GETTING AROUND A MONEY ENVIRONMENT

A quick note before we jump in…

Treat each day seriously, you don’t know what tomorrow holds.

There are changes that can be made and must be made, literally at every day in your life, there are cross roads every single day, because that’s the way you think about life, you never know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. So treat each day seriously, it’s all about the fun as well, but being serious too, there is a balance for that - Be serious and fun.

Think about Kevin Hart, the comedian, who is doing his show. The show part is all about fun and jokes, but the other part of the show is about money, finance — these are serious things. You want your life to be the same.

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Jim Rohn said: You are making the average of your five closest friends. Did you know you can reverse engineer your income by changing who your friends are?

That doesn’t mean saying bye-bye to your friends if they're not rich, it means having a set of social influences that follows that rule.

It’s hard to make deep friendships anyway, on average they’ve said it takes 10 years.

So, let’s call them NEW friends or "Ten Years Ahead Of You Friends."

YOU in the middle of the circle. 5 people around you!

These five people need to be financially more successful than you are.

You want to have all shapes, ages, races — the more variety the better.

The more variety—IDEAS HAVING S3X—that’s the famous saying, Dan Gilbert, one of these Harvard scientists who were studying creativity. When you’re getting different people together, ideas like bouncing off different people’s heads and they reproduce.

For example five people around you:

• 1 lawyer,

• 1 runs a company,

• 1 is an investor,

• 1 a financial advisor,

• 1 maybe in charity, not rich but their charity is making a lot of money.

You need to spend time with those people, you need to be around them.

Not everything is easy, but it’s simple! You have to cut some things off from some things.

Ideally would be spending time with these people every day. If not every day, once a week.

Minimum would be 3 hours every week.

With the new money maker's environment.

3 hours every single week!

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What scientists said: Humans learn by osmosis, osmosis is the process of two things being together, and absorbing into each other. Like water and soap bubbles if you put them together, it mixes together, osmosis happens.

You’ve heard the saying, you are what you eat—well, that’s osmosis. You're gonna eat fries, big macs, nuggets every day and you know what’s gonna happen, your body is absorbing that, and you know the consequences.

People know that happens, they know that happens with food, that you are what you eat—that it observes.

What’s the nr1 environment that you and I have that we are getting our current osmoses of money?

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We as people, we see 2000-7000 images per day, you drive down, you see billboards, those have limited subconscious effects on you. They are all trying to get something from you, they are not there to increase your income. All the billboards and TV ads you see, and all the radio ads you hear, they want your money.

Well, some of the businesses are legit, some of them not, but none of them for most of the parts of the businesses they wanna take you the money and give you something else, hopefully something worthwhile.

For most people those 5 things; those 5 things are are TV ad, radio ad, billboard, news, newspaper, movies that they watch. None of these will put them on the path of making money.

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1. Do not start with the highest level person.

2. Build a relationship with them slowly. Over the years! Maybe only meeting with them 5 times in two years, that’s ok… It’s a big bank for the buck. One meeting with him about money is worth more than years of listening to someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about. It’s like salt, you don’t wanna pour too much salt on your food, just a little bit of salt goes a long way. In general, Be patient!

3. Treat it like it would be someone who you’re dating, someone you are interested in having a long time relationship like marrying. Don’t go crazy, asking too much just in the first meeting/second meeting/third meeting with these people is like asking from a girl on a first date that you wanna marry me. He and she will think you’re crazy! Don’t rush in - Be Relaxed, Cool. In Spanish they call it “tranquilo” (it means relax, don’t be like a lot of people, I want something from you!! I want something from you!!) Act normal. Be yourself.

Slowly but surely it will work BUT…

4. It won’t always work. It might take a while, it might stop, they’re just too busy, that’s ok. Don’t take it personally. They don’t say you no, they say you no because he’s busy. That’s fine.

Keep your old friends, just make sure the five people around you are MONEY MAKERS. "Ten Years Ahead Of You Friends." Remember?

Someone is a really awesome person, but doesn't know anything about making any money… Again, we all have these friends, you can put them into different Environment.

Make a plan: Who are the Five people who you can Reach out to?

How are you gonna reach out to them in a non aggressive way?

Make a goal, how you can spend 3 hours a week with those smart people.

I hope you find it helpful:)

Take care,

Mikk aka PrivatEquityGuy

P.S. Always fascinated by what you can build if you continue to reinvest your profits into what is already working, last year I spoke to a shipping company owner who shared his "secrets"…

The profit in 2021 was 25 million dollars, in 2022 he almost tripled it. Most importantly, a humble man who didn't want to share his journey.