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Get your energy up. It is impossible to make big money if you're low energy. Trust me on this. You can have all the IQ in the world. You can have the best daily routine. If you are not a high energy individual, you ain't going nowhere.
It's actually called hypomania. There's a book called "The Hypomanic Edge." And basically, my mentor Dr. David Bus confirmed this. The characteristic of high performers, whether it's money makers, artists like Pablo Picasso, anybody who does big things in this world, just simply has higher energy than the general population.
So basically, the game you're trying to play in self-development and self-improvement is: What are those things, both mental, physical, and spiritual, that increase one's energy level? Now, some of it, like I said, "The Hypomanic Edge" talks about this genetic component. But forget about that because you can't really fix your genetics. So you got to do what you can do with environmental change.
So one of the things I do for example that's been proven is morning sun. Morning sun. I'm out here. Not afternoon sun, not nearly as good. Earlier morning is better. It basically gets all the endocrine hormonal system rocking and rolling. That's one. That's a physical change you can do.
The biggest one, though, bigger than any one thing. I was going to say grounding. I run out on the grass, got no shoes on, you know. Um, the biggest one, though, is loving what you do. That is the biggest. And people forget about that. So it's like people are trying to do biohacking and all this stuff. But then they're going to a 9-to-5 job, or they have a company that they started that they don't really love anymore. You won't be high energy. Therefore, it becomes a perpetuating, self-perpetuating pitfall where you go, "Well, I don't really like what I do." So you don't have, you can't generate the energy to do it. And then the more you lack the energy, the more revenue, income goes down. So you lose energy even more, and you get even more discouraged. So it's one of the nastiest cycles you can be in is this "I don't really care about what I'm doing" that nihilistic approach that so many people have.
So I highly encourage you: Quit your job. Dump your company. Sell it to somebody. Fire sale it if you have to. You know that saying like, "You got to be passionate about what you do." I, I, I got to love what you do. Sometimes I'm, I don't love that framework. A better framework is: Are you doing things that give you natural energy boosts? Or are you just relying on coffee, Red Bull, and you know, monotony, video games, distractions to make you get through to the end of the day?
So for me, what drives my energy level is like, am I spending the majority of my day? 80/20. 20% of your day is going to be just fulfilling basic duties. So, you know, don't focus on that. Fixing that part. Focus on the 80%. 80% of your life will be spent in your money-making career. Career. It's just that's the game. You'll spend more time in your career than you will with even kids and family. Look at the stats. Ask ChatGPT what's the majority of your life spent doing. It's acquiring resources, AKA making money. So fix that.
Switch. Joel Salatin used to say, "If you have to take a vacation from your job, never go back." If you have to. He didn't say never take a vacation. I'm going to ground while we talk here. Get a little grounding. Get my energy up. He didn't say, you know, if you want to enjoy. He said, "If you have to." And a lot of people, you know, that old "Thank God It's Friday." They made a whole restaurant chain about the desperation of planet Earth in the modern world. They made a restaurant chain called TGIF Fridays because I have no energy for what I'm doing. And therefore, maybe I can get enough energy by just chilling Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This is the definition of monotonous, low-quality life.
Like, I, I tell people, man, I live with homage for two and a half years. Go buy a farm. If you give me a choice: 50 G's on a farm, little piece of land in the middle of nowhere, versus making 250 in a job that I have no interest or energy for. That's, that's not even close. Now, if it's a job I make 20 million in that I have not much energy, maybe, maybe do it for a year or two. But when you're talking about the, the arbitrage between the, the ratio between how much more money I have to make to take some to do something I don't care about. I, I was thinking today. There was a guy I was talking to who was like, "I had dinner with a gambling billionaire." And sometimes I see that like, "Oh, maybe I should have gone into gambling." Maybe he. Well, I don't have any passion for gambling.
At the end of the day, all human are like flesh. Like, sorry, all humans, flesh is like a vapor. It's like the old proverb says. It's like all flesh is like grass. You know, we're like the flowers of the field. We bloom and then we disappear. And so at the end of the day, making a billion dollars in something that's not interesting versus even making 2 million in something that you're passionate about. And it's not again, not passion, but that you're energetic about. I'm taking 2 mil. It sounds crazy. But my mentor, Joel Salatin, he's, he's, you know, a multi-millionaire, I would guess. And he would definitely not trade for a billion dollars. He's like, "Ty, like, I love my farm. It's passed down multiple generations. I'm passing it on to my kids." You think you can be able to trick him into saying, "Oh, you want to make a quick billion dollars?" He's like, "Ah, I got what I need now." I, I guess if he had the choice between being completely broke, you know, and going into something he has no energy, like, then he would probably choose that. But I'm saying you could make 1 to 10 million in anything.
I was reading that book "Built to Last" by Jim Collins. One of the surprising findings as he studied high-performing companies. These are companies that were average and suddenly became great, or or became great, not suddenly, but over time. One of the biggest factors was, or surprises, what it had nothing to do with the industry. Meaning he was like, you can make money in anything. You can make money in seemingly non-money-making industries like farming. Very few people, "Oh, you want to get rich? You become a farmer." Joel wrote 17 books. He's got a seven-figure stream of passive income coming to him. He's got seminars, conferences, consulting. But bigger than that, the dude's the highest energy. I think he's almost 70 now. Highest energy person I've ever met. When I went to be his first apprentice at age 19. Now he's going to be adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture, the new one. It's a great day for America, by the way. And, you know, Joel's kind of the founder of sustainable agriculture. My first mentor, he wasn't as famous back then. He just to walk through the field with this guy. You're going, "What is going on?" This is the fastest, most energetic person I've ever met. He's up at 5 in the morning. Writes a book from 5:00 AM to 6:00 AM. Goes and does farm chores. And never stops.
Well, part of that genetic. He has this propensity that I told you, you know, hypomania. They call it. It's like it's like bipolar. Bipolar is like where you're high. You have like manic ups and downs. Hypomania is where you just stay up and you don't have the downs. Um, I have a little bit of that, you know, that hypomania. And but without that, I would still be high energy as long as I was doing something that energized me. Find a job that energizes you. Find a business that energizes you. Don't just chase what you think is the potentially highest earner. Because if you have no energy for that thing that other people made a billion in, you won't make a billion in it. It doesn't correlate like that. You can't go, "Well, that dude made a billion. Maybe he really cared about it." So he woke up and he thought about it.
I have a simple rule. I got a simple rule. If in the middle of the night, you don't wake up sometimes 12:00 at night and have an interesting idea, an innovation for the industry and business you're in, you're not high energy. If you're not in the shower and get new ideas. I got, I use Apple Notes. Sometimes if I'm like in the shower, I keep my phone close. Put my clothes. Grab it and I'm writing down. I did this morning three new ideas because I like what I'm in. The education space. I'm in the media space. I do AI tech. I buy companies. I have, I had a big networking event. Somebody, I let a friend of mine, I let her throw her birthday party here. She's a manager for a lot of the big influencers like King Bach and and, uh, so they were all here. It was cool. I get energized by what I do. I get energized. I'd wish that gift upon you.
So yes, there are physical things you could do. Get out, see the sun, you know, sleep enough, get grounded, exercise, all that stuff. But you already know that the missing component. And ask yourself as I conclude on a 1 to 10 scale on the energy for what you do for Monday energy. You could use the scale. Do you wake up in the middle of the night with new ideas? Are you in the shower writing stuff down? That's high energy. Give that a 10. One energy is you just thank God it's Friday. You're doing your job just to get out of there as quickly as possible. What are you? Are you a one or a 10? What are you? Comment below. One or 10 and why? And how can you change it? If you score below an eight, you need to change. Make that change. The enemy in that book "Built to Last," Jim Collins starts out, first words in the book: "The enemy of the great is the good." So if you're a six or seven, you're in the danger zone. Change your occupation. Change your life. Comment below what number you are and why, and whether you should change. Let's talk in the comments.