How to Guarantee a Life of Poverty

And How to Escape It

• Procrastinate until tomorrow.

→ Act before you’re ready. Speed beats perfection.

• Read endlessly. Apply nothing.

→ Learn, apply, adjust, repeat. Knowledge without action is dead weight.

• Take advice from broke people.

→ Study and model those with real results.

• Pick a partner who resents your drive.

→ Choose someone who fuels your ambition, not your guilt.

• Fail once. Quit forever.

→ Fail forward. Each loss is tuition for success.

• Blame your situation.

→ Own everything. Responsibility is your superpower.

• Blame others for your mistakes.

→ Focus only on what you can control — yourself.

• Wait for the government to solve your problems.

→ Save yourself. No one is coming.

• Crave approval over results.

→ Respect your vision more than their opinions.

• Complain about everything.

→ Solve problems, don’t broadcast them.

• Expect life to be fair.

→ Play the game the way it’s built — and win anyway.

• Avoid discomfort at all costs.

→ Comfort zones are coffins. Seek the hard path.

• Tolerate average.

→ Be allergic to mediocrity. Demand excellence from yourself.

• Make promises. Break promises.

→ Be a person whose word is gold.

• Wait for perfect timing.

→ Perfect timing is a myth. Start ugly. Start now.

• Look rich before you are rich.

→ First build wealth quietly, then let success make the noise.

• Work hard on low-impact tasks.

→ Work smart on high-impact goals.

• Stay busy. Produce nothing.

→ Busy is an excuse. Results are the standard.

• Say you’ll do it. Never do it.

→ Let your actions say what your mouth doesn’t have to.

• Follow the crowd. Expect rare outcomes.

→ Study the outliers. Be the exception.

• “Do your best” instead of “do what’s necessary.”

→ Stretch beyond your best. Do what success demands.

• Talk endlessly. Act rarely.

→ Talk less. Move faster.

• Start something new daily. Finish nothing.

→ Finish what you start. Momentum compounds.

• Repeat your mistakes.

→ Learn, adapt, and evolve.

• Find something that works. Abandon it.

→ Double down on what delivers.

• Assume you’re always right.

→ Stay coachable. Stay curious. Stay humble.

• Take offense at everything. React emotionally.

→ Be rational, not emotional. Save your energy for winning.

• Make more money. Spend even more.

→ Grow your gap — income up, expenses stable.

• Stay stuck in indecision.

→ Decide quickly. Course-correct faster.

• Compare downwards to feel good.

→ Compare only to your future self.

• Copy the average. Expect excellence.

→ Study winners. Copy discipline, not popularity.

• Live for others’ approval.

→ Live for a mission, not applause.

• Binge entertainment. Starve education.

→ Invest more in your mind than your distractions.

• Show up late. Or not at all.

→ Respect time — yours and others’. Winners are early.

• Wing it. Never prepare.

→ Preparation turns amateurs into pros.

• Watch others fail. Repeat their mistakes.

→ Observe, learn, pivot.

• Think money is a zero-sum game.

→ Wealth is created, not transferred. Think abundance.

• Trust words more than results.

→ Watch what they do, not what they say.