of 11, you gotta understand.
So we have, we play these the Thais
and all these different things,
but I would only play if I'm the house.
I would not play if I'm not the house
because at a young age I learned when I'm not the house,
I lose money.
But if I'm the house, even though that I lose money,
but on average I would I would come ahead,
I would make money.
Like, I would just that entrepreneurial
and enjoyed it, fun and how to make it better.
And I know, the longer they stay in my house,
the chances of me winning as a house is higher.
So I would have candy there.
I have video games there.
I, like they would stay like all night
and we would gamble for a few days.
And usually, every year
they lose all their money to me, right?
So you gotta imagine from my small $5,000 seed money,
by the time the Chinese New Year is done, I have like
$10,000 US, right?
As a 10 year old like I am like, I was a rich kid
you think about it, right?
And then what I would do is for like
'cause all my cousins they all feel sad
'cause they all lost all the money and all that, right?
So what I would do is I would use all their money
for their birthday, or I'll buy them the biggest toy ever
like that robot that they want
or that video game that they want.
I would buy the best stuff for them,
I would treat them for McDonald and all of that.
So you gotta understand.
So I do turn in the business.
I make all the money, and I will treat them like,
like very, very special.
So I was the like the most lovable cousin
that they have, right?
So, always very entrepreneurial.
So if you are like that as well, like at a young age,
you're thinking about how can I make money?
How can I make money with this?
And you enjoy that and you are maybe you sell,
you know, you are in Boy Scout
or Girl Scout girl cookies, right?
And you sell them door to door.
Whatever it is that you do, you're entrepreneurial
that's the very first sign you'll become rich, one day.
Second is you have a sense of urgency,
that you are impatient.
Now, if you listen to my podcast,
I have a podcast called Shoulders of Titans
where I interview millionaires and billionaires
on my podcast.
Out of all the people that I interview
some on the show, some in person that are not on a recorder.
I could tell you the high achievers that I know,
the millionaires, the billionaires that I know,
one thing that they have in common that I noticed,
they are impatient.
Patience is not a virtue.
I believe patience is a character flaw.
The high achievers, they are impatient.
They wanna get things done today.
They don't wanna wait till tomorrow.
I noticed they always have this sense of urgency
that they know that somehow maybe
the way that they view life, life is short,
we don't have time, you gotta make it happen,
you cannot procrastinate.
You cannot wait five years for this to happen.
You got to make it happen, there's no excuse.
If there's no way we'll find a way.
If there's a wall I'll go around it, I'll go under it,
I'll break through it, I'll go over it, whatever it takes.
And that's the kinda attitude that they have.
I noticed they have,
they naturally have this sense of urgency.
I naturally have this sense of urgency.
I had this sense of urgency when I had no money.
I have the same sense of urgency when I have money.
So that's the second sign.
So if you are impatient, if you do have
that sense of urgency, you have that drive,
you have that desire you, you have the fire within you,
that you wanna get stuff done,
and you hate it when people operate at a slower level.
They don't operate the same standard.
That's a good sign that you'll become rich one day.
The third sign, the third sign that you need is
rich people they are goal oriented.
They are goal oriented.
That they focus, they're very focused,
they know what they want.
Clarity is power.
They know exactly what they want.
You ask them about their plan, they know.
They know what they want.
So now, I don't have time to go into
the whole goal setting process.
If you want to watch that, I've actually done an episode
for Boss in Bentley, click on the I button,
I talk about how do you actually set goals
and how do you accomplish them, okay?
So, they're goal oriented.
You see people never, nobody
sets out and write a plan
to say they want to be stupid, they want to be broke,
they want to be depressed, they want to be lazy.
Nobody write a plan for that.
That's what happens when you don't have a plan.
By default.
If you are not getting rich,
by default, you're making somebody else rich.
If you don't have a plan for yourself,
chances are you're a plan of somebody else.
You got to think about that.
Why so rich people, they are absolutely goal oriented.
They're very, not only they all have clarity
about their vision, very often they can communicate
that vision with the people around them,
with their team, with their vendors, with their partners,
with the lenders, they could communicate that.
That's what I also noticed.
So that's a third sign that I noticed
that people who are successful,
who are rich, they have that.
Do you have that?
Are you goal oriented?
Are you clear about what you want?
Are you absolutely crystal clear about what you want, right?
So I will say that's all the three signs.
Let me think if there are four signs.
If there's one more, I'll just think about bonus one.
I think if there's a bonus sign that I can see,
that is sign number four is
rich people that they are constantly,
constantly improving themselves.
Constantly they are reading, they are learning,
they're educating themselves, because myself I,
I mean, I've read over 2,000 books.
Just like this month, I'm flying to multiple,
like three events, not to speak, to learn.
As successful as I am, I'm flying to three different events
in this month to go to learn.
If that's what I'm doing, what the hell should you be doing?
Right?
So you just think about that
the more you focus on your education,
the more you focus on improving yourself,
because we know at this stage of our career,
that I operate I belief in the principle of the slight edge
that I'm this successful, if I just learn a few things
that will make me more effective,
that will make me a little bit smarter,
that would gives me a little bit of edge,
that little, little improvement translates into a lot.
So example, if you're making a million dollars a year,
that 10% improvement, just adds $100,000
to your bottom line.
If you're making $10 million a year,
that 10% improvement just means
it's a million dollar in improvement.
And if you that one million improvement,
if you can take that all 10 years
that's $10 million worth of improvement.
You just thinking about it.
So I think that's sign number four,
that you are constantly you like to learn
you like to watch videos, you listen to podcasts.
When you're driving you're not listening to those
music and shit like that,
you're listening to educational, informative,
empowering podcast.
When you're working out, you're listening, you're learning,
you're watching YouTube video like this.
When in your downtime, you're reading books,
you're not afraid of going to seminars.
That's a very, very important sign
because I was exactly where you were today, right?
I was exactly where you are today.
I was reading the books.
I still read the books.
I was attending the seminars.
I was learning from everybody I could,
I was learning from my mentors.
I was listening to...
You are lucky 'cause you have all these like podcasts
right now on your phone.
At that time was listening to those
fucking cassette tapes, right?
I got like thousands of these cassette tapes at home.
You know, some of you guys will not know
what I'm talking about.
What, cassette?
Like before the CD, the fucking cassette,
like those damn shit, right?
I was listening to that.
So that's what I mean, don't take it for granted.
Constantly improve yourself.
If you have that sign to you
in constantly improving yourself,
that's a sign that you'll become rich one day as well.
Now, if you have these four signs,
does that mean guarantee you'll be rich?
Not necessary, but chances are,
if you have these four signs,
you're very different from the people around you, right?
You're very different from your friends.
You're very different from the people that you know,
that you're not quite like them.
You're a little bit weird, you're a little bit different.
That's a good sign, by the way.
So let me know, comment below what signs do you have
out of these four?
Maybe we have these four?
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