If you have less than $100k in your bank account, this is for you:

I've never liked the "traditional" path...

Do the math:

• Spend $100,000 to go to college.

• Get a job that pays $50,000 a year (hopefully).

• $50,000 a year is about $4,000 a month before taxes.

• Average rent is about $2,000 a month (there goes half your income).

• Oh, I forgot you'll also be paying $500 a month for student loans.

• Gotta drive to work so your car payment will be $300 a month.

• Junk food that'll kill you is about $600 a month.

• Insurance all together is $400 a month.

• That leaves you with $200 left over.

Now you're on track to have $100,000 to your name by the time you're 61 years old.

And that's without thinking about buying anything else.

Remember this next time someone says making $50,000 a year is good...

This is what my bank account looked like a few years ago:

If I had $1,000 in my account I'd pick up shifts and work super hard to get it back up.

Once I touched the $5,000 mark I'd spend my money back down to around $1,000.

This created an average of $3,000 in my bank account...

And it hovered around that range for a long time.

I was a slave to the system:

• I'd Wake up

• Scroll through my phone

• Eat junk food

• Sit in traffic

• 8 hours of unfulfilling work

• Sit in traffic... again

• Watch TV

• Pass out

• Repeat

But one day I opened my eyes... this is what I saw:

Ever since the dawn of time... the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

This has nothing to do with rich people being evil, the government being rigged, what career path you pick, or what business you're in.

Money is a system that'll make or break you.

And if you don't design your own system... you'll become a cog in someone else's.

After I opened my eyes I became obsessed with the system that made the rich richer...

I studied hundreds of millionaires.

I spent over $50,000 on online courses.

And I spent 4 years on my own business to apply what I learned.

Just like that... my bank account grew exponentially:

• $3,000...

• $10,000...

• $20,000...

• $50,000...

• $70,000...

• $100,000…

You get the point.

In this newsletter, I'm going to give you the exact system I used, so you can add $100k to your bank account within the next year or so without following the traditional path...

But first, we need to understand what systems thinking is:

Intro To Systems Thinking: How Millionaires Think

If you want to make millions you need to understand how millionaires think.

But first, what is a system?

A system is a group of parts working together to achieve a purpose.

It looks like this:

Every system has a goal, an environment, inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback loops.

For example, a University is a complex system.

There are students, teachers, grade levels, exams, course material, classrooms, etc.

• Goal: Educate Students

• Inputs: Students

• Processes: Teachers, Exams, Courses, Classrooms, Etc.

• Outputs: Graduate Students

• Environment: The World

If this system ran perfectly, our economy would be more educated.

But that's not how systems work.

Systems have a ton of moving parts where every part affects the whole.

Now here's where systems get extremely interesting...

There's a cause and effect relationship with every change you make to a system.

If you change the goal:

Old Goal = Educate Students

New Goal = Increase profits

Students drown in debt and most don’t get the education they need.

And if you change the environment:

20th Century = Industrial Economy

21st Century = Information Economy

The system is designed to drown students in more debt to compete.

Dangerous.

Systems completely change the way you see the world...

But before I move on... here are a few more important things to understand about systems:

1. Systems are everywhere - Space, earth, countries, governments, corporations, cities, universities, humans, and atoms are all systems.

2. Systems effect systems - All systems are interconnected. For example, if you change one system in America, it could affect every other country in the world.

3. Systems are within systems - If you dive below the surface of a system, you'll find thousands of other systems inside it. Zoom out = space. Zoom in = atoms.

If you think about the 3 points above you'll start to question reality.

That's means you're ready to learn systems thinking:

So, what is systems thinking?

Systems thinking is a way of solving problems by looking at components as parts of a greater whole.

Here are some examples of how systems thinkers think:

• Disconnection vs. Interconnectedness

  • Systems thinkers see how components connect to form a whole to achieve a purpose.

• Linear vs. Circular

  • Systems thinkers understand that all systems have a feedback loop that feeds data back into the system. This makes it circular.

• Silos vs. Emergence

  • Systems thinkers understand that all unique components have the ability to form a new whole within an environment.

• Parts vs. Wholes

  • Systems thinkers see how the parts connect to the whole.

• Analysis vs. Synthesis

  • Systems thinkers analyze all parts within the whole.

• Isolation vs. Relationships

  • Systems thinkers see how each component has multiple relationships within the greater whole.

99% of the population = think within the system.

1% of the population = think to design their own system.

This is just the surface of all the new perspectives systems thinking unlocks...

Now, let’s dive into the system I used to put $100k+ in my bank account...

Here's The 3 Step System I Used To Put $100k+ In My Bank Account Before I Turned 21:

1) Adopt systems thinking

Don't read this and move on.

You need to practice systems thinking.

Because if you can't design your own system, you'll be a cog in someone else's.

What I'm about to give you is scratching the surface.

This is what I've come up with after 2 years of systems thinking.

YOU have to keep developing your own mental models.

With that being said... here's my system:

2) Zoom out

I started by zooming all the way out to understand the system:

The most important thing to think about when zooming out is the goal...

My Goal = True Freedom

Here's how I measure that:

If I lost my monthly income tomorrow... How many years could I survive?

That breaks down into simple math:

(Total Cash / Monthly Burn) = Months To Survive

(Months / 12) = Years To Survive

Here's an example of the system working over time when optimizing for true freedom:

• Monthly Income: $12,000

• Monthly Expenses: $5,000

• Cash Flow: $7,000

• Investment Income: $7,000

• Timeline: 3 years

• Total Cash After Timeline: $252,000

• Freedom: 4.2 years

In this example, I could work for about 3 years and take the next 4 years off if I wanted to.

That's true freedom to me, but that's IF those numbers stay the same.

Changing either part of the system can drastically change the outcome over time.

Here's what's crazy:

• It'd take me a year of work to be able to take a year off of work (true freedom)

• It'd take me a day to spend my cash on something stupid (true slavery)

Commit to the end goal within the system. Think about how everything you do in your life affects this system. Money is no longer emotional. It's a mathematical system.

3) Zoom in

Most people spend all of their time completely zoomed in…

They’re thinking about:

• Where they’re going to eat for dinner

• What their boss said to them at work 

• When the next episode of their favorite show is

99% of people aren’t thinking about what their life looks like when they completely zoom out, but now that you understand systems thinking… you do.

It’s easy to get lost in a maze of systems when you really zoom in…

There’s:

• Routines

• Habits

• Diets

• Exercise

• Skill Sets

• Belief Systems

• Business Principles

• What opportunities you have 

And there’s so much more. 

If I kept writing here this would be a 300+ page book about systems in life.

But that’s not the point of this newsletter.

Here’s my point:

Now that you understand systems thinking… you have the ability to navigate the maze of life by zooming in and out to get closer to true freedom.

Systems thinkers aren’t inside of the maze of life… they’re above it.

I hope you use this new perspective to find the end of the maze.

There’s $100,000+ waiting for you at the end ;)

That's it for this letter.

See you next time,

Brady Badour.