The basics of building wealth

Aristotle once wrote:

“Well begun is half done.”

He was talking about getting the fundamentals right before anything else. The same applies to money.

Here’s something most people don’t think about.

You only have to get rich once.

After that, your job is to protect it and grow it.

That makes wealth building one of the most worthwhile games you can play. Because the rewards of playing it right will last a lifetime.

But building wealth is still a game. And like any game, you have to commit to playing it before you can win it.

Here are the basics.

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The death of sincerity

When I started writing over a decade ago, I was eager to connect with other authors.

I read books about how important it is to build a network. I also read online advice about how to connect with your peers so you can grow together.

In my experience, this is bad advice.

From all the people that I’ve connected with and became “online friends” with, there’s only one guy I still talk to.

The rest were all insincere.

And I don’t blame anyone because this is the culture that we’ve created.

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This thinking mistake destroys your life

We are obsessed with “the next.”

The next promotion. The next vacation. The next weekend. The next notification.

We live our lives as if we’re in a waiting room for this big event that never actually starts.

Because we are always looking ahead, we are never actually here.

This is the ultimate thinking mistake: The belief that life is something that happens later.

When you live this way, time evaporates.

You wake up on a Monday, blink, and it’s Friday. You celebrate New Year’s, blink, and it’s October.

If you feel like life is moving too fast, it’s because you aren’t living it.

You’re just ruminating on it.

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The Reframing Theory: The solution to 95% of your problems

I want to share a theory I’ve been developing for years.

Most of our problems are not real. They’re linguistic.

They exist in the words you use to describe your situation, not in the situation itself.

In other words, if you change your words, you can make your problems go away.

Because what if the things you label as problems are not even problems in the first place?

I know that might sound too simple.

Stay with me.

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