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00:00:00In this video, we're gonna be going through seven habits
00:00:02that made me a bunch of money when I was in my 20s.
00:00:04They were all unhealthy in one way or another.
00:00:07Yes, it's very good to become financially free
00:00:09and make all the money and stuff.
00:00:10And it is also good to have a balanced life
00:00:12and not be sacrificing the things
00:00:14that are more important than money on route to getting there.
00:00:17Oh, by the way, if we haven't met yet,
00:00:18hello, my name is Ali.
00:00:19I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur.
00:00:20And on this YouTube channel, since 2017,
00:00:22I've been documenting the journey
00:00:24from being a broke ass medical student
00:00:26to then working full time as a doctor,
00:00:27to then becoming a multimillion dollar entrepreneur
00:00:29and best-selling author.
00:00:30And my goal with this channel is to document the lessons
00:00:32that I've learned and the lessons I'm continuing to learn,
00:00:34partly as a reminder for myself and also in the hope
00:00:36that you will find something that is useful
00:00:38on your own journey of building a life you love.
00:00:40All right, habit number one
00:00:41is what I like to call the zero downtime habit.
00:00:44To this day, I carry this laptop bag,
00:00:46this camera bag everywhere I go.
00:00:48And I've been doing this for years, so much so to the point
00:00:49that when my wife and I started dating, like many years ago,
00:00:52she referred to it as my safety blanket
00:00:53because like a child, I had to carry my safety blanket
00:00:56everywhere I went, otherwise I would feel weird.
00:00:57And the reason for this is that in particular,
00:00:59while I was in my 20s and grinding away
00:01:00on building my business,
00:01:01I would not allow myself to have any downtime.
00:01:04Anytime there was a spare moment or where a normal person
00:01:08more likely would take out their phone
00:01:09and like scroll Instagram or TikTok or whatever,
00:01:10I would instead bust out the laptop
00:01:12and I would try and do as much work as I possibly could
00:01:14in that time and almost like play this as like a challenge
00:01:17or a game with myself where I'm like squeezing out
00:01:19productivity and efficiency out of these like minutes
00:01:21of downtime here and there.
00:01:22There was almost no moment that I gave myself
00:01:25when I was sort of in the build phase of building the business
00:01:28of like actually allowing myself to chill out.
00:01:30Now, the obvious benefit to this
00:01:31is that you actually just end up with way more time
00:01:33to grind on the thing that you wanna be grinding on.
00:01:35One of my friends, Matthew Dix, he's a great writer
00:01:37and a teacher and he tells the story of how
00:01:40like whatever you're trying to do,
00:01:41you probably don't have huge amounts of free time
00:01:43on your hands to be able to work on the thing,
00:01:45especially if you're trying to like, if you've got a day job
00:01:47and you're trying to do a side hustle at the same time,
00:01:48like trying to build your business
00:01:49or I don't know, write a book or whatever.
00:01:51And so actually squeezing out productivity and efficiency
00:01:53out of those tiny moments of time here and there
00:01:55that we get throughout the day,
00:01:56instead of using that time scrolling
00:01:58or using that time merely enjoying the taste
00:02:01of a cup of coffee.
00:02:02That time actually does make a difference
00:02:03in how much progress you're able to make in your business.
00:02:05And it does genuinely add up.
00:02:06As with all of the habits in this video,
00:02:08this kind of habit comes at a cost.
00:02:10The cost is obviously you lose some sense of presence.
00:02:13You lose some sense of like dancing through life
00:02:15and actually just being able to take a moment to rest
00:02:17and reflect and like just be present in the moment.
00:02:19And what it results, at least for me
00:02:21and speaking to a lot of my entrepreneur friends
00:02:23is you end up training this muscle to the point
00:02:25that it genuinely becomes difficult to switch off.
00:02:27I now have to set rules for myself where I'm like,
00:02:29Ali, you're not allowed to work on the weekend.
00:02:31And then I get around those rules to be like,
00:02:32well, it's not really work if you consider it fun, right?
00:02:34So then I literally changed the rule for myself.
00:02:37So I'm like, I'm not allowed to do anything on the weekend
00:02:39that would look like work to someone else.
00:02:41So I'm not judging what work is.
00:02:44An impartial, reasonable objective observer is judging,
00:02:47does that thing actually look like work?
00:02:48And I find that rule to be very helpful because I'm like,
00:02:50okay, well, that means I can't do quite a lot of things
00:02:51I would wanna do.
00:02:52Okay, maybe I'll read some Harry Potter fan fiction
00:02:54or I'll like, I don't know, go for a walk without my phone
00:02:56or something like that.
00:02:57Should you adopt the habit of having no downtime
00:02:58into your life?
00:02:59I don't know, this video is not a advice.
00:03:02It's not a video about whether you should do anything or not.
00:03:04I'm just giving you the information to be like,
00:03:06this worked for me when I was in my 20s.
00:03:08And it also had some, how we say, unhealthy implications
00:03:10that I'm trying to unlearn now.
00:03:12And so up to you, you can take it or leave it.
00:03:14Now we come to habit number two.
00:03:15Habit number two is the habit of constant consumption.
00:03:17This is a habit that really helped me when I was, you know,
00:03:20in the first like many years of building my business,
00:03:22which is that if I was in a situation where I physically
00:03:24couldn't get out my laptop and work,
00:03:26I was always consuming something often related to work
00:03:30or related to the business.
00:03:31So I'd be listening to podcasts about business,
00:03:33I'd be listening to audio books about business,
00:03:34I'd be listening to YouTube videos
00:03:35at double speed about business.
00:03:36If I was in bed, I'd be reading books on my Kindle
00:03:38about business and about how to make more money
00:03:40and how to grow YouTube channels and all that kind of stuff.
00:03:42And so for absolutely years,
00:03:44I basically didn't have many moments of like rest.
00:03:48Even when I was doing things like commuting to work
00:03:50or like on the toilet, I would always have my AirPods in
00:03:53and always be listening to something or other
00:03:54by constantly getting like injecting all of this
00:03:56business advice and stuff into my veins.
00:03:58And the benefit of this is that especially if you're a noob
00:04:00to the world of business, like I was back in the day,
00:04:02you actually end up leveling up quite a lot
00:04:04by learning from other people
00:04:06that have been on the journey before.
00:04:07That was super, super, super helpful
00:04:09in drastically leveling up my knowledge of business,
00:04:12not my skills 'cause skills require practice,
00:04:13but at least my knowledge of like stuff.
00:04:15It was also really helpful because then I was able to do
00:04:17all of those things without actively making time for them.
00:04:19It just sort of happened while I was doing
00:04:21all these other things.
00:04:21And again, the downside and what makes this feel
00:04:23slightly unhealthy, especially now that I'm looking back on it
00:04:25in hindsight is that A, it's not a particularly present
00:04:28or mindful way to live where you're constantly injecting
00:04:31information through your AirPods at like three X feet.
00:04:33It's very easy to miss any kind of nuance
00:04:34and to really like reflect and engage deeply
00:04:37with what you're listening to when it's like
00:04:38just fire hose of information into your brain.
00:04:41The other downside, which is something that I'm now realizing
00:04:43is that more information does not actually result
00:04:46in more progress.
00:04:47For many years while I was in my twenties,
00:04:48I thought that like the thing that was stopping my business
00:04:51from growing was that I just didn't know enough stuff.
00:04:53And so the more books I would listen to
00:04:55or the more books I would read
00:04:56or the more podcasts I would listen to,
00:04:57maybe there would be this like magical idea out there
00:04:59that like I just hadn't come across before.
00:05:01Even if I was thinking about the business,
00:05:02thinking about what is the bottleneck right now
00:05:04that's stopping us from 10 Xing the business.
00:05:06And then just thinking about that for an hour,
00:05:07rather than listening to an hour worth of audio book,
00:05:10that probably would have actually resulted
00:05:12in a greater impact on the business
00:05:14rather than me listening to the 500th audio book
00:05:18about business like that decade.
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00:06:26Habit number three is the habit
00:06:27of constantly thinking about your work.
00:06:30For me, the way this manifested was in a few different ways.
00:06:32Firstly, I'd be thinking about work all the time.
00:06:34I'd be thinking about it in the shower.
00:06:35I'd be thinking about it
00:06:36while when driving to my actual day job.
00:06:38I'd be thinking about it on my lunch breaks.
00:06:40All of those things are fine.
00:06:41But where it became more unhealthy, shall we say,
00:06:44was when I would be thinking about it
00:06:46while spending time with friends and family.
00:06:48A lot of the times I was physically present,
00:06:50but in hindsight, I was not actually present
00:06:52because either I was thinking about work
00:06:55or I was literally like busting out my laptop
00:06:57on the dining table, on the kitchen table
00:06:58rather than hanging out with my mom and grandma.
00:07:00And if you decide to incorporate this kind of habit
00:07:02into your life, the benefit you'll get
00:07:03is that basically the more time you're spending
00:07:06consciously or subconsciously thinking about the thing
00:07:09that you need to do to make money, your business,
00:07:10whatever the thing might be,
00:07:11that level of focus often results in interesting ideas.
00:07:14Most people will have breakthroughs in their business,
00:07:16not when they're sitting on the desk,
00:07:17but when they're maybe in the shower
00:07:18or maybe driving to work.
00:07:19But obviously the cost of this
00:07:21is that it can often cost something
00:07:24in your personal relationships.
00:07:26And this is a difficult habit to break.
00:07:28I am currently trying to unlearn the habit
00:07:30of constantly thinking about work stuff.
00:07:33I have some friends and mentors who are also entrepreneurs
00:07:35and who have kids that are older than mine.
00:07:37And so they've been parents for longer.
00:07:39And one thing they've advised is that like, you know,
00:07:40having a kid is like a very good like reason
00:07:43to try and actually learn the habit of being present
00:07:46and not just having the subroutine of like,
00:07:47what's the next thing to do in the business
00:07:48and running all the time.
00:07:49So these days when I'm like spending time with my daughter,
00:07:51I am trying my best to approach it with true presence
00:07:55rather than putting in the time
00:07:57without really putting in the sort of mental head space,
00:07:59if that makes sense.
00:08:00Okay, so let's talk about habit number four,
00:08:02shirking your other responsibilities.
00:08:04In my case, and as is the case for a lot of entrepreneurs
00:08:08I know who are now quite rich,
00:08:10it's very, very rare to have a fully,
00:08:13shall we say balanced life
00:08:14while you're in the grind phase of building up the business.
00:08:17So for me, I started building my first successful business
00:08:19while I was in medical school.
00:08:20Honestly, I kind of half-assed medical school for six years
00:08:25because my mind was always focused on this other thing
00:08:28of building the business.
00:08:29Similarly, when I was working as a doctor,
00:08:31the discretionary time that I had at work,
00:08:33like in lunch breaks and after work
00:08:34and like on the way to work and you know,
00:08:36all that kind of stuff.
00:08:37My friends who were really, really, really into medicine
00:08:39and who were whole-assing their medical careers,
00:08:41they were using that additional time
00:08:43to boost up their CV or to do research projects
00:08:45or to do audits or to create like presentations
00:08:48for conferences and stuff.
00:08:49And I was sort of doing the bare minimum of that
00:08:52just to sort of tick the boxes.
00:08:53And I was spending all of the rest of that discretionary time
00:08:55working on the business.
00:08:56And to be honest, this is a pattern you see amongst
00:08:58any sort of outlier success in any field,
00:09:00whether it's entrepreneurship or sports or acting or music
00:09:03or anything like that, which is it's really, really hard
00:09:05to do something at a really high standard
00:09:07if you're focusing on more than just that one thing.
00:09:09Now, for most people who watch my stuff,
00:09:10if you are building business,
00:09:11it's probably something you're gonna start out building
00:09:14on the side of your like main gig,
00:09:16like whatever the things you're doing at university,
00:09:18whatever your career is.
00:09:19And so you kind of have to recognize that probably,
00:09:23unless you're particularly superhuman at this,
00:09:25'cause I certainly wasn't,
00:09:26like your main thing is going to suffer
00:09:28as a result of you building your side thing.
00:09:30Whether you wanna make that trade is entirely up to you.
00:09:33I'm personally glad I made the trade for myself,
00:09:35but also survivorship bias, it worked out for me.
00:09:37But if for whatever reason the business thing didn't work out
00:09:39or I did wanna go back to medicine,
00:09:40I have, I am behind, relatively speaking.
00:09:45All right, let's talk about habit number five,
00:09:46the health sacrifice.
00:09:47So when I was in the early days of building the business,
00:09:50actually for many, many years,
00:09:51I realized that shopping for groceries
00:09:53and cooking healthy food were things
00:09:55that were taking up way too much time.
00:09:57And I decided that I would rather invest that time
00:09:59into stuff in the business,
00:10:00rather than into cooking and eating healthy food.
00:10:02The benefit of this was that it saved me many, many hours
00:10:04every single week that I was able to then put
00:10:06into the business to grow the business and make more money.
00:10:08The downside obviously is that I then ended up living
00:10:11off takeaways for most of my 20s.
00:10:13And so there is a certain level of health sacrifice
00:10:15that I made in my 20s for the sake of grinding
00:10:17on the business.
00:10:18Now that I'm in my 30s, I'm trying, you know,
00:10:19I've got a personal trainer, I see a physio,
00:10:21I'm trying to reverse the damage of like I did to my posture
00:10:23and like trying to activate my glutes and my hamstrings
00:10:25'cause I never knew what those were
00:10:26because I was just like sitting and grinding
00:10:27on a computer all the time.
00:10:28My cardiovascular health is worse than it would have been
00:10:30had I sort of taken better care of like my arteries and stuff
00:10:33by not eating like fatty unhealthy foods
00:10:35when I was in my 20s.
00:10:36Do I think you have to make that sacrifice?
00:10:37I don't think so.
00:10:38These days there are a lot of like super healthy
00:10:39takeout options, but for me, when I was in my 20s,
00:10:41it just wasn't really a priority.
00:10:42It wasn't really something I thought about.
00:10:44If I had my time again, I would still do takeouts,
00:10:46but I would find a way to really optimize the health side
00:10:49of the takeout so I wasn't living off of like kebab rolls
00:10:51and you know, that kind of stuff.
00:10:53Habit number six that I developed,
00:10:54which was slightly unhealthy is being okay
00:10:56with wasting money.
00:10:57So if, for example, I wanted to buy something
00:10:59like a tech purchase or something for work
00:11:01or something for the studio or like whatever,
00:11:03instead of spending ages doing the research to figure out
00:11:05like what's the best thing that I would wanna buy,
00:11:07if it was below a certain price point,
00:11:09I would just order the thing without thinking about it.
00:11:11Then I would forget about it.
00:11:12Then it would arrive in the post and then I would try it out
00:11:14to see if it actually fulfilled the needs
00:11:16that I wanted it to fulfill.
00:11:17Now quite a lot of time, I would say maybe 80% of the time,
00:11:20the answer was no and I didn't end up continuing
00:11:21to use the thing.
00:11:22And so then I've got this tech which I've just bought
00:11:24that's just sort of sitting there doing absolutely nothing.
00:11:26And so I would either give it away to a charity shop
00:11:28or had like a donations box where I would like drop things
00:11:30off to Oxfam every now and then,
00:11:32or I would give it away to a friend
00:11:33or if it was something low value,
00:11:34I would just stick it in the bin.
00:11:35Now the benefit of adopting this kind of attitude
00:11:37into your life is that, again, you just get very,
00:11:39very ruthless about how you are spending your time.
00:11:41And if you think something is not worth your time,
00:11:43then you don't bother doing it,
00:11:44which means that you probably have more time
00:11:46to be able to focus on like revenue generating activities
00:11:48in your business.
00:11:49The downside is that it ends up creating waste.
00:11:52It's probably bad for the environment
00:11:53and it's probably not good for the soul
00:11:55to just be able to press a button and buy whatever you want
00:11:57and then try it out and then almost like discard it.
00:12:00I would reason with myself.
00:12:01I'd be like, oh, I'm giving it away to a charity shop
00:12:02or I'm giving it away to a friend and like,
00:12:03so it's not like fully wasted, but even so,
00:12:06there is something about that wastage
00:12:07that is probably suboptimal for the soul.
00:12:10And so that was like the cost I paid
00:12:12for having this attitude of being okay with waste.
00:12:14It's something my wife and I clash about to this day.
00:12:16She's very anti-waste.
00:12:17I am still struggling to unlearn the habit
00:12:19of like being put wasteful when it comes to like buying things
00:12:23'cause I'm still ingrained in the mindset of like,
00:12:24well, why would I bother spending two hours doing the research
00:12:26if it's like, it's not worth the time of doing the research?
00:12:28You know, all of that kind of stuff.
00:12:29And then habit number seven relates to this point of,
00:12:31is this worth my time?
00:12:33Now there is advice in the world of entrepreneurship
00:12:35that says that you should figure out
00:12:37what is your effective hourly rate
00:12:39or your aspirational hourly rate.
00:12:41So if, for example, my hourly rate is $100 an hour
00:12:43and I've ordered a $25 thing,
00:12:46but it would take me half an hour
00:12:47to like try and return the thing if I don't actually need it.
00:12:49That half an hour is costing me $50,
00:12:51but I'm only getting back $25.
00:12:52And so why would I bother?
00:12:54You know, that kind of idea.
00:12:55I thought this was great because I realized
00:12:57I figured out what my effective hourly rate was
00:12:58based on how much money I was making in business at the time
00:13:00when it was in my early twenties.
00:13:01I figured out what my aspirational hourly rate was,
00:13:03which was a lot higher than that.
00:13:04And it gave me license to just not do a lot of things
00:13:08and to be okay with like wasting a lot of money
00:13:10because I reasoned that it wasn't worth the hourly rate.
00:13:12The benefit of this is that you then actually delete
00:13:15quite a lot of errands and chores here and there
00:13:17that actually end up taking quite a lot of time.
00:13:19So for example, based on this was why I decided
00:13:21to hire a cleaner fairly early on in my professional career.
00:13:24However, as with all of these habits,
00:13:26it does come with a cost.
00:13:27And the cost is that it becomes very easy
00:13:29to start thinking of everything in life from this lens
00:13:32of what is the hourly rate.
00:13:33I tried my best when I was a wee lad
00:13:35to not over apply this particular razor,
00:13:38to not think about it in context of like French friendships
00:13:40or relationships or anything like that,
00:13:42because you really don't wanna be starting to think of like,
00:13:44oh, you know, I hung out with my mate for two hours.
00:13:47That's 500 pounds that I've just wasted.
00:13:48You know, you really don't wanna be thinking in those ways,
00:13:51but it is hard.
00:13:52It is something that you have to actively fight against.
00:13:53And it sort of runs the risk of turning time
00:13:56that you spend on anything into like
00:13:58into a pure time equals money kind of trade.
00:14:01And then when you start running this calculation,
00:14:03you're like, huh, is it really worth me?
00:14:04I don't know, reading a book for half an hour
00:14:06because like, you know, that's 250 quid.
00:14:08Is it really worth me driving all the way to see a friend
00:14:11because maybe the driving time.
00:14:12So can I be productive in that driving time?
00:14:13We don't really wanna go, it's kind of far away.
00:14:14I could be working on the business instead to earn more money.
00:14:16And so even this is I think a good habit
00:14:19and I certainly wouldn't change it if I had my time again.
00:14:22Like with all these habits, it can be a double-edged sword
00:14:24that it's worth keeping in mind
00:14:27if you're gonna start adopting
00:14:28that kind of philosophy into your life.
00:14:29Now, ultimately for me,
00:14:30all of the habits that I've talked about here
00:14:33actually did end up serving me.
00:14:34They allowed me to build a business while I was in med school
00:14:37and then later build a business, grow my YouTube channel
00:14:39while I was working full-time as a doctor.
00:14:41And all of that has allowed me to become financially free
00:14:43and be able to kind of do what I want
00:14:45and live a life that I love.
00:14:45So I don't regret any of that.
00:14:47However, one thing that I've realized
00:14:48is that these sorts of habits
00:14:49I think are useful for a season,
00:14:51but they're not very useful
00:14:53when you apply them to your whole life.
00:14:54And the habits that help you get rich
00:14:56seem to conflict from what I've learned
00:14:59with the habits that actually lead to a happy,
00:15:01fulfilled and peaceful life.
00:15:02It's very useful to constantly value your time
00:15:04and never do anything that's beneath your hourly rate
00:15:07when you are trying to build a business.
00:15:08But man, if you're trying to run a household,
00:15:09if you're married and you have a wife and you have a child
00:15:11and stuff in the household needs to be done
00:15:13and you're running everything by that calculation
00:15:15of like, is this really worth my time,
00:15:16takes you to places that you don't really wanna get to
00:15:18in your relationship.
00:15:19When I speak to entrepreneurs who are much older than me,
00:15:21like in their 50s or 60s or whatever,
00:15:23almost all of them say that
00:15:25it's okay to take a break on the weekends.
00:15:26And in fact, it's a good thing
00:15:27because it helps you come up with more creative ideas
00:15:29and it helps you rejuvenate you and rest
00:15:30and all that kind of stuff.
00:15:31No one who is in their like 50s or 60s
00:15:32that I've spoken to about this says,
00:15:34even once you've made it, made it,
00:15:35you're still like grinding away on the weekends and stuff,
00:15:37even while you have like a wife and a kid.
00:15:39It sort of feels like the muscle of being productive
00:15:41and grinding away on the business.
00:15:43It's like, for me, that muscle has been over-trained.
00:15:46So it's sort of like,
00:15:47unlearning that is not as straightforward
00:15:50as I would have thought it would be.
00:15:51It's still a journey that I'm trying to navigate
00:15:54because I do wanna grow the business.
00:15:55It is super fun
00:15:56and it does fund like the lifestyle that we have.
00:15:58And also it's not the most important thing
00:16:00to have a wife and a kid.
00:16:01I do wanna take care of my health.
00:16:02I do wanna explore more hobbies.
00:16:03So I guess maybe a takeaway from this video
00:16:05is that if you are actively trying to get rich,
00:16:07in general, the more time you spend thinking about
00:16:09and working towards the goal of getting rich,
00:16:11the more time and effort and energy and focus
00:16:13you spend on that, the more likely it is to happen.
00:16:15However, time, energy and focus are a finite resource.
00:16:18And so the more time you spend working on the goal
00:16:20of getting rich, the less time you're gonna be spending
00:16:22on everything else.
00:16:23For me, I'm very glad about how I spent my 20s
00:16:25grinding away on the business
00:16:26and trying to maximize productivity.
00:16:28But at the same time, it does come with costs.
00:16:30And so either you're willing to pay those costs
00:16:31or you've actually, ideally you find a way
00:16:33to grind on your business and get rich
00:16:34without having to sacrifice other things
00:16:37that you particularly care about.
00:16:38And I think ultimately whatever game you're playing,
00:16:40whether it's the game of trying to build a business
00:16:42or trying to get forward in your career
00:16:44or trying to get better grades in school
00:16:45or trying to get rich or not,
00:16:46like whatever game you're playing,
00:16:47one lesson that I'm learning right now
00:16:49is that there are different strategies
00:16:51that work for different seasons.
00:16:53And ultimately what I'm trying to remember for me,
00:16:55we're not optimizing for trying to maximize
00:16:58the dollars in the bank account.
00:16:59We're actually optimizing,
00:17:00like all of us are optimizing for peace,
00:17:02happiness, fulfillment, joy, all of that kind of stuff.
00:17:04Dollars in the bank account,
00:17:05yes, it does lead to financial freedom,
00:17:06which can lead to time freedom and creative freedom.
00:17:08So it's amazing, it's fantastic.
00:17:09And it is also not the only thing that matters.
00:17:11Like for me, my 20s was like strategically imbalanced
00:17:14in favor of like making money
00:17:15and less in terms of like turning the dials down
00:17:17in terms of like health and relationships.
00:17:19But now that I'm in my 30s,
00:17:20I wanna dial down the focus on making of the money
00:17:22while still maintaining that
00:17:24and dial up the focus on health, relationships,
00:17:26joy, family, peace, fulfillment, all of that kind of stuff.
00:17:28And if you go into this point in the video
00:17:29and you haven't yet seen my video
00:17:31about my 168 hours spreadsheet,
00:17:33it's basically about like how to make time for everything
00:17:36where like the key takeaway from that video
00:17:37is that you cannot make time for everything.
00:17:38And so if you're interested in that one,
00:17:40that'll be linked right over there.
00:17:41Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.