5 Millionaire Habits that Changed My Life

80 of millionaires are self-made the majority of the world's wealthiest individuals weren't born into their wealth they created it and part of this is down to a culmination of the daily habits that they've done for years after understanding what some of these tried and tested habits are and applying these habits to my own life I've tripled my income I'm more productive and I'm no longer wasting my time or energy on the wrong things so in this video I thought it'd be interesting to share with you what these habits are and how you can apply them

to your own life let's get into it number one great minds show me your friends and I will show you your future there's different variations of this quote and I wanted to understand if there was evidence to back this up and I came across this study as I was reading about it which shows that if a friend of yours becomes obese you are 45 more likely to gain weight over the next two to four years more surprisingly however is that if a friend of your friend becomes obese your likelihood of gaining weight increases by about

20 so even if you don't know that friend of a friend it will still have an impact on you and that effect continues one more person out the same in the study was found for smoking and for happiness you are more likely to be happy if your friend is Happy while the researchers looked for a variety of explanations for this the most likely one appeared to be Norms if your friend is a beast or a friend of a friend is obese that changes your perception of what is an acceptable body size and your behavior changes

accordingly so your friends really are your future and the implication is that you don't just need to be deliberate about who you're spending the most time with you also need to be mindful of your entire network and its influence on your life number two push out of your comfort zone regularly I haven't ever mentioned on this channel how it felt when my channel blew up over the last six months and it wasn't good starting a YouTube channel was one of the most challenging things I have put myself through and I was absolutely petrified when I

first posted my video I had a million things running through my head and it got worse before it got better when my channel started to blow up in December I was on 6000 subscribers and I was sent some screenshots from WhatsApp groups of people and these are people that I know laughing at my videos and pouring out negativity about my channel they don't know that I've seen it and they probably still don't know but it made it at the time that much harder to keep showing up and pressing upload week after week knowing that there

was more to come and I was opening myself up to more and more criticism and I eventually got to a point where I said to myself do I just stop here or do I ride it out and I've learned that to get anywhere in life you've got to embrace yourself for awkward situations uncomfortable moments and embarrassment you're going to be judged anyway and had I stopped myself at that point my life would be completely different today if you stick to your comfort zone and don't challenge yourself off even when you have every reason to stop

you won't ever know what you're capable of and you'll be letting go of what could potentially be waiting for you on the other side next we have don't buy into fomo this is one that requires the most willpower and discipline but if you're apply it it will pay off we are constantly surrounded by images of our friends going out all the time going on their next big holiday buying a new car living their best life and the constant pressure of these messages will make you feel that if you're not doing it you're missing out but

if you constantly let yourself cave into these temporary moments you may be sacrificing on what you could potentially make from the rest of your life you'll be sacrificing time that you can spend instead on working on yourself or working on your side hustle there is a quote in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill which states that the starting point of all achievements is desire weak desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat through this He suggests that the intensity of our desires directly correlates with the

results we get weak desires weak results whereas strong burning desires can pave way for stronger bigger things in life it's fine to cave in to living your best life every now and then but what I find difficult to hear sometimes is when the no hustle culture is heavily promoted by people who are at the top of their game now that they've made it big they can afford a team and delegate their work and they can achieve that so-called balance but they once had that strong burning desire and made sacrifices during their climb that they don't

talk about as much I've learned that the best way to not let fomo get the best of you is to find a meaning in what you're doing and know that it's a part of a bigger picture that you're creating for yourself and now every time I feel like fomo is taking over and getting the best on me I remind myself why I'm doing what I'm doing and that the strong desire and all the small sacrifices that I make now will all be worth it in the end next we have the millionaire pyramid whenever I'm at

a door that doesn't seem to be opening up for me I think about the pyramid perspective mindset and it's understanding that the Journey's difficulty is inversely proportional to the number of people who will reach the top as you climb higher the pyramid gets narrower and when difficulties show up it's easy for the majority of people to give up effectively the crowd will get thinner and thinner towards the next level and the harder the Journey the higher up you get the harder the challenges you face but the fewer people there are to compete with and so

the rewards are bigger hurdles are part of the journey to the top everyone who's growing is going to fail at some point and if you don't fail you're not growing but what you do after failing is what differentiates the successful people from the rest so now I like to remind myself that when things get tough it's just a sign that I'm on the right path focus on Solutions not problems one habit that has been an absolute Game Changer in my life is focusing on the solutions and not the problems what I've observed especially among successful

individuals is this unshakable belief that every puzzle or every problem that comes up has a solution that everything no matter how daunting it is can be figured out they ask themselves how can I make this work for me whereas everyone else will focus on all the reasons why it won't work out every excuse they can think of it will be standing in the way from them getting to that thing worries are like sheep they seem to flock together when you start thinking about a problem it quickly compiles into another problem another problem and before you

know it you're overwhelmed with the potential for problems so instead of playing the what if game to think about all the additional problems that one problem can cause play it to think about the solutions however serious your worries or your problems may seem and even if they do keep you up at night if you really analyze them you'll find that every single problem has a solution number six have a think day this is one that I've been doing very recently and it's helped me overcome any mental blocks that I have and makes me Mindful and

makes me sure that I'm heading in the right direction in the 80s Bill Gates who founded Microsoft began this think week annual tradition he would seclude himself in a remote location and shut off all of his communication he'll spend an entire week dedicated to reading learning and thinking this approach then became a key part of his life and his process and he said think week is a time when I'm can be creative and push my own thinking it's a time to step outside the day-to-day demands of my job and really focus on the big picture

I haven't been able to commit to a whole week but I have started doing think days at least once a month I just step away from all my work everything my phone my laptop and I'd secure myself mentally I'll spend an entire day reading journaling thinking learning something new and when you do this you give yourself space to really zoom out and take a high level view on your life and the bigger picture and the direction that you're going in sometimes we're so caught up in the grind and working hard that we never really take

a step back and say where am I going and how can I get there more efficiently so this is one that I would highly recommend if you're able to so those are a few things that I've been doing and it's changed my life I'm in a completely different position today than I was one year ago and I attribute a lot of that to the habits that I mentioned in this video anyway thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you in my next video