How To Form Healthy Addictions

My team brings together so many people say, how do I keep my motivation? How do I not turn to drugs, not turn to drinking, not turn to bad behavior, not turn to Netflix, not turn to eating?

With all the opportunities that exist today, why haven't you reached your next level of income, life, and wealth? In most cases, we've been lied to. We've been told that if you find the right opportunity and you work hard, you can be successful, and that's simply not true. Millionaires, billionaires, and successful people have realized you need the foundation for wealth, the habits. And that's exactly what you'll be learning on the Millionaire Success Habits podcast.

All success starts here. All right, today I want to get right into some serious questions that you guys have been asking. I had my team bring together, and I do this every month. Bring together the top questions to help you do one thing, reach your full potential. Listen, if you know anything about me, this is the place you come to get it raw, to get it real, to get to have no boundaries, to not hold back, to not tell you you're going to get wealthy or rich overnight for doing nothing. You have to change some habits. You have to adapt new rules in your life. But is it worth it? Absolutely. So this is the place. This is the video you want to watch if you want to go upstream and anchor in the rules for sustainable wealth, abundance, joy and happiness, and all the other things you create today. This was a really serious question that came in a lot of, and that is not quite an addiction. Some of you may be listening or watching and have an addiction, whether that's drugs or alcohol or a million other things. It could be, could be eating, could be anything. But so many of you have asked and said, when things get tough, when I feel like I let myself down, when I feel like I'm procrastinating, when I feel sad, when I feel overwhelmed, I turn to drinking or I turn to eating, or sometimes I turn to drugs or I turn to something like binge watch Netflix. Not that that's addiction. That's why I want to say this is like habits and addictions combined, right? So you're saying I don't have an addiction. So why does this matter to me? It does, because I'm going to tell you to get addicted. Now you're like, okay, now you lost me. What if I told you that being addicted was actually the thing that drove me through the hardest times in my life? And I'm going to say this. I know being addicted to work, being addicted to accomplishment, being addicted to anything. That word is terrible. And I don't want to claim to know what some of you may have gone through in your life, if you're truly addicted to something that's hurting your life, your family, your future. But here's what I want. I want to shift that mindset today and just be a little transparent about my childhood. I'll just tell you without going in detail. At 10, 11, I was 12 years old. I had a bleeding ulcer. I'd come home from school and vomit blood some days, not always, not every single day. I wasn't physically beaten every day, but there was just for another day, another book, another story. Just a lot of really crazy stuff that went on in my life. And then by the time I was 12, it was so crazy for my mom. She moved away and. And I missed her. And I managed a lot of stress. I was an adult at a young age, and I think I kept it all inside. I kept all the pain inside, I kept all the worry inside. I kept the things I was afraid of inside. Never told anybody anything. And things like that have effects on you for life. And I have to tell you, in my early 20s, I was already a hustler. By 17, 18 years old, I'd already done my first real estate deal. I was. I was already working on cars every single day of my life. I was fixing wrecked cars, selling them for a profit. I was hustling, but I was tortured. I really was. There was a lot of sleepless nights, There was a lot of stress, a lot of worry, and there was a lot of paths I could go down. And I want to tell you, in my twenties, I drank probably five nights a week now. Not like drinking, come home, pop a beer or pop a vodka and just slam it. Not drinking at work. But I'd come home, I'd get dressed and I'd have this itch. And if I was alone, if I felt lonely, if I felt a little depressed, if I felt disconnected, if I felt overwhelmed, man, it was easy to turn to a couple cocktails. I'd go out, get my buddies, get some drinks, get a buzz on. Man, the world just disappeared. But cool. I had a. It was cool that I had a great work ethic. I'd go home at 4 or 5 o' clock in the morning. Bars closed at 4 o' clock in the morning. In New York when I was growing up, I'd get home, 4 o' clock in the morning. I'd sleep a couple hours, get up and go to work again. Now I say that that's my only thing I can share that booze and going out a lot to the energy of a nightclub and dating obsessively. For a while in my life, that covered the sadness, that covered the ugly, that covered the thing I didn't deal with. It covered like that champagne bottle inside of me that I tucked all my negativity in and I tucked my. All my fears and all the things in it, covered it. But then there was a certain point, I don't know the exact day and it wasn't an epiphany. And again, I'm going to tell you the end result of this too. There was a day that I realized that my brain is going to obsess on something. It is. It's going to. I need something until I'm smart enough, until I'm conscious enough, until I can meditate on a daily basis, until I'm aligned with God, the universe, until my chakras are in order. Until that happens, I needed something as a bridge. I wasn't emotionally intelligent enough to go, let me just sit in peace and meditate. No, I needed booze, I needed girls, I needed nightclubs. Just being transparent. But then there was this moment that I shifted all that to accomplishment. I shifted all that to wanting to be successful. I shifted that to wanting to make an impact while I made money. I shifted that obsession to take care of my family. And I have to tell you, it doesn't mean you should stay in that place forever. It doesn't mean I'm telling you, be addicted to work, be addicted to growth, be addicted to money. But I got obsessed, if that's a better word, with being a better version of myself, with making more money, with solving problems people told me I couldn't do with being successful at a level that even my family said wasn't reachable. And when I did, it allowed me to have for a while a healthy obsession or a healthy addiction. Instead of turning to boo or obsessively dating or going out non stop, I said, no, I'm going to read this book. I'm going to climb this mountain. I'm going to do what people can. They said I can't be on tv.

They can't be in it.

I've never gone past, probably have an eighth grade reading vocabulary. My eighth grade reading level, by the time I graduated high school, was in special ed. You can't write books, all right? I wrote multiple New York Times bestsellers. I was afraid, deathly afraid to speak in front of even my classroom. Now I speak in Front of tens of thousands of people every year. I found a way to get obsessed and maybe a little addicted to success, to being a better version of myself, to growth. And as I started by running away from pain, I did it to quiet the noise, but it got me momentum. And here's the thing. You don't have to stay in that place. As you start making more money, as checks solve problems, as they start to cut and solve problems and you start to grow, you can work on your emotional intelligence. You can work on your consciousness, work on taking that negativity that's bottled up inside of you and letting it go slowly. You can forgive people in your past who may have done some terrible things to you. And then you could take your addiction or your obsession to something else. Like, it went from running away from pain and quieting the noise to being in control of my life and wanting more. And then it evolved to wanting to take care and build a great team. And then it evolved to making more impact on other people and to phase on that in my life. Right now I've replaced it. I still kind of am a little bit obsessive. I still am a little bit of an addictive personality. You know what my addictive personality now leans towards is making an impact on other people. Yes, I started as a collision guy, driving a tow truck, working on houses. But I've evolved with taking in so much information from being a part of masterminds, being a part of groups, from learning obsessively, starting 13 companies, generating over a billion dollars in my life, and my brands and my companies failing miserably. I take all this now. How do I keep going? How do I keep that drive? I'm addicted to impact. I feel that I am a channel to help people go faster. If you're listening today, take what serves you, Throw the rest away. I'm hoping one little nugget I share today gives you a spark to go to another level. And if that's the case, I'm addicted to that. And I'm what gets me out of bed now, because I live in the house of my dreams. I got some great money in the bank. I own hundreds of houses. I got great investments. I have the best possible partners in the whole world. I got amazing fiance. Kids are great. Yeah, I'm blessed. And so many levels. So what keeps the drive? What keeps the motivation?

You?

That's my new addiction. That's my new obsession. So the question I got so many times, it's not from one particular person. My team brings together so many people say, how do I keep my motivation? How do I not turn to drugs, not turn to drinking, not turn to bad behavior, not turn to Netflix, not turn to eating? Find an addiction that's healthy for you to start. Use that as momentum to get right. When a rocket goes out of the orbit, 90% of the energy is getting it off the ground. Use something to get you off the ground. Then you can work on being a better version of yourself as the rocket soars out into space. That's my message for today. Appreciate you guys so much, and I appreciate you watching or listening. Please share. Please, like, get the word out to more people. If you think this was solid, then why don't you get someone else to listen? We're growing like crazy, and it's all because of you. What's up? What's up?

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