This will be my first data sheet, and it's on a topic so many of us adore: Money. First of all, this isn't a get rich quick scheme, this takes time, effort, belief, and education. I will not claim to be worth 8 figures, yet, but the path is clear, and if you put an honest effort into your pursuits, whatever they may be, you will succeed (if not the first try, there is a bottom that you can climb back out of). I will continue to update this as I build my business, learn new techniques and ideas, and meet new mentors. But to start this off, I will give you a list of books that I generally found insightful and just all around great reads.
-Mastery by Robert Greene
-48 Laws of Power by the same.
-The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
-The Millionare Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
-The Millionaire Next Door by the same.
-Rich Dad Poor Dad be Robert Kiyosaki
-Real Estate Riches by Dolf de Roos
-How to be a Real Estate Investor by Phil Pustejovsky
If you guys have further reading, I would love to hear it, books are the best investment you can make. It all begins with the mindset that these books instil. In order to get to a point of wealth, you need to have the mindset that most people cannot develop.
In order to be truly wealthy, you need to work for freedom. Money leads to the freedom, but for different people, different amounts of this resource are needed to achieve their dreams. You may want the private jets, or you may want the quiet cabin in the wilderness. Regardless, all men trade the most valuable resource of all: time. I would even argue that you could have all the money in the world, but if you don't have the time to do the things and be with the people you love, you are not wealthy.
So in all reality, even though you are seeking the almighty dollar, it is really the all powerful grandfather clock you are working against, with hopefully enough time left to really live your life. What the masses do not understand is that being an employee is slow suicide. But the manosphere gets this notion, so I needn't delve much deeper.
There are several avenues to riches, but none of them are paved through employee town. You will be working for other people, making them rich in the process, and selling your life for dollars and cents. So, what are your other options? You can build a business, or you can be an investor. Or you can do both. Or if you really love your line of work, you can continue to work while doing either or both (i.e. lawyers and doctors that start their own outfits). Regardless, you want to get out of that employers shadow as quickly as possible.
So, find what you truly love, and start selling it. Sounds simpler than it is, but if you find your niche, you can monetize it. For myself, that niche is real estate. For others, it could be in production, medicine, services, anything. If you truly enjoy it, you will find a way that you can make money from it.
Now this is where you start to amass wealth and become free.
But what do you do with that money? You do not spend it on the cars, clothes and the hoes just yet. You leverage that money. This is where people fall off, this is where someone that makes 200k a year will either become a financial powerhouse or a blunder. What do the masses do with an ever increasing income? They go and buy things, things they don't necessarily need, and fall into debt (and not the good kind of debt, because there IS a good kind) that they cannot crawl out of, so they have to continually keep making more and more money, and then they go buy a bigger house, a better car, and more shit they don't need.
But you're different.
You take that 200k, you live off of 50. You now have 150k that you can risk to create massive returns. You go and buy Assets that generate a monthly or annual return. Some people think that a home they live in is an asset... Fuck no, if it doesn't make you money, it is a liability. Assets include stocks, bonds, real estate (rentals/flips/wholeselling), companies you own, receivables on loans, and the like.
When I spoke of GOOD debt, I mean debt that you are making money on. So if you pay a mortgage every month, but you are pulling in money from rent in a positive cash-flow, thats some good ass debt. If you are paying that mortgage and don't have a tenant, or are living in the home yourself, that is bad debt. People don't understand that leverage is how Donald Trump built his empire, and how countless (and maybe even yourself) smaller investors have set themselves free.
Now, in order to get truly rich and wealthy (free), you need to live like most people will not to eventually live like others will never be able to. You take the profits from these assets, and your income, and you re-invest it. You do this for a decade, and you quit your job. You are now free. You can either continue to invest year after year and create a ridiculous portfolio, or live off of your measly 500k passive income you make every year.
Passive income is the way to true freedom. Location independent income is okay, but you continually have to work for that. Want to sip wine in the south of France with a couple models to accompany you while you're still raking in money without lifting a finger? Passive income.
Thanks for reading that wall of text, and I believe every single one of us can truly set ourselves free. It just involves front loading with hard work and seeing the potential a dollar can have. People say money doesn't grow on trees, that's because they haven't planted one yet.
-Mastery by Robert Greene
-48 Laws of Power by the same.
-The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
-The Millionare Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
-The Millionaire Next Door by the same.
-Rich Dad Poor Dad be Robert Kiyosaki
-Real Estate Riches by Dolf de Roos
-How to be a Real Estate Investor by Phil Pustejovsky
If you guys have further reading, I would love to hear it, books are the best investment you can make. It all begins with the mindset that these books instil. In order to get to a point of wealth, you need to have the mindset that most people cannot develop.
In order to be truly wealthy, you need to work for freedom. Money leads to the freedom, but for different people, different amounts of this resource are needed to achieve their dreams. You may want the private jets, or you may want the quiet cabin in the wilderness. Regardless, all men trade the most valuable resource of all: time. I would even argue that you could have all the money in the world, but if you don't have the time to do the things and be with the people you love, you are not wealthy.
So in all reality, even though you are seeking the almighty dollar, it is really the all powerful grandfather clock you are working against, with hopefully enough time left to really live your life. What the masses do not understand is that being an employee is slow suicide. But the manosphere gets this notion, so I needn't delve much deeper.
There are several avenues to riches, but none of them are paved through employee town. You will be working for other people, making them rich in the process, and selling your life for dollars and cents. So, what are your other options? You can build a business, or you can be an investor. Or you can do both. Or if you really love your line of work, you can continue to work while doing either or both (i.e. lawyers and doctors that start their own outfits). Regardless, you want to get out of that employers shadow as quickly as possible.
So, find what you truly love, and start selling it. Sounds simpler than it is, but if you find your niche, you can monetize it. For myself, that niche is real estate. For others, it could be in production, medicine, services, anything. If you truly enjoy it, you will find a way that you can make money from it.
Now this is where you start to amass wealth and become free.
But what do you do with that money? You do not spend it on the cars, clothes and the hoes just yet. You leverage that money. This is where people fall off, this is where someone that makes 200k a year will either become a financial powerhouse or a blunder. What do the masses do with an ever increasing income? They go and buy things, things they don't necessarily need, and fall into debt (and not the good kind of debt, because there IS a good kind) that they cannot crawl out of, so they have to continually keep making more and more money, and then they go buy a bigger house, a better car, and more shit they don't need.
But you're different.
You take that 200k, you live off of 50. You now have 150k that you can risk to create massive returns. You go and buy Assets that generate a monthly or annual return. Some people think that a home they live in is an asset... Fuck no, if it doesn't make you money, it is a liability. Assets include stocks, bonds, real estate (rentals/flips/wholeselling), companies you own, receivables on loans, and the like.
When I spoke of GOOD debt, I mean debt that you are making money on. So if you pay a mortgage every month, but you are pulling in money from rent in a positive cash-flow, thats some good ass debt. If you are paying that mortgage and don't have a tenant, or are living in the home yourself, that is bad debt. People don't understand that leverage is how Donald Trump built his empire, and how countless (and maybe even yourself) smaller investors have set themselves free.
Now, in order to get truly rich and wealthy (free), you need to live like most people will not to eventually live like others will never be able to. You take the profits from these assets, and your income, and you re-invest it. You do this for a decade, and you quit your job. You are now free. You can either continue to invest year after year and create a ridiculous portfolio, or live off of your measly 500k passive income you make every year.
Passive income is the way to true freedom. Location independent income is okay, but you continually have to work for that. Want to sip wine in the south of France with a couple models to accompany you while you're still raking in money without lifting a finger? Passive income.
Thanks for reading that wall of text, and I believe every single one of us can truly set ourselves free. It just involves front loading with hard work and seeing the potential a dollar can have. People say money doesn't grow on trees, that's because they haven't planted one yet.
"Money over bitches, nigga stick to the script." - Jay-Z
They gonna love me for my ambition.