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Rich people and regular people <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/the-8-most-common-secrets-of-self-made-millionaires/">do things differently</a>. I had the grand epiphany that if we could find out what Richie Rich does on a regular basis, then all we would have to do is copy him and we’d be rich, right? I dunno. Let’s find out.



These are <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/16-rich-habits/">the habits</a> of rich people that you're likely not doing:



<h2 id="h-1-rich-people-want-to-be-rich">1. Rich people want to be rich.</h2>



I know. Thanks for the breaking news, Captain Obvious. But often it’s the most obvious answers that are the answer. I’m thinking of all five regular friends of mine right now (I have a five-regular-friend limit). None of them want to be rich. They may say they do, but they don’t really want to.



Here’s a quote that should encourage you:



“Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.”&nbsp;



—Paul Arden, <a href="https://amzn.to/3Y934uZ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be</a>



<h2 id="h-2-rich-people-hang-out-with-other-rich-people">2. Rich people hang out with other rich people.</h2>



They usually start doing this before they ever get rich. Have you ever seen the person you’re hanging out with yawn, and it makes you yawn? Well, when you see the person you’re hanging out with make a million dollars, it makes you make a million dollars. True story.



<h2 id="h-3-they-stalk-down-many-many-mentors-and-suck-their-brains-dry-like-knowledge-vampires">3. They stalk down many, many mentors and suck their brains dry like knowledge vampires.</h2>



Let’s take me for example, because I am super rich. I have multiple mentors for all the key areas in life that, when combined, equal sustainable holistic richness. And not just any mentors, mind you—the best mentors.&nbsp;



I have a business mentor. He’s a billionaire. His family invented the shopping mall.



I have a nutritional mentor. He has five Ph.D.s in biochemistry, neurobiology, nutrigenomics, human nutrition and something else no regular person would ever even think of having. He makes Dr. Oz look like… Dr. Oz.



I have a physical fitness mentor. He lives in New York City and trains strictly superstar pro athletes. I originally had to wear a Derek Jeter mask to get in with him. By the time he figured out I wasn’t the real Jeter I had already won him over with all my best CrossFit knock-knock jokes.&nbsp;



I have a spiritual mentor I meet with once a week at my house to ask the hardest questions anyone has ever asked him. He pastors an awesome church, has a doctorate in theology from the top seminary in America and got four books published. He is possibly the wisest man alive.



I have a psychological mentor—otherwise known as a shrink. He is the most insightful human being I’ve encountered to date. He thinks I’m there for inner healing. I’m actually there to see how he mind-twirks me so I can do it to other people.



I have a singing mentor so I can sing better in the shower and be prepared for when The Voice calls me. This is not a lie. I really have this.



And on, and on, and on.



There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Simply track down the wheel inventor and ask how they came up with that idea.



<h2 id="h-4-rich-people-teach-other-people-stuff-rich-people-do">4. Rich people teach other people stuff rich people do.</h2>



What new thing did you learn today? Nothing? You suck. Take out a piece of paper, write today’s date on it and light it on fire. That is symbolic of what you just did with your day. You know <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">you only get about 28,000 days</a>, right? Then you die. Think about that. 27,999… 27,998…



Maybe don’t put the fire out and just let it burn your whole life to the ground. Because if you keep doing what you did today too many more times, that’s what going to happen.



<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/3-techniques-to-never-stop-learning/">Always be learning</a>. And always be teaching other people what you just learned. It will both <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1747938X22000446" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">help you remember it better</a> and make other people think you know things. Everything in this article? I just learned today. I am going to take out a piece of paper, write down today’s date, pour champagne and do a victory dance all over it.



<h2 id="h-5-rich-people-connect-rich-people-with-other-rich-people">5. Rich people connect rich people with other rich people.</h2>



I’m constantly telling winners about other winners. I just figure if someone is winning and they just helped me win something, they should be rewarded with free advertising from my mouth. This builds your goodwill account with lots of rich people. “<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/nice-to-meet-you-the-art-of-being-introduced/">What goes around comes around</a>,” and all that. You do this often enough, and the whole world will love you and use their goodwill to make you rich.



<h2 id="h-6-they-work-like-their-lives-depend-on-it">6. They work like their lives depend on it.</h2>



Their lives do actually depend on it, of course. So this just makes rich people rational people. How many hours do you work every day? Double it. Or stop complaining.



<h2 id="h-7-they-do-what-they-re-good-at">7. They do what they’re good at.</h2>



What are you unusually good at? Get 100 times better at it and then reveal yourself to the world. Don’t forget <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/5-questions-to-help-turn-your-passion-into-profit/">to charge money for it</a>.



<h2 id="h-8-rich-people-do-not-work-for-what-they-would-do-for-free-because-they-love-it-so-much">8. Rich people do not work for what they would do for free because they love it so much.</h2>



That is literally the dumbest thing rich people have ever heard.



If rich people had all the money they wanted and could do anything they wanted with their time, they would lay on the beach and have a mai tai with an umbrella in it just like every other human being on planet Earth. Work, no matter what type of work, is a grind. Forget doing what you love. Do what you’re great at.



<h2 id="h-9-they-save-their-money">9. They save their money.</h2>



I used to not believe this. I made such an obscene amount of money at one point that I literally just thought I could make it infinitely. Then I stopped making it for some normal cyclical reason that shouldn’t have been surprising but was. That’s when I realized you have to save it. <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/how-to-create-a-budget/">Save your money</a>.



<h2 id="h-10-rich-people-finish-every-single-thing-they-start-especially-my-articles">10. Rich people finish every single thing they start. Especially my articles.</h2>



Regular people start things and rarely finish. Rich people would rather bungee jump off a bridge with the bungee cord tied to a baby rabbit that’s not tied to anything than not finish something. I could be reading the worst book on earth, and I simply cannot bring myself to not finish it just because that’s how much I hate not finishing things. Start it? Finish it. Or just don’t start it at all.



This article was published in November 2015 and has been updated. Photo by oneinchpunch/Shutterstock

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Preston Ely is founder and CEO of RealEstateMogul.com, an Inc. magazine "Fastest Growing Company." He has built and sold multiple businesses and was recently voted one of Fast Company's "Most Influential People On The Internet." He makes $0 a year teaching success principles; he makes millions of dollars a year applying them to his own life and businesses. He writes articles for SUCCESS.com for the fun of it. Follow him at&nbsp;PrestonEly.com, on&nbsp;Facebook and on&nbsp;Twitter.

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When I was in seventh grade, I got beat up by a skinny little girl with an umbrella.



To make that picture perfectly clear, I’m saying a girl about three-eighths my size took her umbrella and beat the ever-living crap out of me with it. In front of people. It was a Hello Kitty umbrella, to add insult to minor injuries. It seemed a little immature to bring a Hello Kitty umbrella to school at that age, but I was in no position to judge.



When I was in junior high, I got beat up by a fifth grader. Bad. I got beat up bad by a fifth grader. Like blood-and-black-eyes bad. I wish this was a joke, but it’s not. It’s history—my personal, pathetic history.



<h2>I was not courageous and it showed. </h2>



All throughout school I did everything I could to avoid fights. I mean, if a skinny little seventh grade girl could do that much damage with a plastic Hello Kitty umbrella, just imagine what a regular boy my own age could do to me with a normal, heavier object! Screw that, I laid low. If someone wanted to fight me, I just gave them money. I’m not kidding. I did that a few times.



Now the question you’re asking yourself, which I’d like to answer as quickly as possible so I can get to the part in the story where I learned mixed martial arts and sparred with professional UFC fighters, is this:



“Why were you such a sissy, Preston? I’ve actually never heard of anyone being as much of a sissy as you’ve just described yourself as being.”



Great question. The answer is that my physical impotence was an outward manifestation of my inward lack of courage, <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/5-truths-about-taking-and-not-taking-risks/">the ability to take risks</a> and act in the face of danger either without or in spite of fear. For whatever reason, I just didn’t have any.



My lack of courage spilled over into my young adult life and resulted in dysfunctional relationships, financial chaos, emotional instability and a bunch of other stuff that sucks. And the reason is because <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00789/full" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">it takes courage</a> to <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/4-truths-about-courage-in-leadership/">be successful in life</a>. I’m tempted to say it’s the root cause of success, but every time I think I’ve figured out the root of success I find something even rootier. Let’s just say it’s one of the core fundamentals. After all, as Muhammad Ali said, “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”



<h2>How to be more courageous</h2>



Eventually I started to work hard to <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/how-to-hack-your-courage/">develop this missing attribute</a>. Once I got it solidly in place, everything changed. I now walk with my head high, wallet thick and heart happy. Anyone who pulls that umbrella gimmick on me again will have a serious problem.



Here’s how to go from being wussbag to courageous in three easy steps:



<h3 id="h-1-figure-out-what-happens-when-you-die">1. Figure out what happens when you die.</h3>



I was at a doctor’s office the other day, and a young intern was asking me questions. I could tell something was wrong.



“Are you OK?” I asked.



“Sure,” he replied. “Just a little nervous about school.”



“Do you have some fears about something?” I queried.



“Of course. Everyone does. Don’t you?”



“No, I don’t. Let me ask you a question. What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen to you on any given day?”



“I could die,” he responded.



“Right. Well, if you know where you’re going when that occurs, and that place happens to be better than this place… then what is there really to fear?”



“Sir, you just made my day,” he said.



“Well, me making your day just made my day. So it’s a great day. Best of luck to you,” I said as he walked out the door with a new look of courage on his face.



Instead of letting your fear of death control or hinder you, I suggest you <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-savvy-psychologist/202009/why-we-fear-death-and-how-overcome-it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">get rid of it</a>.



<h3 id="h-2-hang-out-with-courageous-people">2. Hang out with courageous people.</h3>



Duh.



<h3 id="h-3-write-a-list-of-every-single-thing-you-are-afraid-of-do-them-all">3. Write a list of every single thing you are afraid of. Do them all.</h3>



Scared to ask people out on dates? Go to the mall and ask out every single person you see all day long. They’re just people, not vampires. Usually. You’ll probably be over your fear by the 10th rejection or so. Here’s a good pick up line that I just made up: “Excuse me, do you happen to have directions to Build-A-Bear? My compass is broken. As a matter of fact, I’m building this for a little homeless child that the government is ignoring for some reason. You should definitely help me build it. C’mon.” Then just grab their hand and walk them to the store. Trust me, this will work. I’ve got a good feeling about it.



Scared of heights? Go bungee jumping at the county fair. You have a better chance of getting shot by gang members at that fair than falling victim to a tragic jump.



<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/afraid-of-public-speaking-7-tips-to-do-it-well/">Scared of public speaking</a>? Join <a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Toastmasters</a>.



Scared of reading the very best, most entertaining yet highly educational articles on the internet? You’re facing that fear right this second! Congratulations!



It wasn’t until I was well into my adult years that I realized I was still scared to fight. I was rich, happy and healthy, but I decided I still needed to <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/testing-your-courage-daily-with-scott-simon/">face my biggest fear</a>.



So I did what any abnormal person would do in that situation. I paid a professional UFC fighter to beat me up on a regular basis—literally. I told him if I wasn’t bleeding or bruised significantly at the end of each session, I would stop paying him.



He did what I asked. I got black eyes at least once a week, a broken nose that leans to the left now and broken ribs. The UFC fighter beat up so bad that I literally cried like a baby one time—in front of people.



But I also became more courageous.



The cool thing about courage is that if you gain it in one area, it trickles over into every other area of your life. Ever since I learned how to pretty much kill a man with my bare hands, things like “speaking in front of people” have gotten a lot easier.



This article was published in July 2014 and has been updated. Photo by insta_photos/Shutterstock

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Fear sucks. It makes you, like, not want to do cool stuff that would probably make you rich and sexy and famous. It makes you feel itself. Which is weird. It’s like an emotional molester that no one is arresting for some reason. But arrest it we must. We must arrest for success.

In order to be successful, you are going to have to “feel your fear and do it anyway” as they say. When “they” say this, they normally mean little sissy fears like public speaking, quitting your job to start a business and base-jumping. Facing those fears is cool, but fairly superficial. I think we need to go deeper and face our feariest fears.

Related: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/blog/7-motivational-quotes-to-help-you-face-your-fears-because-worry-never-fixes-anything">7 Motivational Quotes to Help You Face Your Fears</a>

Face the following five fears, and stuff like talking to groups of humans who are usually more scared than you are and running a small business will seem like the child’s play that they truly are.

<h2>#1 Your Self</h2>

Face your self.

We may not realize it, but we are scared to death of ourselves—our real selves, our subconscious souls. Why? Because our true selves are gigantic spiritual beasts of awesomeness that should we or anyone else see them manifested in this warped Matrix we live in, we would die of a freaking heart attack on the spot. We are playing it small for a reason—were we to face our self, it would surely demand we do something epic and hard and dangerous. Yeah it might save the world and make us billionaires or whatever, but it’s probably going to be a lot of work. Screw that. Easier to clock in and out and just be all that everyone else can be. &nbsp;

We also don’t know who we are. Stranger danger. Who needs a new friend? Not me. I’m fine with what I got, thank you.

Want to face your self?

<ul>
	<li>Sit down in front of a mirror and tell yourself who you are for five minutes a day. Most people can’t do this for more than seven seconds without feeling hatred for their reflection and walking away. That’s how scared they are. Me personally, I start every morning running in place on a trampoline as fast as I can in front of a mirrored wall for five minutes. I look myself square in the eye, and I tell myself what a fierce, powerful, dangerous man I am. It’s a great way to start your day—endorphin flood and free <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/tips-from-the-pros-how-to-be-your-own-life-coach">motivational coaching</a> session. The only bad thing is I’m not that coordinated, so I can’t talk and trampoline at the same time. I usually fall off and crash into something that doesn’t have much give to it. Right now I’m only a danger to myself. But I can feel the affirmation starting to kick in I think. 
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Go to a therapist or get a group of friends together once a week and tell them every horrible thing you’ve ever done and every bad thing that’s ever been done to you. Sound stupid? Not one in a thousand people have the balls to do this. I double dare you. 
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Go sit in a forest for three days in complete silence and just do nothing. See who you are with no people, TV, phone, laptop, radio, cars or noise besides owl hoots. To the degree this sounds unbearable to you, you don’t know who you are. You have never faced your self.</li>
</ul>

I torture myself with all of those things regularly. I do not fear my self. I am myself. When people meet with me, they don’t get a performance or an act. They don't get a mask. They get ME. And they notice the difference between that meeting and the one before and after, believe me. Because ME is a beast—an uncoordinated and unfortunately safe beast (for now), but a beast nonetheless.

<h2>#2 Your Death</h2>

Face your death. 
 
I just recently read a book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684832402/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0684832402&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=CCRK2RAHJI6IGGND">The Denial of Death</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=sm0fe-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0684832402" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" width="1" /> by Dr. Ernest Becker, which I highly recommend (disclaimer: not light reading). In it he claims that we all have an Immortality Complex. We all fear death more than any other thing, but we live as though we are never going to die. In other words, consciously we have our backs turned to death and are pretending it doesn’t exist. Subconsciously we know it’s coming, fear it and are being controlled by it. We need to turn around and face it. Because there’s approximately a 100 percent chance it’s coming.

<h3 align="center">“No one can confidently say he will still be living tomorrow.” – Euripides</h3>

This would explain the ageism we see in the entertainment industry. Who wants to see a 70-year-old woman in music videos reminding us all that death is just around the corner? Bring in the Biebers. 
 
Answer the question, What happens to me when I die? If you can’t answer it with confidence based on research, knowledge, faith and experience, then you necessarily fear death whether you know it or feel it consciously or not. And this is causing you to make irrational decisions on a regular basis not conducive to your success.

Me personally, I know exactly what happens when I die, and frankly, I’m looking forward to it. And as one of my favorite authors, John Eldridge says, “The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death.” So maybe I am dangerous after all.

In a nutshell (Why a nutshell? Why not a seashell?), if you don’t fear death, you don’t fear anything. Because what’s worse than death? Besides watching Madonna perform (I think she’s 72 now)?

But if you fear death, everything is necessarily a potential danger to you. Fear is the underlying current of your life affecting every decision you make. If you do not fear death, then you are a danger to everything else. <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/blog/courage-its-the-secret-to-getting-everything-you-want-in-life">Courage</a> is the underlying current of your life. Which way will you have it?&nbsp;

<h2>#3 Your Face</h2>

Face your face.

<h3 align="center">“Every man over forty is responsible for his face.” – Abraham Lincoln</h3>

There’s a decent chance your face is pretty jacked. I only know this because I’m sitting in a really busy coffee shop right now literally surrounded by jacked-up faces. Frowns, wrinkles, bags, crooked teeth, Ethan Hawke-style facial hair patches, etc.

How are you supposed to talk people into buying stuff from you when you have a big fat frowny face? I mean it’s not impossible, but you’re stacking the odds not in your favor.

You may not fear your face. But it’s freaking me the F out. Fix it. Here’s how:

<ul>
	<li>Get seven to eight hours of sleep even if it means a small animal has to die in order to get it. I do not know why this animal should have to die, but I mean… just <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/blog/sleep-deprivation-is-killing-you-and-your-career">get some sleep</a> so we don’t have to find out. All your wrinkles and bags will magically disappear. 
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Smile. It’s a choice. Notice how Becca on The Bachelor is always frowning and can’t figure out why Ben doesn’t like her? Neither do I of course—I would never watch that crap. Haha. But I heard that’s what’s happening. Don’t be Becca. 
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Get Invisalign braces. Invisible braces. Straight teeth do wonders for <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/the-business-of-self-esteem">self-esteem</a> and the ability to face your face. Financing is available. There is no excuse for an adult to have crooked teeth. Not in the United States anyway. 
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>If you can’t grow a full beard, stay clean-shaven at all times. Without the ability to grow a full beard, your five o’clock or three-day shadow looks like you have some sort of skin disease we all need to set up a GoFundMe page to help you raise money to fight.</li>
</ul>

<h2>#4 Your Father</h2>

Face your father.

This is the ultimate fear face off—you and your dad—mano a mano (whatever that means).

Write down a list of every thing your dad ever did that you feel is currently responsible for your life’s ills and any jail time you’ve ever spent. Schedule a sit down, and get it all off your chest. Then forgive him, give him a hug and tell him you love him anyway. What, do you think he had a perfect dad? Have mercy. I did this and can attest to its absolute necessity for both the relationship and your personal growth.

One out of maybe a million people will do this. If you have one of those dads who are scary, just remember this…. He’s acting scary because he is scared. Nothing is as it seems.

<h2>#5 Your Demons</h2>

Face your demons.

What are you addicted to? Alcohol? Drugs? Porn? My articles? Smoking? Anger (violence)? Work (anyone who works nonstop is running from something)?

Fess up publicly on Facebook and privately to someone who will keep you accountable. STOP IT. Unless it's my articles—that’s a semi-safe addiction.

Moral of the story: You can <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/rohn-4-tips-for-setting-powerful-goals">set goals</a>, do affirmations, manage your time well, visualize, do gratitude lists, and the whole gamut of self-help rigmarole. But if you don't go DEEP and <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/blog/7-motivational-quotes-to-help-you-face-your-fears-because-worry-never-fixes-anything">face your deepest fears</a>, you will never have real and lasting success. Face the fears others will never have the guts to face, and you will have a life others never get to have.

Related: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/5-tips-to-overcome-your-probably-irrational-fears">5 Tips to Overcome Your (Probably Irrational) Fears</a>

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"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we CAN do." –James Allen

What is the number one thing you most wish you could do or achieve in life? Today I'm here to tell you… you can do it. No question. I know without a doubt that whatever it is you most want to do in life that you. can. DO IT.
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Wanna know how I know? The following six reasons:
<h2>1. The Spice Girls did it.</h2>
I want you to go listen to the song “Wannabe” ("I'll tell you what I want what I really really want") for as long as you can stand it. So like 17 seconds probably. Now realize that this song was (still is) the best-selling single by a female band in the history of the WORLD.

You can do it.
<h2>2. Kim Kardashian did it.</h2>
Did what? Exactly.

If <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/blog/kim-kardashian-tabloid-goddess-selfie-queen-babe-du-jour-brand-genius" title="Kim Kardashian: Tabloid Goddess, Selfie Queen, Babe Du Jour... Brand Genius? | SUCCESS.com">Kim Kardashian</a> walked right past your face, you wouldn't recognize her. She's like 5 feet tall, three-fourths of her body weight is her butt, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1108281015856918&amp;set=a.111081588910204.13860.100000250899066&amp;type=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> is a picture of her prior to her daily four hour makeup session. She's just a regular person except with less obvious talent and probably lower IQ than you.

You can do it.
<h2>3. The Snuggie did it.</h2>
The Snuggie, perhaps the most ridiculous invention of all time, has sold 20 million units grossing over $400 million. The best part? They stole the idea from The Slanket which was invented 10 years prior. So… someone saw a dumb idea, stole it, renamed it something better and now they're rich.

You can do it.
<h2>4. That one dumb rich guy you personally know did it.</h2>
Everyone has one—that one friend who is so freakin’ stupid and so filthy rich it makes you want to seriously question God's sanity and apparent lack of justice.

Your friend may not be smart, but he's doin' it.
Related: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/stuff-rich-people-do-10-things-youre-probably-not-doing-right-now">Stuff Rich People Do: 10 Things You're Probably Not Doing Right Now</a>
You can do it.
<h2>5. Albert Einstein did it.</h2>
<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/profiles-in-greatness-albert-einstein" title="Profiles in Greatness: Albert Einstein | SUCCESS.com">Albert Einstein</a> didn't start talking until he was 4 years old. It's called Einstein Syndrome. He divorced his wife and married his cousin. He refused to wear socks. He declined a surgery which could have saved him because "extending life artificially is tasteless."

The best part? Much like the Snuggie, he stole a lot of his ideas from other physicists. E=MC2? Published by Olinto De Pretto two years prior to Einstein. Every scientist friend I know says Einstein was nowhere near as smart as people think. He was simply well connected and a good marketer.

I'm not saying you should steal people's ideas and call them your own, but...

You can do it.
<h2>6. I did it.</h2>
I was arrested for trying to steal a football kicking tee from Target when I was in junior high. In case you're curious, I tried to steal it by putting it down my pants. Have you ever seen a football tee? I'm not talking about a T-shirt. I'm talking about the four-pronged plastic thingy you prop the ball on to kick it.

I started smoking and skipping school in seventh grade.

Alcohol and drugs in 10th grade.

I don't think I graduated high school (I know I never got a physical diploma for sure).

I never even considered going to college.

I was a drug-addicted, sociopathic party-boy for approximately ten years of my young adult life.

I filed bankruptcy, was foreclosed on and had my cars repo'd when I was 24 years old.

I was a repeat relational disaster until my wife saved me five years ago against her better judgement.

But guess what.

I DID IT.

I'm married to a beautiful woman who's not my cousin to the best of my knowledge, have a wonderful daughter, own businesses, sold businesses, contribute to society as opposed to wreaking havoc on it, write stuff people read for some weird reason, live in a mansion and not prison as previously predicted by many, and have stuff most people will only see on their vision boards.

All the glory to God. He saved me when I couldn't.

He told me to give you a message today. And that message is:

YOU CAN DO IT.

Change your mind, and the world changes with it.

Share this if you believe it.
Related: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/rohn-if-you-change-yourself-you-can-change-your-life">Rohn: If You Change Yourself, You Can Change Your Life</a>
&nbsp;

Preston Ely is founder and CEO of <a href="https://RealEstateMogul.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealEstateMogul.com</a>, an Inc. magazine "Fastest Growing Company." He has built and sold multiple businesses and was recently voted one of Fast Company's "Most Influential People On The Internet." He makes $0 a year teaching success principles; he makes millions of dollars a year applying them to his own life and businesses. He writes articles for SUCCESS.com for the fun of it. Follow him at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prestonely.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PrestonEly.com</a>, on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/preston.ely.5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Preston777" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>.

What is the number one thing you most wish you could do or achieve in life? Today I'm here to tell you… you can do it.

What is the number one thing you most wish you could do or achieve in life? Today I'm here to tell you… you can do it. | SUCCESS

6 Reasons YOU CAN DO IT (#4: That One Dumb Rich Guy You Know Did It)

You Can Do It: 6 Reasons to Believe in Your Success

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Why are you alive?

Can you answer that question?

I can't. Not right now, anyway. I'm hoping maybe by this weekend. Next week at the latest.

There are going to be times when you have no idea what to do with your life in general. These are seasons of existential pain in which you would seriously consider chopping off your least important finger in exchange for the knowledge of exactly what you should be doing.

Maybe you're in college and don't know what to major in. You're not into keg stands or hazings so this actually bothers you. Torments you even.

Maybe you've graduated college, discovered your diploma is about as useful as a gift certificate to IHOP and don't know the best way to go about making actual money to pay off the $100,000 in student loans you've racked up.

Or maybe you're like me and have had success, your businesses are automated and it's time to move up to the next level. But... the next level doing WHAT exactly? Me personally, I have no idea. But here are seven things I'm doing while I'm currently having no idea:

<h2>1. Crying</h2>

Never underestimate the power of tears. They can wash away all the sins you did in college, refresh your soul and clarify your vision. These seasons of cluelessness I'm talking about are major life transitions. They involve crisis of IDENTITY.

Moving from one person to the next will almost always involve tears as we grieve the loss of our previous self and tremble with a degree of terror at the uncertainty of what we fear is almost certainly going to destroy us right around the corner.

<h2>2. Thinking</h2>

Thinking may be the hardest work known to man. Which is why you will find very few people doing much of their own.

Thinking other people's thoughts is easy. Just read their books, take their notes, obey their orders, repeat their words, watch their reality TV shows, etc.

CREATIVE thinking is <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/stuff-rich-people-do-10-things-youre-probably-not-doing-right-now" title="Stuff Rich People Do: 10 Things You're Probably Not Doing Right Now | SUCCESS.com">what separates the rich from the robots</a>.

But why? What's the big deal? What's so scary about sitting still, turning off all the noise, and simply contemplating life or conjuring fresh ideas?

The big deal is that this is ultimately about facing yourSELF. And God. We're not sure we really want to see those people. It's about turning our focus away from the outer world of distractions towards the inner world of... what? What will we find? Is there anything there? And if there is, is it any good? Scary thoughts. Almost enough to make you want to not do it, turn on the TV and just watch the Kardashians not do it either.

You have two choices in this world: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/rohn-how-to-go-from-making-a-living-to-designing-a-life" title="Rohn: How to Go From Making a Living to Designing a Life | SUCCESS.com">Create your own life</a> or have someone else create it for you. I have to admit, the latter sounds pretty good right about now. But I know where that road ends, and so do you...

Government cheese.

Me personally, I have a dairy allergy so that's just not an option for me.

To be sure, when you don't know what to do, you need to be thinking more than ever. Almost constantly. The voice in your head should sound like this all day:

What should I be doing? What do I LOVE doing? I can't get paid for having sex so what ELSE do I love doing? Actually I could get paid for having sex, but that seems like a wrong idea. What is my ultimate purpose in life? What could I be the best at?

And so on. You can stop once the gnawing sense of not doing what you're supposed to be doing goes away. Remember that feeling when you were a kid while your parents were gone and you were goofing off instead of doing the chores they gave you to do? Same feeling.

<h2>3. Working</h2>

The temptation during seasons of uncertainty is to curl up into a ball and get high. Or cry or die or almost anything that rhymes with I. Don't do that. WORK. The less you work the worse you'll feel. Don't know what to work on? Work on that. Work on anything. Work at IHOP. Whatever.

You have to keep moving. Momentum is everything. "The less you move the less you are able to move" is one of my favorite quotes. I'd tell you who said it, but you don't know him so who cares. "Action leads to more action." T. Boone Pickens said that one.

I don't know what the next stage of my life is going to look like. But I have the sneaking suspicion it will involve me teaching people how to be successful in some shape or form. So what am I doing? I'm teaching people how to be successful for free at <a href="https://wakewealthy.com" target="_blank">WakeWealthy.com</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com" target="_self">SUCCESS.com</a>.

Why? Why not? At least I'm moving. Who knows what it will lead to. I know a guy who wrote a Facebook post like this, it went viral, and he ended up on Dr. Phil with a book deal.

Advance Warning: You're not going to feel like doing this.

DO YOU THINK I FELT LIKE WRITING THIS ARTICLE?

I don't do what feels good. I do what needs doing (most of the time). Feelings are irrelevant.

<h2>4. Reading</h2>

Reading does two things:

- Build your brain up to where everyone else's brain is at this next level you're about to go to.

- Give you a break from crying.

<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/rohn-read-all-the-books-to-rise-above-the-ordinary" title="Rohn: Read All the Books to Rise Above the Ordinary | SUCCESS.com">Reading is everything.</a> If you're not willing to read, just stay in bed. It's too competitive these days. You simply will not succeed.

Read biographies of great men and women. Especially those who dominated industries you think you might be interested in.

Read how-to books.

How to what?

How to do freaking everything. Right now I'm studying history, biology, math, Spanish, economics, logic, world religions, business, psychology... I'm even reading poetry for some insane reason. I hate poetry. But you know what? Teddy Roosevelt loved it and even wrote it.

Ever read a T Rose bio? I highly suggest it. Men like that don't exist on this planet anymore, besides maybe Navy Seals if any of them are capable of reading a book a day while in the middle of World War 3. Teddy could crush us all just with his manly mind.

Note to boys who think they're men: Read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375756787/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0375756787&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=BLJVT35QNG4CXH3X" rel="nofollow">The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=sm0fe-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375756787" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" width="1" /> . That's what a real man looks like. See how you compare. I'm still in the womb apparently.

<h2>5. Motivating</h2>

You have to stay inspired and keep hope alive. Otherwise you'll curl up in a ball and do something that rhymes with an I. You have to motivate yourself.

Here's how I stay motivated:

- I listen to Les Brown on audio. Sometimes I'm tempted to listen to some other motivational speaker besides Les Brown, but I'm always forced to ask myself "Why?" He's the best. There's no close second besides myself, and I don't feel like talking. There's just no way to listen to Les and not come away feeling like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7cDQY9wVF8" target="_blank">Rocky Balboa after he finally caught that chicken</a>. If you're feeling down, the very first thing you should do besides pray is buy every single program Les Brown has and listen to them all 10 times.

- I remind myself that seasons of uncertainty are normal. They're a natural part of life, and they don't last forever. It's for my good that I'm questioning everything I've ever thought about myself, my Facebook friends, my real life friends, the entire world and God Almighty. I thought I had it all figured out—I don't. And that’s OK.

LIFE IS CYCLICAL. It is so imperative that we know this at a deep level. Otherwise we'll be constantly confused. Think of cycles as yearly seasons. Seasons are symbols of our stages of growth. There is the birth of spring, the vitality of summer, the harvest of fall and the death of winter. We will have many cycles throughout life, and cycles within cycles—all of it within the context of the ultimate cycles of our physical birth, life and death and even the universe itself.

The universe is currently in winter in case you were wondering. He who has ears to hear let him hear.

It's also important to know that the cycles get bigger and more intense the longer you go. Some things get easier because of lessons learned, but life in general will almost always get harder and more complex.&nbsp;

"Mo' money mo' problems." - The Notorious B.I.G.

Unless you're hiding out of course. You can always hide and duck out of the game. But there's an end to this game. Trust me... you want to win. You have to keep growing all the way to the end.

<h2>6. Exercising</h2>

If I didn't exercise almost every day, I would be forced to get drunk instead. <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/increase-your-activity-increase-your-happiness" title="Increase Your Activity; Increase Your Happiness | SUCCESS.com">Exercising keeps my feel-good brain chemicals flowing</a> that are so imperative to effective action in life. It also gives me a sense of accomplishment, a sense of self-esteem and a sense of shredded abs.

It would be hard to overstate the importance of a sense of shredded abs. I've attached an ab-selfie that my abs took of themselves without my permission just to kinda give you some vision board material and proof that I don't just make stuff up for these posts. This is real life.

[Editor’s note: Ab selfie redacted for reasons. What reasons, I’m not sure yet but Preston sent us a picture of himself in a towel. That’s a reason.]

Shredded abs are helpful because whenever I'm feeling like a loser, I can just go to the mirror and pull up my shirt. "Losers don't have abs like these" is somehow a comforting albeit douchey thought that keeps me going.

Seriously though, exercise is a life saver. If it weren't for exercise, I'd still be in the rat race doing normal stuff. That's a fact.

<h2>7. Watching</h2>

Bird watching. Have you ever watched a bird? Notice how they're never watching you. Learn from that, and get to work.

While you're working doing something that's not your calling but necessary to stay off the&nbsp;cheese.gov&nbsp;until you are, be watching for signs. Be hyper-observant. Your calling is just that—a calling. In other words, it contacts YOU. Not the other way around. But you have to be looking—watching—for the call. (Read The Call by Os Guinness, btw.)

So what are signs exactly?

Signs are messages from dreams, books, movies, people and some breeds of talking parrots that point you toward your destiny. So if you insist on bird watching, I highly recommend watching an African Grey parrot. The only problem is they are compulsive liars. Only believe maybe half of what it says.

The other day someone made a comment on one of my posts that said, "Preston, have you ever considered stand-up comedy?" Although I don't think that's in the cards for me, I took the comment seriously. It was a clue. If I were to hear a similar comment from two more people besides anyone commenting below, I'd probably go try it. Who knows? And even if stand-up comedy isn't in my future, maybe humor plays a big part in some way. It's just another piece in the puzzle to file away for future use.

You get what I'm saying? Pay attention. Sometimes people are talking to you, and it's actually God speaking telling you exactly what to do. LITERALLY. And I can say this because it's happened to me several times. This world is way more magical than maybe you think. I'll give you another example:

A while back I had the thought that I should write a blog article about the correlation between happiness and holiness. A week later a friend of mine sent me a text that said, "Hey me and my friends think you should write something about how the secret to happiness is holiness." A few days later I read a devotional about that exact same topic... 3 DAYS IN A ROW. So, what did I do? I wrote what I think is probably the best and most profound article... in the world. haha. j/k.

The best I ever wrote for sure. It was 7,000 words—a small book. You can read it <a href="https://wakewealthy.com/the-how-to-be-happy-racket/" target="_blank">here</a> if you want. So another big key is repetition. If you keep hearing the same thing over and over in different places, God is speaking to you. There is no such thing as coincidence.

So those are the seven things I'm doing while I'm waiting. I'm actually doing 35 things, but I didn't want to overwhelm you or write them all.

Don't believe anyone who tells you there is no meaning to life and you can just do what you want. There is an obvious design in life to anyone bothering to pay attention. A design logically implies a designer. If we were able to read all our DNA—our genetic code (who was the encoder?)—we would probably fall out of our chairs when we saw what we've been programmed to be and do. It's far more than we think. It's way bigger than we're living now.

Let's keep it moving. Be all that we can be and all that. Les Brown likes to say "Listen man, if you want proof you're a winner, just understand that out of 40 million sperm, you won the race! You won't ever have those odds again!" I'm not sure what that does for women, but... I'm sure there's proof for them, too, in some other funny analogy.

<a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/answer-6-questions-to-reveal-your-life-purpose" title="Answer 6 Questions to Reveal Your Life Purpose | SUCCESS.com">Deep down inside, you know what you most love to do. Answer these 6 questions to reveal your life purpose.</a>

&nbsp;

Preston Ely is founder and CEO of <a href="https://realestatemogul.com/lp/" target="_blank">RealEstateMogul.com</a>, an Inc. magazine "Fastest Growing Company." He has built and sold multiple businesses and was recently voted one of Fast Company's "Most Influential People On The Internet." He makes $0 a year teaching success principles; he makes millions of dollars a year applying them to his own life and businesses. He writes articles for SUCCESS.com for the fun of it. Check him out at <a href="https://www.prestonely.com/" target="_blank">PrestonEly.com</a>.

There are going to be times when you have no idea what to do with your life in general. Here's what to do.

There are going to be times when you have no idea what to do with your life in general. Here's what to do. | SUCCESS

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do (& the Secret to Shredded Abs)

What to Do When You Don&#8217;t Know What to Do (&#038; the Secret to Shredded Abs)

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do (& the Secret to Shredded Abs) | SUCCESS

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How would you like to wake up tomorrow morning making double the money you currently do and looking twice as sexy? You would like that very much I assume. The good news is this is not only possible, but it would ultimately be harder not to do it than to do it.

How? I personally do the seven things below, and I make double almost everyone’s income. And I keep doubling regularly. This is nothing short of magical.

So, here are seven ways to double your productivity (and income and sexiness, too):
<h2>1. Do twice as much work as you currently do. </h2>
Duh.

When I said magical, I didn’t mean you could waive a magic law of attraction wand and double things. I just didn’t really mean it at all actually. I simply wanted to get you interested. This will actually take a little effort until the snowball effect kicks in.

You may think you’re already doing as much as you can. There’s about a 2 percent chance that’s true. Most people spend their days doing busy work. Outsource all busy work (which is really just an excuse to not have to use your brain) and do strictly effective—productive—work.

Are you in sales? Double the amount of calls you make. Think you can’t do that? You’re kidding yourself. You may not want to do it. Or you may choose not to do it. But you can do whatever the heck you want. Come in early, skip lunch, stay late, get creative…. You can do it. Do it.
<h2>2. Schedule your day.</h2>
Duh again.

I’ve been resisting this particular duh for 20 years now. I’m more of a “go with the flow” and “fly by the seat of my Lamborghini” kind of guy. But I recently got married, which threw a wrench in my flow. Then I had a baby, which threw a baby in my Lamborghini. My time management plan of yonder years (which was specifically no plan at all) simply didn’t work. I was getting nothing done.

The solution: Map out my days in general and stick to it.

I don’t make a new map for each day. I have one map, and every day is the same. I do the same things at the same time every day. All the powers of hell cannot change my map. The powers of heaven can. But not hell.

How should you make your map? However you want. Me personally, I do everything in two-hour chunks with breaks in between. So I write for two hours in the morning. Break for 30. Work on my businesses for two hours. Break. Read books for two hours. Break. Exercise for two hours. Break. Etc.

Do your most important work when you feel the most alive. For me, that’s in the morning.

Schedule your personal development. During my “breaks,” I’m lying in the sun soaking up Vitamin D while learning Spanish, math and science on phone apps. Not a minute is wasted.
<h2>3. Wake up earlier.</h2>
“I already wake up early.”

Wake up even earlier. Do you want to double your money or not?

Waking up two hours earlier has literally revolutionized my life. Here’s a quote from a book I’m reading right now just in case you think there is no way you could possibly wake up any earlier: “I love the feeling of having a full day’s work done by 9 a.m.” – Jerry Weintraub, movie producer

Most people are still rubbing their eyes at 9 a.m. Not Jerry. He was busy making The Karate Kid, Oceans 11 and getting richer than you and I will ever be (maybe).

This will probably involve you not watching TV at night and going to bed earlier. “Early to bed, early to rise…” Benjamin Franklin didn’t magically stop being right about everything just because we’ve invented cooler things than the urinary catheter (yes, he invented that).
<h2>4. Move twice as fast.</h2>
Literally walk, talk and work twice as fast as you currently do. Duh again. If you move twice as fast, you get twice as much done. I’m pretty sure that's a law of thermal dynamics or something.

Act like you have somewhere to be. Have somewhere to be. &nbsp;

I’m a professional people watcher. And as a professional people watcher, I have come to the conclusion that people move like turtles. Are you a turtle or a lion? Take your pick. Only one of those animals gets tattooed on people.

Develop a sense of urgency. It’s impossible to be successful without this. Move like your butt is on freaking fire and you’re being chased by a herd of demon-possessed antelope. Scare people with your speed. No one should even ever see you anymore because you move too fast.

“His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see!” – Mohammed Ali
<h2>5. Listen to audiobooks and watch all videos on 2x speed.</h2>
I listen to one audiobook per week just walking on the treadmill a few times. How? Hit the “2x” button on your phone and listen twice as fast. Rocket science.

I go through one new home study course every couple weeks watching videos while I eat lunch. How? Download <a href="https://www.enounce.com/" target="_blank" title="Enounce.com" rel="noopener">Enounce</a>, and speed the videos up to 2x speed.

Listening to these things at normal speed would be a form of torture for me at this point. Plus, there’s some science that shows hearing things at higher speeds increases comprehension and retention. It makes you smarter and faster.

Move faster.
<h2>6. Learn to loathe the phone and email.</h2>
I loathe the phone and email.&nbsp;

Any time spent on the phone or email is time I’m not creating something new that might potentially save the world.&nbsp;

Your job as a human being is to create cool stuff that helps people. I don't know if you knew that or not. If you're an entrepreneur, you knew that. If not, maybe you didn't. But it's true for you, too.&nbsp;

If your job is to mop floors, your job isn't to mop the floors. Your job is to find a creative way to get the floors mopped by someone else so you can implement some new thing you came up with to make—or save—your employer more money.

Read the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400077303/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1400077303&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=SQV2E7CFBHV5JH7V" rel="nofollow">Titan</a>. John D. Rockefeller had thousands of employees. Everyone's job—their number one priority—was to find someone else to do their job for them. Brilliant.&nbsp;

But creating is painful. It requires thinking, which of course no one wants to do. It also requires placing yourself in a mental position of uncertainty. And this we fear more than death itself. This is why everyone prefers to pretend to work with phones and emails than actually do productive work.&nbsp;

Dedicate as small a chunk of your day as possible to returning calls and emails, and put it in on the map. Resist the urge to deviate from the map.
<h2>7. Double your energy.</h2>
Do the following to double your energy:

• Get at least seven hours sleep. Take something to make those seven hours count like nine. Sleep is the most important energy factor. This is also the most important sexiness factor. Do you know what’s not sexy? Wrinkles. Do you know what magically erases all wrinkles? Botox. But also a good night’s sleep. Sleep is cheaper and less lame.

• Don’t eat grains and potatoes during the day. They’ll make you sleepy. Keep it light with organic meat, veggies and healthy fats.

• Do high intensity exercise six days a week. Humans have been doing this for all of history up until the industrial revolution. Technology doesn’t change the needs of the human body. Our bodies were designed for exertion.

“The less you move, the less you will be able to move.” – Pete Egosque

• Drink three to five cups of organic coffee. This specific amount is scientifically proven to be good for your brain and increase performance. Anything less or more is literally bad for your health. The only exception is people who have coffee sensitivity or intolerance. Try espresso if this is you. It’s easier on the stomach.

• Do a few light exercises during your breaks throughout the day. Keep moving as much as possible. Sedentariness = sleepiness.

There you have it. Enjoy the money, and leave a comment below for information on how to leave me in your will.

&nbsp;

Preston Ely is founder and CEO of <a href="https://realestatemogul.com/lp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealEstateMogul.com</a>, an Inc. magazine "Fastest Growing Company." He has built and sold multiple businesses and was recently voted one of Fast Company's "Most Influential People On The Internet." He makes $0 a year teaching success principles; he makes millions of dollars a year applying them to his own life and businesses. He writes articles for SUCCESS.com for the fun of it. Check him out at <a href="https://www.prestonely.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PrestonEly.com</a>.

How would you like to wake up tomorrow morning making double the money you currently do and looking twice as sexy?

How would you like to wake up tomorrow morning making double the money you currently do and looking twice as sexy? | SUCCESS

Do Things Faster and 6 Other Ways to Double Your Productivity, Income and Sex Appeal

Double Your Productivity: 7 Ways to Do Things Faster and More

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Rolling in money picked from your money tree in the backyard of your mansion? Then you don’t need to read this. X out. Move on. See ya later.
Related: <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/16-rich-habits">16 Rich Habits</a>
OK, for those of you still with me, I’m sorry to hear that you’re not already rich. But don't worry. Do not worry. The longer you read stuff I write, the quicker you can stop needing to read stuff I write.

So let’s get right to the point: There are three types of people in this world when it comes to money. And the purpose of you reading this is to see clearly which one you are and make any necessary adjustments.

There are…
<h2>1. Those who say money doesn't matter and scorn the world.</h2>
I don't know if I would go so far as to say these people are fools, but… I'd come close. Maybe more like fool-ish.

They're definitely broke. And they're probably not reading this article, so let's not bother trying to help enlighten them right now. There's not much hope anyway. People like this are pretty stubborn, I've found. They think they're better than everyone else, when in fact, they're simply scared to take responsibility for their life and face reality in its entirety.
<h2>2. Those who say they want to be financially free and truly mean it. </h2>
So long as money doesn't consume your life? Kudos. You're smart. And rare. Keep pushing, and you'll arrive at your destination shortly.
<h2>3. Those who say they want to be successful and think they mean it—but actually don't.</h2>
You, my friend, are the majority. The good news is you're probably not lonely. The bad news is you're surrounded by idiots.

Never fear! I am here to set you free from your shackles of ignorance with my firey sword of truth that I carry with me at all times for just such an occasion! This post is for you.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, How do I know if I'm a #3? I'm glad I knew you'd think that. I'll try to make this as painless as possible.

If you are financially unstable (meaning anything from <a title="How Not to Pay Off Your Debt | SUCCESS.com" href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/how-not-to-pay-off-your-debt">being deep in debt</a> to not having at least six months expenses in savings) while simultaneously doing two or three or one or more of the following things, you're a 3'er…

• Watching TV more than two hours a week (the average American watches five a day)

• Working less than 10-12 hours a day

Sound like a lot? Google "who invented the 8 hour work day?"  I'll give you a hint: His political affiliation rhymes with shmommunist.

People have been working 12+ hour work days since the beginning of time. More like 16 hours. I'm reading a biography of Billy Graham right now, and as a kid, he used to wake up at 2:30 a.m., milk the cows, do other chores, go to school, come home and do chores, do homework, and go to bed at 10 p.m. And it's not like this was the stone ages. It was the 1930's.

• Working less than six days a week

• Reading/studying less than 2-4 hours every day of every week of foreveruntilyourerich.

Wait… reading?!? You think I have time to read??? You don't know my life, Preston. I've got kids, I've got a job, I've … Let me stop you right there. You're a #3. Super-sized.
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• Consumer shopping ever

• Going on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram more than once at night after a long productive day of serious work and progress (the average American spends over two hours a day on their cell phone's apps and Internet)

The point is almost everyone says they want to have a better life, and almost everyone sincerely believes they're doing their best to make that happen… but they're not. They're kidding themselves. You're not on Facebook every five seconds because you enjoy it. You're on Facebook every five seconds because you're avoiding reality.

The truth is, nine times out of 10 (there are exceptions), you have exactly what you want. You're comfortable right where you are. <a title="9 Ways to Deal with Change | SUCCESS.com" href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/9-ways-to-deal-with-change">You're scared to change.</a> You're not willing to pay the price that freedom requires. You value comfort over growth and prosperity. You say you want to change, and you make what seems to you like valiant efforts, but when it comes right down to it? You're not serious. You don't really want it. Because I can promise you this with all my powers of promising: The people in this world who really want something get it. Nothing can stop them.

Where is your faith? Faith is nothing without action—not just any action. MASSIVE action. Sure you may want it a little bit. But not enough. You don't want it at the level life requires you to want it at in order to actually get it.

You have to want it like a UFC fighter wants that belt. Like an NFL player wants that Super Bowl ring. Like an Olympic synchronized swimmer wants that gold medal. Do you know how bad those synchronized swimmers want that gold medal? Neither do I, but it's more than you want financial freedom probably!

Am I saying your life has to be all work and no play? Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. Until you have at least a normal stabilized financial situation. Then you can start dialing it down. We need rest and play for our health. But our bodies can handle six months without much of it. And that's all it should take for you to get up and running.

You can do it. So do it already. Stop playing around.
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Rolling in money picked from your money tree in the backyard of your mansion? Then you don’t need to read this. X out. Move on. See ya later. Related: 16

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There are seven common motivations that compel people to exchange their time and energy for money. All of them but one are completely insane.

Pick your current poison:

1. Survival

You need a few pairs of clothes, 200 square feet of shelter per family member and roughly 37 percent of the food you’re currently eating to “survive”—that is it, and that is all. Really you don’t even need motivation to get survival money. Do you own a cell phone? Congratulations. You’re officially an imperial space alien from another dimension compared to your great grandparents. If you could travel back in time to surprise them, they’d probably freak out and worship you once they saw all your stuff.

Survival shmurvival. Nobody just survives anymore—no one with Internet access to read this article anyway.

2. To have a lot of money

No lie, I know people who work themselves into illness trying to get money just to have a lot of money for money's sake. They don't even buy nice stuff or go anywhere. They just count it. Millionaire Next Door types. All of them need psychotherapy and Jesus.

I mean it's not even real money…. It’s pieces of paper representing debt. Maybe if it was gold and silver I could reduce their sentence to just "Jesus" and skip the psychotherapy, but… it's not. Off to the shrink they go.

Money is stupid in and of itself. Why not collect construction paper? At least there's a bunch of different colors, and you can cut it into fun shapes and stuff.

3. To impress other people

Literally this is the most insane reason I can think of for wanting money. Let me just say this, if this is you (Is this me? should be going through your head as you read this if you're wise. We always need to be double-checking): As you're digging your own grave every day in the marketplace frantically trying to fit in with the rich and foolish, just keep this one thought in mind…

No matter what you manage to accomplish, there will always be lots of people that make your level of wealth and fame look like you are the V.P. of the home renter's association in the projects by way of comparison.

Bought (leased) a Ferrari? Wow. Someone else owns one in every color. And a Bugatti. And a Phantom. And a staff of drivers. And every other car in existence (Jay Leno). And then there’s the actual manufacturers of the cars. And the international bankers that allow the manufacturers to be in existence. I could go on.

Got a big house? Define big. Does it look like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9HMyLtTI2Q" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Biggest Houses in the World 2014 | YouTube.com" rel="noopener">these</a> (top 10 biggest houses in the world)?

Slaved over a business and sold it for a few million dollars? Incredible. A 23-year-old kid was just offered 3 billion dollars from Google to buy a phone app that probably took six months to create. He's not impressed. Carlos Slim, the Mexican Mogul worth $79 billion (richest man in the world), probably thinks the 23 year old's company is "cute.” You're not impressing Carlos Slim, man, I hate to break it to you. You're not even impressing the kid. Or anyone.

Even if you somehow managed to become the richest man in the world, you're still just an ant eternally speaking. Picture the richest people in the world with the biggest and fanciest cars, houses, jets and yachts. When you wake up on the other side of eternity you are going to see clearly that they were less than the equivalent of a toddler playing with plastic toys. It all means nothing.&nbsp;

Does this mean you shouldn't have nice cars, houses, jets and yachts? Of course not! If life hands them to you, by all means take them. I do. But I sure as heaven don't give a rat's crap what anyone thinks about it. I never have, and I never will.

The mistake we make is thinking other people are somehow inherently better than us. They're not. We're all equal no matter what we do or own. So for what reason should I want to impress them? That's like me walking into a class of kindergartners and trying to be the cool kid in class. Kind of.

Listen carefully because you're going to find this out the moment you achieve <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/the-definition-of-success" target="_blank" title="The Definition of Success | SUCCESS.com" rel="noopener">your definition of "success"</a>…. No one cares! Not only does no one care about your success, they don't even care about Slim’s success! The richest man in the world, and no one cares. Guess what they care about? Themselves.

You want to impress someone? Care about them. That is the only way to genuinely shock and impress anyone. The reason? It's rare. Sad, but true.

4. To be able to party at the highest level possible

Admittedly, I empathize with you on this one. I used to live to party. Monday through Thursday did not even exist to me. But there is no escaping the end of this road. Don't watch the Wolf of Wall Street because it's disgusting, but ask someone who saw it what happens. OK fine, I saw it; I'll tell you. He ended up miserable, divorced, bankrupt and in prison.

Just… party at a lower level or something.

5. Power

Why do people seek external power? Because they have no internal power. Only weak people seek power over other people. And that is why we have the world the way it is… insane.&nbsp;

Real power comes from within and it needs nothing from anyone. It seeks to give not to take and control.

6. To buy more stuff just to have more stuff

Ever see the A&amp;E reality show Hoarders? Insanity.

7. Freedom (or "options")

Freedom is the only reasonable motivation for building wealth (in my mind at least).

Freedom to give what you were meant to give, freedom to live how you were meant to live, freedom to go where you want or need to go, freedom to provide properly for your family, freedom to take care of your health preventatively, freedom to enjoy more of the world.

Freedom to <a href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/how-beauty-inspired-awe-can-boost-your-mood" target="_blank" title="How Beauty-Inspired Awe Can Boost Your Mood | SUCCESS.com" rel="noopener">surround yourself with beauty</a>. This is one of my personal favorites. I truly appreciate and am inspired by beauty. I always live in waterfront homes for the sake of beauty not vanity. I could drive a Lamborghini if I wanted, but I drive a Fisker Karma (that I got at half price) because I think it's the most beautiful car in the world. I wear diamond jewelry because I personally like sparkling. I make no excuses for it.

Freedom to _____________________ (fill in the blank with whatever you're currently not free to do because of a lack of that paper everyone calls "money").

So again… Why do you want more money? Your answer to that question may determine whether you actually get any or not.

My answer: freedom.
“I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.” – Gianni Versace
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I read a borderline OCD'ish amount of books. I don't know how many I've read exactly—I'm too busy reading to count things. But I've been pouring through them pretty much non-stop since I was negative 9 months old, from when my dad started reading to my mom's belly, up until just 30 minutes ago when I took one of my many daily book breaks. It's a lot, whatever it is. My house could probably serve as a backup to the library of Congress if it ever got burned down, let's put it that way.
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What do I like to read? Self-improvement books. The problem is that a lot of self-improvement books are a complete waste of time. I have to read 10 of them to find a good one and 100 to find a great one. So allow me to save you the work of reading 500 books and recommend five great ones you've most likely never even heard of:

1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766153843/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0766153843&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=HAY5VVSZKHUP3DVG">You Can</a> by George Matthew Adams (1913)

If you can (and apparently You Can!), buy this book as used as possible just so you can smell what a book from 1913 smells like. It's amazing. I get high just from flipping the pages past my nose a bunch of times. They used to lace book pages with leftover cocaine from the Coca-Cola plant back then I think. Ah the good old days—when books were books and soda was almost worse for you than it is today maybe.

You Canis a collection of 114 success "secrets." That's right. 114. Apparently in 1913, humans were still smart enough to handle 114 success secrets at a time. By the 1980s, we were down to seven, and now we can barely stomach one: The Secret.

Luckily, each of the 114 secrets gets only about a page each, so it makes for easy reading. But if you were to do nothing more than read this book and apply it to your life, you would die a wealthy, healthy and happy man or woman. Have you ever seen a healthy corpse? Very common in 1913.

Highly recommend.

2. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061373672/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061373672&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=IAZWRST7KFYQPQFI">Change or Die</a> by Alan Deutschman (1965)

In general, you should read every single book written in the 1960s. Most writers were tripping on acid so it just makes reading more fun that way.

A short story from the book that sums it up:

Dick Cheney smoked three packs of cigarettes a day in his 20s and 30s. How that is even possible I have no idea. Maybe he sleep-smoked. Anyway he had a heart attack at age 37. He didn't quit smoking. He had a second heart attack at age 43. A third at age 47. A fourth at 59. It took four freaking heart attacks for him to finally stop smoking. This book explains why experiences like Dick's are so common and how to not be a Dick.

I recently read a total time-waster called Change … Something Or Other written by a bunch of psychologists. It was like a Dr. Seuss book compared to Change or Die.

Best book on the core fundamentals of change ever written. Get it, read it and then change. Or die.

3.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591792576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1591792576&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=QIBR4DCH5LAPWNT4">The Way of the Superior Man</a> by David Deida

Boys shouldn't legally be allowed to turn 18 without having read this book. No woman should even consider marrying a man who hasn't read it. And no man is a real man who doesn't know and apply what is within its pages.

Do I really need to say more?

Caveat: There's some fairly offensive stuff sprinkled satanically throughout this book I don't personally agree with. Not a lot, but some. If you're easily offended, don't read it. But do leave me a comment below so I can recommend a book about not getting offended so easily.

4. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071752854/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0071752854&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=QYVPB5UNSDET5A3Y">Pitch Anything</a> by Oren Klaff

Best book on sales and persuasion ever written, period. If you could read just one book on selling, it should be this one. Actually you should just read one book on this topic. And it should be this one. There's literally no need to know anything else. It's amazing to me that almost no one has read this.

Pitch Anythingis about how to flip the script on potential customers/clients and have them chasing you as opposed to you chasing them—how to have them sell you on selling them!

It's applicable for every human being on earth no matter what your profession. If you're living, you're selling. And you have to sell well to live well.

5. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307277429/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307277429&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=7YYMKCF37R3Q6III">Markings</a> by Dag Hammarskjold

"What should we name him, hunny?"
"Oh, I don't know. How about Dag?"
"I love it!"

If I had a name like Dag, I would be a friggin' rock star. Dag Hammarskjold was not a rock star for some reason. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953. Despite what we may think about the U.N., Dag was extraordinarily smart.

Markingsis the Christian equivalent to the great stoic Marcus Aurelius' famous book Meditations (also worth reading)—a collection of short reflections and advice about life in general. This is my favorite one:

Is life really so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small and your vision which is muddied? YOU are the one who must grow up.

Boom. Chew on that for a minute.

After you're done chewing, buy all these books, read them and be officially way smarter than everyone else.
"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none... ZERO." –Charlie Munger
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The problem is that a lot of self-improvement books are a complete waste of time. I have to read 10 of them to find a good one and 100 to find a great one. So allow me to save you the work of reading 500 books and recommend five great ones you've most likely never even heard of.

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5 Smart Ways to Increase Your IQ (Because It’s Not Set in Genetic Stone)

I only recently discovered there is a secret society for people with high IQs. It’s called Mensa—aka The Nerd Herd. It’s actually not a secret, but I consider anything no one has told me about in the 39 years I’ve been on planet Earth to be a conspiracy. So it’s a secret as far as I’m concerned.



To get in, you have to take a test and score in the top 2 percent of all IQs in the universe, aliens included. (I’m assuming these people know about the aliens and aren’t telling us.) After that, your nerdship is official. You no longer have to wonder.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



That is the stupidest thing I could ever possibly even imagine imagining, was the first thought that came to me when I learned about this. I want in, was the second.



So I set a goal to get into Mensa within 90 days, and I posted this highly questionable aspiration on Facebook so I could add “suffer public humiliation” to my list of motivators for making it happen. Then I went to work on boosting my nerdability. I wasn’t even sure if that was possible since some scientists say IQ is genetic, but I’ve never listened to science before. Why start now?



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I downloaded the Mensa app to my iPhone, took a practice test—and failed miserably. They were all trick questions apparently. The words “You’re average” started flashing on the screen as my first urge to smash a $700 phone on the ground came over me.



Then I did some things (that I’ll tell you in a second) and started scoring at a genius level. I’ll be taking the official test later this month and will soon be able to put an end to all future arguments with my wife by simply pulling out my Mensa card. I can’t wait.



Here’s why I’m telling you this…



There’s this unspoken but subtly implied belief in the personal development world that intelligence doesn’t really matter. We delight in hearing the story about how Henry Ford was so stupid that he had to call people into his office to answer questions for him. Having a high IQ is almost something we scoff at. I know I used to before I became a genius [insert my smirking emoji&nbsp; face here].



But IQ is in large part a measure of your ability to recognize patterns. And as <a title="Ray Kurzweil: The Exponential Mind | SUCCESS.com" href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/ray-kurzweil-the-exponential-mind" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ray Kurzweil</a> famously says, “Pattern recognition is the essence of all human thought.” Intelligence is not the same as being book or trivia smart (although those are helpful, too). It’s your ability to manage and manipulate life with your mind. It’s the closest thing to a superhero power you’re going to get in this world.



Studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between high levels of intelligence and success in life. It’s actually one of the biggest predictors of success—I call it the Nerd Effect. Read about Terman’s Study—they tracked genius-IQ level kids for their entire lives. They ended up richer, healthier, taller, stronger and even more able to dunk a basketball than kids with lower IQs. I made the basketball thing up, but the rest are true.



Now the really interesting thing about Terman’s Study is that not all the high-IQ kids were successful. Some turned out average and had higher rates of alcoholism and divorce. What made the difference? The difference was the successful kids had cultivated desire, prudence, willpower, goal-orientation, self-confidence and perseverance—all the stuff you’re probably doing right now.



So it’s true that intelligence alone won’t get you the success you’re after. But neither will your typical <a title="Rohn: Why Personal Development Is Critical to Success | SUCCESS.com" href="https://successcom.wpenginepowered.com/article/rohn-why-personal-development-is-critical-to-success" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">self-help strategies</a>, unless accompanied by a reasonably high level of intelligence (the higher the better). So why not add, “increase my IQ” to your list of goals?



If I had to guess, intelligence accounts for about 50 percent of your success, and all the other typical self-improvement stuff—positive thinking, goal-setting, time management, character development, etc.—gets the other 50 percent. And my reasoning for that is simple. Intelligence is your ability to think at a high level. Think of your favorite billionaire; I guarantee you they are thinking at an extremely high level.



You know what… I just realized you may be reading this assuming you’re already really intelligent. You may be right. But take this test real quick to be sure: <a title="Mensa Workout | Mensa.org" href="https://www.mensa.org/workout.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mensa Workout</a>



So how can you increase your IQ? Here are five ways, but it really all boils down to stretching your brain by learning new things:



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-1-become-a-renaissance-man-or-woman">1. Become a renaissance man. Or woman.</h2>



Be a student of life—not just wealth, health and happiness. Study history, science, psychology, art, languages, math, music, etc. Learn how this world works. Add depth to your mind and character. Read at least one book a week. Start to notice the patterns. Intelligence all boils down to pattern recognition.



One of my mentors said something interesting last week. He said, “I’ve noticed something. All my super rich friends are good at math.” And I realized that’s true of mine as well. Are you good at math? When you watch Shark Tank, can you calculate the valuations of the businesses in your head like the sharks do? If not, why not get good? Add it to your arsenal. You need a big arsenal to succeed in life. Mindset and success techniques are just a small fraction of what’s required.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-2-play-the-brain-game-dual-n-back">2. Play the brain game <a title="Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game | BrainWorkshop.sourceforge.net" href="https://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dual N-Back</a>.</h2>



Do this 20 minutes a day. It will improve your working memory, and one study showed it increased IQ drastically. Other studies showed it didn’t. Screw those studies. I’ve been doing this for a while, and it is definitely doing something amazing to my brain.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-3-do-regular-high-cardio-exercise">3. Do regular high cardio exercise.</h2>



The version of Dual N-Back I use tracks my progress. Well one day I went to the gym and played the game right when I got home (I use the word “game” lightly—it’s mild torture). My scores went through the friggin roof. There is something about the release of endorphins that sends your brain into overdrive. Get as many of those endorphins as possible.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-4-learn-an-instrument">4. Learn an instrument.</h2>



Learning to play music is the equivalent of giving your brain a full body workout. This has been proven in studies using FMRI scans. Simply put, playing an instrument lights your entire brain on intellectual fire and has lasting impact on math and spatial reasoning skills. It’s not for no reason the wealthy almost universally require their children to learn a classical instrument whether they like it or not. Carve out 30 minutes a week to take a lesson and release your inner rock star.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-5-buy-the-book-boost-your-iq-by-carolyn-skitt-and-play-all-the-games">5. Buy the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184732830X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=184732830X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sm0fe-20&amp;linkId=4B3NA2V45S5Z3LCS">Boost Your IQ</a> by Carolyn Skitt, and play all the games.</h2>



This book was written by Mensa nerds, so you can be guaranteed they know what they’re talking about.



Bottom line: your intelligence is not set in genetic stone. You can increase it. And as you do, all the other things you’re trying to succeed at will become amazingly easier. I did it. You can do it.



“You have to be smart. The easy days are over.” –Robert Kiyosaki



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I only recently discovered there is a secret society for people with high IQs. It’s called Mensa—aka The Nerd Herd. It’s actually not a secret, but I

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