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It's a minimalist Monday edition of optimal living daily episode 1221. The one habit that keeps 99% of people from getting rich by James Altature of James Altature.com. And I'm just a mollic.

Happy Monday. Welcome to the podcast where I simply read blogs to you for free like a gigantic ongoing audiobook from many different authors.

Today's post being from James Altature, a super popular writer and podcaster. I'll keep this intro nice and minimal. So let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

The one habit that keeps 99% of people from getting rich by James Altature of James Altature.com.

I said yes to speak out a conference a few months ago and then I ghosted them. I didn't show up. I didn't tell them I wasn't going to show up.

I thought I wanted to go, but what I really wanted was to be asked. I wrote to them at first.

How come you aren't asking me this year? I'll speak about whatever you want. So the main guy wrote back,

great, we thought you didn't want to come. Be the keynote speaker, speak about whatever you want.

And I wrote back, yes, thank you. As it got closer, I regretted saying yes, but I was afraid to tell them. I didn't know what to do.

They kept writing me and I didn't write back. Tomorrow, I kept telling myself tomorrow I'll figure it out.

And then I just didn't show up. I have no idea what they did when their keynote speaker without any notice didn't show up.

I was afraid to say no to disappoint. I'm the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Power of Know. Buy it for all your friends.

I'm a horrible human being. I was a freshman in college and going into my dorm when some guy didn't know yelled out his window. I just had...

I thought he was a jerk because he was a jerk, but also because I was jealous of him. I had yet to kiss a girl and I was 18 and didn't college.

It was wintery and snowy and cold and I was only angry at everyone. I was lonely. I had few friends, no girlfriend, and I missed my family.

I wanted to go home and I was practically failing all my classes. Years later, I was a computer science major at my first job.

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