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7 Things to Do if You Don’t Want to Be a Millionaire

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Just read these 7 pointers to being the opposite of Fastlane and wanted to share it here immediately to steer off all those who might by mistake be on the wrong track. MJ touched almost each of these points in greater detail in TMF .


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1. Watch TV.

Watching TV will almost always guarantee your failure in becoming a millionaire. Unless there’s a channel dedicated to teaching you in becoming a millionaire, you’re more likely to buy a Wendy’s sandwich or a Snuggie. TV is one of the largest sources of non-productiveness and America’s obesity rate. All TV does is provide short episodes of entertainment and commercials. If you wanted to find entertainment, you could find higher qualities of it in other mediums like friends or backyard BBQ’s. You have little control in the types of entertainment to watch; if you wanted to watch something else on TV, you would have to find another channel. Meanwhile on the Internet, if you wanted to find something funny to watch, you could do a Google search and find 1,654,000,000 choices to pick from. Anyway, why look for entertainment when you could look for information on becoming a millionaire?

2. Eat junk food.
Junk food – the second leading source of America’s obesity rate. Junk food will make you feel tired, fatigued, and depressed. It may give you small periods of pleasure and energy, but it won’t do much in the long run. It will rob you of your energy – energy you need to learn how to become a millionaire. It keeps you from being productive and healthy. Most of all, it decreases your life span.

3. Become “popular”.
Nowadays, kids do so much just to try and gain attention and love. They want to be the “popular” ones. They want to be noticed, cared for, loved. They want to be in a group that accepts them for who they are – or who they try to be. They do such radical things just to try and be popular. Adults are not all that different. They want to gain acceptance from their friends, believing if they don’t, they’ll be friendless and outcasted. People hate being outcasted. But millionaires don’t care about being outcasted. In fact, they’re actually the ones being outcasted. They don’t care what others think, which gives them the determination and commitment to follow their dreams, regardless of what others are thinking or saying.

4. Buy a new car.
If you don’t want to become a millionaire, buy things. Buy lot’s of things. Buy things that won’t even help you or make a difference in your life. Buy extra junk food, the latest technology, a new car, new clothes, etc. Buy everything and anything you can with the income you’re making right now. In fact, go ahead and just make a wishlist of things you want to buy. Then when you get your paycheck, go down your list and buy as many things you can with the money you got.

5. Complain.
Complain about how bad your day is. Talk about how your boss hates you. Discuss how bad your life is. Get mad at the person who cut you off this morning. Announce your distaste for your job and your current situation. Complain how you can never get enough time for yourself. Complain how you can never have enough of what you want. Complain how you can never get what you want.

6. Blame the world.
Blame the world for allowing you to experience the negative situations you’re in. Blame your family for making you late to work. Blame everyone and everything else in the world except yourself for the things you have in your life right now. When you get a bad grade on your test, blame your teacher and explain how he or she can’t teach. When you can’t get a decent job, blame the economy. When something bad happens to you, blame something or someone else.

7. Make excuses.
Try to justify your mistakes and wrongdoings. When you get in trouble, do thing #6 and blame someone else.

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Agree with all of it. Rep dispensed. Sharing on FB!


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While reading it, it also struck me how you (almost) never see any of these "traits"

Our worst offense is Fantasy Football.

Happy that we never see "Hey, did you see Breaking Bad last week!!? OMG!" around here.

Never watched ONE episode.

Now as for The Profit? Shark Tank? Yup. We guilty!
 
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1) You're a man. I'm a man. Men are lazy. Men don't like to cook. So cook what you can in 'bulk' where-ever possible, you can cook chicken fillets and make delicious salads and have that in your fridge for 3-4 days.

This is basically a secret amongst the fitness folks. Meal prep your shit once a week and after a month or so, you will be amazed at the results.
Meal prep looks like this:

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Some of you may have witnessed @snowbank 's fitness transformation on FB. The default thinking was probably "wow, he must have been at the gym 7 days a week!" -- actually, the gym is just a small part of it-- 70% of it is meal prep and proper nutritional macros.
 
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For me, it was two things that helped 'flip the switch' easily.

1) You're a man. I'm a man. Men are lazy. Men don't like to cook. So cook what you can in 'bulk' where-ever possible, you can cook chicken fillets and make delicious salads and have that in your fridge for 3-4 days.

2) Eat way more when eating healthy stuff. When you are eating healthy, non-fast-food, non empty-carb (or low-carb) you need to simply eat more, because there aren't so many calories in the healthier foods. Calories are not the enemy. Empty carbs are the enemy, because they result in high blood sugar, resulting in insulin spikes and therefore grogginess/tiredness. (Along with sweeteners that are downright neurologically addictive.)

Oh, and a tip my mother told me when I asked her about things I should keep in mind at university:

'Never make ANY decisions regarding ANYTHING if you are hungry.' Even when that decision is to go to a local McDonalds or order Kebab. All decisions should be pre-programmed by the rested, fed, motivated and clear brain.

Now I eat healthy and it's not 'rah rah' hard-work. Because I do not allow myself to go hungry and therefore start thinking silly.
 
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Love it..
While reading it, it also struck me how you (almost) never see any of these "traits" in posts around the forum here, which is a good sign. :)
 

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Awesome post, watching TV is probably the hardest habit to get rid of.lol;)
Nooooo! Even if everyone else in the house is watching TV, I just get on to reading or researching. I don't care which teen mom is pregnant again, or how drunk everyone in the "house" is, so I just ignore it. I'm ESPECIALLY opposed to news related shows. Nothing is more depressing than story after story about how my tax dollars are being squandered (or will be) by some high profile slowlane jackasses.
 
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Nice content!

When I moved to the new place, I didn't even buy a TV and it was a great decision. It was not about the money or space, but about time. People still keep asking me - "what do you do in the evenings"? LOL.
 

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This is basically a secret amongst the fitness folks. Meal prep your shit once a week and after a month or so, you will be amazed at the results.
Meal prep looks like this:

tumblr_mrflixXw7c1r2zyogo1_500.jpg


Some of you may have witnessed @snowbank 's fitness transformation on FB. The default thinking was probably "wow, he must have been at the gym 7 days a week!" -- actually, the gym is just a small part of it-- 70% of it is meal prep and proper nutritional macros.

Just started doing meal prep this past week. It makes a HUUUUGE difference!

My biggest struggle has been lunch. It's in the middle of busy and hectic work days and just don't want to take the time to make a proper meal and sometimes I veer off the path because of this. Last week was searching for a solution to this, came across a thread right here on the forum which lead me to some great youtube videos.

FYI, I've lost 50 lbs with 30-35 lbs more to go. This should really take my weight loss to the next level.
 
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I like this post!

another one

Play lots of Video games
Sometimes video games have a timer how many hours you spend gaming and in one game I had 130 hours!!!!!! Wow!!!
Some video games are really good for a couple of hours a week, but is it necessary to complete the game 100% plus achievements, online leader scores, etc ? I think its not worth it...

Again video games can become VERY addictive and at the same time thinking you're accomplishing something by getting achievements on the game.

The best way that I found out to stop is to create inconvenience to yourself as MJ stated in one of his posts.
 

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No cable in our house. Kill two birds with one stone. Eliminate unnecessary cash out while eliminating 95% of TV options available for my family. We also get to guide what our 2 year old watches and filter him out from all of the marketing messages....he choose to watch a special on MIT robotics recently. Proud papa!
 

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I lived without a TV for about 3 years when I was single. The first few weeks of getting rid of it was so wierd. I would get home from work, have food, and then almost complain to myself that I had too much time in the evening.

Then I realised what a dumb complaint that was and started doing stuff. Wow... not having a TV frees up so much time.

I miss those days, and pretty much leave whatever room in the house has the TV on now.
 

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I think slow vs fastlane is a pattern of thought -- what you tell yourself at every moment of every day. Good thoughts eventually lead to good actions which lead to wealth and vise versa.

These 7 things are only common symptoms of slowlaners, but a fastlaner's pattern of thought can easily lead him to break these rules -- for example, you might watch TV with powerful characters to learn about how they hold themselves, their body language. If you weight train, you might indulge in high calorie foods on cheat day.

I think the 3 bottom ones -- complain, blame the world and make excuses are the ones that matter.
 

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Netflix is just productivity leaving the body.
Agreed, to a point - But people shouldn't feel guilty for having a release. Whatever that may be. Want to spend an hour at the end of the day playing vid games, watching movie, some dumb reality show, or whatever. Then go ahead. As long as your other 12 hours or more in the day were productive.
If we don't take the time occasionally and just veg out, then we can often burn out.
Same argument can be made for this forum, as not all the time spent here is productive. Reading a gold thread, or an AMA in your genre is extremely helpful, but spending an hour just replying to anything doesn't give a quality response to the question "am I doing something that can move my business forward at this point?"
Chill time is okay, if use as a reward for quality input.
 

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Acting wealthy is the best way to stay broke.

If you're in an industry where you have to raise capital, move alot of wealth and close large transactions/deals (real estate, oil, private equity, hedge funds, etc.)

It doesn't hurt to "act wealthy"
 
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I get guilted into watching TV sometimes; supposedly it's "family time". I hate it!

Good point. I hate it when the only thing my family can agree to do is sit around the slowlane alter while their brains atrophy. There are so many things we could be doing. We could go to a park, go hiking, go to a museum, or even just sit around and drink coffee! Anything but the idiot box!

I like to say TV is acronym for "Time Vacuum". Make TV your main hobby and you'll wake up one day and half your life passed in the blink of an eye.

No thanks, I'll take reality please.
 

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@AndrewNC

Oh, and a tip my mother told me when I asked her about things I should keep in mind at university:

'Never make ANY decisions regarding ANYTHING if you are hungry.' Even when that decision is to go to a local McDonalds or order Kebab. All decisions should be pre-programmed by the rested, fed, motivated and clear brain.

Now I eat healthy and it's not 'rah rah' hard-work. Because I do not allow myself to go hungry and therefore start thinking silly.


This is actually really interesting, and it is probably the reason why i make bad food choices now a days constantly. I stay so focused i forget about being hungry.

But when i slow down, i am then starving... and guess what... I want to get the fastest best tasting thing i can get. If you are starving, you wont take the time to cook, or go get a meal that takes a bit to be cooked cause you need food NOW, not 20 minutes from now.

VERY VERY interesting thought! Rep + to that.
 

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Just read these 7 pointers to being the opposite of Fastlane and wanted to share it here immediately to steer off all those who might by mistake be on the wrong track. MJ touched almost each of these points in greater detail in TMF .


unproductive-days.jpg


1. Watch TV.

Watching TV will almost always guarantee your failure in becoming a millionaire. Unless there’s a channel dedicated to teaching you in becoming a millionaire, you’re more likely to buy a Wendy’s sandwich or a Snuggie. TV is one of the largest sources of non-productiveness and America’s obesity rate. All TV does is provide short episodes of entertainment and commercials. If you wanted to find entertainment, you could find higher qualities of it in other mediums like friends or backyard BBQ’s. You have little control in the types of entertainment to watch; if you wanted to watch something else on TV, you would have to find another channel. Meanwhile on the Internet, if you wanted to find something funny to watch, you could do a Google search and find 1,654,000,000 choices to pick from. Anyway, why look for entertainment when you could look for information on becoming a millionaire?

2. Eat junk food.
Junk food – the second leading source of America’s obesity rate. Junk food will make you feel tired, fatigued, and depressed. It may give you small periods of pleasure and energy, but it won’t do much in the long run. It will rob you of your energy – energy you need to learn how to become a millionaire. It keeps you from being productive and healthy. Most of all, it decreases your life span.

3. Become “popular”.
Nowadays, kids do so much just to try and gain attention and love. They want to be the “popular” ones. They want to be noticed, cared for, loved. They want to be in a group that accepts them for who they are – or who they try to be. They do such radical things just to try and be popular. Adults are not all that different. They want to gain acceptance from their friends, believing if they don’t, they’ll be friendless and outcasted. People hate being outcasted. But millionaires don’t care about being outcasted. In fact, they’re actually the ones being outcasted. They don’t care what others think, which gives them the determination and commitment to follow their dreams, regardless of what others are thinking or saying.

4. Buy a new car.
If you don’t want to become a millionaire, buy things. Buy lot’s of things. Buy things that won’t even help you or make a difference in your life. Buy extra junk food, the latest technology, a new car, new clothes, etc. Buy everything and anything you can with the income you’re making right now. In fact, go ahead and just make a wishlist of things you want to buy. Then when you get your paycheck, go down your list and buy as many things you can with the money you got.

5. Complain.
Complain about how bad your day is. Talk about how your boss hates you. Discuss how bad your life is. Get mad at the person who cut you off this morning. Announce your distaste for your job and your current situation. Complain how you can never get enough time for yourself. Complain how you can never have enough of what you want. Complain how you can never get what you want.

6. Blame the world.
Blame the world for allowing you to experience the negative situations you’re in. Blame your family for making you late to work. Blame everyone and everything else in the world except yourself for the things you have in your life right now. When you get a bad grade on your test, blame your teacher and explain how he or she can’t teach. When you can’t get a decent job, blame the economy. When something bad happens to you, blame something or someone else.

7. Make excuses.
Try to justify your mistakes and wrongdoings. When you get in trouble, do thing #6 and blame someone else.


Be fat, lazy and dumb should be the name of this title.

Fast food makes you slow.
 

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2. Eat junk food.
Junk food – the second leading source of America’s obesity rate. Junk food will make you feel tired, fatigued, and depressed. It may give you small periods of pleasure and energy, but it won’t do much in the long run. It will rob you of your energy – energy you need to learn how to become a millionaire. It keeps you from being productive and healthy. Most of all, it decreases your life span.
Thank you for posting this.

Rep speed coming your way.

I am looking at this list and I see that none of those other negative things apply to me anymore...except the junk food one. This is one of those 'wake up' moments...lets see how quickly I can overcome that habit.
 
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Decent post.

However, I'm really surprised that a thread marked 'Gold' has no quoted source for the original content. Without the source, it's in effect plagiarism/IP theft.

I mean, even the picture is a carbon copy...

I'm sure MJ or any other author would not appreciate having their intellectual property spread (technically stolen) without getting any credit for their work.

Full credit goes to: http://millionaireshq.com/7-things-to-do-if-you-dont-want-to-be-a-millionaire/
 
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