My Honest Advice to Someone Who Wants to Get Rich
The truth you actually need to hear if you’re serious about creating real wealth.
Most people say they want to be rich.
What they actually want is to feel safe.
Those are two very different goals.
If you’re not willing to be unreasonable for a while, don’t expect unreasonable results.
If you just want safety, you can get that with a stable job, a modest house, and a 401(k). It’s not sexy, but it works.
If you want to get rich? You’re going to have to do shit that makes you deeply uncomfortable, break rules you were raised to follow, and work in a way most people will never understand.
This is the advice I wish someone had slapped me with years ago:
1. Forget balance. Chase obsession.
You don’t build wealth by “finding balance.” You build wealth by letting one thing consume you until it works. For me, that meant saying no to dinners, weekends, and vacations for a stretch. I wasn’t burned out. I was on fire.
Obsession is the unfair advantage nobody talks about because it’s not “healthy.”
But if you’re not willing to be unreasonable for a while, don’t expect unreasonable results.
2. Stop pursuing ideas. Marry one.
The fastest way to stay broke is to flirt with every shiny opportunity that walks by.
Pick one idea that can realistically take you to six or seven figures, then go all in.
I’ve built multiple businesses, but never all at once. The first one was my proof of concept. It paid for everything else.
If you’re still in the “I have 10 ideas” phase, you’re not in the “I’m ready to be rich” phase.
3. Money loves speed so stop moving like you’ll live forever.
I’ve watched people talk themselves out of millions because they moved at the pace of “someday.”
When you get an idea, execute. When you see an opportunity, move. Don’t wait for the perfect timing, branding, or business plan. Wealth doesn’t reward the best idea; it rewards the fastest action.
4. Make peace with being disliked.
If everyone likes you, you’re probably broke.
Building something valuable means you’ll offend people. You’ll make decisions they don’t understand. You’ll be called greedy, selfish, or lucky.
Fuck it.
If you’re building wealth, you can’t be owned by other people’s opinions.
5. Know your real finish line.
Getting rich isn’t about Lamborghinis and private jets, unless that’s what you actually want. For me, it was about freedom. Freedom to work where I want, with who I want, on what I want.
Money is just the scorecard. The real prize is control over your own time.
The uncomfortable truth:
You’re not broke because you don’t know enough. You’re broke because you’re too comfortable being broke.
When that comfort turns into disgust, you’ll move differently. And when you move differently, you’ll start stacking wealth faster than you thought possible.
“If you’re not willing to be unreasonable for a while, don’t expect unreasonable results.”