12 Hard Truths why you're NOT Rich | Andy Elliott

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Andy Elliott outlines 12 hard truths about why many people aren't rich, challenging viewers to confront uncomfortable realities and take decisive action. He stresses the importance of setting high standards, pursuing dreams relentlessly, and overcoming the fear of discomfort. The video encourages self-awareness, continuous growth, and aligning daily habits with long-term goals.

  • Overcoming procrastination and indecision.
  • Setting personal standards rather than relying on motivation.
  • Embracing discomfort and hard work as necessary for success.

Introduction: Assessing Your Financial Status

Andy Elliott introduces the topic of the video, which is to discuss 12 simple reasons why people are not rich. He urges viewers to assess their current financial situation by noting down their bank balance, debts, and annual income. The aim is to encourage viewers to reflect on their financial standing and consider if they are ready to transform their annual income into a monthly one and achieve financial success. He emphasises that the video will present hard truths that might be uncomfortable but are essential for achieving financial goals.

Dreams Die in the Hands of People Who Wait

The first hard truth is that dreams die in the hands of people who wait. Indecision and procrastination hinder success. Every delay allows someone else to seize the opportunity. The speaker stresses the importance of acting decisively and pursuing goals without hesitation. The graveyard is full of unfulfilled dreams of people who waited too long.

You Don't Need Motivation, You Need a Standard

The second point is that motivation is fleeting, but a high personal standard is essential. Many people may dislike others not because of who they are, but because they hate the standards they live by. Living by human excellence and setting a standard creates a legacy. The speaker argues that setting and maintaining high standards is more important than relying on temporary motivation.

Build Your Dream or Build Someone Else's

The third truth is that if you don't build your own dream, you'll be hired to build someone else's. It's acceptable to work for others, but it's crucial to either pursue your own business or become an invaluable asset to another's. The speaker encourages viewers to define their dreams and ensure they are in an environment where they can achieve them. He notes that most people can't articulate what they want, often giving vague answers like "financial freedom".

Avoiding Hard Things Delays the Life You Want

The fourth point is that avoiding hard things delays the life you want. The speaker uses the example of doing 100 push-ups every morning as a way to tackle something difficult first thing, making the rest of the day easier. He encourages viewers to identify and confront the hard things they've been avoiding, as these are often the key to unlocking the life they desire.

Uncommon Results Require an Uncommon Life

The fifth truth is that achieving uncommon results requires living an uncommon life. This means not following the crowd, avoiding common habits like excessive leisure, and instead focusing on self-improvement and surrounding oneself with the right people. Common people don't invest in themselves through self-education.

Your Future Self is Watching

The sixth point is that your future self is constantly observing your actions. The speaker urges viewers to consider whether their current actions align with their future aspirations. If not, they need to change their behaviour to align with the person they aspire to become.

When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Will Appear

The seventh truth is that when someone is ready to change, the right mentor will appear. The speaker offers a free 30-minute coaching session via a digital mind clone to help viewers with their specific problems and scenarios. This is presented as an opportunity for viewers to receive immediate guidance and solutions.

Growth Feels Like Failure Until It Doesn't

The eighth point is that growth often feels like failure initially. Success is ugly before it's beautiful. Winners persist through the point where quitters give up. The speaker encourages viewers to recognise that frustration, chaos, and confusion are often signs that a breakthrough is near.

Your Habits Scream Your Priorities

The ninth truth is that habits reveal priorities more clearly than words. The speaker emphasises that actions speak louder than words and that daily habits determine one's future. He encourages viewers to examine their habits to understand their true priorities.

If It Scares You, It's Probably the Right Decision

The tenth point is that if something scares you, it's likely the right decision. The speaker advises viewers to "do it scared," as significant life changes often lie on the other side of uncomfortable choices. Avoiding fear means avoiding growth.

The Time's Going to Pass Anyways

The eleventh truth is that time will pass regardless, so one might as well become someone they're proud of. The speaker reminds viewers of their mortality and encourages them to make the most of their time by pursuing a life of purpose and pride, rather than living with regrets.

Comfort Has Never Created Anyone Who Is Admired

The final point is that comfort has never created anyone who is admired. The speaker encourages viewers to break free from comfort zones and embrace discomfort in order to achieve greatness and inspire others. He concludes by urging viewers to identify their strengths and weaknesses and to seek out environments that promote discomfort and growth.

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0:00 If you want uncommon results, you can't live a common life. You can't be like everyone else. You can't go out on the weekend. You can't sleep in late. You can't watch TV at night. You can't do what common people do and want uncommon results. Living a common life. The reason why a lot of you aren't rich right now is because you don't run with the pack you should. You're not with the right people. You don't try to get in the right circles. Comfort has never created anyone that's admired. You've been living like you're going to live 9 million years. All of you got an expiration date on you because at the end of your life, you're either going to die with regrets or you're going to die being proud of yourself. There will be no middle ground. These are hard truths why you're not rich. What is one hard thing? One hard thing that you've been avoiding. The life that you want will

0:46 always be delayed until you start doing those things that suck and the things that are hard. And if you do, you know what I'll tell you? You'll be admired by the world. You'll die with no regrets and you'll be proud of yourself. There is a good chance that every one of you right now is struggling with one of these things. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Elliott. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about 12 simple reasons. 12 simple things why you're probably not rich. Now, listen. I want you to do me a favor right now. I want you to write down how much money you have in your checking account, your savings account. I want you to write down how much money that you owe in debt. We call that debt. That's what you owe to other people. I'm not saying debt's bad. It could be bad if it's used on the on the wrong thing. Um, how much is your income? What did you make last year? Are you guys ready to turn your annual income to your

1:33 monthly income? Are you guys ready to get paid what you're worth? Are you ready to look down and and see seven figures in the bank, eight figures in the bank, nine figures in the bank? You can do it. You can do anything you want. You guys can do anything that you want. But my goal of this video is to show you 12 hard truths. Now, by the way, I want to tell you guys, I'm a trutht teller. 12 hard truths. Things that maybe you don't want to think about, things that you've been putting off, things you've been avoiding. I always tell people like, if you hate somebody, it's probably because they're doing the work that you're avoiding. That's probably what it is. Or maybe they're doing something and there's somebody you want to become. It's makes making you question yourself and it's pissing you off. My goal is to get you stirred up during this video. That is my number one goal. My goal is to get you to identify with self-awareness,

2:18 truth, and honesty in your life to why you're really not where you want to be. And so I could have come up with 50 hard truths, but this would be an hourong video. So I'm going to give you 12 hard truths that for me that worked for me. When I changed them in my life, I became rich. It can happen for you. You can be next. All right. So who's next? Right now. This video is free. Doesn't cost you anything. There is a fee though. Share it with a friend. Share it with somebody that needs to hear this. Share it with somebody that's got one of these problems. Okay? But you got to fix your own problems. And I want you to share it with them, too, and say, "Hey man, watch this thing. I think this will help you. I want you to comment below what is your greatest strength and also what's your worst weakness. And also make sure you set your notifications, subscribe to the channel. That way next time when I drop a banger video, boom, you're getting hit right of the way. I love you guys. Make

3:05 sure you hit me with a like, but share it with someone who needs it. All right, number one. So, we're going to go one through 12. I've got all 12 right here. Number one, dreams die in the hands of people who wait. Look, the longer that it takes you to make a decision, the less successful you're going to be. Period. End of story. That's the game. Procrastination is a thief of time. It's the freaking devil. Every time you wait, every time you become paralyzed with fear, someone else is is getting the courage to make that decision and they're beating you. Do you get it? So, I want you to write this down. Dreams die. And by the way, the graveyard has more dreams than any other place. But dreams die in the hands of people who wait. Never. Ever. ever

3:50 wait. If you want it, get it. And I'm going to cover something later on down here that's going to show you how to get really good at that. Okay? So, dreams die in the hands of people who wait. Number two, you don't need motivation. You need a standard. You know, I have a lot of people that hate on me. I don't think that they hate me. I really don't. I think that they hate my standards. I think that they hate that I live to a higher standard than them. That's what I think they hate. I don't think they hate me as a person. I I I want to live by h human excellence. I want to live at a way and a standard in a place that I'm proud of me, my family's proud of me, and when I die, there's a freaking legacy. I want to break my bloodline. I want to re rewrite my story. The only way that's going to happen. There's only one. That's by having a freaking standard. You don't need motivation. This video was not made to motivate you.

4:37 My channel isn't made to motivate you. You don't need another YouTube video to motivate you to get through through another day. You need a freaking standard. Everyone in this world can tell you what they do, but they can't tell you who they are. Okay? You need a standard. Chase the man, not the money. You become the man, you're gonna get the money. Okay? Number three, if you don't build your dream, you'll be hired to build someone else's. I want you to write this down right now. It is not a bad thing to work for someone else. There is nothing wrong with that. Matter of fact, you can make more money sometimes than even the owner. I want you to write this down. Either I'm going to own my own business. I'm going to build the greatest team in the world or I'm going to become the greatest number two that ever lived on planet Earth. I'm going to help someone else build their business and I'm going

5:24 to build their team inside that business. And by the way, my dream in the Elliot Group, Elliot Army is so big is that it could also hold the dreams of all my people that work with me in my company. That's that's a good thing. But if you have a dream and your goal is to do something, make sure you're in a place that you can do it. And if you're not, guess what? You're going to build someone else's dream and not your own. So right now, I want you to do me a favor. Write down what do you want in life. If you can't write down what you want in life, there's a good chance you can never get what you want in life because you don't know what that is. 99% of the world, I ask people what they want, they always say the same stupid thing. They say financial freedom. I'm like, what does that mean? They can't

6:09 even tell you what that means. I need to know what you want. Okay. Patrick Bet David, one of my mentors, says if you can close your eyes and you think about your dream and it makes you emotional, you know what you want. Okay? Know what your dream is. And by the way, this is a place on my channel where you can actually create a real dream for yourself and start to dream. Okay? All right. Number four. Every day you avoid the hard thing, you're delaying the life you want. every day that you avoid those hard things, those things that you know that you should be doing. Okay? You're delaying the life that you want, the one that you're really after. Okay? I tell people all the time, I'm like, "Hey, get up out of bed, do 100 push-ups every morning. They won't get up and do it." You know why? Because they're lazy. They're just

6:56 lazy. And they say, "Well, I don't have to do it." You're right. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to do anything that's hard in your life. But if the first thing that you do when you get out of bed is you do a 100 push-ups, you know what I'll tell you? You're doing something you don't want to do. You're doing something that's hard. The rest of the day won't be hard at all because you can you knock something out of the way. Boom. Right in the first thing in the morning when you got up. I go straight to the coal punch as soon as I wake up. I I I love it now, but I used to hate it. It's something that was hard for me. But if I do that first thing in the morning at 5 a.m., I'm telling you right now, like the other hard things that come up, those things aren't hard. I woke up doing hard stuff. The reason why a lot of you are delaying the life that you want is because you're avoiding the hard things. These are hard truths why you're not rich. There are is hard work. There's hard

7:43 relationships to maintain. There's certain things in this world that are super hard and you've been avoiding. Write down right now. What are three hard things that I've been avoiding? What is one hard thing? One hard thing that you've been avoiding. Maybe it's eating clean food and you love to snack and to you that's hard. I don't know what it is, but I know this. The life that you want will always be delayed until you start doing those things that suck and the things that are hard. Okay. All right. Right here. If you want uncommon results, I want to I want to be uncommon amongst uncommon men. I want to have an uncommon life in a very common world. I want to have uncommon results. If you want uncommon results, which is what we're all after, you can't live a common life.

8:29 You can't be like everyone else. You can't go out on the weekend. You can't sleep in late. You can't watch TV at night. You can't do what common people do and want uncommon results, living a common life. That's it. The reason why a lot of you aren't rich right now is because you don't you don't run with the pack you should. You're not with the right people. You don't try to get in the right circles. You know what common people do? They don't invest money on themselves. They don't they don't self-educate. They don't spend time working on themselves every day. Okay? Uncommon people do. And that's why they get uncommon lives, uncommon results. You guys got me? Okay, guys. We're all the way down to number five now. Number six,

9:14 your future self is watching everything you do. I always say this, man. The person that God made you to be is watching everything that you do and it's literally saying, "Dude, that is not going to get you to where you're supposed to be. Your max potential will never be hit if you continue to do that." So, I want you to have a conversation with your future self right now. And by the way, how big are you thinking? What's your behag? Your big hairy audacious goal? Your big scary dream that you're after? That human, that guy that one day you're chasing your whole life until the day you die? If you had a conversation with him right now, would he tell you the things that you're doing right now in life align with that man, that woman, okay? Your future you is watching you. The reason why you're not rich is because that's

9:59 not who you're supposed to be. And the things that you're doing right now, your future self would say, "Knock it off. That is not go that's not going to take you to where you're supposed to be." All right. Next. And I love this one. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. You know what I know? When someone's ready to change their life, the right mentor is always standing right there. It's right there. Okay? And by the way, I'm going to give you guys something. If you're watching this right now, I don't know what your problem is. I don't know what industry you're in. I don't know what your situation is in life. And I don't know what scenario you're currently living. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to test me for free. I'm going to coach every single one of you right now for the next 30 minutes for free. It's going

10:45 to be me. I've cloned my mind. I've created the Andy Elliot digital mind and I'm going to give it to every single one of you 30 minutes for free. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to go down to the description box below and literally there's a link. It says Andy Elliot Digital Mind. Try it here. You're going to try it. You literally click call and boom, you're going to call me and it is me. I answer the phone. It's like, "Hey, what's up? It's Andy. Let's crush it. How how can I help you? I want you to ask me any question. I want you to tell me what your problems are. I want you to to hit me with any scenario. I will show you how to handle it and fix it 911 immediately." It is me. I've taken the last five years, 23 years of sales, but the last five years, hundreds of thousands of conversations of every

11:32 industry, CEOs, business owners, people with every kind of problem in the world, and I've solved every one of them. and I uploaded it so it can literally coach and train you. And by the way, the greatest in the world will be using this, but I'm going to give it to you for 30 minutes for free. I want you to go down there right now. That's my gift to you. Go get it now and I want to coach you. 30 minutes. I'm going to change your life. So, when the students ready, the teacher will appear. If you're ready, the teacher's here and I'm going to give you the first 30 minutes for free right now. Let's go. All right. Growth feels like failure until it doesn't. When I started my business, it felt like it was hell. Felt like I was walking through hell. It felt like everybody that said everything about me that wasn't going to happen and my life was going to be like this and those

12:17 people that bet against me that all those people were right for a minute. It just felt that way. Success is ugly before it's beautiful. The reason why you're probably not rich right now and you're not making money is because winners live where quitters quit. A lot of quitters quit too early, so they never make it to the winning. So growth, which it it's not like and all awesome growth feels like failure until it doesn't, guys. Frustration plus chaos plus confusion, usually you're on the verge of a breakthrough. Never forget that, okay? Growth feels like failure until it doesn't. So, I

13:03 want you to know, you got to be able to push through that. You got to be able to identify, man, I'm not losing right now. I'm growing. This lesson, this thing I just learned, this failure, this is success. I'm getting closer every single day from where I'm every single day to where I'm supposed to be. Okay, this is huge. Your habits scream your priorities. What are your priorities? Your habits scream your priorities louder than your words. Dude, I don't care what comes out of your mouth. I don't care what comes out of anyone's mouth. You know what I care? I care what your habits are. You show me your habits. You show me your future. I know exactly what your life looks like tomorrow by the way that you live your life today. Plain and simple. Not by

13:49 what come by what comes out of your mouth. I don't even care what comes out of your mouth. I want to see what you do. Those are your habits. That's your priorities. And that's your future, not what you say. Huge one. Big reasons, hard truths, why you're not rich. You're going around telling everybody everything, but guess what? Your habits show me that you really don't want to be rich. Because if you did, you wouldn't do those things. Your priorities and your habits are the only thing that matter. Your words mean nothing. Your words should be beautiful words. They should help my imagination run. But I should be able to look at you with my eyes and know exactly who you are without you saying a damn word. Okay. If it scares you, huge one here, why people aren't successful and rich.

14:35 If it scares you, it's probably the right decision. If it scares you, do it scared. Write that down right now. If it scares me, do it scared. If you're waiting for it to feel great to go do something scary that can change your life, never gonna happen. I promise you. Never gonna happen. There's no big life sitting on the other side of an easy decision or something comfortable. Okay? So, just remember that. If it scares you, do it scared. If it scares you, it normally means that you're going in the right direction. That should probably be the thing that you should be doing. Last two right here. Last one's my favorite. Last two right here. 12 hard truths why you're not rich. Number 11, the time's

15:22 going to pass anyways, so you might as well become someone you're proud of. Guys, at the end of the day, we're all going to die. Your story has been written up to today. Then there's a gap and then the story has already been wrote that you're going to die one day. You might as well become someone you're proud of. The time's going to pass anyways. The reason, the hard truth reason why you're not rich right now is because you've been living like you're going to live 9 million years. You're not. All of you got an expiration date on you. You might as well give it everything you got. Why? Because at the end of your

16:07 life, you're either going to die with regrets or you're going to die being proud of yourself. There will be no middle ground. What's it going to be? 12 hard truths why you're not rich. By the way, I want you to know this. Remember I told I told you guys 30 minutes you can go down this link below. Click on it. Ask me any question you want. Say, "Andy, if you were in my Andy, this is my name. This is what industry I am. This is where I'm at in life. If you were me, what would you do? I'll coach you right now. I'll tell you exactly what to do." When you hear it, you're going to be like, "Oh my god, and it is me. It is better than me." And you can go see it right now. It's free. First 30 minutes. Lastly, number 12, we're going to wrap this up. Share this with your friends. Share this with someone who can take something away from

16:53 this and change their life. Comfort has never created anyone who is admired. They don't make statues of the haters and the critics. They make statues of the of the crazy dreamers. I want you to think about this. Comfort has never created anyone that's admired. Do you want to be an example of human excellence? Do you want people to look up to you? Remember up here at the top when I said you don't need motivation, you need a standard? Do you want to be that person where it's like, dude, I know I can do it. You know what? Just like that person and but you're their name. You're that person, the name that they put in that place, but that person did it. Do you want to be living proof that you can pull this off? That you can literally change your whole destiny? You

17:41 can break your bloodline, rewrite the story of your family, break generational curses, be the bloodline breaker in your family like I am. Do you want to be that? Guess what? Going for that life, you're going to have to kill off all comfort. The only way to be admired is to do things that suck. And you know what I would tell you? When I do easy things, I'm not proud of me. When I do things that are hard, I'm proud of me. So, do you guys want to have progress in your life every day, which will make you happy and be proud of yourself? Run from comfort. Get around people that will positively peer pressure the hell out of you to get uncomfortable as possible every freaking day. And if you do, you

18:26 know what I'll tell you? You'll be admired by the world. You'll die with no regrets. And you'll be proud of yourself. And you'll probably end up being rich. There is a good chance that every one of you right now is struggling with one of these things. Okay? I want you to write down what it is and I want you to do me a favor. Okay? I want you to comment below. What do you crush at that I went over and what do you need to work on? I want to know who you are. I want to see your YouTube name. More importantly, listen to me guys. If you don't follow me on Instagram, go follow me on Instagram right now. Official Andy Elliot. I drop content all day long. It's short form. Follow me on my other platforms, but IG am always dropping heaters. Okay, this is long form. I want you guys to understand who I am, what I

19:11 believe in, what I live for, and I also want to be a mentor and a coach to you. When I was younger, I never had a good leader. And so, my goal is to be a good leader for you so you can be as great as possible. Now, I want to create you to be a great leader for those other people. So, guys, I love you. Make sure you share it, okay? Make sure you go right now to that link below, get your free 30 minute coaching session, one- on-one, just me and you. I love you guys. Guys, I'll see you in the next video.

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