Now in my early 20s I was chasing what I
thought was fast money doing day trading
trying to become a millionaire but that
didn't make me any money but I I started
reading this book called the 4-hour
workweek Anna blew my mind right I
learned about internet businesses and
how tens of thousands of people all over
the world were starting internet
businesses and taking action but that
didn't make me a millionaire either what
did make me a millionaire I will go over
in this video of that decision that
pivotal thing that made the difference
between me being a broke day-to-day
worker and a millionaire a wealthy
person stay tuned now after I read this
book in college I actually had taken a
semester abroad and I went to Thailand
and I read a lot of books I took a lot
of books with me there's actually two of
them but I took home a lot of books and
I read the 4-hour workweek in this book
exposed me to the inner world of
internet entrepreneurship and how people
were making it happen real stories real
people over and over again was this book
basically and I said whoa it's actually
possible like it's not just like one
person trying to sell me something there
are lots of people becoming millionaires
running an internet business becoming
successful affording their lifestyle and
I thought to myself this is what I want
to do that's it I'm gonna become an
internet entrepreneur and I took action
immediately immediately within a week I
was in Thailand horrible internet
connection all this stuff and I actually
started a YouTube channel in 2009 but
that didn't make me a millionaire that
whole experiment actually failed
now I worked hard I worked really hard
for a few years I actually started some
side businesses started working a job
you know my side businesses failed and
failed and failed you know start eBay
and I worked hard for four years I lost
all my friends during this time I lost
you know I was the black sheep of the
family
didn't
a lot of money until you know eventually
around 2012 things started to change and
I was making a substantial amount of
money I started earning up to $30,000 a
month on my side business and I quit my
job which was from only paying me 6,000
a month
and unfortunately that decision was not
what made me a millionaire either now he
fast forward and going from 2012 to
maybe roughly 2015 I just was slamming
house slamming house slamming doing
affiliate marketing just alone in my
room still no friends no girlfriends no
nothing during this time just working
away started doing really well though
started traveling the world started
making millions of dollars and here's
one of the plaques from Clickbank for
making over a million dollars in a year
I got my income up to 2.9 million
dollars pure focus 2.9 million in a year
that didn't make me a millionaire either
John what do you do what do you mean you
made 2.9 million dollars but you're not
a millionaire what what are you talking
about how is that not the thing there
are you just trying to clickbait us try
to lead us on from view time trying to
trying to play the YouTube algorithm man
like what what's going on what was the
thing that made you a millionaire hold
on one second I'll explain it yes and
yes I'm always playing the tube
algorithm now why wasn't I a millionaire
after making 2.9 million dollars in a
year right that's a lot of money the
reason why is because if you make it and
you spend it all it does it's not it's
not yours I was spending as fast as I
could make the freaking money I'd go to
clubs I spent thirty five thousand
dollars in a single night on bottle
service in Vegas
I'd buy every one of my friends airline
tickets to go with me to Morocco because
I wanted to go to Morocco right I would
a lot of my friends come on with me to
Vegas
go skiing right it's no fun skiing alone
I could pay for friends to go skiing
with me you know they can now they can
afford it right because I'm the man and
I also invested in a lot of risky
business ventures invest in a million
dollars in one business and it just went
nothing it all went away all a million
dollars right really stupid decision
what I struggled with was believing in
myself I always felt even growing up I
had to prove myself that I wasn't good
enough I wasn't smart enough I wasn't
old enough I wasn't deserving of love
this goes back to some like real deep
like childhood stuff we're not gonna go
that deep but goes back to childhood
stuff right it all happens between the
ages of like I think it's like three to
eight or something like that that's but
I felt I wasn't deserving so I felt like
I always had to prove myself go to the
clubs spend thirty five thousand dollars
I'm worth something right and once I
realized the pattern that was going on
was making millions of dollars and had
nothing to show for it
nothing I realized that my whole
paradigm was wrong and I had to realize
I had to start believing in myself and
the hardest thing for me to do was not
to become a millionaire it was to start
believing that I could those two believe
in myself
coming a millionaire was easy leaving in
myself was the hardest thing I ever did
and once I fully believed in myself once
I realized I did not have to prove
myself to other people my world opened
up now after that time happened after I
made that shift which was cosmic for me
instead of finding ways to spend the
money I was getting I found ways to
leverage what I already had I realized
that if my friends didn't want to fly to
Morocco with me
I either needed to find new friends or I
needed to find people that could fly to
Morocco I realized that if somebody
wanted me involved in their business I
didn't need to give them money
in fact if somebody wanted me involved
in their business they should be giving
me money shouldn't be me investing in it
they
should be paying me for consulting and I
got leverage in everything that I did
and I sought to not spend money but to
save it and that led to me becoming a
millionaire that was the decision that
was the realization that I was worth it
and so are you so I hope you had a
little aha moment during this just
understand that you're worth it but
whatever is keeping you from being a
millionaire
keep in mind making money is not the
same as being rich because I was making
a lot of money but making money doesn't
make you rich right if to be rich making
money can spend it all keeping money
makes you rich so give this video a like
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