Accept 1 harsh Grant Cardone truth or you’ll always remain poor

Do you always feel like you can never save any money?

Like, you want to save. You try to save.

But you can’t?

For close to two decades, I tried to save my way to riches, and you know what I was left with?

Zero savings.

I found this so frustrating for the longest time and I just couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t making any progress.

I loved the idea of investing. I wanted to save, I wasn’t a big spender, but at the end of the day I kept winding up with nothing in my investment account.

Then I heard one simple line from one of my favorite motivational gurus and it changed my perspective on everything.

It also resulted in an increasingly fat investment account.

Allow me to explain.

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The 1 harsh Grant Cardone truth

Grant Cardone is the author of some of my favorite motivational audiobooks.

Any time I’m feeling lousy or unmotivated, I listen to one of these audiobooks to get my blood pumping again (affiliate links below):

• Be Obsessed or Be Average
• The 10x Mentor
• How to Get and Stay Motivated

(By the way, if you’re new to Audible you can try one of these for free with my affiliate link here).

Now one point Cardone harps on in almost everything he produces is this:

“Stop trying to save money. You don’t need to save more money. You need to MAKE more money.”

It sounds simple, but it’s actually really profound — and I’ll explain with a concrete example from my own life.

Your typical financial guru will tell you to get a boring commuter job, stop buying lattes, invest in the stock market, and maybe you’ll have some cash in 35 years — if you make it that far.

Well I’ve tried that and, as Cardone predicted, gotten nowhere.

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