Making Money Is Like Lifting Weights
When I was 22 years old, I wrote down in my journal, “This year, I’m going to make $100,000.”
Of course, I had no idea how I was actually going to make $100k. I hadn’t even figured out how to make $1k. I was about to graduate from college, had just finished reading the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and per his “Chief Aim” exercise, I thought if I wrote down my financial goals they would just sort of magically happen on their own.
I did not make $100k that year.
Or the next year.
Or the year after that.
It took me most of my 20s to realize that making money is a lot like lifting weights.
I first started going to the gym when I was 18 years old, in an attempt to strengthen my back muscles after suffering a stress fracture in my spine playing hockey. At the time, I weighed around 100 pounds. I was all skin and bones, not an ounce of muscle on me. And I had spent most of my adolescence sick and nutritionally deprived, undiagnosed with Celiac Disease until I had graduated high school.
Physically, I was “broke.”
Yet, little by little, year after year, I kept going to the gym, and I kept putting on weight. By the time I was 20, I weighed…
