Advice To My Younger Self

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What advice would you give to your younger self?

There's all kinds of advice I would give to my younger self.

But let me start out with what I want to talk on today.

And that's sacrifice and work your tail off in your 20s to potentially set yourself

up for later in life, I think was the correct mindset.

So my mindset in my 20s was, let me go all in, let me work my tail off, let me do whatever

it takes in my 20s so I could set myself up later on in my 30s.

So I think sometimes people will tell you all your young, just enjoy yourself, and

then what you end up doing is you waste away your 20s doing dumb things with dumb people.

And maybe you have some cool experiences, but then you're left with the real world

that you could have done that in your 20s and got a lot of that done with.

And so I think sacrifice and work in your butt off in your 20s, depending on what your

goal in your vision is, or what your thing is that you're out there doing.

But hypothetically, we'll just use that as an example.

It's just putting in that upfront work to set yourself up down the road.

I would say to save, just reminding people to save money while you're young, because compounding

interest is powerful.

Let me give you an example.

So let's say you got $100,000 that you invest at 24 years old, and you get 10 to 12% interest

on that money, so every six or seven years that money doubles.

So let's just use six.

So let's say at 23 years old, you have a hundred grand or 24 years old, you have a hundred

grand, and then let's say at 30, it's 200 grand.

At 36, it's 400 grand.

At 42, it's 800 grand.

At 48, it's 1.6 million.

That's same 100,000.

Now that's only having that 100.

Now what if you kept adding some to it every year, every year, every year, every year,

and let it compound and compound and compound.

The powerful thing with it is if you could do it young.

Mentorship is another one.

Mentorship is the cheat code, in my opinion.

So advice I would give to myself or younger people, earlier people, was be coachable.

Mentorship is the cheat code.

You figure, they got all, first of all, don't let yourself listen to people that don't

got results.

Check what people have accomplished.

Now you can learn something off of everybody.

That's something that I used to say, well, you don't listen to people that you wouldn't

want to trade places with.

I still believe that to be true, but there's always an exception to the rule.

You can learn some things from people that you wouldn't want to trade places with by things

that they tell you not to do.

But for the most part, I think the best line of being mentored is by trying to find somebody

that has what you want, that is accomplished what you want, and learning from that person.

To me, that's the shortcut in the cheat code.

Because now I get to learn from all these people's mistakes and failures, and hopefully not

make the same mistakes and failures, and it shortcuts the time.

But in order to be mentored at that level, you have to have humility.

And humility is more attractive and beneficial in life than ego.

I think the challenge is people don't know how to balance it because you need ego in

order to win at high levels.

You got to have some pride.

You got to have some internal competitive spirit, ego.

But to stay on top and to continue to grow and to learn, you got to stay in this humble

spirit of being willing to submit yourself to someone, to have them tell you what to do

as a grown adult, and you listen.

I think it's tough for a lot of people.

And then you look at, well, what percentage do I listen to?

Is it 100%, 95%, 98%, 90%, what is it?

And so I think you got to just lock in with somebody that can coach you up and then submit

yourself 100%.

Try to listen to whatever they tell you to do.

And to me, that's the shortcut.

That's advice I would give to younger folks.

Also, what you think is cool, young, what the crowd thinks is cool, ain't always cool.

And a lot of times you get second and third chances in life, but sometimes you don't.

And sometimes people can get, wow, taking, doing dumb stuff, taking things for granted

because they're young.

I'm only 16, so I'll find another one or I'm only 23, so I'll get another one or whatever,

whatever, whatever the situation is.

And sometimes that opportunity, that person, that thing, that what just never comes again.

And so not taking special things for granted when you're young, just because you're young,

thinking that it'll come back around, because it don't always come back around.

And some mistakes that you make for life, it's not one, oh, I'll get another shot at it,

because I'm young.

Another thing I think I would have done sooner is to start training martial arts.

Or at least grappling and stuff younger than I did.

I didn't start that journey until I was 27, I think 27 years old.

And man, it's been a hell of a journey, it's been great.

You know, last, I can't believe it's been 15 years since the first time I stepped into a gym

and signed up to start training Jiu Jitsu.

But I wish I would have started every, I wish I would have been on that path younger.

So save money while you're young.

Mentorship is the cheat code.

Might not be for everybody, but wish I would have started that martial arts journey younger.

And under and just just don't be afraid to give up some time and fun things

when you're young, putting in work that's going to get you to where you want to be that you're thankful for,

you know, for the rest of your life, because you always got to pay, you always got to pay a price.

And be grateful, you know, be grateful for the people in your life that help you to get to where you are

and don't forget those moments, you know, don't forget those things.

And try to pay it forward and somebody helps you don't, don't forget to pay it forward and try to give back to others once you reach the other side.

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