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This is the Better Life podcast with Brandon Turner here without my co host, Mr. Cam Cathcart today. So just me, I actually wanted to put together some thoughts on how to go from broke to being a multimillionaire by not doing more, but by cutting things out of your life. So that's what this is. This is a pretty long, I think it's like a 30 minute long YouTube video that I had put out. I'm putting out at the same time here for those podcast listeners. That's what this intro is for. So I just want to say thanks for being a part of my world. I hope this is helpful for you. Here are 20 things to stop doing if you want to go from being broke to being a millionaire. Enjoy. This might be one of the most important wealth building videos you'll ever see. And it actually has almost nothing to do with making more money. Buckle up, because we are diving into these things that you absolutely got to stop doing.
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If you want any chance of breaking.
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Out of the cycle of financial stress.
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And you want to step into the world of wealth and freedom, let's get into it.
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Number one thing to stop. Stop waiting for motivation. Motivation is one of the biggest scams ever sold to broke people.
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We've been conditioned to believe that success requires, like, feeling inspired or pumped up or energetic or to be ready.
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It doesn't.
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In fact, most of the successful people I know, they rarely feel motivated.
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I rarely feel motivated.
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They feel responsible, they feel committed, they feel obligated to the life they want to build. Motivation is emotional and discipline is structural. So think about it like you brush your teeth every day without motivation.
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At least I hope you do.
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You don't wake up all hyped about flossing. You do it because it's a standard. But when it comes to wealth, like budgeting or investing or organizing your time right, or building a business or networking or learning, suddenly everybody thinks that motivation is necessary.
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And that's a fantasy.
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Millionaires act whether they feel like it or not. They show up on the days when it's boring and when it's inconvenient or uncomfortable or unglamorous. And they set up systems that don't rely on emotion and they understand the simple truth. Action creates motivation, not the other way around. So if you're sitting there waiting to be motivated, you're waiting for a feeling.
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That may never come.
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So if you want to get rich, stop asking yourself, do I feel like doing this today? And start saying, like, hey, is this aligned with who I'm becoming? Do the work first. Let your feelings catch up later.
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Number two. Stop hanging out with people who don't want to more from life. Look, you can't outgrow your environment. I don't care how ambitious you are. If your closest friends are lazy, negative, reckless, broke or complacent, your life will mirror theirs. It's not just because, like, you're weak or stupid. It's because humans adapt to their surroundings. If your friends think that wealth is for lucky people, if they roll their eyes whenever you talk about goal setting, if they spend every weekend numbing themselves from their own dissatisfaction in life, if they normalize, mediocrity like that environment will become your ceiling. So millionaires choose their circles intentionally. They don't just hang out with people who are around them and that are allergic to ambition. They spend time with thinkers, with doers, with learners, with builders, with people who invest in themselves, people who push, people who grow, people who look at challenges as puzzles instead of excuses. Like people who they want to hang out with. People who don't get intimidated by your dreams. This isn't about cutting people out of your life harshly. It's about adjusting how much influence they get in your life. Some friends belong in your heart, but not in your schedules. Some belong in your memories, but not in your future.
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Oof.
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So if your vision grows and the circle stays the same, you're either going to shrink your vision or you got to expand your environment. So wealthy people choose expansion. Number three. Stop spending money like you're already rich. Like one of the cruel ironies of life is this. Broke people often spend money like they're rich. And. And rich people often spend money like they're broke. The poor buy luxuries early. The wealthy buy luxuries last.
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Now, most people are not broke because.
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Of how low their income is. They're broke because of how high their lifestyle is. I mean, doordash and Amazon, Impulse purchases and fancy cars with high monthly payments and constant upgrades and new gadgets and subscriptions that they forgot about. And weekend splurges. It's like death by a thousand. Micro decisions. So millionaires didn't get rich by being cheap. They got rich by being strategic. They spend based on priorities, not emotions. They delay their gratification. They invest in assets before lifestyle. They understand that money today becomes freedom tomorrow, but money spent today vanishes forever. So if you want to become wealthy, stop acting like your future self owes your current self some lavish lifestyle. Your future self is already stressed enough. Don't hand them more debt. Live below your Means now while you build your future. I mean, you can't out earn full spending, you can't invest money that isn't there.
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You can't build wealth with an identity.
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That keeps trying to look rich before you actually are rich.
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Number four, stop blaming your job, your.
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Kids, your circumstances, your excuses. Like, yeah, they might feel true, but.
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That doesn't build wealth. If you blame your job for your lack of progress, well, you've already surrendered your power. If you blame your kids, well, you're using the very people that you love.
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Most as shields from your own discomfort. If you blame your circumstances, you're basically just declaring that your environment is stronger than your potential.
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Look, millionaires don't blame. They take ownership. Like radical ownership, extreme ownership, to quote Jocko Willink, ownership that feels uncomfortable, even unfair.
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Not because it's morally superior, but because it's effective.
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Like, ownership gives you leverage. Ownership puts you back in control. Ownership says, look, if I created this mess, I can create the solution too. And look, everyone has circumstances. Some people have a lot harder ones than others. But look, wealth is not built on fairness. It's built on responsibility. Your job isn't the problem. Your unused hours are. The kids aren't the problem.
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Your habits are. Your circumstances aren't the problem. Your response to them is. So if you want to go from.
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Broke to millionaire, stop waiting for easier conditions and start becoming a stronger person. Number five, stop doing everything yourself. Self reliance isn't admirable, right until it becomes a ceiling. Like wealth is not built through some solo effort that you got to do alone. Wealth is built through leverage, people, systems, tools, delegation, partnerships. Look, the broke mindset says, I will do it myself. The millionaire mindset says, who can do this better, faster or cheaper than me? And when you insist on doing everything yourself, like you want to do your bookkeeping yourself, your marketing yourself, your lead generation yourself. Maybe you're on YouTube doing your editing yourself and scheduling things, or your errands. Or you're filling up your day with $10 an hour tasks that keep you.
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From $10,000 an hour opportunities like you're.
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Trading your highest dollar value for your lowest utility. Now, millionaires delegate early and often before they feel ready. They buy back their time. To quote my buddy Dan Martell, they hire virtual assistants. They outsource low value tasks, they automate repetitive work, they build teams. They create systems that run even when they're sick, tired, traveling or taking the day off. Now here's the brutal truth. If you're always busy, you're not important. You're just disorganized. Oof. Busy people are replaceable. Leaders are scalable. If you want to build wealth, stop trying to be the hero who does everything. Heroes burn out. Builders scale. Now number six, stop confusing busyness with progress. Look, busyness, it's the most socially acceptable.
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Form of procrastination there is.
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Like, it feels productive to be busy. It looks great, looks productive. It lets you avoid the guilt of inactivity while conveniently allowing you to avoid the discomfort of doing the work that actually matters. Now, most broke people are incredibly busy.
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Their calendars look like a game of Tetris. Their days are stuffed with different tasks, right?
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But those tasks are really rarely aligned.
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With who they want to become.
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They're just drowning in motion, like starving for progress. The millionaires operate differently. They understand that not all the movement is forward movement. They know the difference between activity and achievement. They spend more time identifying like the right tasks that they gotta do than completing the wrong ones. Now, one of the greatest breakthroughs you can have in your journey from growing being broke to wealthy is learning to ask the question, is this a high leverage activity or is it just a distraction that makes me feel good? Now, if it doesn't move the needle on your income or your health or your relationships or your long term vision, whatever that is, it's noise. It's busyness. It destroys clarity. Busyness, it creates overwhelm. Busyness is the enemy of intentional living. So when you say like I'm so busy, what you're actually saying is I have lost control of my priorities. Millionaires aren't busier, they're clearer. They protect their energy like a bank vault and they simplify things ruthlessly. So they cut meetings, they cut obligations, they cut commitments that don't serve their goals and they are allergic to like unnecessary complexity. So if you want to become a millionaire, stop glorifying just busyness and start glorifying progress. Number seven, stop consuming more than you create. Look, we live in the most consumption heavy era in human history. People binge, Netflix, scroll TikTok, devour podcasts, and read dozens of self help books, all while doing absolutely nothing with the information. I mean, consumption feels good. It gives you the illusion of improvement. There's been a lot of YouTube videos and podcasts that have changed my life. But the problem is consumption without execution turns knowledge into just clutter. And waste becomes mental hoarding. Right? Millionaires create more than they consume. They create like businesses or content or deals or solutions or relationships and opportunities. They produce value and they put things into the world instead of just endlessly absorbing everybody else's info. So your income is directly correlated to the ratio of what you create versus what you consume. If you consume 90% and create 10%, you're always going to stay behind. You will always feel overwhelmed with ideas, but, you know, maybe underwhelmed with the results. You're going to have expertise with no expression. Look, the broke mindset says I need to learn more. The millionaire mindset says, hey, I need to apply what I already know and.
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Just get to work.
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The irony is that once you start creating, your questions become smarter. You can learn faster. You attract more opportunities, you build confidence. You become somebody people look up to and look to. Not someone who's always just looking for someone else to follow. So stop consuming endlessly and start creating purposefully. You don't need more information.
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You need implementation number eight. Stop avoiding the math. Money is math. Wealth is math. Real estate is math. Business is math. And yet most people avoid math like it's radioactive. Not because they're incapable, but because math removes that comforting fog of self delusion. Like math tells the truth. Math doesn't care about your intentions and your feelings. Math doesn't care about your excuses. Math doesn't really care about your emotional relationship with money. Math tells you exactly why you're broke. So millionaires know their numbers and they know their math intimately. They know their cash flow, their expenses.
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Their debt, their net worth, their Runway.
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Their margins, their ROI and KPIs. They track and measure and they adjust. And they treat math like a dashboard. Not a threat. But broke people avoid the math because they don't want confirmation of what they already suspect. That they're overspending, they're under saving and they're living far beyond their means. Now here's the reality. You cannot improve what you're unwilling to measure. You can't build wealth on vibes and feelings. You cannot invest confidently. If you don't understand the numbers, you can't scale what you don't track. So math actually liberates you. It gives you clarity, it gives you control. It gives you confidence to make moves while everyone else is guessing. So stop avoiding the math. I don't care if you were bad at math in middle school. Like get over that excuse.
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Stop.
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Start getting good at it. Wealth becomes far less mysterious once you understand the numbers behind it. And I don't know if you're in real estate investing at all like I am. I love real estate. If you want to know more on the math of like analyzing a rental property that could actually get you financial freedom. Do me a favor and go over my Instagram. Go over my Instagram, just Beardy Brandon, and I've got a five day deal analysis challenge and I want to send it to you. So just send me a DM over on Instagram just with the words 5 DC. Like 5 Day Challenge, 5 DC. And I will send you a link to this free five day challenge on how to analyze rental properties. All right, moving on. Number nine. Stop living without a vision. You know, most people aren't lacking intelligence. A lot of smart people here. They're lacking direction. They're wandering just aimlessly through life. They're reacting to circumstances instead of creating them. It's like a ship, I don't know, drifting at sea. There's no map, no destination, no captain. And you can't build wealth without a compelling vision. Where are you headed? Millionaires know exactly what they want their life to look like. Like their income and their lifestyle and their schedule and their home and their relationships. And they know what their health wants to look like. They're giving their purpose. They design their life before they build it.
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Now broke people wait to figure it.
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Out later, and then later never comes. But a strong vision will pull you towards the future.
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Without it, you'll stay trapped in that.
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Gravitational pull of the present. A vision will organize your priorities, and without it, everything just seems equally urgent. But a vision strengthens your discipline. Without it, temptation wins. A vision will accelerate your progress, and.
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Without it just, you know, motion is just meaningless. So if you don't know where you're.
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Going, every path feels like it could.
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Be the right one.
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We're not really sure. That's why so many people quit. Not because they lack the ability, because they lack clarity. You don't need a perfect vision. You just need a starting vision, A direction. Like a picture of the life that you want to create and the person you want to become.
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So my advice to you is stop drifting and start directing.
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Your future depends on it. Number 10, stop ignoring your calendar. Your calendar is not a schedule.
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It's a mirror.
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It reflects your priorities, your disciplines, your values, your future.
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If your calendar is just chaotic, your life is going to be chaotic. If your calendar is empty, your progress will be too. So millionaires don't rely on motivation or memory or vibes. They rely on systems. And their most important system is your calendar.
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Because here's the truth.
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If it's not scheduled, it's just not real.
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Workouts don't happen unless they're scheduled. Deep work doesn't happen unless it's scheduled. Wealth building doesn't really happen unless it's scheduled. Family time even doesn't really happen well unless it's scheduled. Studying deals doesn't happen unless it's scheduled. So most broke people just live reactively. Their day is just constantly hijacked by other people's priorities. They don't plan, they just hope things work out. They don't carve out time, they just squeeze things in. And squeezing is the fastest way to fail. You know millionaires, though, they live intentionally. They block time for revenue, for learning, for planning, for building, for resting, for thinking, for playing, for connecting. Like their calendar is designed to reflect the kind of life they want, not the life they're stuck in. So stop treating your calendar like a suggestion box or treating it like a contract with your future self. Because the moment you start honoring your time, the rest of your life starts honoring you back. Number 11, stop doing low value work. Like one of the biggest differences between broke people and millionaires is not intelligence, opportunity or even work ethic. It's just a type of work that they choose to spend their time on. Broke people spend the majority of their day doing tasks that maintain their life, not tasks that expand it. They're doing laundry and organizing their garage and tweaking their logo for the 14th time. They're cleaning their inbox, they're running errands and they're answering low value messages and they're fixing things around the house. Now those are all tasks that keep them busy and they're maybe important, but they're not getting any better. Millionaires focus obsessively on high leverage work activities that produce like long term value, cash flow, brand opportunities, growth. They're building offers, they're creating content, they're analyzing deals, they're networking with the right people, they're hiring talent and interviewing people and improving their systems and they're negotiating partnerships or they're refining strategy. Like high leverage work pays you forever. Low value work pays you once and then usually very little. You can't become wealthy doing minimum wage tasks even if you do them perfectly. You're just constantly tired but still broke. That doesn't mean you're lazy. It means you're misallocated. So you're investing your time into just the wrong things. You're pouring energy into activities that cannot produce the outcomes that you want. So millionaires, they eliminate things, they delegate things, they automate things, they outsource every task that doesn't align with their highest value. Now, it's not because they're above the work. It's because they understand the opportunity cost of doing the wrong work. Now, if you want to go from broke to millionaire, stop taking pride in being the busiest person you know. Start taking pride in doing the work that actually moves the needle. Number 12, stop buying liabilities and calling them assets. Now, one of the fastest ways to stay broke forever is to misunderstand the difference between assets and liabilities. Most people don't even realize that what they're doing or what that is. They think they're investing when they're really just spending money. So, like a new car, that's a liability. A bigger house than you need. Liability. Furniture, gadgets, clothing upgrades, toys, vacations. You can't afford that newest phone every single year. Those are all liabilities. They take money out of your pocket. Now, even things marketed as investments like a nicer neighborhood or a brand new vehicle with better gas mileage. That's marketing. That's a liability. Takes money out of your pocket. It doesn't put money in your pocket. So millionaires understand that difference. It's a simple rule. Assets feed you. Liabilities eat you. Assets pay you monthly. Assets grow in value. Assets reduce your financial stress. Assets build your net worth even while you sleep. But liabilities, they drain your account. They steal your attention. They increase your monthly burn. They trap you in a cycle of just working harder and harder just to maintain that lifestyle. The broke mindset buys liabilities early and then assets later, if ever. The millionaire buys assets early and then liabilities only after the assets pay for them. Like Robert Kiyosaki, Rich dad, poor dad wasn't lying. Financial literacy is a dividing line between wealth and struggle. You don't need to be perfect with money. But you do need to stop lying.
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To yourself about what is helping you and what is hurting you. If you want to become wealthy, stop.
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Buying things that make you look rich. Start buying things that make you rich. Number 13, stop trying to impress people who don't care about you. Look, so many people stay broke because they are funding a lifestyle designed for spectators. They're buying clothes to impress people they don't even like. They're leasing cars just for approval. They're upgrading their house so strangers think that they're successful. It's like posting online, right? It's just you post pictures, not even real, just so you can impress people who are going to forget about you tomorrow. Like that's financial suicide. Millionaires don't waste emotional or financial energy trying to prove anything to anyone. They're too focused on Building the ideal life that they actually want to live. Not a life that looks good in photos. So when you stop caring about outside validation, your expenses will drop, your clarity will increase, your stress decreases, your ability to invest will actually grow exponentially. Most people don't have a money problem. They have an ego problem. They say things like, oh, I deserve this. When in reality they're using purchases to fill a void, right?
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And let's go deep.
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They want they got some void or some insecurity, or maybe it's just boredom or comparison and they're filling it. So here's the brutal truth.
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The people you're trying to impress, they're.
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Too busy worrying about themselves anyway to care about what you bought. So really, you're sacrificing your financial future to win a game that no one's keeping score of. Millionaires seek respect, not approval. It's a difference. They seek results, not reactions. They seek freedom, not applause.
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So if you want to build wealth.
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Stop trying to impress people who do not care about you and start impressing the only person that really matters. Your future self. Now, number 14. Stop starting new things before finishing old ones. A half finished project, it's worth nothing. A half executed business plan produces no income. A half implemented habit produces no transformation. Look, one of the fastest ways to stay broke is to constantly start new things, new businesses. You heard about this new side hustle? Watch this cool YouTube video on a new investment strategy or some new workout routine. You never complete or master the old one. So the problem is not potential. The problem is premature pivoting. People get excited by novelty. Me too. It's like the shiny object is so alluring, like the next thing. Oh, the grass is so greener over there. So people confuse movement with momentum. But millionaires understand the simple principle. Focus beats frenzy, depth beats dabbling, competition beats excitement. Wealth doesn't come from dabbling in 12 different paths. It comes from committing deeply to one thing long enough to see results. When you start something, to stick with it until one of three things happens. Either you succeed, you systematize it, or you learn enough to make a strategic pivot away.
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It's not an emotional pivot.
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It's a strategic one. Most people quit right before the compound interest kind of idea kicks in. Right the same moment when millionaires keep going. So if you want real financial progress, you gotta be someone who. Who finishes things. Somebody who sees things through. Someone who pushes past the boredom and the doubt and the obstacles and the distraction. Because mastery is where the money actually is. But mastery requires what finishing now. Number 15, stop avoiding hard conversations. Avoidance is expensive. It costs you money, time, stress, reputation, relationships. When you avoid hard conversations, like whether it's with your business partner or relationship partner, your clients, your team, your family, your employees, even yourself, the problems don't go away, they multiply. So broke people tend to run from confrontation while wealthy people embrace it because they know that's what clarity is like. That's where you're going to get clarity. And hard conversations are where agreements get clarified. It's where boundaries get set, it's where expectations get aligned, where small issues get solved before they become catastrophic, you know, avalanches. So if you want to scale a business, you need to have hard conversations. You want to build a healthy marriage, you're going to have to have hard conversations. You want to lead a team of people. Hard conversations, you want to grow personally hard conversations. Especially with that person in the mirror, that good looking person. The reason most people avoid those conversations, it's fear of conflict or fear of displeasing somebody else. Fear of being wrong or fear of being misunderstood. But look, millionaires don't operate from fear. They operate from values and from truth and from long term thinking. So they know that the temporary like discomfort of honesty, it's far cheaper than the long term cost of avoidance. Wealth grows where clarity lives. And clarity comes from difficult conversations handled early, directly and respectfully. So stop running from those conversations that you need to have. Start having them before they cost you more than you can afford. Number 16, stop negotiating with your weaknesses. Look, every time you negotiate with your weaknesses, you're going to reinforce it. Every time you say oh, I'll start tomorrow or just this once or I deserve a break or it's fine if I skip today. Look, all those things are just votes for the person that you're becoming. That stays broke, that stays stuck, that stays the same. But millionaires, you know, they still have weaknesses and procrastinations and self doubt and fear and laziness and desire for comfort. I have all those things, but I don't negotiate with them. I don't say, well, you know, it's just who I am. I set standards that are non negotiable. And millionaires, they build routines that they, you don't really rely on your mood swings. They create accountability systems that really remove choice from the equation. But they know that discipline is not about being strong all the time, it's about an engineering and an environment, we'll call it that, where like weakness doesn't have room to win. Broke people allow their Emotions to really dictate their actions. But wealthy people allow their commitments to dictate their actions. This is a big difference and that alone is worth millions over your lifetime. Your weakness is always looking for a loophole. It's always looking for an excuse. Always looking for a way to keep you comfortable and unchallenged. Like, oh, it's raining. I guess I won't go to the gym today. Like, what's the rain got to do with the gym? That's your brain saying, oh, let's negotiate with the weakness. The moment you stop negotiating with it, your life accelerates. Your habits tighten, your vision clarifies. Your results will compound. Your identity changes. And if you want to go from broke to millionaire, you got to do that. You got to stop arguing with your excuses, stop entertaining the temptations, stop giving your lesser self a seat at the table. Millionaire you. It's already inside you. But you have to stop letting your weakness speak for you. Number 17. Stop expecting overnight success. One of the biggest lies in the modern world is that success should be fast, easy, glamorous. Thank you marketing companies for making us believe that. I mean, social media shows you all the highlight reels. The private jets and the big exits and the massive portfolios. But it doesn't show the boring years.
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The lonely years, the grind, the learning curves, the failures, the doubts, or the.
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2Am sessions where someone almost quit but didn't. Like, broke people idolize speed.
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Wealthy people master patience.
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Every millionaire I know spent years building skills and reputation and systems and relationships and resilience. They didn't blow up overnight. I didn't blow up overnight. I compounded. Millionaires stack small wins. They repeatedly do those tiny unsexy habits and they accept the season of struggle as part of the process instead of.
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Evidence that something's going wrong.
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Expecting overnight success doesn't just slow you down, it actually just destroys you. It makes you quit too early. It makes you compare yourself to people who've been grinding longer than you have been trying. And you know what, even if somebody else did happen to get lucky and got success early on, that's not the norm. That's the exception. It's going to take you time. It's going to take you time. And so when you compare yourself, you're just creating this anxiety and this entitlement and this impatience, all of which sabotage your consistency. Like, wealth is not a lottery ticket, it's a long term construction project. And the faster you let go of.
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The fantasy of instant results, the faster.
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You'Ll actually get results. Number 18 stop consuming junk food, junk media, junk information. Your mind and body are engines that create your future. And most people just run those engines on absolute garbage.
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Junk food makes you tired, foggy, sluggish.
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Inflamed, emotionally unstable, less productive. And junk media outrage, news, gossip, negativity, celebrity drama, it all destroys your focus, your optimism, your attention, the information. Like it's shallow tips, it's clickbaity stuff, it's surface level shortcuts, it makes you think you're learning when you're actually just distracting yourself.
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So good job, by the way, of watching through this. What are we, 30 minutes in? Or something like that on this video, you're still here.
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You're not looking for a quick win. Awesome look. Millionaires treat their inputs like a sacred fuel. They consume information that sharpens their thinking, that doesn't dull it.
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They eat food that energizes them, not depresses them.
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They follow creators and voices that inspire action, not confusion or anger. They protect their attention because they know attention is the foundation of wealth. When your mind and your body are constantly flooded with garbage, your standards lower, your clarity just vanishes, and your discipline just collapses. You cannot build a millionaire life with junk inputs. So upgrade what you consume and your output, like your decisions and your habits, your ideas, it's going to elevate automatically. Number 19, stop complaining about problems instead of solving them. Look, complaining is the emotional equivalent of, I don't know, paying interest on a debt that never decreases. It just drains your energy. It creates negativity, it reinforces helplessness in you. It trains your brain to focus on obstacles instead of solutions. Yeah, broke people, they always love to complain about their job and the economy and trump and interest rates and bosses and friends and kids and responsibilities and time and luck and everything else. Millionaires don't waste oxygen on complaining because it does nothing except keeps them stuck. So instead, they diagnose problems and then they go solve them. They ask better questions, like, what's the real issue here? What's the simplest solution? Who has solved this before? Who's a rock star at this? What resources do I have? What can I control? Problems are not a sign, y'. All. They're like a navigational signal pointing you towards growth. So if you're complaining instead of working on it, you're not thinking. You're just doing nothing. You're not progressing. So complaints create victims, solutions create millionaires. So if you want to change your life, stop talking about your problems and start talking about your plans. Number 20, stop letting dopamine run your life. Look, modern life is engineered to hijack your dopamine. Like all the apps, the notifications, the endless scrolling, the autoplay videos, the convenience culture, the constant stimulation. And here's the truth. If dopamine controls you, discipline never will. So broke people are addicted to micro hits of pleasure. Like junk food, junk entertainment, junk spending, junk habits. Every time they feel uncomfortable, they just go escape into distraction. But millionaires understand that dopamine is a tool, not a master. They don't rely on short term pleasure, they rely on long term reward. They engineer their environment to reduce temptation, not to fight it constantly. They delay their gratification. So they build habits that are difficult in the moment, but they're deeply, deeply rewarding over time. So wealth requires boredom, it requires routine, it requires doing the same things again and again without needing constant stimulation. So if you want to go from broke to millionaire, you must break your addiction to dopamine driven distraction. Your attention, you guys, your attention is the most valuable asset. You have to protect it, like your future depends on it.
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Because it does.
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And hey, if you want, I put together, totally free, a 14 day dopamine detox program. It's really simple. It's just a workbook I made. Every day for 14 days, you learn a lesson and do some journaling. Super impactful in my life. I think you'll like it as well. If you want a copy of that, just go over to Instagram Beardy Brandon is my Instagram beardy. B, E, A, R, D Y Brandon. And just DM me the word, one word, dopamine and I'll send it to you. It's, it's super good. I think you'll love it. Hey, if even one of these 20 hit you today, don't just nod your head, change something. Because wealth doesn't come from knowing what to stop, it comes from actually stopping it. And if you like this kind of content, you want more content. Like this straight truth, no fluff. Make sure to follow, subscribe, hit the button. Whatever platform you're on, you know what to do. I got a lot more coming that's going to help you go from broke to millionaire faster and cleaner than you ever thought possible. See you in the next one.