15 Signs You’re NEW MONEY Yep,we’re going there Aluxers! In
this sunday motivational video we’re looking at both the good and the bad of New Money.
If this is the first time you’re hearing the term, here’s the definition.
New Money = people who have
recently become wealthy, typically through earned income rather than inheritance.
By the end of this video you’ll have a clear way to tell who’s new money and who isn’t!
Let get started!
Number 1: Your Money is Digital It’s not gold bars in a safe.
It’s not renaissance art hanging on walls.
You most likely built a company, it IPOd, sold it or still use it as a cash cow.
The money hits your bank account. It’s all digital.
Sure you have some other investments,
but you can see the bulk of it by refreshing the screen on your phone.
This gives you unparalleled access to your funds, which you can move at will.
Number 2: You made the money yourself You’re a self-made individual. You had
to earn the wealth, nobody handed it to you and you take pride in that.
Only you - and maybe a very close inner circle - know just how hard
it was to get out and get that initial traction.
Only you know the hungry sleepless nights where your mind kept
tinkering at building your ticket to freedom.
Number 3: You want people to know that you have money
because it validates you in their eyes. When you earned it yourself
of course you want to flaunt it. You see it as the reward to all the hard work.
This translates into everything you do. For example:
You drive your own car. The car stands out!
You buy the top-floor penthouse because you don’t want anybody to be above you!
It’s something in the back of your mind that keeps coming up. You’re
the driver of your destiny and you drove yourself to the top.
Your ego is fragile… because people have come at you before, but you’re working
on it. You won’t lose your temper, but some people just rub you the wrong way.
You also have a good nose for the snakes hiding in the grass. You know they want what you have.
Number 4: You got rich disrupting an industry
There was the old way of doing things but you found a better way.
You leveraged the tools of today and built yourself not only a better mousetrap but a
better way of doing business. It required fewer people,
more software and you leverage the power of other people’s ecosystems to get there.
You’re living in the modern world. You run your business from your laptop or your phone.
You hire people that you’ve never met in person and some of you only
get to touch the product when you’re designing it or running quality checks.
Welcome to the new economy!
Number 5: You’re probably self-educated They didn’t teach in school what you’re
currently doing for a living. You got excited about the space
and monitored it closely. At some point you saw a window of opportunity and it clicked.
You continue learning on your own even to this day. It’s funny how now you’re
actually spending money to learn, because you get to choose what information you need.
Self-education is the thing that got you out
and if only others would listen, you’d share it with them.
You look back at most of the people you went to highschool with and they’ve
all settled into mediocrity. For them, education stopped when they graduated,
no matter if it’s just highschool or university.
One can not break the cycle of poverty without learning what it takes to break the chains!
Along the way, you discovered that almost all successful people are avid learners
so you made a habit of learning yourself. The most valuable thing to learn is LEARNING
HOW TO LEARN. Once we mastered this skill the entire game changed for us. We took everything
we’ve learned along the way and put it into a course called LEARNING MASTERY which will
become available for purchase this black Friday weekend. So make sure you go to alux.com/learn
and get yourself on the waiting list. We’ll let you know once the black friday sale starts!
Number 6: You think of yourself as the first in your lineage
New money doesn’t talk about parents. They usually had a shitty childhood.
It’s actually THE one thing that motivated them to push this hard.
Success was your way of escaping, wasn’t it?
If this idea connected to you in the same way it did for us,
hit the like button so we know we’re not alone!
Your parents didn’t have much. Your grandparents didn’t have much.
Nobody from where you are got as far as you did.
You see yourself as the one link in the chain that changes the destiny of your lineage.
You were not born in a rich family, but this changes with you!
Number 7: You had to prove some people wrong
Everybody looked down on you or worse, they ignored you. They laughed at your plans,
they shut down your goals, they told you to give up and be whatever REALISTIC means to them.
Nobody chose you. Nobody picked you up and gave it to you.
You did it all yourself and at that time, rest assured that they were watching.
Nobody puts as much pressure on you as you put yourself.
Nobody knows how much this meant to you and how hungry you are for success.
Sure.. they call you new money, but even the old money started out as new!
Number 8: You love media attention,
you thrive in it. Here’s the paradox.
You’re actually an introvert that deep down wishes to be a rockstar.
You enjoy watching yourself on the big screen, you enjoy seeing others marvel
at your luminosity. It validates you!
You understand just how impactful attention is and that those who command it control the future.
Number 9: You love Risk
You wouldn’t be where you are today if you played it safe.
The type of leaps you had in your life don’t happen linearly. You
had to go exponential. You had to compound risk,
to connect dots in a way that resulted in the type of rewards you enjoy today.
You love taking risk as long as the reward is worth it.
A few weeks ago we published a video called 15 RISKs you should take in
life that you can check out by clicking in the top right corner! [add the card here]
Everyone found it incredibly valuable so we encourage you to watch it after this one!
Number 10: You have specialized knowledge Basically, you know your shit when it
comes to the industry you’re in. You’re competing on a global level
so you had to become a master at your craft. You’ve got more than 10,000 hours put into it.
Not only do you understand your business,
you understand the model and where the industry is headed.
This has allowed you to stay on top of the wave for a while now.
You were able to v yourself with the changes in the environment.
As long as there is demand for your specialized knowledge you will never starve.
There will always be someone willing to pay you for what you know. It’s an invaluable asset.
In case of paradigm shifts, those who figure out how to best translate their
specialized knowledge to the new medium are those who become kings of the new space.
Number 11: Your circle is small and you’re around people who came up with you
Nobody gets you. You don’t have that many friends. You lost a bunch along the way.
It’s not lonely at the top… it’s you and the few people you brought with you!
You actually prefer it this way. There are only a handful of people who can understand
what you went through, who shared their own version of your struggle.
The circle may be small, but the value is high.
If you think there aren’t many people around you… well good. A ferrari has only
2 seats, a bus has 40. Choose your ride.
Number 12: You look down on old money like they’re unworthy of the unearned wealth
When you see people who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth you get this
weird feeling. It’s like an apex predator meeting a sheep. You sense weakness.
You know deep down they don’t have what it takes to compete.
It bothers you that you had to claw your way up to the
top of the mountain while they were born there.
You take solace in your strength. You know that
you’d be able to survive a storm while they wouldn’t.
You and them are not the same and you prefer it that way!
Number 13: You think art, etiquette and bougie behavior is pretentious
You understand it, but it’s not your vibe. It feels outdated and smug.
Rich people made it a priority for themselves to show how better they are than you,
so they invented stupid rules and ways to eat just to laugh at those who don’t
know them. What a superficial way to exercise your position…
You like high quality things, but they actually have to be good.
If a meal is terribly expensive but it doesn’t taste good,
new money will point it out while old money would embrace and feed the narrative.
What’s the point of playing pretend when reality is so much better?
Number 14: You don’t care how much you spend, because money isn’t real
and you can always make more Everybody looks down on new
money because of its spending habit. This is because the most common examples
are uneducated celebrities. You see a sports star or a rapper spend half a million on a
whip and some chains. You see them blowing through money faster than you can keep at it.
This results in a continuous income problem. You need to
keep working so the money doesn’t stop coming in.
New money is trending right now, they’re in the game, they’re everywhere, the demand is
there for whatever they have to offer. For them, this demand will always be there… until it isn’t.
This separates new money into 2 categories: Visitors & Residents.
Visitors are the folks who get rich,
spend it all on the experience of being rich and then get back to where they came from.
Residents are made up of the new money that is here to stay.
In the words of Jay Z: “F* living rich and dying broke”
Residents have their wealth cemented. They never spend earned income,
they invest it and spend what their investments generate.
Once you experience the distinction between these two types of thinking,
there’s no way you’ll want to be a visitor ever again.
Number 15: You don’t think your children should have access to all your wealth
In all honesty, you wouldn’t be here if everything was handed out to you. You’d
simply find no reason to struggle as hard as you did or still do.
All these efforts are to make sure the next generation has even more options than you did.
The goal is that your children have enough money to do anything they want,
but not enough to not do anything at all!
This is by far the most valuable thesis we have found when it comes to a proper
way to raise children. They’ll get your name, they’ll get the access,
they’ll get to the start line, but they have to run the course themselves.
Before we end we want to leave you with this:
New money is the result of maximizing the impact of the present!
Old money is the result of minimizing the impact of the future!
If you want to survive, you need to understand what it takes to move from one side to the other,
so we ask you: Would you rather be NEW MONEY
or OLD MONEY? We’re curious to learn why in the comments.
Considering the true Aluxers are still here, of course we kept something only for you
BONUS: The world will burn
and we will get a new world Here’s what we mean by that.
We’re on the cusp of something incredibly big.
Very much like a year has 4 seasons, history moves in 4 patterns.
HIGH - The most recent high began immediately after the second world
war (1946) when America's economy began to boom. Everyone began building wealth.
This period ended with the assasination of JFK in 1963
It was followed by the AWAKENING Stage - 1960s to
1980s. It’s the time of the finding your individuality and your consciousness.
Hippies and spirituality are indicators of the times.
All that individualism, brings with it societal change.
Leading us into the period of UNRAVELLING
Society changes how it functions. Socio-politics
are affected, people get divided and institutions are less and less trusted.
It began in the 80s and we believe this period ended with the financial crash of 2008.
The last turning and the one we believe to be in right now is called:
CRISIS This is where society
crumbles. Money loses its value, greater societal sacrifice is required, you get mass illnesses like
covid was and still is and all the rules change. Crisis are a point in time of burning the present,
keeping the things that survive the fire and building something new on top.
We are half-way into our turning and it’s expected to end sometime near 2030. Personally, we think
blockchain and moving into decentralized stores of value will be the catalyst of the new society.
Those who understand those patterns will come out ahead. Those who understand in which turning
we currently are will be the survivors of the fire and those who will thrive in the new world,
because they’re the ones who are going to build it.
We’ve learned about this from a book called The 4th Turning By: William Strauss and Neil Howe.
If you go to alux.com/freebook and use a new email to sign up, you can get it as an
audiobook for free. We’ll leave a link to amazon in the description as well.
Get this book Aluxers and get ready. If you want to become
NEW MONEY, this might be the once in a lifetime opportunity you were looking for.
If you don’t want to miss out on this opportunity,
write the word NEW in the comments. Newbies will think it stands for new
money, but you’ll know it stands for a new world. Let’s see who’s gonna meet us there.