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And now back to the show. And if you don't do it intentionally, you're going to wake up one day and you're just going to have more money than you did before. But you're not going to actually really enjoy it. That's the trap. You haven't built the life which is the thing that matters. So that's number two. Number three is to automate your investing before you ever see your money. Okay, have you ever heard of the phrase out of sight, out of mind? Well, that's what you want your money to be out of sight so you don't spend it. Like you have a portion of each of your check. Go into an investment account. And you don't have to rely on discipline to build wealth or doing it yourself. Because if you're relying on discipline and doing yourself, you're probably going to lose doing it that way. Discipline fades. Sometimes you're going to forget to transfer the money. Especially it's going to, you know, discipline is going to be hard when you have something really cool and new that you want to buy. So what do you do? You build a system. The best investors don't decide to invest money every single month. It's just automatic. It just comes out of their paycheck and immediately goes in and over time, it grows. The money comes in, the money goes out, and then investments just grow. No thinking, no emotions, no, I'll start next month because next month will never come. And if you don't see the money, then you don't miss the money. And this is how you quietly just build wealth in the background while everyone else is just thinking about what they want to buy next. Okay, so that's number three. Number four, please live below your means, especially when you earn more money. This is where a lot of people really mess up. They get a raise and then they immediately buy a bigger apartment or a better car or more subscriptions, or they do more like, quote unquote, deserved spending because I got a raise, so I'm going to go buy something nice. And then they stay broke in their bank account, but they just have nicer things. It's so dumb, right? And this happens even to people who make millions of dollars per year. My wealth advisor had a client a couple years ago that did $20 million in net profit in one year. And in 18 months, he declared bankruptcy. He spent all of it. He bought watches for all of his employees. He bought multiple expensive houses in different cities, expensive cars for each house that he had. And so your lifestyle, if it grows as fast as your income does, you will never really build wealth. Wealth is built in the gap, that gap between what you earn and what you spend. And that gap, the bigger that it is, and the more that you can invest in that gap, the. The more that you'll become wealthy quicker. So you want to protect that gap between what you earn and what you spend, like your life depends on it, because your financial life actually does depend on it. And so for me, anytime that I've made more money, oh my gosh, I want to go spend, I want to buy something nice. I don't want to, you know, celebrate, right? And then I celebrate for six months or something, right? So it's like. But anytime I've tried to, I've made more money. I've tried to keep my lifestyle after screwing it up when I was younger and in my early, early twenties. Anytime I've made more money after I screwed it all up, I've tried to keep my lifestyle exactly the same for at least a couple years, right? So that's number four. Number five is to avoid comparison, especially, especially with the social media flexing. Because let's be honest, social media will mess with your head if you're not careful. You open up your phone and suddenly it feels like everybody's richer than You. Everyone's ahead of you, everyone's winning except for you, right? You feel like a loser. But what you're really seeing, it's not reality. It's somebody's highlight reel. You're comparing your real life to someone else's best 1% moments. And the dangerous part of that is that comparison is the fastest way to feel broke and not good enough. Even when you're not not broke and not not good enough, right? So you could be saving your money, investing it consistently, actually building real wealth. But you see somebody else who just bought a nice car, and you're like, oh, my God, I feel like I'm behind because someone else is showing a car or a watch or a vacation. And then now you're thinking to yourself, well, maybe I should spend more money. Maybe I should get some sort of upgrade. Maybe I'm not doing enough. And just like that, what happens? You get pulled back into the game of life. And then you spend in order to feel like you're keeping up with the Joneses in what's happening. You're delaying your. Your freedom, your escape velocity for later on. You get pulled back into the game, the game of being inside of the rat race instead of actually building real wealth. So you have to remind yourself most people are not showing you their net worth. They're showing you their spending. And there's a big difference between those two things. So know where you're going. Stay in your lane, stick to your plane, because your real wealth doesn't need to be posted all over the Internet. Okay? That's number five. Number six is to track your spending. You want to know where every single dollar goes? I have an honest question for you. Do you really know where your money is going? Not, like, kind of. Or do you have a pretty good idea? I mean, like, do you know every single dollar where it's going? Because most people think that they have an idea until they, like, really, really look at where the money's going to. And when they finally look, they're like, oh, my God, where the hell is all of my money going? And the truth is, if you don't know exactly where your money is going, you can never control your money. Because money just doesn't disappear into thin air. Usually it just gets spent unconsciously by most people. And that's how a lot of people say stuck. And it's not even from huge purchases. It's just a bunch of little teeny, tiny purchases of not really paying attention, right? And so they make decent money, but they have, like, no idea how much money they spend, what they spend it on, what's actually necessary and what's unnecessary. And so you need really one simple thing. You need visibility. You need to see where every dollar's coming in and where every dollar is going out to. And the good news is this used to be really hard when I was in my early 20s, you know, back in, like, 2007, 2008, I think, is the first time I started doing it. I'd have spreadsheets, and I had to track everything manually, and I had to print out all of my bank statements and log all of my money by hand and figure out where it was all going. And I'd have a calculator and all that stuff. Right. It took hours to do it. But now the apps that are. There's apps designed to just do it automatically for you. There's apps like Mint, Monarch, Money, Rocket Money, and they're so simple. You just, like, log into your accounts, you connect your accounts to those apps, and they show you where everything's going in one place. They show you your spending, your income, your subscriptions, all of your categories, your patterns. And that's where it gets really, really powerful for you, because once you see where your money's going, you can't unsee it. And you start realizing, oh, my gosh, I'm wasting money here. I remember my wife, when we first started dating, she was like, I don't have any money. I don't have any money. And I was like, well, how much do you make and what are your bills? And we started. And I was like, you're missing 400amonth. Like, you should have an extra 400amonth. She's like, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. And so, no joke, this is all the way back in 2013. We printed out all of her transaction or bank statements for the past three months. She was spending, on average, $400 a month at Target. And she was like, I had no idea spending that much money on Target. And so she just stopped going to Target for years and automatically just started saving that money. And so you start noticing things within yourself, which is like, why am I spending $400 a month eating out? Like, why do I have seven subscriptions that I don't use? Why am I spending money on things that I don't even care about? And that awareness is what actually starts to create change. And once you see the leaks in your bank account and in what you're doing, you can Fix them and you can plug up those leaks and you can invest more. Okay, that's number six. Number seven is to track your net worth consistently. You don't need to obsess about it. You just need to be aware. Because what you track, you improve. And if you don't know what you own, if you don't, and what you owe and where you're going and how much you're making and how much you're saving and how much you're investing and the average return on your investments, then you're just guessing. And guessing is not gonna build wealth. Guessing is not going to get you to escape. Velocity tracking creates clarity. Clarity creates better decisions. Like when I first started making a significant amount of money, When I was 21 years old, I basically 6x my income from one year to another. But my bank account was the same, like the same amount of money at the end of both years. And so I realized, like, I really need to track my money because it's just going everywhere and I'm leaking it. And so what I started doing is I started looking at my bank account every single day. And I used to get so much anxiety when I would check my bank account because I never knew if there'd be any money in it, if I had 20 bucks, 100 bucks, or if I was negative $40. But then I made it my goal to watch that account grow every single month. And so I started checking it every single day. And then I started getting joy in watching the account grow because I was checking it every single day. And so I watch it go from like insufficient funds to a thousand bucks to 2,000 to 5,000 to 10,000, 20,000 to six figures and so on and so forth. You should do the exact same with all of your accounts, your savings, your checkings, your investments. And like I said, you can use those platforms to just link them all together and they just update automatically. And then you can see everything in one place all at one time. So that's number seven. Number eight is detach your self worth from money. This is a really big one. This is where a lot of people really get stuck because they don't just want money, they want what they think money means, which is like respect or status or validation or finally feeling like they're enough. And I coach many, many very extremely successful business owners. Like I'm talking people that have more money than they need and they don't know how to remove themselves from their businesses because their business and making money has become their entire identity in all of their Self worth comes from their business, and all of their identity comes from their business. And so they don't know how to remove themselves from it. And this is a lot of people's isn't just millionaires. So what happens? Well, because their identity is tied to their income, they think to themselves, well, if I make more money, then I am more. If I lose money, then I'm less. And that's a really dangerous game to play because now money just doesn't sit in your bank account. Money controls your emotions, it controls how you feel about yourself, it controls your confidence, it controls your decisions. And so, like, let me explain what this looks like. In real life, you make a little bit more money, right? And now you feel like you need to like, upgrade your lifestyle, show some people that you're doing pretty well, prove that you're successful not because you actually want those things, but because you're trying to protect the identity of somebody who makes more money, who is more successful. Or the opposite can happen as well, which is you lose money. And now you start questioning yourself and am I good enough? Am I falling behind? What are people gonna think of me? You see the problem? Money, the tool should not be dictating your own self worth. Like, you never go, oh, my hammer got dirty so I must be worthless. Oh, oh, I bought a new hammer. Look at how successful I am, right? That's why I keep going back to think of money as a tool. So you detach it from your self worth. Because when you detach your self worth from the money, everything changes. You stop trying to impress people, you stop chasing status, and you stop making decisions to try to prove something or to try to keep up with the Joneses. Instead, you start playing the long game. You can invest without fear. You don't have to go for those dumb purchases. You can make calm, illogical and strategic decisions. Because money is a tool, not a scoreboard of, not your self worth, not your identity. So if you want real wealth, you've got to separate who you are from how much money you make. Because the moment that money stops defining you, it stops controlling you. And that's when you actually start winning. And you can play the game of money with real strategy of how to actually break free from the game. And then habit number nine, this is a simple one. Think in decades, not days. Most people think like, how can I make money this month? How can I become rich fast? Can I put all of my money into Bitcoin in at 40 x's over the next week? And then I'm the richest person alive. Wealth doesn't work like that. Like, real wealth is built slowly, consistently, quietly over years and over decades. Like, if you plant a seed today, you don't dig it up tomorrow to see if it's growing right. You just trust the process. You give it some sun, you give it some water, and you just trust the process. A seed that you plant today is a massive tree. In 20 years, though, it's the same thing with money. For most people, money will be a long game. Like, unless you make millions of dollars per year and don't spend very much of it, it will take you a couple decades to get real significant wealth. But I promise you, retiring early is way better than upgrading to a BMW when you have a working Toyota, or way better than buying a $2,000 TV. So you want to start planting those seeds now. So those are the nine habits that you need in order to get true, real wealth in your life. If you love this episode, please share it on Instagram Stories and tag me abd. It'll be D I A L J R and with that, I'm gonna leave you the same way leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.

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