A Growth System for Wealth and Life
In order to achieve the life we envision we’re going to build a personal finance system where we automatically invest, save, and spend in a way that we get the most benefit out of each dollar you’ve earned.
Rewire Your Brain to Succeed With Money
Have you ever been to the point where you decide what you’re eating based on how much you have in your checking account?
I had just moved to my first apartment without roommates in a new city & secured my first adult job.
I thought I was off to a good start: I paid my security deposit, first month rent, bought some groceries, & set up my utilities.
It’s my toward the end of my first week at work and I check my account to decide what I should eat for lunch.
The amount in my account said I should buy gas for the car and eat whatever I had in the fridge for dinner at home instead.
I was in a tight situation until pay day but I was determined to never let the amount of money in my savings account determine what I’m eating for lunch on any given day.
Rewiring our brain to succeed in any area of your life starts with our actions.
I had a taste of being broke & it was enough to make me never want that again.
Most financial advice givers on the internet would typically tell anyone in my situation to be as frugal as possible, keep a budget, & stop eating out.
Instead I went home and enrolled in my 401(k) at work to take advantage of the free money from the company match & scheduled a transfer for a percentage of my paycheck to be moved from my checking account to my savings account every two weeks.
Most of the advice on the internet told me to punish myself on a daily basis by forcing myself to have the discipline to not buy things we actually want to buy so I can save as much money as possible for the future.
According to these types of financial people if you ever spend money on anything and enjoy it you’re a bad dog who should be ashamed of yourself.
What a toxic relationship to have with something you use every day.
Money is a tool we use to enhance the quality of our lives.
Thankfully learning enough about money to change the trajectory of your financial future only takes a few hours. Most importantly, building a system to get you to that future won’t take longer than a week. Today I’m going to show you the system.
Get Specific about What You Want
There are two types of people on the internet offering financial advice.
There’s the crowd that preaches financial abstinence where spending money equals sin & the wolves of Wall Street.
You know the type: they’re sitting in the dark with their computer at 5 am reading stock charts on trades they’re planning to execute that day.
Their Instagram stories are filled with hustle porn and nonstop day trading flexing.
They were all about trading Bitcoin in 2017 but don’t really talk about it anymore.
Both of these types have one thing in common: they’re so focused on money that they’ve never questioned why money is important to them.
Once you get past the point of having enough money to fill your basic needs consider what financial freedom looks like on a daily basis for you.
When I was a kid a book called The ABC’s of Making Money for Teens defined wealth as having what we want & wanting what we have. Having money gave us the freedom to choose the life we wanted for ourselves.
For me that means:
Spending hundreds a year on online courses
Breaking rules at museums
Losing a GoPro while Ziplining
Electric Kart racing with my girlfriend (she’s now my wife)
Buying my dream motorcycle
Going on dates with my wife
I got real specific on what I love to spend money on and I’m not ashamed to spend on those areas because that also means I slash spending on things I don’t care about.
That means:
• I eat out once or twice a month, sometimes not at all.
• I don’t need a new iPhone every year. I buy the best device available and keep it for at least 3 years.
• I will not make career decisions that impacts my family negatively because of money.
We’re going to dive into how your vision of the future ties into your personal wealth system in 5 day email course.
Over the next 5 days you can expect to:
1. Create your personal vision of your future
2. An overview of what your wealth system could look like
3. The tools you’ll need to build this system
4. Building your wealth system
5. The unlimited potential of your personal wealth system