I remember when I was young I heard this thing like,

the dream is free,

but the hustle is sold separately.

And I used to agree with that

until I realized how expensive dreaming is.

Man. I realize how expensive dreaming is. Because Jose, if I never dream about something,

I never have a vision that I can accomplish it.

And so the price paid for dreaming is expensive

because if you don't go after the dream,

then you're paying the tax for mediocrity.

The minute that we make the decision,

a down payment must be made.

Yeah.

Not an IOU. You can't get this on credit. A down payment must be made. And that down payment isn't always money, especially when it comes to building wealth.

And it's kind of like an oxymoron, right?

Like, how can a down payment to building wealth not be money?

It's kind of like an oxymoron.

But the thing is, the money is just a down payment of everything else that's required.

The money is just the down payment to everything else that required.

You got to have an emotional fortitude. The crazy thing about this thing about building wealth is because a lot of us, 95% of us, we are first timers.

So we haven't experienced wealth, we haven't really experienced real freedom.

We've been caught into the poverty matrix. The poverty matrix. It's when we get a little

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