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I always hated the feeling of doing so much for so little.
Waking up at 3am for a morning shift at my minimum-wage job.
Going to school for 8 hours a day knowing in the back of my mind that I was spending all this time to make as much or less than the average person in my future.
Putting in my all for someone else’s company and making the same amount no matter how hard I worked.
I had this mindset early.
People tell me I was very observant as a child.
I could see that most people were unhappy, sluggish, and stressed about almost every decision they made. Especially financial decisions.
So my attention went towards the opposite. I spent much of my late teens dissecting what made successful people successful.
I always had this dream of becoming a “millionaire.”
It sounded so enticing.
Something about that label… millionaire.
The status. The freedom. The lack of stress.
But now, as a person who has become one, I can tell you that everything you think about becoming a millionaire is true.
I’m not going to downplay it. When I think back to when I was struggling to pay a measly $300 for my share of rent in a house shared with 7 other roommates, I’m grateful. It’s a blessing and a curse not to have to worry about what you spend on 99% of purchases.
