- Fuck immediate gratification . Choose future reward over constant comfort. Stop consuming.
- Check the numbers daily. You can manage what you don’t measure. Don’t bury your head in the sand (Ostrich effect).You cannot improve what you refuse to face.
- Radical responsibility. Internal locus of control; you control your actions, life, thinking, habits of your life.
- Do the hard things first. Identify what you avoid and do it first.
- Choose skills over status symbols. Are you using your money to signal or to build your actual wealth. Most are signalling to show that they have money, when a signal is all that it is.
- Manufacture Discomfort. Overcoming tough obstacles builds resilience and confidence in self.
Getting ahead in your 20s and 30s… 6 Principles to consider