Last year, I’ve written 365 book summaries. Among the books I learned from were many like the ones you refer to, like The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Fastlane or Secrets of The Millionaire Mind.
The truth is none of the things I learned actually moved me closer to being a millionaire. Writing the summaries on a blog that makes money did.
A blog I was writing because writing is the thing I want to become insanely good at, the thing I have tons of fun doing, the thing I want to do to change the world.
And if one day I become so good at it that the world can’t help but make me a millionaire, then that’s cool. If not, that’s perfectly fine too.
You can go through a million mindsets without ever making any progress, because if deep down your shit is broken, no mindset will get you those 7 digits.
As long as you’re chasing the million just for the sake of money, you won’t keep any mindset long enough to actually get it.
If you have the right why, if you’re doing something you can commit to, because it’s fun, meaningful and you have a talent for it, almost any of all these positive mindsets will get you there.
When you have your priorities in the right order, all you have to do is one thing:
Make more money than you spend.
Making more is hard. It takes time. It takes skills. It doesn’t happen fast.
What’s easy is spending less. Don’t spend your money on dumb shit.
- Don’t buy a house.
- Don’t buy a car.
- Don’t buy a TV.
- Don’t buy new clothes unless your old ones are tearing apart.
- Buy good food.
- Rent a good place.
- Save and invest the rest.
Take a percentage out of your paycheck that goes right to the bank. Take another cut and put it in stocks. Take another and invest it in business ideas.
Once you do that, life becomes a fun journey you never want to end. Regardless of the money.