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Taking from the rich and giving to the poor doesn’t work. If you tax the rich more they will find ways around it and that will trickle down and just hurt the lower / middle class more.

"Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on
what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it
can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It's one of the
biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use.”

Business Owners with Corporations
1. Earn
2. Spend
3. Pay Taxes
Employees Who Work for Corporations
1. Earn
2. Pay Taxes
3. Spend
As part of your overall financial strategy, learn about the protection that legal entities can provide for businesses and assets.

Your financial IQ is made up of 4 areas:
1. Accounting
2. Investing
3. Understanding markets
4. The Law
• Tax advantages
• Protection from lawsuits

Know the difference between assets and liabilities. Rich people buy assets, poor and middle class buy liabilities thinking their assets. Your house is a liability not an asset. Most people are stuck in the rat race because they get a raise but also spend more money and it leads to more debt. Learn how to understand and manage your money.

“ITS NOT HOW MUCH MONEY YOU MAKE. ITS HOW MUCH MONEY YOU KEEP.”

There is things we all want and things we want to achieve but gratitude is the starting point for financial and overall success.

There are 6 needs (certainty/comfort, uncertainty/variety, significance, love and connection, growth, and contribution) all of these are super important to growing the financial freedom and the life you want to live!

Never settle, always be looking for something new and get out of your comfort zone.

Take a moment and really think back to all the memories you have throughout your life and the people and places you’ve been. Take a moment to soak it all in and truly be grateful for everything.

Don’t give up, hard work and dedication wins all the time!

Hardships will come and go but don’t ever give up.

The best way to remember something is to teach it.

Don’t give up on your dream. Things happen for a reason and if you are truly meant to do what you set out to do it will happen. Don’t give up!

Fail fast and learn from it!

Don’t ever give up, times may seem hard but good times are coming! Keep your head up and keep pushing yourself toward greatness!

Don’t take anything for granted, appreciate your friends and family and push them to be their best!

Don’t give up on your dream, fight to get what you want and don’t give up! Work your ass off to accomplish your goals and really look deep into your mind to be grateful for everything you have and have achieved thus far!

Don’t ever give up! People will come and go but you need to stay focused on your goals and achieving them and not letting emotions get to you

Don’t take things in life for granted. Go out and live your best life

Through all the ups and downs, continue to give your all and set goals that seem impossible. Get out of your comfort zone, try new things, learn and perfect new things and always remember that when people done believe you can achieve something look at they and say WHAT IF?

(Reading and understanding stock tables)

Success is 99% failure. Learn from your failures and use them to grow and become a better person. Go back and list out failures and how you failed, things that did and didn’t go your way and find ways to accomplish them asap! Don’t let anything stop you. Take control of your mind and focus on all the failures and the things you’ve learned from them to motivate you to achieve success!

Always focus on the positive things and turn negative into positive. Never give up, when you get tired, push harder. Put yourself in discomfort and really learn from that. Always strive to be great and a better person. There’s no top level, always strive for more.

No more multitasking, it’s not helping you at all. Do one thing at a time and really focus on that task. Go through your daily schedule and find time to cut out bullshit and insert good, & productive things.

Push yourself past the 40% and train your body and brain to give 110%. If you usually run 5 miles give 10% more. If you do 50 push-ups do 60/70. Push yourself every week to do more and more.

40% Rule. Like every car our mine has a governor to “limit” things but when you hit that point you’ve only really given 40%. You need to push back and callous’s your mind into giving more and more and not giving up

“Take inventory of your cookie jar” Think of all the things you’ve accomplished and use that to add fuel to the fire to achieve your goals. Use past successes to give yourself the fuel to overcome pain and take control!

No matter the pain and discomfort you’re in don’t ever fucking give up. Push yourself till you can’t fucking move anymore and train your mind to keep going and push yourself beyond your limits

Find comfort in discomfort. Don’t let pain keep you down, get that shit out of your head and keep going. Visualize goals and achieving them. You have so many thought throughout the day, don’t use them on negative shit. Use them towards visualizing accomplishing big things.

Use your opponent’s energy to gain advantage. Learn to callous your mind to pain and fight through anything that will drag you down. If you leverage your calloused mind and push through pain it will help you push your limits

Take Souls! Set goals and push yourself above and beyond them. Whoever you’re competing against find their weaknesses and excel in those areas and your weaknesses practice getting better and better at them. At work do everything it takes to stand out and show your boss who the fuck you are and why you are here!

Don’t give up, your mind has its set limitations but you can push yourself beyond those limits and accomplish major things. Don’t left life push you around, when you get knocked down, get your ass up and push back

Find ways to get out of your comfort zone and do them repeatedly. Do things you don’t want to do and get good at them. Push yourself to your absolute limits. If you want to run a mile everyday run 2. if you want to do 20 push-ups do 30/40 push yourself betont your limits and do things you don’t feel comfortable doing.

Take a long look in the mirror and force yourself to accomplish your goals. Make an accountability mirror and put sticky notes to hold yourself accountable and get shit done!

Don’t let people/things hold you back. Don’t let yourself hold you back. Take a good long look in the mirror and tell yourself you can do anything. YOU ARE IN CHARGE!