WEBVTT - 17 Small Habits That Made Me Rich! 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.560 The key to getting rich isn't about waking up at 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.600 five am or doing cold plunges. It's actually in the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.000 law of compounding, and no, not investing your money for 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.440 forty years in compounding, but rather the small daily habits 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.080 you stack up that compound throughout the years, making getting 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.280 rich not just easy but inevitable. So here are seventeen 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.840 small habits that have transformed my life and how you 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.280 can apply them in your life. Starting with habit number one, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.200 I call the gratitude advantage. Now, this isn't what you've 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.360 been hearing about, where you know, every day you write 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.680 down all these little things that you're happy about. But 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.360 it's sort of like that, because daily gratitude does rewire 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.040 our brains for success. So how does it do that? Well? 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.880 Early in my career, like when I was first getting started, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.879 you know, pre internet days, I couldn't just go online 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.080 and watch YouTube videos of Jordan Peterson. I had to 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.879 buy programs. I had to buy courses. Now, one of 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.240 the first things I bought was a book called Think 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.200 and Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill. Now this book was written, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:02.279 I believe, in nineteen thirty nineteen thirty seven, and it's 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.000 been one of the best performing best selling books of 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.639 all time, over one hundred million copies. And the reason 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.080 why is because it's so powerful even today, and going 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.360 through how to Think and how to grow rich, it 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.520 shifted my entire mindset and literally shifted my entire life. Now. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.480 One of the things that it taught me is that 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.520 we should write down a couple of key things every day. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.520 Not just I'm grateful for having food or a house 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.000 like that, but more specifically, three things that I write 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.960 down every day. Number one, what did I learn today? Now? 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.680 We want to reflect on that, because even if bad 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.760 things happen today, I could learn lessons from that that 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.880 are helpful. All Right, So I write down what I 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.440 learned and why I'm grateful to have learned those lessons. Okay, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.720 Then the second thing is I write down other things 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.320 that I'm grateful for. And then the third thing I 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.200 write down every day is what I did well. So again, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.840 these are lessons, these are stories, and this is what 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.680 drives my life forward. But I think about it in 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.520 an optimistic way, and I use a tool to do this. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.360 It's a Google form that I've set up to do this. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.480 If you want to download my Google form for free. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.040 We're going to put a link to it down below 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.520 if you want to use my tool. But however you 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.880 do it, it's up to you. But the key is 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.919 that optimism is mandatory for wealth creation. I repeat, mandatory 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.000 for wealth creation. I had to repeat that. So what 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.480 do I mean by that? Well, in order to be 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.240 an entrepreneur, in order to be successful in investing, you 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.120 have to be optimistic about the outcome. You have to 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.720 be optimistic about the future. So many times I've talked 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.480 to friends or other people who want help starting a 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.440 business or taking on an investment, and know, I break 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.280 it down for them and I'll tell them, you know, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.880 how they can scale it or how they can move 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.560 into it, and they just say, like, you know, but 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.280 what if this bad thing happens, And I'm like, well, 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.680 yeah it will, So what that's okay. We'll just figure 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.640 out how to solve them. We'll figure out how to 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.320 mitigate the risk, we'll figure out how to move on 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.440 to the next one. And it's that optimistic lens. And 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.600 without it, you're never going to get ahead, which brings 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.600 us to habit number two. I call the capture rule. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.200 And I'd say that if you can think it, you 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.160 should ink it. So what do I mean by that, Well, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.600 our brains should be used for creating ideas, not storing them. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.480 Our brains should be creating, our brains should be thinking, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.720 Our brains should be connecting dots. But the problem is, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.280 if you have an idea, it just sort of rattles 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.520 around inside your brain, driving you crazy, creating stress, or 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.880 you forget it. So if you can think it, you 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.600 should inc it. So as soon as you have an idea, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.400 I must capture it, all right. What I like to 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.240 say is that time is so valuable. You don't have 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.480 the luxury of having the same thought twice, So as 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.240 soon as it pops up, we write it down. Now, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.120 in the old days, I used to just carry around 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.440 a notebook with me, and I have a pen and 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.600 I just pull it the notebook and write it down. Okay. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.640 Then we got you know, the iPhone, and I started 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.720 to put it into this app called ever note on 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.280 my phone, and then you know, I could just plug 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.280 everything in there. As a matter of fact, I still 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.920 have a sheet in every note today and I call 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.040 it my capture page, where I literally capture all ideas 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.320 now today, for the last month or so, I've been 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.040 wearing this wearable device. It's a wearable AI device, and 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.200 it records everything I do, and so now I don't 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.560 even have to push a button. I literally just talk 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.440 and like I put in a tag say like you know, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.240 like take action, and then those tags, those notes can 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.919 go straight to my assistant and automatically get done. So 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.760 we're capturing everything to allow our mind to think. That 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.560 allow mine to create ideas instead of trying to remember things, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.320 which brings us to hab at number three, which I 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.640 call when your morning, when your day. Now, one of 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.240 the worst things that you could do is to sit 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.560 down in the morning at your computer and go, well, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.000 what are we going to work on today? Because if 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.840 you want to drive your life forward, then you have 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.960 to be doing the things necessary to get your goal. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.240 So you should already know what those things are. And 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.159 it starts out the night before. Now. Typically I put 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.479 my creative work in the morning, so I want my 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.200 mind to be fresh for creating work, which means then 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.279 at the end of the day, I should be doing 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.680 my review when all the things I need to get done, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.359 looking at all those and then making the plan for 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.080 what I want to do in the morning. When i'm fresh, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.000 I predecide the task, and by predeciding the task, it 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.560 eliminates the precast do nation allows me to get more done. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.080 So a simple action step you can take is that, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.680 just tonight, before you go to bed, list out tomorrow's tasks. Now, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.279 I typically write down a few things like what's the 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.400 one main thing I have to get done, the non negotiable. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.159 Then I'll write down what are three tasks that I 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.560 have to get done, and I write all those down 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.920 those are the non negotiables. And again, this is all 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.680 done in the Google form that I fill out every 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.280 single night. And again, if you want it, and I'll 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.320 share it with you, it's down below. It's all free. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.159 There's a link to it if you want it. But 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.040 it brings us to habit number four, what I call 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.240 eating the frog first. Now, I see eating the frog 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.600 first is about a term that where it's basically, you 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.680 do your hardest task first. You do the thing that 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.760 you don't want to do, the biggest thing, the hardest thing, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.160 the worst thing, and you do it first because of 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.800 the rest of the day gets easier. Maybe you'd say 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.680 the most important thing now for me, one of the 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.200 most important things for me would be working out. I've 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.119 been working out in the gym since I was about 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.960 fifteen years old, and I would typically always go after 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.039 work because I was never a morning person. Now, getting 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.280 to work was already hard enough for me, and after 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.800 work i'd go to the gym. The problem was, is 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.800 things changed once I got married, I had kids. Going 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.120 to the gym after work it was pretty difficult to 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.520 stay consistent with. But because it was so important to me, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.440 I couldn't just fit in regular anymore. I figured, well, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.800 I guess I have to put it first. So what 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.159 I'll do I guess is I'll have to wake up 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.200 like two hours earlier every day so I could go 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.120 before I go to work. Now, I remember sitting there 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.440 in the morning, waking up in the dark for a 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.599 couple of years and just like standing there in the dark, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.600 thinking of every reason that I didn't have to go 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.120 to the gym, but I would go because it was 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.400 so important to me. I put it first. Now today 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.479 it's my most critical task. It's been so ingrained into 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.560 me now that I look at it like I have 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.560 to go to the gym because my day won't go 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.840 near as good, it won't be near as productive if 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.839 I don't do it. So eat the frog first. Put 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.880 it first, the most important thing, which takes us to 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.160 habit number five, which is what I call habit stacking. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.359 So what we do is we connect new habits to 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.640 old habits. So, for example, obviously you know I'm making 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.960 videos on YouTube. We make content across the social media platforms, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.400 and it's difficult to do that. I never have time 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.960 to do that. I'm always too busy. So I guess 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.160 let's create a habit and let's stack it on top 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.520 of the other habits. So now I get up, I 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.280 go to the gym, and as soon as I get 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.960 out of the gym, I create social media posts. So 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.640 now I've stacked another habit on top of another existing one. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.960 So all you want to do is attach new habits 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.120 to existing ones that are already there. So if you 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.520 can think of just one thing you do consistently. Do 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.800 you wake up at the same time every day? Do 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.960 you brush your teeth at the same time every day 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.960 after you wake up? So okay, I brush my teeth 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.520 as soon as I wake up, and then I'll add 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.640 a habit right under the back of that. So think 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.200 about one habit that you would like to build into 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.920 your life that you can put on autopilot, write down 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.400 one thing you're doing consistently, and then match those things 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.720 up together and it'll be well in a way, which 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.520 brings us to habit number six, which is what I 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.800 call the time vault. And this is a key piece 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.520 that most people kind of overlook, they just absolutely don't value. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.720 And I call it the vault because the vault is 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.160 where you would put your most storage, your most treasured assets. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.880 And for us in economics, everything's built off of scarcity, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.840 and the most scarce thing in the world is time. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.360 So we've got to guard our time. We have to 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.760 guard it fiercely. Now. The one problem is, just like 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.679 your money, most of us wonder, you know, where it 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.440 all went at the end of the month, like where 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.400 did all my money go? Right, So then we learn 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.640 how to budget our money. But time is sort of 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.280 the same way. We look back and go where did 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.199 all our time go? But most people don't think about 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.080 budgeting their time, and so just like money, we don't 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.679 want to figure it out like where it went afterwards. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.840 We want to plan in advance where that money will go. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.360 And with our time, it should be the same way, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.840 we plan in advance where time will go. Now, we 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.600 also want to respect our time. We don't just plan sloppily. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.360 We don't just say, hey, I need an hour for 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.960 this meeting or whatever, like maybe it's only fifteen minutes, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.960 maybe it's only ten minutes. I mean, if I'm going 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.240 to meet with somebody else, maybe I only need ten 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:13.960 minutes to meet with them. Do I really need an 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.880 hour or I need to block that out. I need 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.440 to respect my time. I also need to respect their time. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.200 I don't want to take up or waste their time, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.080 and in return, the respect my time as well. So 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.320 an action step that you can take is to measure 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.600 and budget where your time goes. Now. One thing that 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.440 I do regularly multiple times a year is something called 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.640 a time audit. So the first thing I want to 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.600 do is figure out where is my time even going. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.360 So then I can track it for typically two weeks, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.840 where all my time is going, and then I can 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.959 take a look back at it and go, hmmm, I 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.080 should probably spend more time here, less time there. So 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.560 when I budget out and I set new time blocks 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.600 on my calendar to make sure I'm completing those tasks 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.199 and spending the right amount of time in each section, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:01.160 which brings us to habit number seven. Decision diet. Now 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.840 this is not diet as in food, although it could 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.880 include that, But I think about the decision diet is 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.679 trying to limit the amount of decisions that I have 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.839 to make, because decision fatigue is real. If we can 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.840 simplify our decisions, then we can preserve our energy, and 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.640 more importantly, we can preserve our creativity. So all my 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.040 creativity goes into the morning when my mind is fresh, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.920 and I put all the decisions like management and calls 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.000 and things like that in the afternoon. So, for example, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.559 why do you think you see me wearing a black 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.960 shirt every single day, Because that's one of the first 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.080 decisions I make in the day. I don't want to 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.240 make that decision, so I just wear the same thing 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.800 at lunch. I don't think about what I'm gonna eat 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.920 for lunch. I just eat the same thing every day. Now, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.400 the reason why is because fewer decisions mean I have 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.000 more mental bandwidth to do higher value things. So an 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.719 action step that you can easily do is just think 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.960 about things that you do on a regular basis, like 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.160 getting dressed or eating lunch. What do you wear every day? 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.360 What do you have for lunch every day? How could 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.880 you audit made those things so you don't have to 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.679 think about them, putt any time, effort, in energy in 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.280 or decisions into them. What about getting your haircut once 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.559 a month? Should you just schedule that on autopilot? Right? 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.439 What are those things that you can automate and take 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.760 the decisions out now? Just make it in standing appointment 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.280 every single month. What are the things that I can automate? 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:17.800 What are the things I can get rid of? What 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.760 are decisions so I could use my cognitive ability for 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.360 higher value things which brings us to habit Number eight 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.400 curate to elevate. Now, a lot of us watch the news. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.160 I mean you should. We should be paying attention to 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.920 what's going on in the world. We should be looking 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.640 at the way things are evolving around you know, in 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.840 our business, our profession, and you know, for me specifically, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.480 I have to study the markets, have to study the 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.360 macro environments all the time. I have to study marketing. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.520 I have to study content creation, I have to study 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.160 technology coming out. So how do I stay on top 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.160 of that? Well, instead of just curating my news, I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.200 also curate my learning you see, we have so much 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.520 news that we can go through and we can read 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.040 all the news websites. But I learned early on is 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.200 that other people do that as well. And there's some 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.240 people that write newsletters where they've already taken all the 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.600 news and then they provide analysis to that. So there's 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.120 a handful of email newsletters that I subscribe to, and 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.960 they tell me what the macro markets are doing every day, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.480 they tell me what the tech markets are doing every day. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.000 They tell me what the greatest AI tools that are 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.000 coming out every single day. And so these guys, they're 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.800 already going through all the information and then they curate 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.400 the very best of it and they give me the 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.000 analysis on them. And so by following just a hand 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.880 pick selection a curated list of newsletters and feeds and 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.480 YouTube channels, then I get not just the news, but 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.640 I get it analyzed, I get it curated, and I 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.440 get it brought right to me, so I get quality 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.559 inputs and I get quality outputs. And so you can 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.000 do this very easily, just cure your news feed intentionally. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.480 So for example, on Twitter, what you could do is 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.360 if you wanted to follow a bunch of people, I 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.160 guess that's fine, But what you could do is make 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.560 a list of people that you need to follow for 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.400 certain things. So, for example, on my x profile, I 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.840 have several lists. I have a macro list, I have 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.560 a Bitcoin list, I have my AI coding list, I 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.719 have my a I prompt list, and then I can 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.440 just look at those people that provide the signal on 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.760 those things. Now, the rest of my social media like 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.760 Instagram or whatever, I don't even have any friends on there. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.520 I just follow people in the industry. It's where I 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.560 curate the news, so I'm not wasting time. It's all 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.839 learning for me, which brings us to habit number nine. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:25.000 The idea factory, and the idea factory produces well ideas. Now, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.680 what I've learned is that creativity is like a muscle, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.000 and that muscle, that creativity, it can be built up. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.439 So for example, right now, I run multiple eight figure businesses. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.959 On top of that, I'm an advisor or a chief 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.920 visionary officer to four different companies that total over half 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.280 a billion dollars. Now, these people have brought me on 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.360 because of my creativity, my ability to see things, to 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.440 see patterns, to connect dots that most people just don't see. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.240 But I wasn't always this way. I did it intentionally. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.760 It was about fifteen years ago again in my personal 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.480 development quest. I was listening to a program I had 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.600 purchased from Brian Tracy, and he talked about building the 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.199 idea factory, and he talked about building the creative muscle, 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.480 and he said that every day I should get out 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.760 a piece of paper in the morning and write down 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.880 ten ideas. So I thought, okay, let me try that now. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.319 In the beginning, the ideas were terrible. I didn't even 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.400 know what to write down. It was just gibberish. But 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.200 over time it got better and better and better, and 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.320 today I see ideas everywhere. My idea factory is running 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.600 full steam. But again it wasn't because I was born 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.359 this way. It was because I built the idea factory intentionally. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.280 So the action step for you to do is what 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.560 I did. Get out a piece of paper every morning, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.320 write down five ideas. Start with five, right, Write five 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.680 ideas every morning, and just know they're going to be bad. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.640 In the beginning, you're not going to know what to write, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.120 but continue down that path. Now today I can't turn 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.440 it off. I just get new ideas coming at me NonStop, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.200 never ending. So I built the habit. I built the 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.400 idea factory, which brings us to the next habit happen. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.640 Number ten, just in time learning. You see, we've been 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.920 taught that, especially in the information age, that knowledge is power, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.960 but that couldn't be further from the truth. Only knowledge 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.760 apply this power. And so what we want is to 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.360 learn on demand or learn exactly what we need to 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.160 solve the problem right in front of us, what I 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.440 call just in time. You see, there's three levels to 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.520 learning and understanding something. The first level is of course, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.120 reading the information, receiving the information. The second level is 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.920 then we need to apply the information, and then the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.760 third level, well understanding, is to teach the information. Now, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.520 what we want to do is we want to read it, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.120 learn it, and then we want to apply it right away, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.000 which means we should only be reading, we should only 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.640 be learning things that we need right now. So if 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.600 you look through my book library, hundreds and hundreds of books, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.440 they're super diverse. I have books on human resources or hiring. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.480 I have books on marketing, I have history books like 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.840 you know, all these different things, right, And the reason 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.840 why is because when I'm hiring people I'm reading books 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.960 on hiring or human resoce and recruiting. And when I'm 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.360 scaling my business, I'm reading books on scaling businesses. And 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.960 when I'm building new marketing promos, then I'm reading books 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.560 on marketing. Right I learn exactly what I need for 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.680 the problem in hand, just in time now, at the 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.080 time I need the information, I read it, I apply it, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.560 and because of that, I learn it faster. But it 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.600 also saves me all the time of reading and watching 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.760 and learning a bunch of things that I don't need 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.920 right now. So the action step to take is what 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.280 is the thing that you need to know right now 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.920 to move your biggest domino, the biggest thing you need 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.520 to move forward in your life right now? Then ignore 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:42.040 everything else. 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And 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.280 to speed this process up, we need to be investing 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.600 in ourselves. Now. If I've been watching my content for 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.159 some time, you've probably heard me tell the story of 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.240 how in two thousand and eight, during the Great Financial Crash, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.959 I got wiped out. I was completely caught off sides. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.960 I had built up a couple of businesses and sold 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.240 them off some big exits. I did amazing in business, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.600 but I wasn't paying attention to the global financial market 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.920 and it got me. So I had to go figure 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.960 that out. That was the information, the just in time 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.399 information that I needed right then. So what do I 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.440 do well? I invested into investment newsletters, I invested into 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.720 coaching offers, and I spent years spending lots of money, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.040 tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars on these newsletters, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.240 on these coaching programs. But they enabled me to get 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.879 the knowledge and the information that I have today, and 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.800