If You Want to Change Your Life, Give Me These 47 Minutes | 6 Months Roadmap for Success

6 months is enough time to change your entire life, and you're wasting it waiting to feel ready. Take action. So many people talk about doing something or say, what if? They don't actually get up and do it.

When are you going to do it? When are you going to do it?

You've got to create a sense of urgency.

I'm going to do it right now.

Researchers at University College London found it takes an average of just 66 days to make a new habit automatic, which means the behaviors that reshape everything about you can lock in before this year is even over. On average, they found that about 66 days is the time it takes for a new habit to be built. Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit.

People form habits and habits form futures.

The person you decide to become in the next 6 months is the person you get to be for the rest of your life. Focus has always been a strong part of my personality.

If I get interested in something, I get really interested. The most Textual people are very focused.

Let me tell you about a broke actor sleeping in a bus station in 1975. His name was Sylvester Stallone. He was so far behind on money that he couldn't afford to feed his dog, a big bullmastiff named Butkus. So he stood outside a liquor store and sold his best friend to a stranger for $50, then walked away crying. That's how low it got for him.

So I went to California and I moved in the valley, and things weren't going very, very well there. As a matter of fact, I had to go out and try to sell my dog because it was either, uh, do that or, or, uh, he just was not going to be very well fed around the house.

A few weeks later, he watched a nobody boxer named Chuck Wepner go 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali, and something lit up inside him.

One night I went to see, uh, Muhammad Ali fight. One brief moment, this supposed stumblebum turned out to be magnificent in the fact that he lasted and knock the champion down. I said, now that, that is probably what I need as a catalyst for an idea. A man who's going to stand up to life and take one shot and maybe go the distance.

Here was a man nobody believed in standing toe to toe with the greatest in the world and refusing to fall. Stallone went home and wrote the entire script for Rocky in about 3 days.

So I started to write, and it was one of those writing frenzies, and And 3 days later, I came up with the script of Rocky.

When he tried to sell it, the studios loved it.

Originally, when I brought the script to them, they were fairly enthusiastic about it. The one thing they were not enthusiastic about was me playing the part.

They offered him $360,000 for the script, which to a man who just sold his dog for $50 was life-changing money. And he said no. He said no because they wanted a real star to play Rocky. And Stallone knew in his bones this was his role and his one shot.

But the temptation started to come forward. First it was $25,000, then $100,000. I never heard of $100,000, 'cause I had like $106 in the bank, and like I said, I had to sell my dog, and things were not looking very, very good. I heard it went up to $360,000. So I thought, you know what? If I know in the back of my mind, if I sell this script and it does very, very well, I'm gonna jump off a building if I'm not in it. There's no doubt about it. I'm gonna leap in front of a train. I'm gonna be very, very upset. So this is one of those things where you just roll the dice.

He turned down $360,000 with almost nothing in his bank account. He held out until they finally agreed to let him star, and he took around $35,000 and the lead. Rocky was made for about $1 million and went on to earn over $200 million and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. And the first thing Sylvester did with his money was buy Butkus back, paying $1,000 to get his dog, and he put that dog in the movie. Stallone didn't need 10 years to change his life. He didn't need perfect conditions or rich family. He needed a decision he refused to walk back and a simple plan he refused to quit on. That's exactly what the next 6 months are going to be for you. Now, I know what you might be thinking. You're thinking, 6 months, Evan? I've tried to change before. I've started diets and routines and side businesses, and none of it stuck past the third week. Why would this time be any different? And listen, that's a fair thing to feel. But here's the real reason it kept falling apart. And it's not because you're lazy or that you're a broken human. You are leaning on motivation, and motivation is a feeling, and feelings come and go just like the weather. You are also trying to change 10 things at once, which is why the whole tower collapsed the first hard week. That 66-day number from University College London is the key that unlocks all of it. You don't need superhuman discipline. You need one small behavior repeated in the same way, in the same spot, long enough for your brain to wire it in and stop asking permission. Do that and the changes stops being something that you force every morning and it becomes something that you simply are. It's who you are. So for the next few minutes, let me hand you the exact 6-month roadmap month by month so you always know precisely what to do and when. If you've been here before, drop a hashtag #believe in the comments below so I can feature you here in a future video. And if you're new, welcome to Believe Nation, the only channel that helps you believe in yourself daily, one video at a time.

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Month 1: Decide who you're becoming before you change a single habit. So most roadmaps start with a to-do list, right? Yours starts with an identity. And this is the step people skip that wrecks everything that comes after. There is a truth I come back to over and over again. Being leads to doing. If you wanna run every morning, you don't start by just white-knuckling yourself and forcing yourself outta bed. You start by deciding you're an athlete. An athlete doesn't debate whether to train. An athlete just trains because that's who they are. Stallone believed he was Rocky before a single person on this earth agreed with him, and that belief is what led him to turn down $360,000 when he was dead broke. So your very first job isn't a task, it's a decision. Get specific about the person who already has the life that you want. What do they do on a random Tuesday when nobody Nobody's watching. How do they talk to themselves when they mess up? What do they say no to without flinching? So get a notebook, a try real physical one, write it all down, carry it with you. Don't treat your mind just like this filing cabinet because the moment you write, I am the kind of person who keeps my word to myself, you've already started becoming that person. Then every morning before the world grabs your attention, read that identity back to yourself out loud. It'll feel strange at first, and that's fine because you're not describing today's reality. You are casting a vote for tomorrow's reality for yourself. But in month 1, you're not measuring results yet. You're installing the identity that every result over the next 6 months is going to grow out of. And if that feels too simple to matter, good, because the simple stuff done daily is exactly what separates the people who change from the people who spend their whole lives just talking about it. Pick your one number and only 3 ways to move it. Here's where a huge number of people drown. They set 15 goals, get crushed by the weight of all of it, and quit on all 15 at once. So you're going to do the opposite. Pick one number. I call it your wildly important number, your WIN. It's a simple, measurable thing. If it moved, would prove your life is genuinely changing. So dollars saved, pounds lost, clients signed, videos posted, days in a row you kept your word. One number you can actually count. Then pick exactly 3 drivers, 3 actions that move that number. Not 10, just 3. And one of those 3 always has to be learning or experimenting because you don't know everything yet and you have to keep testing new ways forward. So say your number is 5 new clients in 6 months. Your 3 drivers might be: reach out to 5 people a day, publish 1 helpful post a day, and test 1 new approach a week. Or say your number is, uh, you're going to lose 20 pounds. Your 3 drivers might be: hit 8,000 steps a day, keep protein high at every meal, and test 1 new healthy recipe a week. Same shape every time: 1 number you can count and 3 actions that move it. Here's why 3 is so powerful. When you wake up foggy and you're unsure what to do, you don't have to think. You can't hide behind just being busy. You already decided. You just run your 3 drivers and the day is a win. Clarity is what murders overwhelm, and 3 is a number that keeps you clear when your emotions try to make everything complicated. Write your 1 number and your 3 drivers on the first page of that notebook. Make it big so it's the very first thing you see every day. Months 1 and 2: Build your 66-day habit stack so momentum runs on autopilot. Okay, now you build the engine and this is this is where the University College London research really earns its place on your wall. You've got about 66 days on average before a behavior turns automatic. So months 1 and 2, it's your runway. Don't try to bolt on 20 new habits all at once. Pick the small handful that quietly upgrade everything else and stack them so one triggers the next. So here's an example stack that you can use. So the night before, you put your phone outside your bedroom. So the first thing you touch in the morning isn't a screen full of other people's noise and agenda for your time. When you wake up, get sunlight on your face within 15 minutes and take a 15-minute walk. I call it my believe walk. It sounds too basic to bother with, but that simple move sets your energy and your focus for the entire day, and it costs you nothing. Costs you 15 minutes. When you get back, open your notebook and write down your 3 drivers. Keep the new habits stupidly small at first, so small that you can't say no because a 5-minute walk you actually do beats a 60-minute 10-minute workout that you skip. Then at night, run a 60-second audit. Did I run my 3 drivers? And where did I get in my own way? This isn't about shaming yourself, it's just about creating some data for the next day. And every single day, whether you feel like it or not, press your inner 'I believe in myself' button. Self-belief isn't something that you're born with, it's a muscle that you build by choosing it on the days where it feels ridiculous. Stack all of this and then the magic happens. By the time month 2 ends, you won't be forcing any of it. You'll feel off on the days that you skip it. That's the moment the habit owns you now instead you dragging it around every morning. Eliminate, automate, delegate, and clear the runway. Here's a fact that almost nobody wants to hear. The reason you feel like you don't have time to change your life is that you're pouring your hours into things that don't actually matter. So audit your days and run any recurring task through 3 filters. Eliminate. What can you simply just stop doing where nobody would even notice if it's gone? For years, I wrote detailed notes after every mastermind call because I assumed people needed them. One day I just I forgot, I stopped. Nobody said a word, nobody was reading them, and I got those hours back. Find your version of that. Number 2, automate. What can a tool do for you so that your hands never have to touch it again? Set it up once, let it run for years. And number 3, delegate. What can you hand to someone else? Even if it just starts as 1 hour a day of help. This connects to one of the most freeing ideas that I know. 10 times is easier than 2 times. To really double your results, you grind harder at everything you already do, but to grow 10 times, you're forced to drop the 80% that's average the fridge and pour everything into the 20% where you're genuinely great. Clearing the runway isn't lazy. It's how you open up room for the version of you that's ready to be the airplane and take off. Be honest about where your hours are really going. How much of your day gets eaten by things that don't even move the number one inch? Cut them guilt-free. A plane covered in clutter never leaves off the ground, and neither does a life crammed with busywork that just makes you feel productive while you stay exactly where you are. Also, if you want to take real action after this video, I made a free worksheet just for you. It covers the top lessons from today, gives you space to write biggest takeaways, and helps you build a simple action plan. It's 100% free. Just click the link in the description below to go grab it. I'll see you there. Months 3 and 4, do 100 reps before you let yourself judge anything. This is the exact stretch where you'll want to quit. So we need to walk in knowing what's going to happen. Around month 3, the newness wears off, right? The habits are in, but the big results, they haven't showed up yet. And that little voice starts to whisper, see, this one isn't working either. That voice is the single most expensive thing that you own. And here's how you beat it. You're not allowed to judge your progress until you've put in the reps. So let me give you a number that changed my life. When I started on YouTube, I made about 350 videos before I stopped being completely embarrassed by them. Not 3, not 30, 350. If I graded myself at video 10, you would've never heard my name. So give yourself a hard rule for months 3 and 4, no evaluating. No quitting, no big dramatic decisions about whether this is really for you. You just hit your reps, you post the content, you make the calls, you do the workouts, you save the money. Volume across these 2 months is what builds the skill, and the skill is what makes the results explode later. Look at Sara Blakely. She started Spanx with $5,000 she saved selling fax machines door to door, and she spent 2 full years getting doors slammed in her face before it became a billion-dollar company. 2 years of unglamorous reps before the world ever called her a genius and a billionaire. You're only asking yourself for a few months. You're standing in the exact part of the map where people give up 10 feet just before the treasure. You've seen those, those graphics turn around and then they go home. Do not be one of those people. And when you slip and you will remember one rule that saves everything: never miss twice. A single bad day is fine. 2 in a row is how quitting sneaks its way back in. So if you missed a walk, take a short one at lunch. You blow one meal, the next meal you're back on plan. You don't need You don't need to be perfect. You need to refuse to let one bad day become two. Months 5 and 6: Borrow belief, then outgrow the goal you started with. You cannot do this alone, and you were never meant to. There's an image that I love. It's a bird sitting on a branch, isn't afraid of the branch breaking because her trust was never in the branch. It was in her wings. So right now, your own wings, they may not be strong yet, and that's normal because you can borrow belief from other people until yours is strong enough to get you flying on your on your own. So get around people already living in the thing that you're chasing. Find an accountability partner, though, checks in with you whether you did your 3 drivers. Join a community where your goal is normal instead of super weird. Get a mentor, even from a distance, even if just playing their videos while you work. You become the average of the voices that you surround yourself with. So choose that circle like your life depends on it, and by the time you reach month 5, something has shifted. The habits run on their own. The reps have stacked into skill. The number starts to move. So do something that scares you a little bit on purpose. Look the goal you set in month 1, make it just a little bit bigger. If you can hit 5 clients, that was a good start. Now how about we go for 20? If you saved your first $1,000, now build a system that saves $10,000. Winners don't cling to the goals that they set when they were smaller and more scared. They outgrow them. So think of the paper airplane, the logo on paper, the idea that a folded sheet of paper could break the sound barrier. That's the sound effect of my plane going across the screen. That's doing the impossible. And the impossible, exactly what you're here to do. Your purpose comes from your pain, from the exact struggle you're climbing out of right now. And 6 months from now, you'll be standing somewhere you'd call impossible today. Your 6 months start right now. All right. You have everything you need. The identity, the one number, the daily habits, the reps, and the people around you. The only thing left is to begin. And you know when the best time to start is? It's right now. Have it right now. 6 months from today, you'll either be telling the story of how you finally change your life or telling yourself another story about why you didn't. And I'm betting on the first one, because if you have the ability to do this and you do, then you must. And congratulations, you're one video closer to who you're meant to be.

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Now let's learn the billionaire success formula that anyone can follow. Most people think becoming a billionaire is just luck, but the truth is they just think differently than most people. First principles analysis, I think, is something that can be applied to really any walk of life, anything really. It's just, it's really just saying, you know, let's boil something down to the most fundamental principles, the things that we are most confident are true at a foundational level. When I'm 80, now 90, I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have in my life. Being an entrepreneur is about taking risks, but it's about taking very very calculated risks and being, you know, protecting the downsides. Forbes reports 70% of the world's billionaires built it all themselves, starting from absolutely nothing. The list is mostly a list of self-made billionaires. 70% of the Forbes 400 made their fortune.

Here I come.

I had a 1977 Fiat X1/9 that literally had a hole in the floorboard. I got a job working at night. As a bartender at a place called Alon's, and then I got a job selling software at a company called Your Business Software. Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard freshman with a gift for computer programming. He transformed a dorm room project into the internet's biggest global village. The site now has over 900 million users. If you don't change how you look at problems right now, you're going to spend the rest of your life building someone else's dream instead of your own. But everyone has a perspective, and that's in fact all vision means, that you see the world in a way that is either different or otherwise, okay, than, than somebody else. And you see opportunities that I think are— that you believe are particularly important to go in and address. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. When Jeff Bezos was working a safe, high-paying Wall Street job, he had an idea to sell books on the internet. His boss told him him it was a good idea for someone who didn't already have a great job. He had to change how he looked at the problem, so he used what he calls the regret minimization framework. He pictured himself at 80 years old and asked if he'd regret trying and failing. The answer was no, but he knew he'd regret not trying at all. I, um, went to my boss and said to him, you know, I'm gonna go do this crazy thing. And I'm gonna start this, this company selling books online. He said, you know, this actually sounds like a really good idea to me, but it sounds like it would be a better idea for somebody who didn't already have a good job. And the framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy, what I called, which only a nerd would call, a regret minimization framework. So I wanted to to project myself forward to age 80 and say, okay, now I'm looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have. That shift in thinking built a $3 trillion empire. Look at Elon Musk when he started SpaceX. He wanted to buy rockets to send to Mars, but they cost up to $65 million each. That price would have stopped anyone else, but he refused to think like an average person. He used first principles thinking. He broke a rocket down to its basic parts and asked what the raw materials actually cost. It turns out the materials were super cheap, so he decided to build the rockets himself. That shift in thinking changed the world. Sara Blakely sold fax machines door-to-door for 7 years. She had $5,000 in savings and an idea for footless pantyhose. Every factory told her no, but growing up, her dad used to ask her at the dinner table what she failed at this week. If she didn't have a failure, he'd be disappointed. She learned to look at failure as just a step in the the process, not the end of the road. And because she thought differently about rejection, she kept pushing until she built Spanx and became a self-made billionaire. Now, right now you're probably thinking, I don't have billions of dollars or a genius brain of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to do any of this. You think they had some massive advantage that you don't have, but every single one of them started with zero, just like you. The only difference is they trained their brains to see opportunities where average people see dead ends. You can learn this exact same skill right now. I'm going to show you exactly how to rewire your brain to think like a billionaire. Break down your biggest problems. When you face a massive challenge, you probably look around to see how other people solve it. You copy their methods. You hope for the best. That's called reasoning by analogy, and it keeps people completely stuck in average results. Billionaires don't think this way at all. They use a powerful mental model called first principles. The ancient philosopher Aristotle defined a first principle as the basic foundation from which a thing is known. It means you strip away all the assumptions, all the old traditions, and all the outside noise until you find the absolute facts. When you look at the raw facts of a problem, you see solutions that everyone else misses. So let's say you want to start a business, but you think it costs $50,000 to launch. Average thinking says, well, you've got to go get a bank loan or save up for 10 years. First principles thinking asks, what do I actually need to get my first customer? You just need a phone and internet connection. Those cost almost nothing. When you stop accepting the rules that other people hand to you, you can unlock your ability to start creating wealth. So we need to start breaking down the obstacles into the smallest possible truth. You'll realize that most of your limits, they're just completely made up. Billionaires don't accept the world hold exactly as is. They break it down and rebuild it to serve their own vision. Once you start doing this, you'll never look at a roadblock the same way again. But breaking down problems is only the first step, because once you see the opportunity, you've got to know how to place the right bets. Take bets where you can't lose. Most people are terrified of taking risks because they think risk means losing everything. And you probably think that billionaires are just wild gamblers who got super lucky. And that is This is not true. Wealthy people actually hate risk. They actively avoid risk. Instead, they look for asymmetric risk. Asymmetric risk means the potential upside of the decision is massive, but the potential downside is incredibly small. When Richard Branson started Virgin Atlantic Airlines, he didn't risk his entire music empire to buy planes. He made a smart deal with Boeing that let him return the plane after 1 year if the business completely failed. Failed. His downside was just a few months of leasing costs, but his upside was a multi-billion-dollar airline. So you need to start looking at your own life through this exact same lens. Stop risking everything on ideas that have a tiny payoff. Stop staying in a safe job where your downside is wasting 40 years of your life and your upside is a 2% raise, and start looking for bets where you can lose a little bit of time or a little bit of money, but you could potentially change your entire financial future. If you make 10 asymmetric bets and 9 of them fail, that one win will completely wipe out all of your losses and make you incredibly wealthy. You've got to train yourself to spot these opportunities. If you don't take these smart bets, you'll spend your entire life working for someone who actually does. Taking the smart bet requires serious courage, which leads directly to how you handle your biggest fears. Look at your life from the end. Your brain is wired to keep you comfortable right now. When you face a tough choice, your mind instantly thinks about the immediate stress, the fear of looking stupid, the potential for short-term pain. This is exactly why you put off your dreams. To think like a billionaire, though, you've got to force your brain out of the present moment. You must use the regret minimization framework from Jeff Bezos. So you project yourself forward to age 80. You picture yourself sitting in a rocking chair, looking back on your entire life, and you ask yourself, will I regret not taking this chance? The daily fears you have right now usually completely vanish when you look at them from the end of your life back to today. When you're 80, you won't care if you lost a little money at age 30. You won't care if your friends thought your idea was crazy. You'll only care about the chances you didn't take. You'll be haunted by the dreams that you let die inside you. When you view your decisions from the perspective of your 80-year-old self, the right choice becomes incredibly obvious. You stop playing small. You stop worrying about rejection. You realize that the pain of regret is infinitely worse than the pain of failure. Build systems instead of chasing goals. So you've been taught your entire life to set big goals. But if goals were the secret to extreme wealth, everyone who set a goal goal would be a millionaire. The truth is, winners and losers often have the exact same goals. Every athlete wants to win the championship. Every entrepreneur wants to build a big company that has a huge impact. The goal isn't what makes you successful. Billionaires focus entirely on systems. A goal is a singular outcome you want to achieve in the future. A system is the daily process that you follow right now. If you focus only on the goal, you'll feel miserable until you finally achieve of it. And once you hit it, you lose all your motivation. When you focus on building a world-class system, you win every single day that you show up and run that system. If your goal is to make $1 million, your system is making 50 sales calls every morning before 10 AM. You can't control if a client buys from you, but you can control your system of making the calls. Wealthy people fall in love with the daily actions. They optimize their habits. They obsess over the the small, boring details of their daily routine because they know that extraordinary outcomes are just the result of ordinary habits repeated over decades. So stop obsessing over what the finish line goal is gonna look like and put all your energy into your daily work. If your systems are excellent, the money will naturally follow. And to build a great system, you've got to stop blindly following the herd. Stop copying what everyone else else does. One of the biggest mistakes you make is looking at highly successful people and trying to copy exactly what they did. Now, I love modeling success, but this is also a massive mental flaw called survivorship bias. During World War II, the military wanted to add armor to their bomber planes. They looked at the planes coming back from battle and saw that they were covered in bullet holes on the wings and the tail. The military wanted to put armor on those damaged spots, but a brilliant mathematician named Abraham Wall world realized they were looking at the wrong thing. The planes that took hits to the engine never made it back at all. The military needed to armor the engines, not the wings. In business, you only see the people who survived. You see the college dropout who built a massive tech company. You don't see the 10,000 other college dropouts who went completely bankrupt doing the exact same thing. You can't just copy the visible actions of a billionaire. You've got to understand and the unseen principles behind their actions. So don't just look at their current morning routine. Look at how they made the decisions where they were broke. Understand their risk tolerance. Understand how they manage their failure. When you overcome the survivorship bias, you stop falling for all of the empty success formulas. You start thinking critically about what actually drives success for your business. And that critical thinking is exactly the skill you need to master the hardest skill in business. Cut your losses faster than anyone else. When you put time, money, energy in a project you desperately wanted to succeed, right? When it starts failing, your brain tricks you into holding on. You think, if I just work harder, I can turn this thing around. This is sunk cost fallacy, and billionaires violently reject it. Billionaire quant trader Igor Turchinsky says that cutting losses is the hardest and most crucial skill in Wealthy people know that the resources you spent yesterday are gone forever. You cannot get them back. The only thing that matters is the future potential of the project. If a strategy isn't working, billionaires cut it immediately. They don't care how much money they spent already. They don't care if it hurts their pride. They ruthlessly kill bad ideas so they can free up their capital and their energy for the massive opportunities ahead. So you've got to train yourself to detach your emotions from your business decisions. Situations. Look at your current projects, look at your current investments, look at your current team, look at your current habits, and ask yourself, if I wasn't already invested in this, would I start this today? And if the answer is no, then you cut immediately. And this level of extreme discipline is incredibly painful in the moment, but holding on to a losing hand guarantees that you stay broke for the rest of your life. And once you clear the losing ideas, you have to have the right motivation to push your winning ideas forward. Make your work about more than you. If your only motivation is to have a nice car or buy a nice house or escape your job you hate, you're never going to make it. Building a massive business requires an insane amount of effort and stress and rejection. And when things get incredibly dark and you want to quit, a selfish desire for money will not keep the energy there to allow you to keep going. You must be driven by a mission to serve other people. You're built to serve. I think that— I think your biggest purpose in life comes from your deepest pain. The things that you struggle with the most are the exact things that you are uniquely qualified to help other people overcome. Billionaires build massive wealth because they solve massive problems for a lot of people. They don't wake up thinking about how to just extract dollars from the economy. They wake up obsessing over how to deliver insane amounts of value. When you can shift your focus from what you can get to what you can give, then your entire business transforms. People can feel your intention. Customers don't buy from people who are just trying to make a quick buck. They buy from people who genuinely want to improve their lives. So when you dedicate your life to serving others, it unlocks more motivation. You push through the obstacles that would break an average person because you know that other people are depending on you to win. Step into your greatness. You've got everything you need right now inside of you, so stop waiting for someone else to give you permission to be amazing. Your dreams aren't crazy, they're just waiting for you to show up and do the work. Now here's why you don't need a job to make money. Security in a corporate job doesn't exist anymore. The safe job is about to be unsafe. So far this year, companies have cut more than 800 jobs. That's the highest number we have seen since the pandemic.

A major West Michigan company plans to cut hundreds of jobs tonight.

Grand Rapids-based AccroSure is telling us that artificial intelligence is replacing actual employees. Over 80% of students feel they learn nothing about entrepreneurship in school, even though most want to start their own businesses. The only non-gamble in life is going on offense. And you've been taught that going on offense is the gamble because the school system was literally created to create factory workers. Our school systems teach us nothing about money. Nothing. It's pathetic. So at 25, I recommitted to my education, but this time I started studying not things that were in books, but people that had actually created wealth. Sticking to a traditional career path limits your impact, keeps you miserable, and stops you keep from sharing your unique genius with the world. My sense is that even for the kids that get into the elite colleges at this point, it's like you've passed some Mandarin examination in China, but you're just so exhausted, you're never going to do anything more with the rest of your life. You're burned out at 18. You take a calculated risk to start a company, realizing you may forgo a couple of years of steady income in another job and whatever else. That's a great risk to take. And if you don't take that risk, I think you have a very high chance that you end up regretting that. Where are you gonna spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. When I was 19, I had the hardest choice to make. I was in university and I had a job offer for a safe, 6-figure investment banking job. It was a job everybody wanted, but I also had a chance to own 30% of a biotech software making only $300 a month. And I picked the startup. I chose to struggle, eat beans for lunch, because the thought of sitting In a cubicle doing work I hated scared me more than being broke. I knew I had to take control of my own income. Think about Colonel Sanders. At 65 years old, he had a tiny $105 Social Security check. He didn't go looking for a greeter job at a local store. He took his chicken recipe, hit the road, and slept in his car. He faced 1,009 rejections before finally someone said yes to his franchise idea. He proved that you can create massive wealth at any age just by owning your own ideas instead of working for someone else. Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn't pay their rent in San Francisco. They didn't rush out to get safe, normal jobs. Instead, they put 3 air mattresses on their floor and charged people to sleep there during a local design conference. That simple idea turned into Airbnb. They created a $100 million company because they look for a creative way to solve a problem instead of looking for a safe corporate salary. And right now you might be thinking that you need thousands of dollars in the bank to start making your own money. You think you need rich parents or some giant loan to succeed, and that's not true. Colonel Sanders was broke at 65. Airbnb started with 3 cheap air mattresses. You don't need money to make money. You just need a problem to solve and the courage to take the first step. I'm going to show you exactly how to start generating your own income from scratch right now. Solve your own biggest problem. To make money without a job, you've got to realize where value actually comes from. You get paid for bringing value to other people. The absolute easiest way to bring value is to look directly at your own life. Your purpose comes from your pain. Whatever you struggle with the most is exactly what you want to help other people overcome. So think about your past. If you had a hard time getting fit and you figured out a system that works, that system is your new business. If you struggle with anxiety and found a way to manage it, that method, that's your business. You don't need a fancy business degree to make this happen. You just need to be one step ahead of the person that you're trying to help. Over 62% of billionaires are totally self-made, meaning they've created their wealth by solving real problems, not by inheriting cash. People pay you to solve their problems because they desperately want to skip the pain that you have already went through. You're selling speed and convenience. If you can help someone skip 5 years of painful trial and error, they pay you for that shortcut. So don't think you need to invent the next big tech platform to be successful. Look at the local business in your town. They need help with their marketing, their accounting, their daily operations. They've got massive problems right now. You can step in and help fix those problems. When you focus entirely on serving others and solving their actual pain points, you stop acting like an employee begging for a simple paycheck. And you start acting like a true entrepreneur commanding a premium price. You stop handing out weak resumes and start handing out powerful solutions for problems. The simple shift in your mindset changes everything. You go from hoping that a boss picks you to knowing that the market desperately needs you. So you've got to stop looking for a company to hire you and start looking for a person to help. The money will always follow the value you provide. So if you fix a $100 problem, you make a little bit of money. If you fix a $1,000 problem, You make a lot more money. It's simple. Your job right now is to identify the most expensive problem you know how to solve and then go find the exact people who are crying out for that exact solution. But finding a problem is only the first step because your surroundings might be secretly destroying your chances of success. Change your environment to change your mind. Your current environment is perfectly designed to keep you exactly where you are right now.. So if your friends all have traditional jobs, they'll constantly tell you to get a safe job. They aren't trying to hurt you. They just don't understand your big vision. Research shows that you're up to 61% more likely to adopt the exact habits and mindsets of the people closest to you. So if you want to make your own money, you must change your daily environment. You've got to completely shut out the negativity, limit your access to people who doubt you, and fill that empty space with extreme positivity and the specific messages you actually want to hear. So if you can't find supportive friends in your own town yet, go find them online. Read powerful books, listen to great podcasts, watch amazing YouTube videos from the exact people who are already doing what you want to do. I started my YouTube channel because I wanted to surround myself with some of the greatest minds in history. I wanted Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett in my ear every single morning. I wanted their intense ambition to rub off on me. You've got to be incredibly intentional with your daily morning routine. Don't wake up and immediately scroll through toxic social media or the depressing news. Start your day with content that makes you believe in yourself. When you consume greatness daily, it starts to feel completely normal. Soon the idea of settling for a boring cubicle will feel totally insane to you. You'll begin to think bigger, act faster, expect so much more of yourself. You can literally rewire your entire brain for massive success just by changing what you look at and who you listen to every single day. So treat it like a garden, right? Your mind is a garden. If you plant negative seeds, you'll grow a massive negative life. If you plant seeds of belief, you'll grow a massive, awesome empire. You've got to ruthlessly protect your focus. So stop giving your attention to things that make you feel small and start obsessing over the ideas that make you feel powerful. The moment you change your inputs, the outputs will transform forever. But once you fix your surroundings, you need a system to actually get you moving. Which brings us to the simple 2% trick. Use the 2% rule to build massive momentum. The biggest thing you're missing right now is just momentum. You're sitting on a truly great idea, but you haven't taken any real action. You're constantly overthinking it. You want everything to be 100% perfect before you finally launch. You want the perfect logo, the perfect website, the perfect business plan. Stop doing that. Perfectionism is just you being afraid. Studies reveal that perfectionism actually decreases your productivity and increases severe mental burnout. You don't need a perfect plan. You just need to execute the first 2%. If your goal is to write a book, a selling book, the first 2% is writing just one single page. If your goal is to start a massive YouTube channel, awesome. The first 2% is pulling out your phone and recording your first really messy video.. Don't worry about step 100, just focus completely on step number 1. Take the absolute smallest, easiest action right now. Once you take that first step, your brain, it gets a— it's a quick win, and that quick win builds confidence, and that confidence creates momentum. So when I wrote my book about momentum, I didn't plan it out for long months. I just started typing furiously. The physical action itself creates the energy you need to keep going. So waiting around for the perfect moment, what does it do? It guarantees that you'll wait forever. Action cures fear every single time. When you're moving forward, you simply don't have the time to sit there and doubt yourself. So don't let your greatest ideas die just silently here in your head. Put them out into the real world. Start messy, start small, but you've absolutely got to start. When?

Today.

It doesn't matter if your first attempt looks crazy, ridiculous. The only thing that matters is that you aren't just standing still anymore. You're finally in the game. Every massive company started as some tiny, flawed little experiment. You are no different. So push through the hesitation, click publish, make the call, and watch how quickly your life begins to change. Now that you're moving though, you've got to prepare yourself for the hardest phase of all. And this is where almost everyone quits. Expect to be terrible at first. So now you've got to accept a really harsh reality. Your first attempt at anything new is going to be absolutely absolutely terrible. Your first product will have tons of flaws. Your first, uh, video will be incredibly embarrassing. Your first major sales call will feel completely awkward, and that is completely normal. Everyone starts out at the bottom. You just don't see the messy hidden starts. Data shows that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to truly master any complex skill. You just can't skip the struggle. When I first started on YouTube, I was completely terrified. I was shy, quiet, introverted, I did not like being on camera. It took me 350 videos before I wasn't completely embarrassed to watch myself back and 700 public videos before I actually felt inspired by one piece of content that I made. And I made absolutely hundreds of terrible videos. You can go back and watch them, but I kept going anyway. Most people just quit because they tried 5 times and they expected to be world-class immediately. They let the ego stop you from making actual progress. So the fact that you're willing to try and be terrible becomes an actual secret advantage. So embrace the highly awkward phase. Look at your early failures as data, and that's gonna be part of your story as you climb. Every single time you fail, you learn exactly what not to do the next time. It'll be an inspiration to others. If you can handle looking foolish for a little while, you'll eventually become completely unstoppable. The only real failure in life's quitting before you get good. So you've got to give yourself permission to be a total beginner. Stop comparing your chapter 1 to somebody else's chapter 20, right? Right? Your journey is your journey, and that is okay. So put in the boring reps, do the unglamorous work. The mastery that you want is waiting on the other side of 1,000 terrible attempts. And once you survive that awkward phase, you can speed up your results by borrowing the exact blueprints of people who've already won. Model the massive success of others. You don't need to figure out all of this on your own. That's one of the biggest mistakes that I made earlier on. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to make a massive fortune. The smartest entrepreneurs study the exact people who've already won and simply model their success. So if you want to build a $100,000 consulting business, find someone who already did exactly that. Study their public website, look at their specific pricing, see exactly how they talk to their premium clients, then thoughtfully apply those same proven principles to your own unique style. According to the Small Business Administration, businesses that receive direct mentoring and strictly model proven strategies are 2 times more likely to survive their first 5 difficult years. When my first business was struggling, I felt completely lost. I had no real idea how to turn things around. Then I decided to intensely study a highly successful software company, Microsoft, because I had a software company. I looked at how they operated, looked at how they got their first clients, not how they make an extra million now. I didn't steal or copy them, but I learned directly from Bill Gates's powerful framework. That single focus decision saved my entire company. Success always leaves clues. There is a roadmap out there for you to do whatever you want and achieve whatever you want. You just have to be humble and curious enough to actively go and follow it. So read the biographies of great leaders, watch the long-form interviews of the performers that you look up to and respect. Find the hidden patterns in their daily behaviors and then creatively adapt them to your situation. Why would you spend 10 years making deeply painful mistakes when you can learn from someone else's expensive experience in just 10 days or 10 hours? So be an aggressive student of greatness and your path to financial independence will be so much faster. You don't lack the ability, you just lack the right model. So find your ideal model, study them relentlessly, build your own blueprint for your special flavor. And then when you've got the right model, You need the right people. And there's a specific way to get the most powerful CEOs to take your call. Build real relationships instead of fake followers. So most people think that making money online means you definitely need millions of random followers, right? You think that you need to go incredibly viral to succeed, and that's a massive and actually dangerous distraction. You don't need a million casual subscribers to make $1 million. You just need deep deep, highly meaningful relationships. Don't worry about the vanity metrics, they will constantly waste your time. Instead, focus on direct business development through high-value connections. One of my favorite strategies, what we teach inside our Movement Makers program, is a business development show. It's a dedicated interview show. Don't constantly cold call potential clients. Warmly invite them onto your show to share their story. People love talking about themselves. When you feature them prominently, they feel valued, them, you built a relationship. Statistics clearly show that 84% of B2B sales start exactly with a warm referral or strong existing relationship. When you interview someone, you spend real focused time with them, you build authentic trust with them. That genuine trust turns into lucrative partnerships, massive referrals, highly paying clients. It literally doesn't matter if your new channel only has 200 total subscribers. We're going after people who have high demand but low media demand. You're coming in as media right now and you can get top industry leaders who built multimillion-dollar networks. So don't worry about the random clicks and start aggressively chasing real conversations. Add massive value to the exact people that you desperately want to work with. Feature their deep expertise. Ask them incredibly great questions. Do your research before you have them on. Give them a beautiful platform to share their story. When you actively become a super connector, a supporter, the big money naturally follows you everywhere you go. Your network is truly your actual net worth. So start building it deliberately and strategically today. Stop worrying about the algorithm and start obsessing over the actual human beings you want to serve. And building that network takes extreme focus, which means you've got to completely change how you manage your 24 hours. Make every single day truly count. Your limited time is your absolute most precious asset. If you want to permanently escape the endless job cycle and build your own incredible life, you've got to maximize your specific daily action. So you wake up every morning with a clear intention. Make today truly count. Before you hit your head, uh, your tired head on the pillow tonight, do one specific thing that moves you significantly closer to your dream. Make one beautiful piece of art. Send one highly important email. Record one incredibly helpful video. Joe. Create something today that you desperately want your future grandkids to see. Research strongly indicates that completing just one highly meaningful task a day significantly boosts your overall life satisfaction and guarantees long-term success. To make real time for that meaningful work, you've got to ruthlessly manage your busy schedule. You must eliminate, automate, or delegate absolutely everything else. If a specific task doesn't directly serve your core mission, stop doing it. If a basic computer program or AI can do it, awesome, automate it immediately. If someone else can do something significantly cheaper, hire them right away. Don't waste your unique genius on boring busywork. Focus only on the high-level tasks that actually move the big needle forward. When you finally take control of your daily time, you instantly take total control of your personal income. You stop hopelessly trading hours for a flat that boring salary and start aggressively trading massive value for huge financial returns. You already have absolutely everything it takes to build a beautiful life of total freedom. You just have to firmly decide that you're ready to step up and claim it. And this brings us to the absolute most important truth of all. And it's something that I hope that you remember every single morning when you wake up. Your belief is your ultimate superpower. You are entirely capable of building a massive life on your own terms. So trust your vision, take the messy action, and never let fear make your decisions for you. To learn the 7 behaviors to get rich faster, check the video right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there. Your financial situation has absolutely nothing to do with how smart you are. Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. 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