Eventual Millionaires

This is the wrong question. It’s upside down.

This is a tacky question. This is sort of a rude question.

Actually, the question was a bit worse. It was “I’m in my 20s – can someone in their 40s tell me what I need to do to become a financial success?”

Maybe don’t look for shortcuts. Too many shortcuts is “death by a thousand cuts”.

Here’s a question: I’m in my 40s, can someone in their 20s tell me how to restore that feeling of lightness, no obligations and the feeling that “Enough” is a Feast?

Right now you are dealt cards. No other hand before or after will help you right now.

So this is the only moment to focus on. Right now is best predictor of Right Life.

—I said I had 20 habits. I can’t count that high. So I don’t know if this is true. I give myself permission to not be exact all the time.

Oh! That’s another habit: Give yourself permission to not always be right. Give yourself permission to not always be liked. Give yourself permission to not always be at peace. Give yourself permission to not be a success.

Then you will gradually have whatever you gave yourself permission “to not”.

—Will these habits make you a millionaire? Yes. Definitely.

Will these habits make you a success? Yes.

But more important:

These habits will make you the sort of person who has these habits.

No longer will you be a single ray of light. You will be the sun.

Reprinted with permission from The Altucher Confidental.