Epic Real Estate Investing - Live Life to the Fullest, The 7 Money Rules of Billionaires | 648

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

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My biggest takeaway from the Epic Intensive is to get the property under contract. I am a little bit of a perfectionist, and so sometimes I'm reluctant to get the property under contract, where I don't know how all the pieces are going to fit together perfectly. So having several people tell me that I just need to stop worrying about all the little details, get the property under contract, and it will all sort itself out. I needed that push. So that was my main takeaway so far. Hey, Rockstar, Matt here.

Thanks for listening. I got a really good show for you today. But what you're going to discover right now is a quick walkthrough on how to buy more discounted real estate through the power of a really good automated lead machine. There are a bunch of benefits to buying discounted real estate this way. First, you're going to identify the right property owners with the right motivation. Second, you'll stir up an intense curiosity for those property owners. And third, they'll be triggered.

to act and voluntarily reach out to you, like almost an impulsive reflex. A really good automated lead machine doesn't have to be high tech, doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, some of the best performing automated lead machines hardly cost anything to run at all. When you come to the Epic Intensive, you're going to notice that I focus on three levers of great automated lead machines, find, control, and profit. As you can imagine, if you learn how to create a really good automated lead machine,

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But remember, this is the last lead machine workshop, July 18th through the 20th, and seating is limited. So again, go to epicintensive.com, reserve your seat, and I'll see you there. Hey, it's Wednesday, way back Wednesday, as we are reaching back regularly into the archives of the do-over show, the do-over podcast, the original show that launched the epic real estate investing show. Got a hot one for you today. The seven money rules of billionaires. How to Live Life to the Fulest. Enjoy. This is Terrio Media. During an era where countless people, businesses, and organizations are feeling the pinch, running out of time, running out of money, losing confidence, feeling as if life is unfair, praying for another chance, and unless something

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We all remember when we saw the planes crash into the buildings, when we saw the buildings crumble. So now you got it. You should have it now, right? You should know exactly where you were. Now, I want you to take a moment and stop and think. If I had asked you back then, what will you be doing 10 years from now? What would you have said? What would you have said that you would be doing 10 years from now? Well, guess what? It's been 10 years. Isn't that amazing?

How'd to work out for you? Are you doing what you dreamed of doing? Do you have what you dreamed of having? Are you the person that you dreamed of becoming? I mean, time flies, doesn't it? I mean, a decade can just pass in an instant. Are you ready for a do-over? I know there's a lot of people out there right now

and for a lot of people the last couple years have been kind of tough. So if you're ready for a do-over, pull out a piece of paper, pull out a piece of paper, something to write with, and I want you to answer the following questions. And if you don't have a piece of paper handy, then you might want to come back and listen to this again. But go through these and just answer them in your mind, depending on where you are. Maybe you're in the car, you're on the treadmill, maybe you're riding the subway, wherever it may be. But take this time to reflect and to reflect that, you know, what you might have done, differently the last 10 years and more importantly, what you're going to do differently,

the next 10. So answer me this. I'll start with the basic question, the first question I started off with. Do you want to live life to the fullest the next 10 years of your life? You can write that down or just kind of, you know, say it in your mind. Maybe say it out loud, okay? This is your life. Will you begin living life to the fullest today in order to create the life you want tomorrow? Are you ready to start today? There's a saying that today is the first day of the rest of your life. It's the first day of the next 10 years. What will you no longer tolerate in your life from this day forward?

What are you no longer going to put up with? What will you commit to from this day forward? What are you going to stand for? What is your life going to be about? And what actions can you take right now to begin living life to the fullest? What you want to embrace, what you'll want to get really clear with, what you'll want to really understand is the fact that the next 10 years are going to pass regardless. Whether you make the decision to begin living life to the fullest right now or not, whether you decide to no longer tolerate the commute to work, no longer tolerate your self-sabotage, no longer tolerate your self-sabotage, no longer tolerate your personal. procrastination, no longer tolerate your boss, whatever it may be, the next 10 years are going to

pass regardless. And where do you want to be when they do? I mean, we're already a couple weeks into the new year. I mean, how are those New Year's resolutions going? You see, you can make excuses or you can make a life, but you can't do both. And nobody is going to do it for you. This is your life. It is up to you. Two thousand, one, it's going to be here before you know it. You're going to look back on this day in much the same way you're looking back on 2001 right now. And you're going to realize what an amazing opportunity you had right now. When you look back, will you be fulfilled or will you be filled with regret? It's up to you.

It's your decision. You see, everything you have going on in your life right now is a culmination of all the decisions you've made in the last 10 years. And those are the big decisions you made. those are the medium decisions you made. And what's completely underestimated are the small daily decisions that you make on a daily basis. The small little decisions over time that either add up to a fulfilling life or they add up to a life of regret. If I gave you the choice, would you like $1 million right now? That's what I have in my left hand.

Do you want the million dollars on my left hand, or do you want the penny in my right hand that doubles every day for 30 days? I'm sure a lot of you have heard this before, and you can recognize that it could possibly be a trick question, and you're right. For those of you that have heard it before, think about what you thought the first time you heard that question. Yeah, it's a million dollars today, or it's the penny that doubles every day for 30 days. You see the penny, after doubling every day for 30 days.

30 days will equate to a little over $5 million. So you can have the million dollars now or the $5 million in 30 days. And how does that work? Well, that's called compound interest. And Albert Einstein had said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. And it's pretty amazing. I think he said it's the most. He might have said it's one of the most.

But I think he said it's the most powerful force in the universe. And it really is because it's those similar. little things over time. And a lot of people, if they hadn't known the answer to that, that instinctively might have gone for the $1 million because they're looking at it, well, it's just a penny. It's nothing. Well, it's not nothing. It's something. A penny is something. It's a penny. And it's a penny that doubles every day. And you want to look at the decisions that you make in life as that penny. Well, it's nothing. It's just a little simple decision. No, it's a decision. And those little simple decisions that are ignored or dismissed on a daily basis add up.

And it's those little decisions that have you where you are today. It's the little ones. These small little decisions, you see, it's easy to go to the gym. It's easy to just go in and knock out a 30-minute workout. It's easy to go and read a chapter of a book. It's easy to go and it's easy to go and just do something really nice for your spouse. It's really easy to go and do something nice for a family member. But here's the trap. It's really easy not to do those things as well. And over time, those little decisions, those small little easy decisions, add up and they create our lives. Now, 10 years have passed.

10 years have passed since George W. Bush first took office since we were introduced to the iPod. Who knows what's going to happen 10 years from now? Who knows what's going to be here 10 years from now? All we know is those 10 years are going to pass, regardless of whether we want to pay attention to our decisions or not. So I want you to decide today to start living life to the fullest. The next 10 years can be the best years of your life. It's never too late to be, do, or have what you might have been done or had.

I mean, all it takes is that first decision and then start looking at those decisions on a daily basis, the small little simple decisions. So first, I want you. you to decide. Second, it's going to take action. You're going to have to follow up the decision with action. Those little decisions, they're always followed up with action, actually, but now you have to choose the action to correlate with the decision. Third, I want you to monitor what's working and what's not. Take the feedback. Change your approach. That's what your final step is to keep

altering that approach until you are living life to the fullest, until you've got what you want. until you are who you want to become, until you're doing what you want to do. You've got to keep monitoring, what's working, what's not, and keep altering your approach until you get there. Now, assuming you've decided to live life to the fullest, what action can you take this very moment that will launch your next decade into the right direction?

What can you do this very, very second? Who can you call? What email can you shoot off? What can you go by? Who can you contact? What action can you do right now that is going to launch your decade into the right direction? Never ever leave the sight of a goal without first taking some sort of action toward its attainment. It's really, really easy to take that small, simple little action right now,

but because it's really, really easy, it's easy not to take that action right now. And that's one of those small little decisions that's going to shape your next decade. Hopefully that makes sense. And I wanted to talk about that just as, you know, we're a couple weeks into the new year. And it doesn't matter because I know these podcasts, they stay around forever. Once they're on the Internet, they're never gone. So you might be listening to this in June or July or maybe you're listening to this, I don't know, four or five years from now.

It's time-honored wisdom. It doesn't change. monitor those small little decisions. It doesn't matter. But I chose right now to talk about this because we're a couple weeks into the new year, and I know you made some resolutions. I know you did this. Either you made a resolution to make more money this year,

or you made a resolution to lose weight, or you made a resolution to find your soulmate. It's usually one of the three. So how are you doing so far? Are you sitting around just kind of hoping it happens? Or are you making those small little daily decisions, and taking those small little daily actions to move you towards that. Have you taken enough action already that you can see what's working and what's not?

Once you've seen what's working, are you doing more of that? If you're seeing stuff that's not working, are you altering that approach? You've got to keep doing that. It's an ongoing process until you are actually living your life to the fullest, until you are living the life that you want to live. Okay. So hopefully that's sitting with you. you and it's got you thinking. That's the intent because a decade can pass in an instant in a

blink of an eye. It's amazing how quickly a decade can go. I mean, it seems like just yesterday we landed on Mars, doesn't it? It was 10 years ago. Absolutely amazing. Okay. So, a big portion of my personal do-over has had to do with my focus on money. And my last couple episodes have been had a money focus. Money is something that's going to make a lot of our do-overs a lot easier. You know, even if your do-over is around a charitable cause or making an amazing contribution to other people, having money and creating wealth is going to make that easier for you. Now, if your do-over has to do with owning seven luxury cars and having a seven-car garage out in the country somewhere, money is going to make that very easier for you as well.

So regardless of what you're up to, the society, no, not even the society, the world that we live in, nothing really happens without money, without the finances. And that doesn't necessarily always have to be your money, but money has to come from somewhere typically to make things work. And I give a great deal of credit to my successful do-over as how I've changed my mind about money. I've changed my thoughts of how it's created, how it's preserved, how it increases, and just overall how it's made and how it's service. us. So just this week I was reading a copy of the latest Forbes magazine. It's got the founder of Groupon on the cover, Andrew Mason. And I was reading, I've got it right here actually, and I was reading and I stumbled across a page and it says, so you want to be a billionaire. Like a millionaire

isn't enough anymore. And shamefully, I guess it's not. It's not really that much money anymore. So now you see people inserting the B before Illionaire. So you want to be a billionaire. In fact, even wrote a song about it. The guy says, I want to be a billionaire so freaking bad. At least that's the radio version. I'm sure he said something else on the unedited version. But anyway, so this two-page article, it gives us the seven rules of conduct of becoming a billionaire. Now I'm not a billionaire, so I couldn't even start to tell you what the seven rules are. So I just wanted to share it with you. What does it take to become a middle class millionaire? A hector millionaire, a billionaire. Well, Keith M. Bloomfeld, the president and CEO of Forbes Family Trust and Russ

Allen Prince, president of Prince and Associates, Inc. They draw from their new book in this article, The Family Office, advising the financial elite. And they draw from their new book to explain the money rules that can produce great personal fortunes. So if money is at the center of your do-over, then you are in the right place. Okay. This are the seven rules to becoming super-rich. You see, becoming super rich, it often requires intense dedication to the money rules, these seven rules that I'm going to share with you. These rules of conduct are based primarily on in-depth ethnographic research with the super rich, especially of billionaires and people striving for that B status. Now, the money rules are the mindsets and behaviors most regularly applied by the super rich that have enabled them to achieve such extreme financial success. And then again, these same rules of conduct can be used by almost anyone to significantly enhance his or her net worth.

So that's why I'm sharing it with you, is that they can significantly enhance his or her or your net worth. So seven rules of conduct from the money rules. Rule number one, you have to commit to extreme wealth. Commit to extreme wealth. Now, there's a big difference between commitment and interest. You know, when you have an interest in something, it's something you'd like to do. It's something you might do when time permits, when it's convenient. But a commitment is something entirely different.

Commitment is as if your life depends on it. And rule number one is to commit to extreme wealth. By and large, the super rich have a clear sense that money is, if not the critical objective. They prioritize and concentrate on those activities with the highest potential return and assign a lower priority to almost everything else. So to attain billionaire status or any status of super wealth, rule number one, from the wealthy people that our friends of the Forbes Family Trust have found is one, you got to commit to it.

You got to commit to extreme wealth. Rule number two, you have to engage in enlightened self-interest. You see, the super rich, they tend to be focused on reaching their specific goals and never waver or allow themselves to be derailed by the chance for group happiness or please for fairness. That's kind of scary. At the same time, they regularly do the advance work necessary to create an advantage or exploit the weakness in an opponent. That wasn't something that I was actually unaware of.

And for some of you, reaching billionaire status, that goal might have just changed after hearing that. That one of the mindsets of becoming super rich is you have to create an advantage. or exploit the weakness in an opponent. So, as I would read this, it seems that there's no win-win in becoming a billionaire. Let's see. Rule number three, put yourself in the line of money. Number three, put yourself in the line of money. Since most abilities are portable, the super-rich predominantly concentrate their skills and

talents in those situations that offer the highest returns. They pursue the projects and initiatives that have the highest potential for outsized returns now and in the future. Well, that certainly makes sense. It just kind of looks at what pond you're fishing in. If you want to catch a trout, you probably shouldn't go fish where the guppies are. And if you want to catch a whale, you should probably not fish where the trout are. That makes sense.

And by the way, these rules are not the do-over guy rules. I just found them extremely interesting. Take them for what they're worth. But they come from people who have obviously had more interaction with billionaires than I had. And it's just some of the character traits that they've noticed that billionaires have in common. So number four, pay everyone involved. The super rich generally never assume people are willing to work for satisfaction or fulfillment and therefore reward handsomely to cultivate loyalty and specific behaviors in their associates and business partners.

The key is to identify the value people provide and reward them accordingly. Now, I can relate a little bit to that as a full-time real estate investor. one of my mentors, he said the best way to stay out of court is to make sure that everybody gets paid. And I had another mentor that said the best way to motivate is to compensate. And apparently that is a similar belief amongst billionaires. Number five, connect for profit and results. For the most part, the super rich engage in nodal networking, where a person has a few very powerful, highly targeted professional relationships

with people who in turn have an array of similar relationships of their own. Thus, they develop and maintain a small network of relationships that lead to power and influence. I can actually relate to that one as well. It suggests, as I've talked about in the past, that focused energy is more powerful than energy dispersed. And focusing on your specific network is a rule, a money rule, that leads to extreme wealth. Number six, use failure to improve and refocus. Number six, use failure to improve and refocus.

Failure is inevitable, which is something we talk about here on the do-over podcast. It's going to happen. You can't get around it. There's no use in trying to avoid it. And it's not necessarily the objective is to avoid it. It's going to happen. Most of the super-rich seriously dissect their failures and do all they can to prevent repeating missteps. Well, that's essentially your do-over problem.

podcast in a nutshell right there is to learn from your mistakes and learn from other people's mistakes and to make sure that you don't make the same mistakes twice. So that makes a lot of sense. And number seven, our seventh rule, the last and final rule, stay highly centered. The super rich for the most part realize that there are very few things they do well and they're clear about what those few things are. The insight enables them to align their skills and talents in directions that translate into maximum personal wealth creation. That actually makes a lot of sense as well. I'm a big proponent of identifying your strengths,

focusing on your strengths, doing what you do best, and delegate the rest. Whether that's through employees, it's through business partners, or it's through freelancers or maybe virtual assistance. I use e-lance a whole lot. I know I had spent the last year on learning how search engine optimization on the internet worked. And after a year,

I had a lot of information in my head, but I had taken very little action. So I was like, you know what? This is not the best use of my time. I know there are people out there that already know how to do this and that can do it for me. So I bit the bullet

and I just hired people to do it for me. But those are the seven rules of becoming a billionaire right out of Forbes magazine. That is, if you want to go pick this up, it is the August issue 2010. I guess it's been out for a while. Well, it just made its way

to my desk somehow. Anyway, August 30th issue of Forbes has the seven rules of becoming a billionaire. So if you want to become a billionaire, as we say here, you should probably learn from a billionaire on how to do it. Okay, that will do it for this episode of your do-over. Next time, I will bring to you five different methods of creating passive income as I've been promising for a while. And not only will I share with you five different types of passive income, I'm going to give you some invaluable resources so that you can put multiple streams of passive income to work in your life. and I've got some great how-toes and how-to-nots and some awesome step-by-steps.

So if passive income is something that's at the center or even at the outskirts of your do-over, you will not want to miss the next show. Together we can continue to keep setting goals and objectives, creating wealth and happiness, putting systems in place to make them reality, your reality specifically, and just flat out living life to the fullest. If you like what you heard today and or if there's something that you'd like to hear more of as you begin a new life, as you do over, please visit iTunes at your convenience and leave your comments and suggestions.

Much appreciated. I am Matt the do-over guyterio, and I will see you next time on your do-over. Thank you for tuning in to your do-over, where the ignored, underestimated, and unknown steps to producing results and making life work are revealed. And remember, knowledge is potential power. Take action on what you learned today. This is not your learnover. It's your do-over. It's your do-o. Do-over. To view the resources referenced in today's show and to retrieve a complete show transcript, visit www.

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