You can build your lifestyle or your wealth. Not both.

…at least not yet.

You have a choice:

– You can create lifestyle

– You can create wealth

For now, these two things are mutually exclusive.

Every dollar you spend on lifestyle is a dollar that is not growing your wealth. 

After you achieve Financial Zen, THEN you can have both.

This is street knowledge, not book knowledge.

The people we know that are on the fast track to financial independence are very deliberate in how they spend their lifestyle dollars.

They focus first on building their wealth and then they reward themselves with lifestyle purchases.

They follow the money mindset that you can have ANYTHING you want, but not EVERYTHING.

The people taking the scenic route to financial independence buy whatever they want, whenever they want it, and then wonder why they have nothing to show for all the money they make. 

Wealth – not income and not lifestyle – is the only thing that defeats the tyranny of money.

You’ve won once you’ve built enough wealth to make your paychecks obsolete.