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25k Car vs. 75k Car

What's the difference between a $75,000 car and a $25,000 car?

You know what the difference is? In a lot of cases the difference is simply 3x as many hours worked to afford it.

If you really love cars, fine: we all have our hobbies. But very often, I find people who aren't really that into cars and they just buy the more expensive car because of its brand name, or because they felt like they should. If you ask them why, they often can’t tell you.

I bought a Honda CRV a few years ago. It kind of made me laugh because it's about a $25,000 vehicle. And I once saw a BMW which looked really similar, and it was almost the exact same color blue, so I went up to that car with my clicker and thought it was my car!

There really wasn't that big of a difference between my $25,000 car and this car which probably cost more like $75,000.

When I was younger, I probably would have noticed the difference more, but...

How Many Hours Does Your Home Cost You?

Today I want to talk about the idea of being house poor.

This isn’t about people who don’t have a nice home, or a home at all: that’s another story. This is about people who have a nice home, but one that’s so expensive that they spend their whole time working to pay for the home, and have very little time to actually enjoy it. In fact, they probably don’t really own it: the bank owns it.

I remember when I was just out of college and had started working, I just took my stuff from my parent's house and I moved it to this apartment because I wanted my freedom. But after a few months, I became kind of dissatisfied, because I was hardly spending any time in the apartment.

I was outside in the world, enjoying life at the beach, hanging out with friends, and I realized that I really didn't need a two-bedroom apartment: a one-bedroom apartment would be plenty. Sure, the extra room...

Guaranteed Time Investments

If someone younger than you who you cared about came to you for advice, and they asked you, “What is the best way to get a guaranteed return on investment?” – What would you tell them?

Would you tell them the stock market, because it's been good over the long run? Would you say mutual funds, because they're diversified? Would you say bonds or certificates of deposit? How would you respond to that?

Guaranteed Returns on Investment

As I've worked with clients over the years in their businesses and looked at the risks they take on team members, advertising, new projects or research and development, the only things I’ve found that is a guaranteed return on investment are:

Investing in yourself
Investing in life experiences
Investing in your most treasured relationships.

Those 3 things seem to be just about guaranteed that you're going to get a positive return on your investment.

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How to Become a Rockstar

If you were going to start a rock band, and you wanted to be successful and sell number 1 hits and be awesome, how would you do that?

Becoming a Rockstar

There are really two approaches to becoming a rockstar, and they're very related to how we do business.

Method A:

The first approach is to want to do things right away. These people want to take an approach that's like this:

“I'm going to be a rock star, so I'm going to play gigs, I'm going to play events 6 nights a week and I'm going to work really hard. I'm going to hustle, I'm going to grind, and I'm going to do this for a year. If that doesn't work out, I'll probably run out of money, so I guess I won't be a rock star.”

And that method does work sometimes for some people, and if it does, it can be awesome. You hear about people who become an overnight success and they work so hard and everything happens in a very short period of time.

But...

The Happy 4-Day Work Week Stay at Home Parent

Have you ever talked to an entrepreneur who is supported by a spouse who stays at home and helps raise the kids? You'll often hear the entrepreneur say that the other parent works harder than they do. Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent, a working parent, or somewhere in between this episode is for you.

Parenting: The Hardest Job of All

A lot of people don’t realize how difficult the work of parenting can be, mainly because it's not treated in the same way as a paid job. Imagine if you were working 120 hours a week, and you were getting paid a really low amount. You’d probably have some complaints. You’d make sure you took breaks or had certain times off.

When a child is first born, it’s almost impossible to take any time off, unless you have a nanny or a helper. Most new parents don’t get much rest: they’re just trying to keep up.

But these times don’t last...

Leveraging Patience

“God, give me patience, but give it to me now.”

I love that sort of joke of a prayer. My mom often quotes it to me, and I guess it's because I'm not a very patient person by my nature. But here, I'm going to share with you something that I'm working so hard on. I've become better at it, but it's still difficult.

The Value of Entrepreneurial Patience

I think patience is especially difficult for entrepreneurs, for people who get excited about things and see possibilities, and for people who want to make the world a better place. We get excited about things!

And that’s when the impatience sets in. Where is it coming? When is it coming, why isn't it here yet? I did all my stuff. I mapped out my plan. I did all the homework I'm supposed to. I listened to the podcast by so-and-so. I did this dude or this gal's course. I've done what I'm supposed to do, damn it. Where is it?

This impatience can reflect a...

Bringing Happiness and Fulfillment to Your Work

Have you ever worked in a place that just had awesome energy? Things were happening and moving forward, and people were excited to be there. Think about what that felt like.

And have you ever worked in a place that wasn't as happy? Maybe it was just depressing, or people didn't want to be there and they were miserable.

Bringing Joy to Work...

I want you to think about, in each of those environments, what was it that really caused the happiness? Part of it might be the nature of the work. Some work can be fun or engaging, some of it maybe not so much. That's certainly part of the equation.

But another part of the equation is probably what the people themselves brought. There have been people who have worked in situations that are miserable to some people, and yet these people are happy in them, and vice versa. What I'm going to suggest to you is happiness, joy, motivation: all these things are brought in to work by the...

The Power of Intentions vs. Goals

Have you ever had a goal that you wanted to happen so badly, but it wouldn't happen the way you wanted no matter how hard you tried, and yet things turned out better than you anticipated?

Today, I want to talk to you about the difference between goals and intentions.

There's a great song by Garth Brooks called Unanswered Prayers, where he talks about his desire to marry his high school sweetheart, but it doesn't turn out that way. And later in the song, he gets to meet her at a reunion, and he says, “I thank God for unanswered prayers.” And the concept was that the universe, God, fate, or whatever you want to believe, had better plans for him than what he originally thought.

The Difference Between Intentions and Goals

When it comes to goals and intentions, there's a fine line between them. This is a concept I'm so grateful to have learned a lot about from mentors like Deepak Chopra, Shakti Gawain, and Wayne...

Necessary Entrepreneurial Boredom

If you're an entrepreneur or somebody who wants to be an entrepreneur, I want you to think about this: which two things do you want most out of your business?

If you're like most entrepreneurs, you want some sort of creative excitement. You want some to feel like you're in control of your destiny, and like you’re creating something and making something happen that hasn't been done before. But at the same time, you want a source of income that gives you the freedom to be creative: something that's automatic.

But if you look at these two things, they're almost exact opposites, and this is why we're going to need to have some necessary boredom in the work we do. Let me show you why.

Creativity Vs Steady Income

Novelty

Creative excitement comes from doing new things: things we've never done before, or things that are exciting.

Automatic income comes from doing something that we've done before and we know it works. Anybody who...

The Entrepreneur's 4 Primary Focus Areas

Today, we're going to talk about the entrepreneur's 4 primary focus areas. Most entrepreneurs are really focused on 4 things, and if they can do these things and constantly improve them, life gets better, and if they can't, it doesn't.

There's an acronym I want to use for this: LIFE.

Lifestyle

Most entrepreneurs are looking for a certain lifestyle. They were working for somebody else before, and they said, “I want to have control over my lifestyle, my time freedom, be able to come and go when I please, and I actually want to be able to afford a certain level of lifestyle with regards to making more money, being able to afford nicer things, afford more freedom, travel, and so on.” Most people don’t feel they can get this as an employee.

Income

Entrepreneurs are usually looking for more income. Whatever they were doing before, they probably thought they could make more money as an entrepreneur. They want to know...

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3-Day Weekend Club Strategies Blog

Guaranteed Returns on Investment

Becoming a Rockstar

Method A:

Parenting: The Hardest Job of All

The Value of Entrepreneurial Patience

Bringing Joy to Work...

The Difference Between Intentions and Goals

Creativity Vs Steady Income

Novelty

Lifestyle

Income

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