0:01 so I went from working in a supermarket
0:04 to having seven figures in my 20s and I
0:05 realized it's actually pretty simple to
0:07 get ahead of most people in the next 7
0:09 months it's not about being smart
0:12 talented or born rich all it takes is
0:14 being hyper aware in implementing these
0:17 five rules starting with the 955 rule so
0:19 most of what we think success looks like
0:22 is the social media version of it right
0:23 it's the seeing the fancy trips the
0:26 luxurious events or the all the pizaz
0:28 but the truth is the success that you
0:30 want is found into things that you've
0:32 been avoiding and a great example of
0:35 this is with Kobe Bryant so one day at
0:36 the Olympic Village Kobe he had a
0:38 scheduled workout with his Gym trainer
0:40 later on the day but he showed up at the
0:43 gym at 4:00 a.m. to do an intense
0:45 warm-up before the actual training
0:47 meaning for the next 45 minutes Kobi
0:49 practiced the most basic footwork the
0:53 most basic drills with 110% effort and
0:54 later on when someone approached him and
0:56 asked him hey you're the best player in
0:58 the world why are you doing such basic
1:01 drills and Kobe replied why do you think
1:03 I'm the best player in the world because
1:05 I never get bored with the basics you
1:06 see the point is most things that are
1:09 worth having require you to be extremely
1:11 consistent for an extraordinary period
1:14 of time 95% of success happens in the
1:17 shadows and the 5% that you see is in
1:19 the spotlight if you want to be able to
1:21 get ahead or change your life the key is
1:24 to identify the basics and do them for a
1:27 long period of time but just because
1:29 they're considered Basics doesn't mean
1:31 that it's easy the basics are hard
1:33 because they are usually boring and not
1:35 fun but at the same time that doesn't
1:38 make them any less important so if
1:40 you're a writer commit to writing every
1:42 single day you'll write faster and
1:43 you'll be better if you're in sales
1:46 commit to calling 50 people a day even
1:48 if you fac 49 rejections you still made
1:51 one extra sale and don't over complicate
1:52 any of this right I I can't even begin
1:54 to tell you the amount of times that I
1:56 created the most elaborate most complex
1:58 action plan that I thought was going to
2:01 improve everything by 102 X only to
2:03 never actually end up looking at it
2:05 after a month the more complicated your
2:07 plan is the harder it is for you to
2:09 stick with the next rule is to use your
2:12 discomfort as motivation and this is
2:13 something that I learned from Tony
2:15 Robbins and it's that people do not
2:17 change until they realize that the pain
2:20 of staying the same is greater than the
2:22 pain of change for example right after
2:24 college I landed what seemed what I
2:26 thought was the perfect opportunity I
2:28 had a cushy job on Wall Street with
2:30 great benefits and a great salary and my
2:32 parents were super proud and I felt like
2:34 I was doing everything right but then 6
2:36 months in around 6 months in I found
2:39 myself walking in a circle outside of my
2:41 office building trying to delay the
2:43 moment that I actually had to walk into
2:45 work and the breaking point came when I
2:48 had a oneone with my manager and he was
2:50 mapping out my growth trajectory for the
2:51 next 5 years what I was going to achieve
2:54 blah blah blah and while he was smiling
2:56 the entire time I felt like I was just
2:59 suffocating after that I decided to map
3:00 out my plan to qu quit in St my own
3:02 business and on the day that actually
3:04 put in my two-e notice my boss offered
3:08 me about a 30% raise to stay and I just
3:11 politely said no and within the first
3:13 seven months right of starting my own
3:15 business those were some of the hardest
3:17 months of my life right I barely got any
3:19 sleep I made silly mistakes that cost me
3:21 a lot of money but even then I kept on
3:23 going because even on my worst days
3:26 right the fear of failing at my startup
3:28 or my business was nowhere near as heavy
3:31 as the fear of looking back at 40 years
3:33 and wondering what if the point is if
3:35 you think the price of success is too
3:38 high wait till later on when you get the
3:40 bill for regret in my case I could have
3:42 stayed at my kushy job right it was
3:43 comfortable but I didn't want to be on
3:46 my deathbed when I'm 93 and a half
3:48 looking back at my life and have this
3:49 regret that I wish I did something
3:51 different instead I want to be able to
3:53 look back at my life and be proud of
3:55 what I created so if you want to get
3:58 ahead in life and avoid a life of regret
4:00 I want you to think about where you'll a
4:02 year from now if you just kept on
4:04 putting what you need to do off you'll
4:06 be in the same exact spot with the same
4:09 amount of money the same daily routine
4:12 making the same excuses While others
4:14 other people are making progress to
4:16 where they want to be and if that makes
4:18 you feel uncomfortable that's a good
4:20 thing I want you to use that discomfort
4:23 as fuel because the reality is time will
4:25 pass either way but the question is
4:27 where will you be when it does next is
4:29 you need to be hyper aware of the pig
4:31 million effect which in simple terms
4:34 basically says people perform up to
4:36 their expectations like I have a Founder
4:38 friend who told me the reason that she
4:40 didn't start her business until she was
4:42 48 was because she came from a tiny
4:45 Minnesota town of like 2 3,000 people
4:46 and I still remember she would spend
4:48 years right looking at successful people
4:50 from big cities telling herself that
4:53 that could never be me here and making
4:55 excuses about how you needed to be in
4:57 New York or in California in order to
5:00 make it but then at a networking event I
5:02 think she was in in Chicago right she
5:04 met someone who built a seven figure
5:06 software business who came from an even
5:08 smaller town than hers and that's when
5:10 she realized that she's the one who's
5:13 been holding herself back the moment she
5:15 stopped looking for proof that she
5:17 couldn't succeed in Minnesota and
5:19 started looking for proof that she could
5:21 everything changed I think it was just
5:23 in 2024 or 2023 her jewelry business
5:26 just crossed $1 million in sales the
5:28 point is whether you think you can or
5:31 can't you're right our brains are really
5:33 good at finding information that fits
5:35 our narratives and beliefs that we tell
5:37 ourselves and really good at ignoring
5:39 information that goes against it for
5:41 example if you are convinced that
5:43 someone is out to get you right you're
5:44 going to act differently around them
5:47 instead of being open and warm and kind
5:49 you might be cold and maybe even a
5:51 little bit hostile and do you think that
5:53 when that person experiences that
5:54 treatment from you are they more likely
5:58 to be friendly or equally as cold you
6:00 see your initial belief about that
6:02 person whether it was true or not
6:04 created this tense and and cold
6:06 relationship that you were hoping to
6:09 avoid which then proves your original
6:10 suspicion and this is called
6:13 confirmation bias and this applies to
6:15 everything every aspect of life how you
6:16 think about the world how you think
6:19 about wealth and more importantly how
6:21 you think about yourself so if you
6:23 believe that the world is full of
6:25 opportunity and potential for success
6:27 your brain will work just as hard to
6:29 prove that right so start using your
6:32 thoughts to focus on things that move
6:34 you forward instead of things that are
6:36 that hold you back next is the one two
6:39 rule or one in and two out like for
6:41 example when I started taking personal
6:43 finance seriously right for some reason
6:44 I was very very stubborn right I I tried
6:46 to save as much as I could and I thought
6:49 that as long as I did everything myself
6:51 that was the smartest way to save money
6:52 like I I'd sit for days watching
6:54 tutorials on how to build a website or
6:56 design a logo or or even file my own
6:58 taxes because I had convinced myself
7:01 that the time I spent was worth it
7:03 because I was saving money but then one
7:06 day while being annoyed at how ugly my
7:07 website or my logo looked I don't
7:09 remember which one that I spent weeks
7:12 designing I had an epiphany right I was
7:15 saving money at the expense at the cost
7:19 of my most valuable resource time in the
7:21 book The Almanac the author says that
7:23 everyone should set an hourly rate
7:25 meaning you should calculate what an
7:27 hour of your time is actually worth and
7:30 refuse to do task that can be outsourced
7:32 for less than your hourly rate now
7:34 traditionally Outsourcing meant hiring
7:36 someone or hiring people but today you
7:39 can use AI for example instead of hiring
7:41 an assistant to go through my inbox and
7:44 respond to emails I can use chbt to
7:46 write my emails for me the point is
7:48 getting ahead in life isn't always about
7:49 working harder right sometimes it's
7:52 about working on the right things so
7:54 instead of wasting your time on tasks
7:56 that aren't worth it start spending it
7:58 on things that can actually move the
8:00 needle so how do you do this right first
8:02 is you need to calculate your hourly
8:04 rate let's say you earn about $100,000 a
8:06 year right you want to divide that by
8:08 the number of hours you approximately
8:10 working a year let's just say 2,000
8:12 which is roughly about 40 hours a week
8:15 meaning your hourly rate is $50 then you
8:17 want to evaluate all the tests that you
8:19 spend time on for example if you spend 5
8:22 hours making PowerPoint slides that is
8:23 going to cost you
8:26 $250 now ask yourself Can you hire
8:29 someone or use AI to do this thing for
8:32 less than that amount if yes then
8:34 Outsource it or use Ai and instead
8:36 reinvest those 5 hours that you were
8:39 going to spend anyway and instead spend
8:41 it on more valuable activities like
8:43 developing your business strategy or
8:45 working on more impactful projects and
8:47 just an example of some AI tools that I
8:49 really like I like using Tanya for my
8:51 notes uh my task and transcribing my
8:54 meetings I like using grammarly to fix
8:56 my grammar um and then also Claude in
8:58 order to help me come up with some ideas
9:00 there are a ton of different AI tools
9:02 available for free just spend a couple
9:04 of hours researching and how you can
9:06 Implement that to replace task that you
9:08 want to Outsource the next way to get
9:10 ahead is to move from a position of low
9:13 accountability to high accountability
9:15 and back when I worked on Wall Street I
9:17 remember chatting with some like temp
9:19 intern people right who were doing basic
9:21 data entry work and I learned that most
9:23 of the most of the guys there absolutely
9:25 hated their job right they vented about
9:27 how they barely got paid and how their
9:30 job was Mindless and at the time I
9:31 didn't really think much about it um
9:33 because everyone vents about their job
9:36 but in retrospect I realized that they
9:39 were right the unfortunate reality is is
9:40 you'll never get ahead or be super
9:43 successful or super wealthy by doing
9:45 data entry or any of those entry-level
9:47 jobs because most entry-level jobs are
9:50 low accountability positions it's task
9:52 that most people can do and that's why
9:55 it's entry-level so while your employer
9:57 might value your work the stakes are
10:00 pretty low they don't need you need you
10:02 meaning if you're not available to work
10:03 they can easily find someone else to do
10:05 the job on the other hand a high
10:08 accountability position is when you are
10:10 able to provide something that will have
10:12 an actual impact on the person who is
10:15 relying on you and that impact right it
10:16 has to be something that that person
10:19 cannot do themselves and something that
10:21 other very few people can do the point
10:24 is employers value people who can solve
10:26 complex problems which often requires
10:29 you to have a a broad set of skills and
10:31 a a study found that hybrid roles
10:33 meaning those that required skills from
10:35 different domains multiple domains are
10:38 expected to grow more than twice the
10:40 rate of the General job market and these
10:43 hybrid roles pay more too uh for example
10:45 right marketing managers who know SQL
10:49 earn 41% more than marketing managers
10:51 who don't so if you want to move from
10:53 low accountability to high
10:55 accountability it starts with applying
10:57 the t-shaped skills model and it's
10:59 actually pretty easy to understand so
11:01 just imagine the letter T right the
11:04 vertical bar of the T represents your
11:06 entry level skills it's the thing that
11:07 you started with and you are really good
11:10 at like for example data entry if you
11:12 just have this vertical bar then you're
11:14 at a dead end there's not that much room
11:16 to grow you're just in an Excel file all
11:18 day and that's where the horizontal bar
11:20 comes in and which represents your
11:22 knowledge your skills across multiple
11:24 areas or domains it's things that you
11:27 can do to make the data entry skills
11:29 more valuable maybe you want to take a
11:30 tab course and you learn how to
11:32 visualize the data in a way to tell
11:34 compelling stories or you take a digital
11:36 marketing course and now you collect
11:38 data but you also can analyze it to
11:40 drive marketing strategies just like in
11:42 Tekken or Street Fighter right the
11:44 broader your skills are the more unique
11:46 combos you can do to your opponents and
11:48 the more likely you are to win which
11:50 leads me to something that you've got to
11:52 start accepting it's that even though
11:54 you might be trying your hardest to get
11:57 ahead and do better sometimes it might
11:59 feel like you're not doing enough and
12:00 and that might be because you think
12:03 everyone is doing better than you but
12:04 that's wrong click here to find out why
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