Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Tyler writes, I just turned 24. I live with my mom and I recently got out of prison. I have zero debt, but I have no direction in my life. I know being a felon is not holding me back from accomplishing my goals and I'm not using that as an excuse.

I have no investments, no stocks, no nothing. I don't know where to start and I have zero guidance.

I have a high school diploma so I'm not a dropout. I just want to know what you would tell

somebody in my position who is basically starting over. It's a good question, man.

I'm going to assume that the felony, that he has served his time, this is done, and he is

able to, the felony, particular felony that he has on his record now, he's able to go get a job.

And so what I would start doing right now, I think what he needs to do more than anything is go work, work, work, and work.

And that might mean that he's got to start a law and business.

That might mean he's got to start a business of his own.

But I would just get to work and get to work and get to work. And I think you can sit down and spin and spin, thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and you're going to look up and be 25, me 26 and 27.

If he was my friend, that's what I tell him. I say, you need to go get a job right now, start working.

And then we'll start working on the mentoring and finding people in your life, but you're going to find those people as you are out, being productive out in the world.

Yes, I completely agree.

I'm trying to think, you know, it's not a question that we, you know, his situation is a bit unique in that he's got a felony,

but basically we all start over every morning.

And so what do you do when you're starting over?

You know what do you do at the beginning of the year for your New Year's resolution?

And so, Tyler, one of the things I've done throughout my entire life is I've studied people who became successful and also studied people who were the opposite, who didn't become successful.

And that starts pointing you towards several things, okay?

One thing it points you towards is you become who you hang around with.

And so start choosing a friend group of ambitious go-getter, people who are going somewhere

with their life type people, and that's who you run with.

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