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Table of Contents – Lists of Lists

  1. Side Hustles
  2. My Milestones of FI
  3. Virtues of Fulfillment
  4. Historic Frequency of a Market Corrections and Recessions
  5. Identity-Based Core Habits of the Ultra-Successful
  6. 32 Traits of Successful People: According to Grant Cardone
  7. “Give up on” List
  8. Recommended Reading List
  9. Future Reading Goals
  10. Life Liberating Links
  11. Blogs I Benevolently Binge
  12. Podcasts I Perpetually Ponder
  13. Definition of Terms – Lexicon


Side Hustle List


The Side Hustles I am Currently Trying:
  • e-commerce buy and resell biz
  • Write a book
  • Motivational speaker
  • Financial coaching – one-on-one
  • Financial coaching – class
  • YouTube channel – ad revenue
  • Blog Site
  • Podcast
  • Teach a course – how to ___________
  • Invest in virtustate (virtual real estate i.e. rights to websites)
  • Entrepreneur – start a small business (or 2, or 3, or… 20)

The Side Hustles I Intend to Try:
  • e-commerce drop ship biz
  • Write many more books
  • Motivational speaker – online course
  • Financial coaching – online course
  • YouTube channel – ad revenue
  • Air B&B host
  • Equipment rental biz
  • Podcast ad revenue
  • Teach a course – how to ___________
  • Inventions royalties – Invent a sarcastic font for texting
  • Real estate
  • Buy developed investment virtustate
  • Entrepreneur – start many more businesses
  • Brand ambassador – post once a week on social media wearing someone’s brand

The Side Hustles I Have Tried and Moved on from:
  • e-commerce buy and resell biz
  • Pyramid scheme – Amway, Mary Kay, etc.
  • Yardwork
  • Dog walker
  • Small engine repair

The Side Hustles I Could Try:
  • Etsy store – make sell
  • Uber driver


My Milestones of FI

  1. Net zero – debt free (less mortgage(s)) – done, this was my most exciting so far.
  2. Fully funded emergency fund – done.
  3. First zero tax rate year – done.
    1. 2015 = 41% – this is what losing looks like.
    2. 2016 = 9% – this was one of my first steps to FI before I knew what FI was.
    3. 2017 = -1% – this is what winning looks like. I still brag about this win. Yes, I was paid to be a citizen.
    4. 2018 = 1% – time for a little more research but still a great tax rate.
  4. First maxed IRA year = 2016, and 2017 and 2018. – done.
  5. First maxed 401k year = 2018, see my blog post on April 26th 2018. This was one of my first steps out of inFIdelity after I became enlightened.
  6. Fully funded emergency fund take 2 – the reset.
  7. Six-figure FI stash – Personal capital phone call baby! Done.
  8. FU money 2.5x annual expenses – and done.
  9. Half FI
  10. Lean FI
  11. Crossover point – where your income from investments matches your w-2 income.
  12. Flex FI
  13. True FI (25x your annual spend.)
  14. Fat FI (30x Retirement expense or 3.33 safe withdrawal with gravy on top.)


The Virtues of Fulfillment

  1. Autonomy
  2. Mastery
  3. Purpose
  4. Identity
  5. Connection
  6. Community
  7. Contribution
  8. Progress
  9. Freedom
  10. Hope
  11. Gratitude
  12. Generosity


Market Corrections and Recessions – Historic Frequency

  • 5% – 3 times per year
  • 10% – once every 11 months
  • 15% – every 2 years
  • 20% – every 4 years
  • 30% – once per decade
  • 40% – once per 2-3 decades
  • 50% – 2-3 times per century


Identity-Based Core Habits of the Ultra-Successful

After studying millionaires and billionaires for years and tracking common beliefs, attitudes and habits I have compiled the following list.

Highly successful people…

  1. Focus on the opportunities not problems.
  2. Love challenges and seek to solve problems.
  3. Track Results or KPIs (Key Performance Indicator.)
  4. Think big, act small.
  5. Plan out their day in advance.
  6. Boldly take action without answers to every question.
  7. Cultivate a strong bias to taking action.
  8. Don’t get distracted by what other people are doing or saying.
  9. Aim higher than they can shoot.
  10. Don’t give up.
  11. Constantly try new things.
  12. Set aside the self-limiting beliefs holding them back.
  13. Go above and beyond in work and business.
  14. Do what others aren’t willing to do.
  15. Set goals, don’t make wishes and review them regularly.
  16. Don’t listen to the majority.
  17. Take risks that make others think you’re crazy.
  18. Make their health and exercise a priority.
  19. Seek out mentors.
  20. Look up to people who are different than them.
  21. Network, volunteer and donate regularly.
  22. Talk less and listen more.
  23. Use people’s names frequently and write them down.
  24. Avoid procrastination.
  25. Avoid toxic people.
  26. Know their main purpose.
  27. Put their ladder on the right wall.
  28. Track their habits, spending and time.
  29. Meditate daily.
  30. Journal daily.
  31. Reading every day for 30 minutes or more.
  32. Ask for the “sale.”
  33. Set short term sprint goals, as well as, 10x stretch goals.
  34. Each night name their top priorities for the next day and record their progress.
  35. Learn continuously.
  36. Actively practice gratitude and journal about it daily.
  37. Spend free time doing something productive.



32 Traits of Successful People: According to Grant Cardone:

  1. Have a “can-do attitude”
  2. Believe that “I will figure it out”
  3. Focus on the opportunity
  4. Love challenges
  5. Seek to solve problems
  6. Persist until successful
  7. Take risks
  8. Be unreasonable
  9. Be dangerous
  10. Create wealth
  11. Readily take action
  12. Always say yes
  13. Habitually commit
  14. Go all the way
  15. Focus on the now
  16. Demonstrate courage
  17. Embrace change
  18. Determine and take the right approach
  19. Break traditional ideas
  20. Be goal-oriented
  21. Be on a mission
  22. Have a high level of motivation
  23. Be interested in results
  24. Have big goals and dreams
  25. Create your own reality
  26. Commit first –figure out later
  27. Be highly ethical
  28. Be interested in the group
  29. Be dedicated to continuous learning
  30. Be uncomfortable
  31. “Reach up” in relationships
  32. Be disciplined

“These habits are like snowflakes — they build up, until you have an avalanche of success.”



“Give up on” List

  • Excuses
  • Perfectionism
  • Multitasking
  • Limiting beliefs
  • Saying yes to everything/everyone
  • Toxic relationships
  • Not asking for help
  • Trying to make bad relationships work
  • Dwelling on your mistakes and shortcomings
  • Worrying too much about other people’s opinions


Future Reading Goals

  • Tax-Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright
  • Atomic Habits
  • Smart People Finish Rich by David Back
  • Power Broke – quite your job be publicly accountable and work hard or starve.
  • The power of Habits. – Paula Pant has written an article about this.
  • E myth
  • Built to Sell
  • The monk who sold his Ferrari
  • Fooled by randomness
  • Bigger pockets/sell your home – when you sell.
  • Jack Vogel – the little book of common sense investing.
  • So good they can’t ignore you.
  • Estimating Rehab Costs by J. Scott
  • Essentialism – making room for the things that matter to you.
  • Everyday Millionaires – Chris Hogan
  • Profit First – small business book
  • Fail Forward – Maxwell
  • Essentialism – Greg McCueen
  • How to negotiate your Layoff – The Financial Samurai.
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
  • How to stop worrying and start living.
  • Millennial Money by Grant Sabatier
  • Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier
  • Work Optional by Tanja Hester
  • How to Win Customer and Keep Them for Life.
  • The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks – thinking bigger.
  • Leadership and Self-deception.
  • The Compound Effect – Daren Hardy
  • What am I missing? Please comment below and let me know!


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Podcasts I Perpetually Ponder

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