David Osborn - Wealth Can’t Wait: Avoid the 7 Wealth Traps, Implement the 7 Business Pillars, and Complete a Life Audit Today!

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THIS BOOK IS FOR our beloved families, friends, and heroesour great mentors, teachers, and business partners who cared enough to help us on our journey. This book is for all those who have taught us how to be better people and for those weve had the pleasure of helping. This book is a reflection of all of you. May our collective wisdom change lives for the better.

To all those who choose abundance.

May the odds be forever in your favor.

Effie Trinket

Some people are born on third basethey inherit money, marry into wealth, or win the lottery. The rest of us must hit base hits (and sometimes strike out) in our journey to build our own wealth. This book is for anyone who wants to put the odds in their favor. In the pages that follow, well show you how to adopt the mindset and develop the skills you will need to empower your freedom, create your future, and build a life worth living today.

Were privileged to be a part of an extraordinary company, Keller Williams Realty International, which is the largest real estate company in the world, with more than 150,000 agents as of this printing. We are Keller Williamss top-selling broker-owners, and we joined forces to write this book so we could share how you can build wealth in all areas of your life.

Weve divided our book into five parts:

Make the Choice to Build Wealth

Embrace the Mindset That Builds Wealth

Create the Habits That Build Wealth

Develop a Business That Builds Wealth

Generate the Momentum That Builds Wealth

Building wealthas opposed to having money go through your handsrequires you to make different choices, think different thoughts, practice different habits, and conduct business in a different way. These principles and practices work, and were going to show you how to implement them so that you can build wealth, just as we have.

Building wealth. These two words work well together. Your level of income doesnt determine your level of wealth. If youre not building wealth, then youre depleting it. Just as you can build muscle, or strengthen tennis skills, or tend your backyard into a wonderful oasis, the minute you stop doing these things your muscles atrophy, your tennis skills rust, and your garden overgrows.

Just like with these activities, building wealth is a process that requires repetition and consistency to build muscle. Its an application of knowledge to life that has a built-in feedback loop. When building wealth, you apply your knowledge through effort or investment. When you do this, you produce results and you either win or lose. Then you apply what you learned and do it all over again. Throughout this book, we share the knowledge and tools that will help you create habits that build wealth.

Having lots of money alone means nothing. Former NBA star Allen Iverson had lots of money and lost it. Lottery winners have lots of money (and many of them end up losing it)but they could preserve it and grow it if they practice the wealth-building methods in our book. The real journey to wealth, however, is built upon the knowledge, skills, habits, and relationships that you apply to money.

In the pages that follow, we share our journey and the lessons we have learned. These are lessons that people can use to climb their own mountains. If you are going to cure cancer, launch the next Rolling Stones, or build a new tech start-up and become a billionaire, please drop this book and get after it. Our techniques might not be for you, or we might slow you down. This book is for anyone who wants to put the odds in their favor and wants to build long-term, sustainable wealth. Its for the man or woman who says, I want my life to be on track to be amazing, unrecognizable from what it is now in five to ten years. Its not about winning the lottery or becoming an instant billionaire.

This book is about building wealth. It will empower you with a set of skills that will serve you for a lifetime. We can help you create a life that is more joyous, one that will enable you to work with some talented people and do some incredible things. We do not have a get-rich-quick formula for you. Instead, we have a wealth-building formula for you. The journey is yours to take. We cant do the work for you. But heres the good news: It doesnt have to be hard work. It can be play. By practicing what we offer in this book, you will learn to thrive and create the life you desire.

Over the years we have built a lot of wealth, and we continue to do so. Weve had things go our way and go against us. The greatest thing you can do to increase your wealth is to further your knowledge of wealth. The skills we share here are not just important; they are crucial to building wealth. In this book, you will find the keys that unlock wealth-building potential for anyone with the ambition, energy, and desire to do so.

So, what are you waiting for? Lets get started!

Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy or one step further away.

Shay Olivarria

Building wealth requires making a choice. One day you wake up. And instead of going back into the matrix, you stop. You look at your life and ask, What game am I playing?

Maybe it was a life-changing event, be it positive or negative. Maybe you just picked up this book. It doesnt really matter. Regardless of the reason, its moments like these that create an opportunity. They create a window of clarity to see your life from the outside in. At these moments you can stop and ask yourself, Is the way Im choosing to live my life leading me to the future that I really want?