Mel Abraham says most people spend first and invest with leftovers, but the wealthy flip it: invest first, then spend what's left. When you say you can't afford to invest, the real question is how to earn more, not how to spend less.
So spending money is today, present. Invest money is your future. You're building your future on your scraps. I want a better future than that. Here's what we need to do, and this is what the wealthy people do. They say, I'll make the money and I'm gonna flip it. I'm gonna make investing the priority, and then I'll create my present on what's left. Now you might look at me— yeah, now you might let me say, wait a second, if I did that, I couldn't afford my life. That's all right. Then we go back to the beginning and say, how do we get a bigger shovel? Make more money. Yeah. Instead of saying, then I can't, how about saying, how can I? What do I need to do? What do I need to be to make that happen?
