man what a hot day in Dubai all right listen let's face it if you are watching this it's because you're an ambitious person you have big goals you have big dreams and aspirations and to be honest that means that you're very much like I was when I first started out on this journey and if you watch my last video you know that my work ethic made me very successful financially at an early age but I'll be honest with you that same Obsession that brought me so much success also led me to a very dark place
and to be honest for years I thought that's what building an empire was but in reality I was just building this prison for myself and if you are indeed just like me then there's a 99% chance that you are on that same path right now and along this painful Journey I've learned that there were three very specific factors that made me a prisoner in fact I even called them the three handcuffs and that is exactly what I want to talk about in today's video but before we do that I have tennis so once I arrive
back home we'll have a [Music] chat oh wow it was hot today it was very very hot but anyways getting back to the point of this video the first thing or I guess the first handcuff I wanted to talk about starts with a story or I want to tell you a story to depict this I want you to imagine yourself in a prison cell a rough old prison cell with cold steel bars and like this little tiny window now you look down and you notice that you're handcuffed to these bars in front of you but
not just one handcuff you have three of them and then it like Dawns on you it it doesn't even matter if you unlock one it doesn't matter if you unlock two of them you would still be tied the only way you're getting out is if you unlock all three of them you either have the three keys that will set you free or you might as well have none at all and as you take a closer look at these handcuffs you realize that there are different symbols that are carved into them and this is a sign
as to what the Handcuff represents one in particular calls out your attention because it has a dollar sign on it now to understand this one I want you to imagine that you're this you're this hot shot lawyer in your city okay and your life is your life's great you drive a dream black Porsche 911 Turbo S you have a a Rolex day8 or some people like to call the presidential you own $22,000 Tom Ford suits you have pretty much everything that you used to dream about and you spend a half a decade in college you
spend another half a decade earning your stripes and then you add five more years on top of that while you're starting your own law firm and you put in all this effort all this time dedication everything but late at night after you get all your work done you open social media and you see all of your old friends on there and most of them quite frankly aren't anywhere near as successful as you are most of them are struggling in life that's just the God's honest truth about it but some of them they call your attention
although they don't have nearly as much financial success as you do they seem to travel way more than you do every once two months it seems like they're in a different country or a different continent while you only have the time to travel once or twice a year they're hanging out with their friends every single week and posting about it while you you don't even remember the last time you saw your best friend they spend weekends with their family whole weekends enjoying savoring the moment they take their children to school every single morning they watch
their son's football practice on Tuesday afternoons while you you barely get to see your own family for the entire week let alone living in the same hous as them so these old friends of yours basically get to enjoy everything that you can afford to enjoy but you don't have the time to and sure maybe they don't have a Porsche maybe they don't have a Rolex but they seem to be happy they seem to be alive and most importantly they seem to be free and after a while this thought starts to haunt you you begin to
question if all of that was worth it you notice they you're becoming bitter commuting to work turns into a Non-Stop stream of negative thoughts even if you do have a fancy Porsche dashboard in front of you you're lashing out at other people you're not nearly as happy as you thought you would be and you start to think that you should quit but you can't because you need to upkeep your lifestyle you can't afford to stop working you are literally handcuffed to your job to your income and after a while you get to an inevitable conclusion
which is you spent the last decade building a prison for yourself and sadly this is honestly what happens to 80% of people who become financially successful quite simply they mistake the concept of financial success with Financial Freedom they're two very similar things okay they are similar but at the same time they are so profoundly different Financial Freedom means that you work because you want to most financially successful people work because they have to do you understand the difference and you might even be working your way up to a high-paying career yourself right now but what
you need to understand is this that high-paying career will make you financially successful but trust me it is not going to make you financially free and to be honest that's completely fine as long as you are aware of it and you know the consequences that come with it which is a very simple one you will have to work until the day that you die or until the day that you turn 60 or 70 years old and you can finally retire but at that point you've lost all your best years listen if your financial success depends
on you having to wake up another day to work another 8 hour shift that is not Freedom that's a handcuff and that is the money handcuff now listen this is not going to be one of your average emag GGI videos I'm not going to give you blueprints or step by steps or business tips instead of giving you answers I'm giving you questions questions that will get you to rethink the path that you're taking questions that will help you release the handcuffs that you are currently wearing and I call them key questions because honestly they're kind
of like the keys to those handcuffs so thinking about the money handcuffs I want you to ask yourself the following and please be honest here could you stop working at any point and still be able to afford your lifestyle for at least 6 to 12 months here's another very important one could you make more money with what you're doing without having to work more hours in the day is that actually possible in the career that you're in here's another very daunting question to ask yourself can the career that you are currently pursuing provide you not
only with financial success but can it also provide you with Financial Freedom and this is what you need to understand nine times out of 10 financial success comes at the expense of Financial Freedom you know people think that money is the problem but most of the time only having money wouldn't be the solution I'll give you an example let's say if I were to invite you to come to my house in Dubai this week and spend a day with me one-on-one all expenses paid but with one condition you need to take the first flight available
in the morning would you be able to come well I can tell you for a fact that that lawyer certainly wouldn't even though he's considered Uber successful and can technically afford the trip he doesn't need me to pay for it because while he found the keys to the first handcuffs the money handcuff in doing so he also locked himself up with a second handcuff which is the time handcuff now listen there's still two more handcuffs that we need to uncover but if you want to know how to unlock all of them the best way to
do so is to sign up to the event that I'm hosting from the 21st to the 28th of October it's called digital sovereignty and I'm going to leave the link in the description it is 100% free to join it's what I've been working on for the last few months because this topic just gets me so passionate cuz I see so many people striving for find financial success but they don't understand that just because you have financial success does not mean you have Financial Freedom and imagine spending 10 20 years of your life chasing this thing
that you thought you wanted only to realize that you are more imprisoned than ever before and that's why in this video I'm giving you questions but in the event I'm going to give you the answers step by step the plug-in plays the systems everything you need to know to not just be financially successful but to actually be financially free so anyways with that being said I have a haircut now so as we're doing that I'm going to talk to you guys about the second in a [Music] [Music] handcuff now on this handcuff you can actually
see that there is a clock engraved on it and let me explain what I mean so imagine you're a software developer at a mass massive Tech Corporation you're making over $25,000 a month and you can actually work from wherever you want you can work from mald if you want to or you can work from Thailand in a paradise Villa and everyone thinks that your life is perfect but deep down you know it's not actually it's far from it because you still have to show up the calls you have to work from 9:00 to 5:00 you
have to deliver tasks by a certain deadline and you hate that and there's a phrase that I love so much so that I have it tattooed on me wherever you go there you are and I feel like that FES perfectly here because yes you can fly to wherever Paradise country that you wish to but you're bringing all of your time responsibilities with you you are never going to be able to fully enjoy a Cape Town Sunset yes your eyes might be looking at the Horizon but your mind will be thinking about that task that John
asks you to do and needs it done in 2 hours is that really how you want to live life because I guarantee you no paycheck is worth it at the cost of your freedom in the example I just gave you sure your life might look great on paper I mean people on Instagram probably think you're living the dream but as I said you know you're not you are not free you are still in a prison it's just happens to be a fancy one now some of you are going through this exact same situation right now
you may already be making a decent amount of money but you are less free than the guy making $3,000 a month working for himself because that guy can choose a schedule you can't you thought that Landing this big job would be great you thought that your life would be perfect but somehow you feel terrible you're feeling stressed you're feeling burnt out you open your Instagram and you see people living their lives happy free and you know that they're not even making half as much as you it frustrates you they're with their friends their families their
loved ones and you have all this money in your bank account but you can't take your mom out to dinner because you have 10 different task you need to get done by tomorrow now I said this in the beginning of this video freedom is a tricky thing unless you unlock the three handcuffs you're still not free and right now you're probably so focused on just making money that you're probably setting yourself up for just being another frustrated rich person and believe me when I tell you that is extremely common and the worst thing you can
do is become successful financially But realize you're still tied to those bars yeah maybe your life on paper is amazing but you still feel like a prisoner and it feels terrible it feels like all of that work was just for nothing so once again I want to pose you a few questions really think about this honestly could you decide today that you're not going to show up to any calls or go to the office for the next week without any repercussions with the career that you're pursuing could you choose to do whatever activity during the
day and work whenever you felt like it another question I want you to ask yourself is there any way that you could automate your work to free up your schedule so that way you can do what you really want to do now there's still one handcuff missing that I haven't covered yet so let me finish up with this workout shower get on with the rest of my day and before bed I'll reveal exactly what that is to you [Music] meet you downstairs in the all right so now as the day is drawing to an end
and I'm literally here in my pajamas in my bedroom just getting ready for bed I want to go back to that scene that I painted at the beginning of the video the one where I talk about you wearing three handcuffs the first one has a dollar sign on it the second one has a clock and lastly this third one has a little world map with all the continents country states and cities and to understand this one imagine this you're a dentist who runs a private practice you've studied you've worked hard and now you even run
your own Clinic you are really at the start of your career you're getting your first patience you're getting great reviews and you are always at the clinic working then you get invited to a wedding from someone close to you but it's in the middle of the week you have patience booked you just opened up your own practice you can't just cancel on them out of the blue you're establishing your business there's just no way that you can come so you let it go you you know you don't make it to the wedding it happens but
then next week you get a message from your best friend he's actually moving to a different city he's excited and he wants to celebrate before he goes but once again you are busy you really want to go but you simply can't your calendar is full and you have to be there for your clients and you're starting to see a pattern and it's making you crawl under your skin you don't want to look like a bad friend you want to be able to do these things but you rationalize it to yourself it's okay I just I
I got to focus on my career right now and some years go by and you thought it would get better but in fact it didn't you're still in the same place still missing celebrations still missing birthdays and most importantly missing your freedom and eventually you just you get sick and tired you hit a breaking point you cannot do this anymore I mean how many more years are you going to waste if you keep going like this how much more of your life are you going to miss out it has to stop and this is precisely
the point that most people that are wearing geographical handcuffs find themselves in they want to travel to see their best friend they want to be able to go on these fun trips or reunions or weddings or whatever it is but they are simply geographically tied to location they simply have to be in a certain country in a certain city in a certain location for their business to run you see starting a business can fool you because yes it does give you some kinds of freedom but depending on the business model it can also turn you
into a prisoner take this handcuff for example it has a little world map on it because it's the one that keeps you stuck in the place that you're at when you're wearing the geographical handcuff every day you spend away from your city is a day where your bank account gets drained now for someone who has geographical Freedom their bank account keeps growing even when they travel to another city or another country instead of spending money while they're traveling they are making money while traveling now a lot of people dreamed about starting their own physical business
in their city for years but as soon as they do reality hits them like a truck it's not like they thought it would be you know they Envision this dream beautiful scenario where everything would be perfect they'd be happy they would be fulfilled they'd enjoy every second of their work they would have this beautiful location that they would adore but that's never really how it plays out in real life you know these people are tired and exhausted they can't stay up because they have to go to bed early and open up shop they have clients
to fulfill they have physical responsibilities they can't choose to say screw it I'm going to pack my bags and spend a week in XYZ place and it's actually pretty sad imagine you created this picture in your head about your ideal work you spent tens of thousands on location equipment product all this stuff and you thought it was going to be great great but you feel awful and that's how a lot of these people feel and then every second after that all they can think about is one thing how am I going to get out of
this prison that I created for myself this question consumes them like a broken record spinning in their heads 24/7 now some eventually get the courage to try something different but a lot of them just remain a prisoner for the rest of their lives now some key questions to unlock yourself from the geographical handcuffs are could you move to a different country today and keep making the same amount of money is there a remote job or business in your Niche that allows you to earn just the same without being physically tied to a location has anyone
in your industry manag become geographically free how did they do it these are questions that you should mull over and really ask yourself Now ladies and gentlemen before I close this video off I want you to ask yourself these three things take a very cold and sober look at your life how many handcuffs are you wearing right now be honest and the path that you're walking on right now does it lead you to the Keys you need to escape and if not what are you doing about it do you plan to do something about it
because I can tell you these handcuffs are not going to come off on their own my recommendation to you is you should go to a choir room with no distractions get pen and paper and write down your answers and I guarantee if you do this you are going to come to some profound realizations that will possibly alter the course of your life now with all that being said that was the video for today I'm going to leave you with that task for now and as always I'm watching from afar and I'm rooting for you
