Have you ever wondered what the most common major problems are in life? I have. I spent the past 12 years studying the rich and the poor (Rich Habits Study) and found that there were 12 frequent big problems almost everyone has to contend with: Health Problems Financial Problems Family Problems Neighbour Problems Home Ownership…
Most people don’t like to talk about money – they don’t like to talk about it with their spouses. They don’t like to talk about it with their kids and they don’t like to talk about it with their friends. Why is that? There are two driving factors that make money a taboo topic: #1…
What do wealthy people do to become wealthy?” The answer is – “They create their own good luck”. But how can you create good luck? Before I answer that question we need to understand luck. There are four types of luck: Random Good Luck Random Bad Luck Opportunity Good Luck and Detrimental Bad Luck Random…
Each one of the 233 millionaires in my five-year study of rich and poor people was lucky. Fifty-six (24%) were born into it and 177 (76%) created it. The type of luck those 24% received was random good luck. The type of luck those 76% received was self-made. Luck, whether random or self-made, is a common…
I’ve found that becoming wealthy is not a fluke. I spent five years studying the habits of 233 millionaires — 177 that were self-made — in order to find out how they spent their time from the moment they woke up in the morning, to the moment they put their head on the pillow. Based…
I love the Joe Rogan podcast because Rogan cuts through all of the noise with his straight talk and common sense logic. You can learn a lot just from listening to his podcast. Some of the things I’ve learned from the Rogan podcast align with much of my Rich Habits research. Here’s some of the…
According to my Rich Habits Study, one of the reasons the wealthy accumulated so much wealth was due to the fact that they worked more hours than those who were not rich. Here’s some of the data: 44% of the wealthy worked 11 hours more each week than the non-rich. 86% of the wealthy who…
Choices and decisions can make or break a business, career or relationship. One or two bad decisions can and often are forgiven. But those who frequently make poor choices and decisions either go out of business or find themselves on the unemployment line. I’ve learned from my Rich Habits research that, more often than not,…
Those with a slight edge own the world. As I discovered from my Rich Habits research, those who possess some slight edge, some unique niche they’ve cultivated over many years, receive a premium for whatever product or service they sell. And that premium makes them rich. To me, this was a major revelation. It contradicts…
A lot of people think that success is an event. One magical, transformational event. She or he was an overnight success. We’ve all read crap like that in the media over and over again. For budding entrepreneurs out there, the expectation that you can become an overnight success plays havoc with their psyche when that…