Nate Auffort argues that money controls your choices when you don't have it, from what you order at a restaurant to bigger decisions. He uses an airplane metaphor: follow the same path as successful people and you'll reach the same destination.
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My people go, money's not everything. Well, when you don't have it, it is everything. Because every decision you make in your life is determined upon money. You go to a restaurant, you're reading from the right side of the menu instead of left, because you're like, how much does it cost? Yep. Could I even order it? And then this guy got up and, you know, he's standing in front of a half million dollar car, I guess it would be, you know, which I was just like, wow. You know, his arms are crossed. He's like, where are you going to be in the next five years and keep doing what you've been doing? And where can you be the next five years and follow the man that built the path, built the track to follow? He's taking other people down that track, and they wound up immensely successful. Where would you be if you just did what they did? And that came. It hit home to me because I was like going, why not? If I can follow a guy who built a track to follow and took other people down the track. If we're going to Philadelphia and I get on an airplane that's leaving Dallas to go to Philadelphia and I get a seat and I sit my butt on the seat, I'm going to get to Philadelphia if everyone else gets there.
