Sam Kinison said it best –
“I’m like anyone else on this planet — I’m very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, ‘Fuck, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!’ There’s a director five feet away going, ‘DON’T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT
I know the grammar is bad – but this is something I have heard from folks who get out of lockdown who want that clean new start on life. We know that they usually end up doing dirt again, and getting caught again, and the beat goes on.
But some of these people took the time to learn a trade, get educated or whatever. They were in a place where they were stripped of everything except time. Time was their only commodity. It was also their burden. So these people took the only thing that they had in abundance – time and used it to their advantage. They leveraged their time to organize their hustle.
While I work, and while I drive and even right now as I type this, I am learning something. At work, I listen to the radio (news, business, current events) and sometimes I listen to podcasts. Podcasts are like MP3s on different things (business, money skills and stuff like that). In the car I listen to books on CD or talk radio. At home I watch business oriented shows like The Big Idea, The Millionaire Inside, Big Spender (Larry Winget), Kitchen Nightmares (I have two food establishments). American Inventor, Suze Orman, Dragon’s Den and on and on. I watch TV that fills my mind with ideas and tools to make a difference in my financial life. I use a Tivo to capture these shows when I am away and watch them at my convenience.
You never know where inspiration will come from. You never know where you will find that next big idea. But I know that if you only fill your head with mind candy, all you will have is mental constipation. Continue reading ‘if you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you already got.’
I get emails, phone calls and questions all the time from people trying to find their own “Hustle”.
How do you find a hustle?
What is the right hustle for me?
How do I know the right hustle when I find it?
First, let me define what a hustle is for all of our non-American visitors. A hustle is a culmination of a goal and a vehicle to create personal wealth. A hustle isn’t simply a job, or having something to sell. It is having all the parts to make your business successful. It is the distribution, the marketing, the legal, the suppliers etc etc. A hustle, by all definitions, is a complete business opporunity with a plan for success.
Make sense? Cool, now let’s rock it out.
Continue reading ‘If it aint broken, it’s because you aint looking hard enough.’
I have been staring at the site for few days now and not quite sure how to start. I know that this will not be a site of candy coated, feel good slogans. This is a serious site full of focused and targeted information for people who need a better life.
Yes, NEED.
Having grown up with very little, I am tired of people telling me and those around me that a positive attitude is all it takes to make it in the world. Well I am POSITIVE that doesn’t work for everyone.
My favorite advice is “Find a millionaire and do what they do!” How does this help the person when meeting a millionaire is as likely as meeting a space alien? What if the millionaire in question made their money in newspaper publishing? Are you then supposed to go and start a newspaper? This is crap advice from someone who obviously never met poverty face-to-face.
What seems to be missing out there are real people who have seen real poverty and made their way out. These are the trailblazers that have made a path for anyone to follow. They have shown that you can make something using only what is at the end of your arms and what is between your ears. Yes, you can make your wealth with hard work and a solid hustle.
I hope you join us on this journey. You will hear stories about my life and the lives of close friends and acquaintances. You will get a little wisdom that has been passed down to me from those older and wiser.
Mostly, you will learn the art of the hustle from true Hustlers
We appreciate your interest in our book Mind of a Hustler and the challenges of making it out of the street and into the world of business. We will be posting regularly about life in business, incarceration, education, tough lessons, successes, failures, tragedy and ultimately the path to personal and financial success.
We will be discussing our own personal experiences from our backgrounds and lifestyles. We are presenting this information in the hopes that our challenges and successes will act as a beacon for others to follow out of the fog of desperation and into the light of success.
So please, stay with us on this journey of self-improvement. There will be no punches pulled and no spoon feeding of happy slogans. This is a guidebook to the real world of poverty to prosperity. We will show you how to use the skills you have to make your life better.
We will be taking comments, questions and requests. If you want to hear what we think about the world around us or a specific question on a particular challenge. Send it using the contact form on this site. If we can, we will respond in a posting so that everyone can learn and succeed with you.
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