“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
This is a popular quote, if you are reading this it is because you are tired of your 9-to-5 job. You're tired of living paycheck to paycheck, you wonder why you work so hard and cannot get ahead. I know what it's like, our school systems taught us to be employees.
Leave the 40-40-40 plan, which means 40+ hours a week 40+ years of your life and hopefully retire off 40% of your retirement. This is scary especially in this time in life. If you have grown inside a wealthy family who has money and everything set aside already this article is not for you.
While at work on breaks and a lunch watching YouTube videos on motivation. Not knowing the power of YouTube at that moment but I will get to that later. Picking books to read to open up the doors in the brain on what potential the man or woman have to succeed in this world.
Mindset.
We hear this word come up a lot in our minds, it takes a while to learn it. Because of the way that we were taught to go to school, get a job working way up the corporate ladder and all the other nice talk. I was reading this book called pitch anything. Now I am not promoting it in any way, however the man who wrote the book really put it in detail on how the human mind works.
According to the book they talk about the crock brain and the neocortex part of the brain. The croc brain is considered the scarcity it represents someone who always takes caution and everything he or she does. The neocortex is the part of the brain that is more advanced, takes risk and is open to opportunity.
After reading the book I decided to study this a little bit because I and few others I knew were working on our mindsets to get it put in the right functioning order. You see people do it all the time and never fully dive deep into them. You have all these entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Grant Cardone, Oprah Winfrey, And the list goes on.
Thinking like a consumer and thinking like an investor.
The mindset of a consumer is someone who is constantly buying stuff that's not going to benefit him or her. For example, there are people out there who want to get out of their 9 to 5 job they're tired of living paycheck to paycheck but they continue buying things that are not going to benefit them in any way for the future.
Buying liabilities when a person can't really afford to be doing this but just to show off they go out and get a brand new car. It feels great to get a brand new car especially if you have not had a car and you've been taking the bus or you're upgrading from your old car that keeps breaking down.
Mainly is what you're doing,