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Three Unwritten Rules To Get Wealthy

Matt | Financial Imagineer
4 min readDec 19, 2022

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Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it can be made with the right mindset. Getting wealthy requires more than hard work and luck — it requires making intentional shifts in how you think about money, success, and risk-taking.

Knowing these unwritten rules of the game is essential if you want to stop playing not to lose and start playing to win.

Let’s take a look at the three most significant mindset shifts that will help you get wealthy.

Talent and IQ Are Not Enough

It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that talent, intelligence, or genius are enough to make you successful. Only having talent and a lot of great ideas keeps you a “Brillionaire”: They are brilliant but don’t do anything with their gift to materialize success or wealth.

Talent is not enough Consistency, discipline and delayed gratification are the building blocks to greatness. You must develop those traits or you will fail

When it comes to getting wealthy, this simply isn’t true — talent needs to be shaped, honed, and developed over time with consistency and discipline.

This also means understanding delayed gratification — your wealth won’t come…

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Matt | Financial Imagineer
Matt | Financial Imagineer

Written by Matt | Financial Imagineer

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