Episode 265: How to REALLY Become A Millionaire
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Summary
What does it take to become a Millionaire? a formula that is duplicatable to everybody. In this episode, Patrick talks about what it really takes to be a millionaire, and why it s not about how to become one, but what it takes to actually become one.
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Bedeby, host of AITEM, and today we're going to talk about what you can really
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do, not one of these hypothetical books you read about, what you really need to do to
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Everybody wants to become a millionaire, and I think a lot of times, just like in sports,
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think about in sports, we admire Michael Jordan, we admire LeBron James, but if you're not 6'8",
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260, and you cannot jump 40 inches, you're not going to be LeBron James, okay?
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So that's not the most duplicatable story to try to be inspired by.
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We can respect and we can admire them, but it's not something we can be, and that can
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So a lot of you guys may, I'll see people like myself, even back in the days, you'll
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see somebody like an Elon Musk, or you'll see somebody like a Mark Zuckerberg, and you'll
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say, I can never be like Zuckerberg, I can never think like Elon Musk, where they're an
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What I'm talking about is something you can be.
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Stephen Curry is only 6 feet tall, couple inches, 170 pounds.
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The formula I'm going to cover is more a duplicatable way of becoming a Stephen Curry or a Sam Walton,
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CEO of Walmart, or something that's duplicatable.
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That's what I'm going to cover with you here today.
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The one thing about becoming an entrepreneur, know that the first two years is survival
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If anything that can go wrong, it's probably going to go wrong in the first two years of
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And you're going to experience all of it, and you need to experience all of it.
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Within five years, if you follow the formula that I talk about, you have a shot at getting
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to a quarter million, to a half a million dollar year income within five years.
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Within 10 years, you ought to be at a million dollar year income.
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If you cover the formula I'm talking about, you'll be at a million dollar year income.
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But the formula is a formula that's duplicatable to everybody.
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Sometimes I'll hear a lot of people, when you do an interview with a millionaire or billionaire,
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I interview with Mark Cuban, and he talks about how hard he works Monday through Friday
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And you hear a lot of people say, you've got to work hard.
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Well, what does that really mean, you've got to work hard?
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Because sometimes I visit entrepreneurs' offices, and they're at the office purely on Facebook
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all day long, but they're at their office for 12 hours.
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Meaning, if you're in sales, you're either answering the phones, you're either in the
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field door knocking or meeting with people, or you're having people sitting in front
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of you, or you're at a kitchen table selling something, but you're constantly playing
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If you work 40 hours a week as an entrepreneur, to me, you're a part-timer.
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I know in the full-time world, in the job world, if you work 9 to 5, you're a full-timer, but
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as an entrepreneur, 40 hours a week, you're not giving yourself a chance to make it.
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A full-timer as an entrepreneur is somebody that works 60 hours a week.
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And I know a lot of times people may even turn off the video right now because you may
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This is if you want to know what it takes to become a millionaire and a decamillionaire.
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You know, those days of just coming out with Snapchat and Instagram and you becoming
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If you only strive for that, you may be another person that's 60 years trying to get something
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to come out and be sold for a couple billion dollars.
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This is a duplicatable system that I'm talking about.
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Now, on the work ethic side, let me explain on the work ethic side.
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I'll have people that'll say, I worked 80 hours last week.
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But how hard did you work the week prior to that?
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And the following week, when you have a birthday party coming up, and next week, when it's
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Super Bowl, and next week, when it's this, how hard are you going to work every week?
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You may have a week you don't feel like working, and all the timer still shows up.
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A part-timer only shows up when they feel like it.
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And all the timer, whether you feel like it or not, they show up.
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If you're only working, working, working, working, working, and you're going into the
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whole rat race, if you're just working, working, working, working, working, and your identity
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There isn't an ability to scale your income to get to a millionaire.
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If you're working, figuring out, working, figuring out, working, figuring out, solving,
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learning, growing, then you're constantly going to new heights.
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Level one, if you average 24 books a year, two books a month that you're feeding your
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If you average four books a month, that's a full-timer.
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If you read an all-the-timer, if you read eight books a month, 100 a year, to me, you're an
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I'm talking real business books that's growing your mind on solving problems and issues and
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learning from this guy and how that person did it and how that person did this.
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So, so far, we covered work ethic, and we covered personal growth, too.
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Element number three is how many start-stops you have as you're running your business.
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My father was a cashier at a 99-cent store in Englewood, 1.8 GPA kid.
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This is not a product of I'm supposed to do whatever I'm supposed to do and be running
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a, you know, whatever multi-multi-million dollar company and doing what we're...
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But I watch a lot of my competitors who are sharper than me, degrees, better family, better
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They know how to play golf very well from a young age so they could go and network with
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A part-timer typically, typically has two to four distractions per year, setbacks per
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And some people may say, well, Pat, that's absolutely cold.
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A part-timer has two to four distractions per year.
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It could be a bankruptcy sets them back for two months.
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To recover from a breakup takes them six months.
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Something that happens to them, they are devastated for way too long.
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A full-timer to me is one distraction per year.
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Now they have to go and start the momentum all over again because they don't know how to
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They're not good at managing distractions very well.
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They're not able to experience the whole thing.
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All-the-timer to me is somebody that experiences one major setback every five to ten years.
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How you react to it will dictate your odds of being able to become a millionaire, decamillionaire,
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whatever that goal is for you to become, right?
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Now, number four to me is number of industries.
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A part-timer changes industries as quickly as an 18-year-old changes boyfriends and girlfriends.
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It's just a new industry again, a new industry again, a new industry again.
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So you're talking about a part-timer changes new industry every two to four years.
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A full-timer changes industries every five to ten years.
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They'll get to a certain level and then boom, they go again.
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And then they never, ever really fully understand what their capacity is if they stick around.
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The all-the-timer, 20 to 40 years, one industry.
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Berkshire Hathaway, they went into one industry.
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And those guys started with an all-the-timer mentality.
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Their company's right now, Berkshire Hathaway, worth about $326 billion.
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Their annual shareholder meeting's happening on April 30th.
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40,000 to 50,000 people show up in, I think it's Omaha, somewhere there.
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Everybody, you see it, go look up the picture on what it looks like.
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They show up and they never got into technology.
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Charlie Munger's worth a billion to $2 billion.
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And Warren Buffett's worth $40 to $70 billion, depending on what day and what time of the year
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Now, some people will also say, well, I feel like I have to start a company to have a shot
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But an entrepreneur may also be somebody that gets with the company and increases value of
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And eventually, they become an executive, a voice, a president, a CEO, whoever it is.
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He increases value by what he brings to the table with Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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Eventually, he's worth $22 billion, owns the Clippers.
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But he was somebody that positioned himself well, worked very hard.
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That's what ends up happening for him to become who he is today.
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So now, what conditions, what intangibles need to be on your side?
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Somebody might say, well, what if you do all that stuff?
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If it's only a want for you to become a millionaire and it's not a must, kiss it goodbye.
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Nobody becomes a millionaire by wanting to become a millionaire.
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No video in the world is going to give you ambition and desire.
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The only thing that's going to give you ambition and desire is you.
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Do you position yourself in a company that you can eventually own a piece of it?
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Are you in a place that you can increase value and own a piece of the company?
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It may not work out the first time, second time, but you've got to be good on how you pick them.
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You know, if you grew up in a perfect family, everything was good and you don't have to
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You know, I didn't have any problems growing up.
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Is it somebody you want to prove right or prove wrong?
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Maybe your mom or dad sacrificed so much you want to prove right that the decision they
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Maybe an ex-wife, ex-husband, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend doesn't believe in you.
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Maybe you, yourself, the man in the mirror, the woman in the mirror, you got to prove that
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Do you increase your value wherever you're working at?
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Do you constantly revert back to friends and associations that teach you the bad habits?
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But look, in reality of it, everything I covered with you, somebody may watch this and say,
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Because somebody may watch this video and say, 80 hours?
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But if you're still watching it and you're saying, man, I want to be an all-the-timer,
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Some people are going to call you a lot of different things.
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In any, in any industry, athlete, business, entrepreneurship, doesn't matter.
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If you're not an all-the-timer, you maybe become a fan.
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There's a lot of people that are fans of Elon Musk.
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You can become a fan or you can become a player.
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