• Fast wealth is created exponentially, not linearly. Change can happen in an instant.
• Process cannot be outsourced, because process dawns wisdom, personal growth, strength, and events. Normal is modern-day slavery.
• The Sidewalk is the road most traveled because it’s the path of least resistance. An estimated 60% of adults live their lives on the sidewalk. You cannot solve poor financial management with more money.
• three fundamental “F’s”: family (relationships), fitness (health), and freedom (choice). true wealth. Wealth is community and impacting the lives of others. Wealth cannot be expe- rienced alone in a vacuum. Second, wealth is fitness: health, vibrancy, passion, and boundless energy. If you don’t have health, you lack wealth. And finally, wealth is freedom and choice: freedom to live how you want to live, what, when, and where. Freedom from bosses, alarm clocks, and the pressures of money. Some want to look rich, while others want to be rich.
• If you want the freedom to fly private jets, that’s it. If you want the freedom to live a minimalist lifestyle, then that is it. Everyone’s freedom is different!
• the happiest people in the world have a tight sense of community and strong family bonds. After basic needs are met (security, shelter, health, food), our happiness quotient is most significantly impacted by the quality of our relationships with our partners, our family, our friends, our spirituality, and ourselves.
• When you don’t feel wealthy, you’re likely to try to conjure that feeling. You buy icons of wealth to feel wealthy. You crave feelings, respect, pride, and joy.
• money buys freedom, and freedom is one parcel in the wealth trinity. Freedom buys choices. if you think you can afford it, you can’t. The consequence of instant gratification is the destruction of freedom, health, and choice.
• Fastlane mindset is to take responsibil- ity followed by accountability. We’re being methodi- cally brainwashed to believe that we deserve everything without obedience to process, or accountability.
• Not even the greatest musician in the world can illuminate the blinding depths of the rat race and those entrenched by its indifference. In a job, you sell your life for money.
• The Slowlane has seven dangers, five of which cannot be controlled. A millionaire cannot live a millionaire lifestyle without financial discipline.
• The moment you stop learning is the moment you stop grow- ing. Constant expansion of my knowledge and awareness is critical to my journey. Money is everywhere, and it’s extremely abundant. Money is a reflection of how many lives I’ve touched. Money reflects the value I’ve created. The more I help, the richer I become in time, money, and personal fulfillment.
• The risk profile of a Fastlane strategy isn’t much different from the Slowlane, but the rewards are far greater.
• The key to the Fastlane wealth equation is to have a high speed limit, or an unlimited range of values for units sold. This creates leverage. The market for your product or service determines your upper limit.
• To divorce yourself from the Slowlane’s transactional relationship of “time for money,” you need to become a producer, specifically, a business owner. Authoring books, blogging, and magazines are forms of content systems.
• I’m a realist who understands human nature, and that nature is to take the path of least resistance. Poor choices are the leading cause of poorness. A Fastlane process is hundreds of choices.
• Over time, horsepower erodes as the consequences of old choices are thick and hard to bend. The first step in making better choices starts with your choice of perception, because your actions evolve from those perceptions. WADM method.
• If your past defines your existence, it will be impossible for you to become the person you need to become in the future. Value your time ****poorly and you will be poor. The reality is that time is deathly scarce, while money is richly abundant. The greatest travesty of the free world is the underuse of knowledge.
• The Internet has made more millionaires in the last decade than any other medium out there. No matter how big or small, dreams have a price, and that price is money, responsibility, accountability, and commitment.