How To Change Your Life

Hey fastlaners. What's up guys? Greetings from Costa Rica. I'm making this video for you from our retreat for our backroom Mastermind, which is our group of students that have built at least a million dollar business and we focus on scaling them to $10 million and beyond and getting them ready to sell their business. And we also have investors and wealth managers in the group so that when people are making money or they sell their business and they take a cash windfall, they can invest that for passive income. So we try to be kind of the full stop shop for someone who is running a million dollar business to get to $10 million and beyond, sell it and invest for passive income. And.

It'S just interesting what has happened in the discussions that we've had over the last couple of days while we're here. And the reason I wanted to make a video for you about it was because everyone in the room lived a completely different life three years ago. So I thought it would be fun to have a discussion about how to completely change your life financially or in any really any area of your life in three years. And three years ago, like I was going through a really hard time. And if we go back a little bit further, if we were to go back four or five years, like I was in a very dark spot. I remember just waking up every morning feeling like I did not know what I was living for. And I was having a discussion with one of our backroom members this week. His name is Andrew Andy. And we were talking about how it's kind of a boohoo, like no one should feel sad for us, but when you live us, when you, when you get to a certain point where you don't have, like, you have a way to make money, but you don't know what your purpose is or you don't know what you're building, you don't know what you're actually existing for. It's almost worse because there's this sense of like, you now have to rediscover who you thought you were.

So five years ago I was in that spot of like, great, you can start a business on the Internet, but what is my life about? What am I building anything for?

And I got into a really dark spot for a period of about.

Really a couple years. It lasted from about 2000, 2010 to 2012 was kind of my really dark spot of trying to.

Discover what my business was about, discover who I was, discover what I really wanted to live for. And if we take the period of 2013 or 2014 to today, that three to four year window, my life has completely changed.

Yes, I've become a father. I have made millions of dollars in that three year period. I have built a company and sold it. The company made me millions of dollars. Now I sold it for millions of dollars. I now run this thriving community and this thriving audience that did not exist three years ago. And this kind of story has happened for all the different conversations that I've had over the last few days with all our backroom members. So what's the reason?

What's the formula? What's the fast lane to creating massive change in such a short period of time? Well, I can only share from personal experience and the experience of those that I've spoken with, but it has looked something like the following.

Actually, let me say this first.

There'S a book called the Slight Edge that I really like that I read about three or four years ago. It's written by Jeff Olson and Jeff Olson makes the argument that large changes in our life don't happen as the result of big spikes. They happen because we are putting ourselves into certain positions over and over and over and over again so that when the right opportunity comes up, we can take advantage of it and we're in the right spot to be able to take advantage of those opportunities. So I tell you that because the first step to completely changing your life over the next three years is to get into the habits that regularly prime you for opportunities. Those habits are five areas. It's how you manage your time or how you spend your time. Your relationships, your income, your body and your expansion. What you put into your mind. So your how you spend your time is what actually fuels you. Charges you. What do you actually want to be investing your time into? What makes you feel alive so that you are actually charging your batteries. So your daily habit could be something like a meditation or having fun. Your R area Relationships is who you spend time with. What strategic relationships are you regularly getting in front of? Are you going to networking events? Are you involved in online communities? Are you plugging into mentors with a mentality of giving first? Are you regularly stretching your network and investing in your network? If you're investing in your network, it is only a matter of time before your life takes off. Income is your I point these are T R I B E time relationships, income, body expansion they spell tribe. It's why our incubator and accelerator is called the Tribe. I is income. Are you investing for long term wealth? Are you plugging away at some sort of a business Are you taking a little bit of risk every day in order to prime the pump for a long term success? B is body. Are you exercising and sweating every day? Are you getting your green juice? Are you drinking a smoothie? Are you having a salad every day? E is expansion. Are you putting something in your mind every day? Are you reading books, listening to podcasts or audiobooks every day that stretches you and causes you to think differently about life? If you do these five things, we've got step one. We've got step one to change your financial life and to change the rest of your life within three years. Because if you do those habits, if your health is dialed in, if your network is growing, if you are spending your time in a way that makes you feel great, creative and alive, or you're eating your mind, there is no way that within three years you do not have new opportunities. There is no way in three years you don't have different relationships. There's no way in three years that your body doesn't look different, that people are wanting to follow you if they're wanting to work with you. There's absolutely no way, if you are investing in relationships and your body and your mind for three years that you don't have a completely different life. So that is part one. And honestly, that's the boring part. The boring part is you putting in the work and putting in the time to take advantage of opportunities. The second part is the more important part, or really like the more exciting part. This doesn't matter if you don't do the first part, but this is actually taking advantage of, of those opportunities, those spikes that happen when they present themselves. The strange thing about this is that.

You don't, you can't force an insight, you can't force a big opportunity to happen. You can only be in the right strategic situations and positions to be able to take advantage of them. So. So for me, that idea of being in the right place at the right time is true, but only true if you are ready for it by doing part one of properly priming yourself to take advantage of those right place, right time opportunities. But it's hard to force those right place, right time chances.

Taking a risk and starting a new business can be right place, right time, assuming that you are primed for it. But the second part of this is actually putting yourself into the right place.

So priming yourself, doing your tribe, tracking your points. I have a podcast all about this. It's called the Tribe 5 Morning Routine. You can find that on the googly machines.

That'S Part one and part two is actually putting yourself into those right positions, putting yourself in the position to actually have those spikes up, assuming that you are ready for them. This is. You know, I did an exercise once at one of my Strategic Coach classes. And at Strategic Coach we did this exercise where we listed out all the big break breakthroughs that have happened in our career. And for me, it was like that time I spoke on stage, or the time we did that conference, or the time I met that person and I started to find this weave that connected all of them together. And I found that I met my business partner, Matt, where we built this multi million dollar business and sold it. I met him at a conference. When I spoke on stage, that was at a conference. When I had that insight or met that person, happened at a conference, it all came from being around groups of people who were heading in the same direction as me. And rather than sitting behind a computer, actually getting in front of individuals who are heading in the same direction, who had a big vision, who were not just trying to scrap the Internet for money, who were actually building something, who wanted to be real entrepreneurs. Not fake entrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs who just talked a good game or flashed money on the Internet, but entrepreneurs who were building something that mattered in the world, building something that actually could have an impact both in their own lives and the rest of the world. When you're in the same room as a bunch of those other people and you're heading into this same direction, there is like this magnetic pull that happens on you because you meet all of these other individuals and it creates all of these right place, right time opportunities. If you mix that with other mentors and other people who give you that insight, you put yourself in that position to force an insight to create, create that one pivotal moment that changes everything. So it comes down to what is being put into your brain by who and who you are surrounding yourself with. So how often can you get into the situation where there are other people heading in the direction that you want, giving you the insights from their level of experience, and being in a room of people who can support you. That's how you stack the deck to create those big opportunities. I could have never in my life built the companies that I have built, had the income that I enjoy, enjoy the passive income that I now enjoy to live the life that I want. If it wasn't for regularly being around groups of people who were ahead of me and in a room of people who wanted to serve, support the same goal that I had today, I was having Breakfast with some team members and I was going through my total vision and we were talking about what tweaks we could make and what people we needed to meet in order to make the vision that we are building possible. It's a big vision. It's the reason I talk about it so publicly, because I know that by talking about it, I will put myself into the environment of people who help support that and pull that forward. So if you have a vision, if you have a goal for your life, your job for the next few years is twofold. It is to prime yourself through your time, relationships, income, body and expansion, T R I V E and then putting yourself regularly into the position where there are other people heading in that direction and learning from individuals who have done exactly what you want to do and getting those insights. What that does is it stacks the deck for the right pivotal moment that changes everything and it puts you in the position to be able to take advantage of that because you are primed and because you are in the environment of people who can support that. That's how you completely change your life in three to four years. That's how you build companies that make you millions of dollars. That's how you open up new income streams. It's almost impossible for it not to happen. The thing that people want is they want it now without priming themselves or putting in the work. But if you put in the work, it is impossible for you not to have it. This is why we attempt to create this environment that stacks the deck. At an event called the Capitalism Conference. We used to call it Freedom Fastlane Live. Now we call it the Capitalism Conference. And what we do here is we bring in people who are way ahead in business. They built hundred million dollar businesses. Because if you want to start a million dollar business, there is no better way to do that than to learn from someone who's built a ten or a hundred million dollar business. If you want to invest for passive income, it would probably be good to listen to people who have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month coming in via passive income who can share with you the playbook on how to do that. If you are building something as an entrepreneur, it would probably be a good idea to be in a room of people who want, who have already built the type of companies you want, who are already in motion so that you're in the right space scenario to take advantage of the opportunities that come up. If you show up primed for those types of opportunities and you come with a give mentality, the world just gets out of your way and new opportunities open up. So if you are an entrepreneur who has a vision, who wants to build something real, who doesn't just want to talk about the game, but play the game, especially if you are already in motion either running a business, you have a million dollar business, you're growing a business, then I'm inviting you to take advantage of the way that we stack the deck by putting people and putting mentors on stage who can take you to the next step in your journey and inviting people who are already in motion. Because the people who tend to be attracted to our message and attracted to our event tend to be the people with that big vision, who are building something big, who have really ambitious goals and they want to be surrounded by other people like you, who share that. We do it every December. It's this December 7th, 8th and 9th this year. We have the founder of the Honest Company, a billion dollar company. He's actually a serial billionaire, built 3 billion dollar online companies. We have Kimbal Musk, the brother of Elon. We have Jeff Hoffman coming back who has helped build billion dollar companies and is working on potential acquisition of a major league baseball team. We're doing our investment panel to talk about passive income. We have breakouts with Jeff woods who has been on the podcast talking about building empires. We're bringing in some of our students who have built teams and have gotten their lives back so they could build something bigger. We're doing breakouts with Garrett Gunderson who's going to show how we can reduce our tax burdens and invest wiser so we so that we can grow our business. We have one of the foremost tax experts in the world talking about paying less taxes and taking advantage of the tax code and speculating on what's going to happen in today's changing environment in terms of taxes. And we haven't even released our keynote list yet. We have Ezra Firestone coming onto the stage. Talk about the future of Internet marketing and how physical product owners can take advantage of certain opportunities right now. And stay tuned for the keynotes. They're going to rock your socks off. So if you go over to TheCapitalismConference.com you can still secure tickets. We're probably going to start our big ramp up here over the next two weeks. We're already ahead of where we were last year and we haven't really even started marketing the thing very effectively. So I'm inviting you and encouraging you to go to the capitalismconference.com and secure your spot. It's the best thing we do. It's the most expensive thing we do and we make the least amount of money, but we do it selfishly because it actually creates more opportunities for us@capitalism.com because we stack the deck. I'm practicing what I preach. I'm creating the pivotal moments, the opportunities for those pivotal moments for me, for our students, students and for the people who follow us. Because that's what ultimately creates massive change over the next three to four years. So if you want to have a completely different life over the next year to three years, prime yourself through the tribe, 5T R I B E time, relationships, income, body expansion, and put yourself into the positions where those big spike ups happen. And one of the ways you can do that is by coming to the capital conference this December 7th, 8th and 9th in Austin, Texas. Hope to see you there.