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They told you to get the fast car, the diamond chain, the mansion, but deep down you know those are just marketing campaigns to separate you from your hard-earned money.
Do that and you’ll be back to being broke in no time.
But there are things to buy that will take your life to the next level.
Once you get money, upgrade these 15 things immediately.
Whatever it is you really dislike it is holding you back, fix that. Remove the hair more often, fix your teeth, the crooked nose, get LASIK surgery, and fix your site. Those patches on your skin need to go, so put some money behind it to look healthy, rested, and get some clear skin.
Your face is how you connect to other people on a day-to-day basis. Your confidence will shoot through the roof and you’ll see its ripple effect in every aspect of your life.
A report by IZA World of Labor showed that —
You know too well what being insecure about physical attributes can feel like, especially how it made you feel when other people pointed it out. Once you get the money, there’s no reason you have to carry those burdens anymore.
You already paid the money, so it’s time to get something back for your investment. You will feel better. People will notice you even more. Confidence is going higher and higher.
Once you see the results, you’re addicted!
If you’re sitting on the couch, reading this right now, and dread the idea of going to the gym, know that this feeling is temporary. Once those results start coming in, it’ll become a natural part of who you are. Your schedule will make the time. Commit first and you’ll see how it works out in your favor.
Statistically, you spend a third of your life in bed. Investing in a great one is a no-brainer. When it comes to pillows, we purchased a bunch of them filled with every sponge, microfiber, feather, or polymer you can imagine, and honestly, the best pillow we can find was for a fraction of the cost of the other ones and it was from “Ikea” — they’re called the bergven pillow and they retail for about a hundred bucks.
The cherry on top is that the thing that brings it all together for us is the high thread count Egyptian cotton linen. Once you get the money, buy yourself the mattress, the pillows, and the linens with a thread count over 500.
Your sleep will never be the same! It’s gotten to the point where we feel less rested in a luxury hotel than we do in our own homes.
Fortunately for you, money does buy convenience. The same services you would travel to now come to you. Flying private is one of the most convenient things possible. Not only do you decide when the plane leaves, but you get to the airport, get in a car, they drop you off at the entrance to your plane, and you get on and fly out. No lines, no cues, security already has your info, and you’re pre-vetted to fly.
If you’re in your early days and you cannot afford to fly private, there are certain passes you can purchase that will allow you to skip security at airports and fast-track through things.
Growing up in a former communist country has taught us that above everything else how to stand in line. We dread it.
Outsource everything. Clear your schedule. Clear your calendar. Having a busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great, so take this seriously.
Now that you have money, other people will want your time. Keep an open calendar, but always be too busy to do coffee with people who don’t give you a serious reason to do so.
When you boil it down, here’s the true decision you’ve got to make:
Would you rather go have coffee with this stranger for an hour or spend that time with your kid, your spouse, on yourself, meditating by listening to a great audiobook while walking in nature or taking a bubble bath?
We kind of hope you answered the ladder on that one.
Statistically, it’ll influence who you marry, who your friends are, what you do for fun, and even your political affiliation and religious beliefs.
In life —
The closer you are to the office or workplace, the more time you have to do other things that push you further. For us, it meant buying the top-floor Penthouse of our building and moving our office to one of the lower floors so we take the elevator to the morning meeting.
Basically, you survive on the cheapest things possible, you eat that for the sole purpose of being fed. You add some ketchup or hot sauce just to make it more pleasant to eat. Something really great happens when you make some money. Your understanding of behavior changes. All of a sudden, you’re smart enough to realize that food is actually fuel.
Now, we’re not going to get preachy here and tell you to only eat salads because that’s not who we are. We love a good Wagyu steak and having truffles in our pasta. The goal is to increase the quality of your consumption while lowering the quantity.
Poor people eat at volume, that’s why the KFC bucket has 30 wings, but all those fancy restaurants serve up super small portions.
Find people and pay them for everything you don’t want to do, but maintain activities like walking your own dog if you enjoy playing with that good boy, and keeping up with the clear your calendar agenda, you should set your bills on autopay. We’ve got recurring payments cleared for almost all of our invoices. Money leaves the account automatically. We check it once or twice per year to make sure everything is in order, but so far we’ve never had any issues.
As a pro tip, we’ve also automated a portion of our income to go automatically to Vanguard into an S&P 500. That way we know our DCA is on autopilot and we’ve got no problem living on the rest.
Relieving your parents off financial stress will open up more money for them to take care of themselves and live a happier life, and in our experience, it also makes them respect you a lot more.
Whenever we travel, we love bringing family members with us so they don’t feel like they’re leaching off us they still pay for their flights and other expenses, but we secretly pick up the cost of the accommodation. That allows us to not compromise on the quality of the experience and they still feel like they contribute to their part.
It’s easy to drift apart when life is chaotically busy, but these relationships are valuable. So, nurture them.
You seek out experts, you leverage their input into getting more done in shorter spans of time — these people are usually expensive and outside of the reach of regular folk. An executive coach usually costs several thousands of dollars per month just to jump on a zoom call with you and have a one-hour conversation, but you’re seeing results so you’ve got no problem paying.
At this level, these teachers know what they’re talking about and what you need to do next. Some of you don’t have the money to get a dedicated personal coach, but the same thing Airbnb did to luxury homes, we’ve already been doing to the self-development industry.
You’re here because you’ve made some money or are on your way to making some. Spending money on experiences actually makes you richer.
Yes! We’re talking about Friends, The Office, and let us know in the comments which you think is the third one.
Money buys freedom, so exercise that freedom for your own growth. Fly to the other side of the planet and then ride the train from one coast to another, it’ll take you a few weeks, but we guarantee that you’ll have at least one hell of a story to tell.
We get it! You’ve been busy reinvesting everything into your business so much so that you don’t have much to give away, but that needs to change and we guarantee you’ll see a positive return on your investment.
Do you want to know a secret?
The sooner you start, the better. We think of it in percentage terms. Giving away half of a month’s salary toward helping others is just 4.16% of your income. Trust us, you’ll have no problem living off the rest, but the emotional impact it’ll have on you is incredible, plus we feel like you could use some good karma in your life right now.
Instead of buying four puffer jackets from one of the fast fashion retailers frequently, buy a Burberry trench coat that will be with you for the next 30 years. This allows you to rid yourself of the useless excess you store in your home and have a clean portfolio of clothes.
If you’ve got absolutely no fashion sense, Google “Capsule Wardrobe” and go from there.
Do that and you’ll be back to being broke in no time.
But there are things to buy that will take your life to the next level.
Once you get money, upgrade these 15 things immediately.
1. Your Face
Fix your face.Whatever it is you really dislike it is holding you back, fix that. Remove the hair more often, fix your teeth, the crooked nose, get LASIK surgery, and fix your site. Those patches on your skin need to go, so put some money behind it to look healthy, rested, and get some clear skin.
Your face is how you connect to other people on a day-to-day basis. Your confidence will shoot through the roof and you’ll see its ripple effect in every aspect of your life.
A report by IZA World of Labor showed that —
Those veneers will pay for themselves in no time, and not only will you likely earn more, but people will find you more attractive which will lead to higher quality dates which translate to better social skills and that changes the way you experience life.
You know too well what being insecure about physical attributes can feel like, especially how it made you feel when other people pointed it out. Once you get the money, there’s no reason you have to carry those burdens anymore.
2. Your Physical Strength
The face is the easiest thing to fix. It takes the least amount of time to see the change. You get the surgery or the procedure and bam you’re done. You’ve got the money now, so you need to be able to enjoy it.Don’t think twice — get a trainer, pay them in advance, and let them know you really want a transformation. They’ll clear the chaos for you and will help to keep you accountable.
You already paid the money, so it’s time to get something back for your investment. You will feel better. People will notice you even more. Confidence is going higher and higher.
Once you see the results, you’re addicted!
If you’re sitting on the couch, reading this right now, and dread the idea of going to the gym, know that this feeling is temporary. Once those results start coming in, it’ll become a natural part of who you are. Your schedule will make the time. Commit first and you’ll see how it works out in your favor.
Get a trainer. They’ll come to the gym closest to where you live. Order all your gym gear once and start doing this plus you’ll be surrounded by good-looking people who are taking care of their bodies. Most gyms have saunas and spas, and you can finally get that back pain sorted out.
High temperatures release a substance called dynorphin which triggers your body to go into protein repair mode, and it also binds your endorphin receptors more strongly in the brain.
3. Your Bed: Mattress, Pillows, Linens
Growing up poor you don’t realize just how bad your sleeping situation is. If you never wake up fully rested, if you find it hard to fall asleep or to get into those deep sleep zones where your body nurtures itself for maximum output during the day, that’s because of your bed.Mattress prices are all over the place. Whatever number you’re thinking in your mind is okay to spend on a mattress, triple it, and see what you can find in that price range. You will not regret the decision!
Statistically, you spend a third of your life in bed. Investing in a great one is a no-brainer. When it comes to pillows, we purchased a bunch of them filled with every sponge, microfiber, feather, or polymer you can imagine, and honestly, the best pillow we can find was for a fraction of the cost of the other ones and it was from “Ikea” — they’re called the bergven pillow and they retail for about a hundred bucks.
The cherry on top is that the thing that brings it all together for us is the high thread count Egyptian cotton linen. Once you get the money, buy yourself the mattress, the pillows, and the linens with a thread count over 500.
Your sleep will never be the same! It’s gotten to the point where we feel less rested in a luxury hotel than we do in our own homes.
4. Convenience
Here’s the thing —Walking is free, but people still grab an Uber. Tap water is free, yet you still buy a bottle of water if you’re in front of the store.
Fortunately for you, money does buy convenience. The same services you would travel to now come to you. Flying private is one of the most convenient things possible. Not only do you decide when the plane leaves, but you get to the airport, get in a car, they drop you off at the entrance to your plane, and you get on and fly out. No lines, no cues, security already has your info, and you’re pre-vetted to fly.
If you’re in your early days and you cannot afford to fly private, there are certain passes you can purchase that will allow you to skip security at airports and fast-track through things.
Growing up in a former communist country has taught us that above everything else how to stand in line. We dread it.
- Flying out — fast pass.
- Going to a museum — fast pass.
5. Your Schedule
Once you get the money, your goal becomes clearing up your schedule. You go from saying yes to everything to saying no to most things.That’s where creativity stems from. It’s hard to be creative or enjoy this life when you’ve been carrying rocks up the mountain like Sisyphus all day only to do it again and again tomorrow.
Outsource everything. Clear your schedule. Clear your calendar. Having a busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great, so take this seriously.
Now that you have money, other people will want your time. Keep an open calendar, but always be too busy to do coffee with people who don’t give you a serious reason to do so.
When you boil it down, here’s the true decision you’ve got to make:
Would you rather go have coffee with this stranger for an hour or spend that time with your kid, your spouse, on yourself, meditating by listening to a great audiobook while walking in nature or taking a bubble bath?
We kind of hope you answered the ladder on that one.
6. Your Location
You might not realize it, but where you live is the most important decision you’ll make in your life.Statistically, it’ll influence who you marry, who your friends are, what you do for fun, and even your political affiliation and religious beliefs.
In life —
If you started from the bottom, you know the bottom isn’t a nice place to live. You’re surrounded by weirdos, there isn’t much going on, and you have to commute to any place worth seeing.
The closer you are to the office or workplace, the more time you have to do other things that push you further. For us, it meant buying the top-floor Penthouse of our building and moving our office to one of the lower floors so we take the elevator to the morning meeting.
7. Your Food
While pursuing the grind, you had to downsize everywhere for extended periods of time. We call those “our ramen years”.Basically, you survive on the cheapest things possible, you eat that for the sole purpose of being fed. You add some ketchup or hot sauce just to make it more pleasant to eat. Something really great happens when you make some money. Your understanding of behavior changes. All of a sudden, you’re smart enough to realize that food is actually fuel.
Now, we’re not going to get preachy here and tell you to only eat salads because that’s not who we are. We love a good Wagyu steak and having truffles in our pasta. The goal is to increase the quality of your consumption while lowering the quantity.
Poor people eat at volume, that’s why the KFC bucket has 30 wings, but all those fancy restaurants serve up super small portions.
8. House Cleaning Services + Subscription for Essentials
This might sound trivial, but outsource the trivial tasks in your life. Now that you’ve got some money you can afford to pay someone to clean your house for you and that frees up more time for you to complete your next steps.Find people and pay them for everything you don’t want to do, but maintain activities like walking your own dog if you enjoy playing with that good boy, and keeping up with the clear your calendar agenda, you should set your bills on autopay. We’ve got recurring payments cleared for almost all of our invoices. Money leaves the account automatically. We check it once or twice per year to make sure everything is in order, but so far we’ve never had any issues.
As a pro tip, we’ve also automated a portion of our income to go automatically to Vanguard into an S&P 500. That way we know our DCA is on autopilot and we’ve got no problem living on the rest.
9. Time With Your Family
Time can be different once you’ve got a little bit of money. Your parents or siblings don’t need fancy gifts from you, but they might need help with their mortgage. Pay it off on their behalf and let them know you love them.Relieving your parents off financial stress will open up more money for them to take care of themselves and live a happier life, and in our experience, it also makes them respect you a lot more.
Whenever we travel, we love bringing family members with us so they don’t feel like they’re leaching off us they still pay for their flights and other expenses, but we secretly pick up the cost of the accommodation. That allows us to not compromise on the quality of the experience and they still feel like they contribute to their part.
It’s easy to drift apart when life is chaotically busy, but these relationships are valuable. So, nurture them.
10. Your Teachers
Smart folks know that you never stop learning, you just elevate your teachers. The people you learn from are more niched so they’ve got deeper insights and different knowledge.You seek out experts, you leverage their input into getting more done in shorter spans of time — these people are usually expensive and outside of the reach of regular folk. An executive coach usually costs several thousands of dollars per month just to jump on a zoom call with you and have a one-hour conversation, but you’re seeing results so you’ve got no problem paying.
At this level, these teachers know what they’re talking about and what you need to do next. Some of you don’t have the money to get a dedicated personal coach, but the same thing Airbnb did to luxury homes, we’ve already been doing to the self-development industry.
11. Your Stories and Adventures
Here’s how you become the most interesting person in the room: You live a life worth telling others about, you travel, you try things, and you get into adventures.- Focus on the journey, not the destination.
- Be a traveler, not a tourist.
You’re here because you’ve made some money or are on your way to making some. Spending money on experiences actually makes you richer.
Most people live and die without ever finding out. Your stories and adventures will bring people toward you. It’ll inspire them. Your light will shine bright as you have got something genuinely interesting to say in a world where y’all watching reruns of the same TV shows.
Yes! We’re talking about Friends, The Office, and let us know in the comments which you think is the third one.
Money buys freedom, so exercise that freedom for your own growth. Fly to the other side of the planet and then ride the train from one coast to another, it’ll take you a few weeks, but we guarantee that you’ll have at least one hell of a story to tell.
12. Your Charity Work
We measure success by the positive impact we have in this world.We get it! You’ve been busy reinvesting everything into your business so much so that you don’t have much to give away, but that needs to change and we guarantee you’ll see a positive return on your investment.
Do you want to know a secret?
It needs people to spread it around. Every time we upgraded our giving, a new level of wealth and opportunity opened up like clockwork.
The sooner you start, the better. We think of it in percentage terms. Giving away half of a month’s salary toward helping others is just 4.16% of your income. Trust us, you’ll have no problem living off the rest, but the emotional impact it’ll have on you is incredible, plus we feel like you could use some good karma in your life right now.
13. Your Wardrobe
Before you jump into StockX and order a new pair of overpriced sneakers, you gotta listen carefully here —This is why all rich people seem to be dressed the same; little to no logos, timeless high-quality fabrics. If you feel like you have nothing to wear, that’s because you suck at buying quality items.
Instead of buying four puffer jackets from one of the fast fashion retailers frequently, buy a Burberry trench coat that will be with you for the next 30 years. This allows you to rid yourself of the useless excess you store in your home and have a clean portfolio of clothes.
If you’ve got absolutely no fashion sense, Google “Capsule Wardrobe” and go from there.
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