All right, today I'm going to answer the question that I get the most often, which is that if I was starting over again from scratch, and I had no money in my bank account, I didn't have any special skills or network or people that are audience to use, how would I do it?

How would I make myself successful?

How would I make my first million if I was starting over from scratch again? I'm 25 years old, and it's 2024. What would I do today?

And I'm going to answer this question. I will give you an answer to this question. I'm worked up, as you can see, because I got an answer to this question.

I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like a day's all.

I want to give you an observation about this question, because the question is actually, I think we would all agree. It's a money question. It's a success question. How would you make it? That's really what people want to know.

But they always add this, if you were 21 years old again, if you were 25 years old again, they add this age component to it, which is sort of funny, because I don't care if you're 21, you're 31, you're 41, you're broke, you're broke.

If you're not successful, it doesn't matter what age you are. It is your day one. You can't go back in time, so really it doesn't matter what, how old you are.

The reason I think people say if you were 21 again or 25 again is because they're like, if all the possibilities were on the table, if you had all the hope in the world again at that age, and the reality is, one thing you should take away from this is, you should always have that 21 year old mindset.

You should always have the belief that my whole world is in front of me, that my best days are ahead of me, that anything is possible, and that I can reinvent myself right now.

I could, today, on the spot reinvent myself and decide, I'm a different guy now, I do a different thing, I do things a different way. That old guy, he's gone, he's the old me.

And so I think the first thing to do is to free yourself of the time constraint, the age constraint, which only adds pressure and doubt and anxiety to the equation, which none of that helps you be successful.

I remember when I was 29 years old, and I had this like existential crisis, because I was like, I thought I was going to be 430 into 30, and I thought I'd be, you know, I have a million dollars in my bank account right now, and I didn't have any of those things.

And then I was like, all right, well, yes, that didn't happen. Moving on, and I just continued on, and by 30, all of a sudden, my soul, my company, and I had a whole bunch of breakthroughs.

And a big part of that was just getting the weight off my shoulders of feeling like I'm behind or playing catch up, instead I wanted to be like offense.

And so my question, my answer to this question is comes from a place of offense.

So let's take the age out. Let's think of it like it's karate. We're white belts again. If we started as a white belt, and we want to make our way up to a black belt in the game of success, what would we do?

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