people often say you should bet on yourself or investing in yourself pays the best dividends but what does that even mean what exactly can you afford to bet especially if you weren't born into means by the end of this video you'll have a game plan to level up your life one step at a time here are 15 ways to bet on yourself welcome to a lux number one assume they are wrong and you are right you can see something they can't look at reality and see what's missing some people have this superpower some see what is While others see what could be and it's the second ones who have the power to alter reality when people doubt your vision it's because they can't see what you're able to see this is why most people will tell you to not even try because to them what you're talking about feels like a mirage deep down you know you're right deep down you know what you're capable of so act accordingly show them proof you have some people to prove wrong don't you so assume they're wrong and show them the reality that you can create this belief in one's ability to craft things through effort brains discipline and creativity is how you'll win the bet on yourself challenge number two spend money acquiring equipment that saves you time or increases quality trade your time to generate income but don't spend it poorly use the money to buy time saving tools this allows you to maximize the return on time the more tools you acquire the higher your rot or return on time will be it's easy to look at professionals and see all the tools and gadgets they have around them to make their lives easier the problem is you're comparing a level 70 full stack Paladin with your level one barely gotten through the tutorial character the more you progress the more complex you become the growth will be gradual and so will the acquisition of all the tools in time you'll do quite extraordinary things others wish they were able to do but it all starts with one step number three design a life you are committed to making a reality turns out most people are really good at hitting their goals once they know what their goals are what most people are bad at is figuring out what the hell they want in life because they never take the time to break down expectations desires and what a good life will look like for them so what happens well other people make the decisions on their behalf once you know where you need to go make it explicit most people think that they know they say things like I want to be rich well what does be rich mean to you what does your day look like what does your house look like what do you do for a living what do you do in your spare time who do you have around you these are all questions that you should answer to create a real image of this life you want to create once all of that is sorted out you can begin closing the gap between where you are right now and this dream reality betting on yourself means going after what you want in life not what others have in store for you number four be in rooms or in Minds that you have no right being in send those emails beyond your proverbial pay grade send your work to people who are levels above where you are be memorable create anything you can that lives in the minds of others be it through your work or who you are as a person recruit people to build this Vision that you have for reality that we discussed at number one on this list get your foot through the door and then get yourself in the room as long as you live please remember the following concept for it'll change the way you think about life let's say you want to eat cake well there are three ways to go about it one the hardest way look for a recipe find all the raw ingredients acquire all the tools the spoons the measuring cups the oven Etc then proceed to implement the recipe bake the cake decorate it and eventually cut yourself a slice to enjoy number two is the medium way instead of doing all of those requirements you figure out one skill you have you trade it for money and then you take that money and buy yourself a cake and then you enjoy it and three the easy way simply be in the room when the cake gets cut sometimes being in the right room at the right time is Destiny altering so many people spend most of their lives in the pursuit of ingredients and tools when you would be better off designing the room you're in some of you might know who David Cho is graffiti artist more recently starred in beef on Netflix but few people know how David got rich when he was on the come up as a graffiti artist he was commissioned to do a mural for a startup the pay was sixty thousand dollars but the founders offered to give him stock instead of cash David said yes that startup was Facebook the day Facebook listed on the stock market David's stock was worth over 200 million dollars the room was a lot more important than the work in this case number five spend money acquiring skills at number two we talked about acquiring tools that make your life easier and help you progress faster this is progress brought on by external factors you're leveraging Tech to add productivity to your time we put them in this order because there's something of greater value than tools but there is a catch it'll require time for you to master we are talking about your skills here what you know and how well you know how to do it a professional photographer with 30 years experience will crush someone with the latest camera in a photography contest because of all the little things they've learned along the years framing lighting Shadow positioning knowing when to click the shutter these are all things you become better at through repetition analysis and improvements you can't cheat your way to Mastery but what you can do is acquire multiple skills and allow them to stack one on top of the other for example being great at photography and being great at selling will allow you to Market yourself and your products differently to others most people are single skill focused this is a remnant of the industrial past where if you specialized on a single task you eventually got really good at it today we live in a time where everything is everywhere all at once and yes that's another movie reference the more skills you have the more you can compound them and Escape competition every educational product we've ever built at alux is skill driven once you master a skill you will forever be able to monetize it and it'll stick with you for the rest of your life if you go to alux. org right now you can see all of our skill driven courses you either learn to control your mind through meditation strategically plan your year so you hit your goals with Goal Mastery learn how to learn understand a new technology like blockchain or add a secondary stream of income as a freelancer these will all add value to your life long term use the promo code Sunday for 100 off any of our products this is our gift to you for taking the time to watch this Sunday motivational video go to alux. org right now number six don't expect others to be your ticket out the fundamental rule of betting on yourself is knowing you are the only one responsible for your future most people expect and wait on others to be their ticket out to open the door for them to hand them the opportunity and the keys to the castle The Inheritance will not come in your boss won't retire and give you his business the Nigerian prince isn't going to send you any money it's only too late in life they realize that nobody's coming to save them nobody is going to give you the life you dream of nobody will make you healthy nobody will make you rich you have to do all of that yourself number seven every obstacle you face can be overcome if you gather the right tools or ingredients remember the video game reference we made earlier well the more you progress in The Game of Life the harder the challenges you'll have to face but all of them are within the realm of achievement with either new tools or new knowledge life as an evolutive experiment is trying to make you stronger so the Next Generation continues to thrive this means that life will put you face to face with the level of hardship your generation will have to deal with in order for us as a group to overcome them for the Neanderthals it was food shelter and fire for the industrialists figuring out how to distribute food and products to a fast growing population for us well it's mental toughness climate change and fulfillment you wouldn't call it strength if it wasn't hard on an individual level you're fighting your own battles but rest assured there are solutions out there all you need to figure out is the right tool for the job and acquire the knowledge of how to use it and speaking of evolution number eight trust your gut you are the product of hundreds of generations of genetic Heritage inside of you there's a pool so deep of Gene memory that it's hard for our small brains to comprehend it the think of all the lives your ancestors lived through think of all the challenges they've overcome time and time again that's the genes you're carrying in your body right now they all won otherwise you wouldn't be here the greatest gift they left you with is your gut feeling that is their ancestral gift to you something feels right or it doesn't you know you should do something there's a calling out there for you and it also works on the defensive side of things you feel it when something is kind of fishy the more you use your gut feeling or intuition call it whatever you want the stronger it gets the more you use it and analyze the outcome the better your decision making will become and we're all the end product of our decisions so trust your instincts on people you will rarely be wrong number nine don't fall for shortcuts or distractions at any point in time other people will disguise outcome as opportunity if your outcome is the desire for wealth they will sell you get rich quick schemes if your desire is Health they'll sell you weight loss products that work like magic if your desire is beauty they will sell you makeup and Magic creams deep down you know that tea isn't going to give you a six pack deep down you know joining a pyramid scheme is not going to make you rich no matter what the triple diamond Emerald member told you at the hotel meeting there are no shortcuts to any place worth going and you know it number 10 invest in yourself and commit to the process so what does it actually mean to invest in yourself well it means spending time effort and money to increase your own value for something to be called an investment it should appreciate in value over time or turn a profit in the past decade we've spent around ten thousand dollars on books alone that's around 500 books that ten thousand dollar investment paired with the time to go through them taking notes and then applying what we learned made us millions of dollars okay but we didn't stop there we went to events too we purchased courses seminars and mentorship sessions in total we spent between one hundred thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on self-development alone as individuals as a company it's more like over a million we know this sounds like a lot but we got 100x Plus on that investment when accounting for everything and this is a common mistake that people make when they hear these kinds of numbers you don't spend it all at once you start with a 15 book you buy an online course for two hundred dollars you go to a weekend event for five hundred dollars and then you scale up as you see it pay off if you apply to any of our courses you will see a positive return on your money or under our 60-day guarantee you'll get all of your money back we know that 249 dollars for an online course can be expensive even though the value is in the thousands of dollars we know because we started from the very bottom so through our platform we give away this kind of information for free and 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3 million people have resonated with the message but there's an important distinction to make do not confuse entertainment with education most people treat this kind of content as fine Financial entertainment and never do anything with it well say it once and we will say it again okay your life is cheap because you think investing in yourself is expensive and to make sure the money is not an excuse we built the alux app we are finding the best coaches mentors philosophers and neuroscientists on the planet and paying them exorbitant fees to distill everything they've learned into 10-minute sessions if you go to alux. com app right now for only 99 you get access to the most valuable insights these people have spent their entire lives to acquire for an entire year our goal with the app is to bring you over one million dollars worth of value for less than one hundred dollars a year and if that's not worth the investment then hell we don't know what is if you're ready to begin investing in yourself go to alux. com app right now number 11 go for non-linear outcomes and embrace asymmetric risk asymmetric risk is the secret why a small percentage of the population massively outperforms the rest we've made an entire video about it you can check it out in the top right corner betting on yourself means doing the work knowing the results will eventually be there take entrepreneurs versus employees as an example an employee goes to work and gets paid the moment they start working two weeks in they get their paycheck with entrepreneurs it's different you decide to start a business today so you get to work for the next couple of months with barely anything to show for it and even when things start to happen for you it's just a spec when you compare it to how much effort you've put in but while the employee has the linear outcomes the entrepreneur has the potential of non-linear results the employee is the red line and that blue line is the entrepreneur notice how in the first part the entrepreneur deploys all that effort and time and doesn't really earn much while the employee gets paid immediately and maybe with time and effort gets a salary increase but once everything is set in place the entrepreneur can scale up the business all effort deployed leads to exponential results and in time that blue line shoots up to the heavens that's what it means to bet on yourself even when the other option is safer to begin with and speaking of employees number 12 instead of making your boss richer do it for yourself unless you own a percentage of the company that you work at outside of your salary you're not creating value for yourself most people go to work generate value for their boss and come home and watch some TV years go by and they don't realize they didn't do much with their lives and don't have much to show for it if you need a job to make ends meet sure do it but betting on yourself means using everything at your disposal to help yourself escape the rat race this is a great moment to ask yourself what percent of your time are you creating value for others and for yourself if it's zero for you you might want to reassess that a golden nugget of information that ties in really well into the previous point is to pay attention to what happens to the money that you earn if the money you earn goes immediately to someone else you will never be rich your earnings are not supposed to be spent on things that don't increase or at least hold value over time number 13 admit you have a problem and get help sometimes betting on yourself means being truthful with what's happening in your life and where it's going if it's not going where you want it to maybe it's time you found some help it takes someone truly strong to realize what they're doing to themselves and those they care about enough to admit the problem is real and they need external help in this case bet on your ability to change work the process go through the steps allow yourself to be a comeback story and life will open up once again number 14.
drop out quit your job and do the thing you were meant to do if there's a burning desire inside of you to do something else if reality seems Bland boring even obnoxious if when you go to bed at night there's a happy place in your mind where you go where you're doing something else where you're doing something you wish you could be doing in real life well then quit and do that become that person go all in while you still can especially if you're on the younger side life is meant to be an adventure live in such a way where the story you tell is worth listening to the moment is going to pass you by and this boring reality you experience right now will always be there waiting for you if you want to return to it but the moment you get just a little bit of a taste of what life on the other side is like where you do what you were meant to do you will never want to come back number 15.
