7 MONEY LESSONS that Guarantee a Better Life & Freedom! | You Didn't Learn these in School! - 067

It is insatiable. Pleasure is insatiable. It is impossible to satisfy. Trust me, I've tried it. I've tried it when it comes to cars. I've tried it when it comes to certain things in life. I've tried things, not that much. Hey, some of you guys have dirty minds, guys. I've tried stuff, okay? Ah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I've built many startups. Most of them are failed. So Bitcoin is exactly in the place that I like to be. We're gonna end it right there. Let's get into it, guys. I have a ton, a ton of notes on this. And I typed them out on my computer here to make sure that I give it to you guys in the best way that I possibly can. I wanna talk to you guys about seven money lessons. Thoughts on money that you didn't learn in school. And I wanted to

make sure that I chunked it up this way. I mean, let's just jump right into it, guys. Money. Money. Money. It's taken me this long to talk about money. It runs the world, guys. Every single day has an adult you have to engage with this thing called money. Isn't it fascinating? I at least, I find it fascinating that this is the very subject in which we as adults have to engage with every day this idea of money. But yet it's the very subject that isn't even remotely talked about or studied in school. What am I talking about? Management of personal finances. Good financial responsibility. Good financial management. The right attitudes when it comes to saving money. The right attitudes and behaviors when it comes to investing money. The right attitudes and behaviors about spending money. And let's just talk about emotions. Why emotional spending is

never a great idea. Well, I can raise my hand right now. Godly, I could tell. Guys, I'm gonna tell you straight up. I went through a phase. I haven't done it any, I haven't done it now because I'm married now. But I will tell you that I had a really interesting knee jerk reaction whenever I did broke up with a girlfriend. I just bought a new car. There was something, and I only did this like three or four times. But this was easily, this could have easily become a pattern if I had never gotten married. It was just for me, there was just something about if you break up, you're done, you just go buy a new car. It doesn't matter if the car that you had, you just had a car and you just bought it nine months ago or six months ago. Not

a good idea, guys. Not a good idea to buy a car after you break up because my tastes interestingly enough continued to get more expensive. But guys, this is what we need to talk about. These are the things that you don't learn in school about how to manage money. The right behavior is attitudes, how to control your emotions around this. Maybe it's just because the teachers in schools these days don't know how to, don't know financial responsibility yet, either. Maybe that's why, maybe that's why it never comes up because the teachers, them themselves, aren't actually good with money and maybe that's why they're there. Maybe that's why they're teachers because let's be honest. Certainly, ain't nobody getting rich being a teacher. Oh, we all know why the teachers are there, the teachers are there because they have a higher calling in life. But we have

schools these days don't know how to, don't know financial responsibility yet, either. Maybe that's why, maybe that's why it never comes up because the teachers, them themselves, aren't actually good with money and maybe that's why they're there. Maybe that's why they're teachers because let's be honest. Certainly, ain't nobody getting rich being a teacher. Oh, we all know why the teachers are there, the teachers are there because they have a higher calling in life. But we have to be intellectually honest on this podcast. Being a teacher is not a great way, certainly not a great way to become extremely wealthy. Guys, today's episode I wanna talk with you guys. I wanna talk you through some talking points and some ideas around money that I have found in life to be essentially true for me. This is for me. And these certainly were not taught, they were

not taught to me in school. Let's go through seven money lessons from your boy, Peta, right here, guys. Let's jump right in. The first one's gonna be easy. Number one, learn to manage your money. Learn to manage your money. This is gonna be easy and quick. Detail out your spending. Go to an Excel or Google document or free, you know, sell based system. Don't care what it is. And detail out your spending. It is fascinating to me how many people in life do not understand what their accounts look like. Understand net versus gross income, okay? Understand net versus gross income. Understand entertainment costs, versed living costs, create a budget. Stick to it. And when you're blessed with more money, slam it into debt and don't increase your lifestyle, you don't need to. That's pretty much it. Like, like, I, this is a short list here

for number one. Right, learn to manage your money. But I actually agonized over this because I was thinking about, what are all the things that they don't teach you in school about managing your money. And I agonized over this for at least five to seven minutes, guys. At least five to seven minutes. I agonized over this and I came out with basically six bullet points under number one. Let me go through them quickly because it was that easy. Number one, the thing they don't learn to teach you in school is to learn to manage your money. Part one, a part one of one, I guess, detail out spending. Excel or Google Doc. Understand net versus gross income. Understand entertainment costs versus living costs. Create a budget. Stick to it. And when blessed with more money, slam it into debt and don't increase your lifestyle behind

what you need to. Like, that's it. That's number one, guys. Learn to manage your freaking money. Learn to manage it. Number two, this is where we get into deeper stuff. Number two, the pursuit of pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure when it comes to money, when the pursuit of pleasure which costs money, the pursuit of pleasure leads to poverty in life in more than one way. Guys, I have met individuals, mostly men. I don't hang out with that many women. Mostly men who have and live in a lifestyle of pursuing pleasure and that leaves them broke in all ways. It leaves them broken all ways, both tangibly and emotionally and spiritually. You see, the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of pleasure when it comes to money, the pursuit of pleasure when it comes to money is that it is insatiable. Pleasure is insatiable. It is impossible

have met individuals, mostly men. I don't hang out with that many women. Mostly men who have and live in a lifestyle of pursuing pleasure and that leaves them broke in all ways. It leaves them broken all ways, both tangibly and emotionally and spiritually. You see, the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of pleasure when it comes to money, the pursuit of pleasure when it comes to money is that it is insatiable. Pleasure is insatiable. It is impossible to satisfy. Trust me, I've tried it. I've tried it when it comes to cars. I've tried it when it comes to certain things in life. I've tried things, not that much. Hey, some of you guys have dirty minds, guys. I've tried stuff, okay? And the fact is, is that money will never help you satiate it. It'll only be a cost accounting. It'll only be a cost center

in your life. You see, being living for the pursuit of pleasure will only cost you everything. It'll leave you broke. Yeah, well, maybe not broke if you have trillions of dollars or what have you, but it's gonna leave you broke emotionally, spiritually, it's gonna leave you empty because pleasure without purpose, don't miss this guy. Pleasure without purpose, without a greater purpose, produces a very empty life. Pleasure without a greater purpose produces very empty life. Haven't you heard the stories of celebrities who've pursued pleasure for so long and feeling empty inside all the sex drugs, rock and roll? I guess is the devil's promise, empty and impossible to fulfill, you end up being spent. You can't have all the sex in the world. You can't have all the drugs in the world and you certainly can't have all the proverbial rock and roll in the world.

At the end of the day, even the biggest rock stars, even the biggest celebrities and those who you think have it all end up often, unfortunately, with a gun to their head or their mouth because they're so depressed, they have been left empty in life. The pursuit of pleasure leads to poverty more than just money. It leaves to poverty of soul. Guys, don't get sucked into the world of pleasure and money. It's not a place that is worth being. Number three, being motivated by money makes you miserable. I can raise my hand. I have gone through phases in life, my friends, in which I have been motivated by money and it makes you absolutely miserable. Why? Because the people who are motivated by money are never content. They're never content. You're always frustrated about the money aspect of X, the money aspect of Y, the

money aspect of Z. It ruins all your experiences. It permeates all of your, I'm speaking from experienced guys. Being money motivated ruins everything around you. It puts a gray cloud on everything that you do. I can tell you examples, guys, of when periods of my life, early in our marriage, in which just was just the phase of life that I had to go through, which I was more money focused than other times, it's certainly not now. And it really, it just sucks the life out of everything. I can remember, I couldn't even go to the aquarium without complaining about the price. I'm complaining about the price of the aquarium, complaining about the price of the parking ticket, complaining about the price of the popcorn, complaining about the price of, what's wrong with me? I had plenty of money at that time. I wasn't starving. We

more money focused than other times, it's certainly not now. And it really, it just sucks the life out of everything. I can remember, I couldn't even go to the aquarium without complaining about the price. I'm complaining about the price of the aquarium, complaining about the price of the parking ticket, complaining about the price of the popcorn, complaining about the price of, what's wrong with me? I had plenty of money at that time. I wasn't starving. We were going to the fucking aquarium. Why am I gonna be complained about bullshit? You see people who are money consumed, they're motivated by money. They see everything through the lens of money, they're calculating the costs all the time. It's frustrating. It's terrible to be around those people. And plus, I mean, these people, just like me, I'm talking from experienced guys that are increasing insatiable desire for the

next deal, the next opportunity to make more or to save. Right? One of the biggest problems with being motivated by money is it makes you compromise your values in your character and even common sense. Right? It frustrates you constantly. It makes you compromise that which you hold to be valuable because the next deal, the opportunity to make just a little bit more money is far more important at that moment in time in your character and your personality than your integrity. A couple of ironies that I wrote down here. A couple of iron, a number one, ironie number one when it comes to being motivated by money and it being motivated by making you ab solutely miserable. Number one, ironies that your family suffers the most. I can speak from experience guys. Your family suffers the most. Even though your desire is for them to enjoy

the benefits that money may produce for them and their lives and the opportunities that you, you know, and say that's crazy talk. Man, Peter, it sounds like you can't fucking win. Right? Because yeah, you're maybe motivated by money call it a character flaw and your family gets to reap all the rewards of all of your hard work. They get to drive nice cars, live in a nice place, go to nice schools, get nice things, eat whole foods instead of whatever. Like, I'm here to tell you guys, hand raised, boy scouts honor, scouts honor guys. The irony of being money focused is that your family suffers the most because they're the ones that can't stand to be around you. They're the ones who are always hearing you complain. They're the ones who are always thinking that you're gonna be nickel and diamond and thinking about the

cost. Like, it's just not, when you're having fun and you wanna have great experiences in life, the cost isn't a problem, guys. The cost should not even come up within the calculus of those decisions. You wanna know irony number two when you're being motivated by money making you miserable. irony number two is being money oriented, actually constrained, constraints, your ability to make even more money. Like, being money motivated, actually constraints or limits your ability to make more money. Because spending time with money can never compare to spending time with people. Let me say that again. Spending time with money, or another way of saying this, agonizing all over all the details of money in your life when every situation that comes by can never compare with spending time with people. Figuring out problems to solve. Excuse me, figuring out problems to solve is far more

money motivated, actually constraints or limits your ability to make more money. Because spending time with money can never compare to spending time with people. Let me say that again. Spending time with money, or another way of saying this, agonizing all over all the details of money in your life when every situation that comes by can never compare with spending time with people. Figuring out problems to solve. Excuse me, figuring out problems to solve is far more valuable to the world than trying to retrofit your product or service so you can squeeze more money out of your customers. Squeeze more money out of this event or squeeze more money out of this particular circumstance, guys. You know what makes more money? Not squeezing people, not bleeding, whatever is left of what you got. Spending time with people is where real money is made, is where real

problems can be solved. Where real conversation can happen, this is how you make more money. So the irony is that being money oriented, being money motivated, being money focused, actually constrained or limits your ability to make more money. Money motivation, the end of the day, is the antithesis of mission motivation, mission motivation. Mission motivation gives you the ability to say, no, when it comes to money, because if you're money motivated, guess what? You never say no to more money, but the problem with never saying no and you guys know this is the problem with never saying no is you end up saying yes to everything and in turn, over time, you always end up compromising your values because you say yes to everything and then you try to figure out a way to get out of it. Let's go to, yeah, yeah. I, you know,

I, I, a personal anecdote, I've never, I've never been motivated by money for extended periods of time. Usually I have been motivated by money for short periods of time, usually during a growth phase of a company or have to be financially ridiculously accountable to my investors and these types of things. It puts me in this mood of just being super hyper, hyper money focused, but often in my life, I'll tell you this, that money has generally been an outcome, a byproduct of my hard work. And one of the problems with money, and I'll say this, this way is the biggest problem with being motivated by money is that there's this thing called that. Actually, that's a good segue. That's a good segue. The number four, you came with nothing guys. You came into this world with nothing. Guess what? You will leave with nothing. Number

four, money can only delay death. Money doesn't avoid it. Money only delays death, but it doesn't avoid it. And it isn't there, you came here with nothing and you're gonna end up leaving this place with nothing. You see, number four really is, you need to see money for what it really is. Money is merely a tool. That's all it is. It's a tool within your tool belt. Tools don't extend your life. But, you know what tools do? They make your life better. Tools don't remove responsibility for you to do the right thing in life, but tools help making the tools help you do the right thing and make it worth it. What I really mean to say here is that spend money on worthy causes. Spend money on worthwhile experiences. Spend more money on your family and your family's experiences over others. That's what I'm

Tools don't extend your life. But, you know what tools do? They make your life better. Tools don't remove responsibility for you to do the right thing in life, but tools help making the tools help you do the right thing and make it worth it. What I really mean to say here is that spend money on worthy causes. Spend money on worthwhile experiences. Spend more money on your family and your family's experiences over others. That's what I'm really saying is that money cannot delay death. It can only delay death, let me put it that way. Money can only delay death. It doesn't avoid death. And money is merely another tool in your tool belt to further enjoy the experiences in life. Put your money towards things that are worthwhile. Not to hear the pursuit of your own pleasures. Man, the world, we've already experienced that. You

already know what that looks like. You've seen the stories. You've seen the VH1 behind the scenes, the MTV, Wheel, whatever. You've already know what that looks like. And since money can't avoid death, it only delays it. Use money as merely a tool to make the experiences in life worth living. Money. You can't accumulate enough. And even if you accumulate enough at the end of the day, it's not gonna be yours. It's gonna be someone else's. All right, that's another thing. Like when it comes to money and wealth and thing, I say material goods. Because that's one thing that's come to me in multiple rounds in my life, is a stark realization that everything that I've built, everything that I've worked so hard for is actually going to be end up being owned by someone else later down in life. And so I could build this

wonderful and beautiful home. But at the end of the day, it's not going to actually be mine. It's going to be owned by someone else. Someone else is gonna take over and buy it. They're gonna live it. They're gonna do things differently in it. They might extend it. They might remove certain parts of it. But at the end of the day, it's not mine. And I'm going to perish. And I'm going to go away just like my daughter did. She walked in and walked out. I'm gonna go away. And none of it really mattered. None of it really mattered. Number five, when it comes to money, learn to know a good deal. Learn to know a good deal. Let me tell you the number one. The number one best thing. Best kind of gut check. It is really a gut check. When it comes to

deals, it has to deal and sound like a good deal before it's actually a good deal. And I might, now this is generic. It might not be helpful. But number five is learn to know a good deal. Everything has a cost to it. Everything has a cost. Physical, emotional, spiritual. Everything has a cost. Everything has a cost. Everything has a cost. Learn to understand the long term costs of decisions. And the more that you get better at this, realizing that everything has a cost. You know what, that beautiful girl that you ended, you worked so hard for and you saw that she was a little bit shallow, this and this and this and this way. And you don't like this, this, this thing that she does it with. But you finally able to date her and you finally choose your girlfriend. Well, guess what? You're

costs of decisions. And the more that you get better at this, realizing that everything has a cost. You know what, that beautiful girl that you ended, you worked so hard for and you saw that she was a little bit shallow, this and this and this and this way. And you don't like this, this, this thing that she does it with. But you finally able to date her and you finally choose your girlfriend. Well, guess what? You're now living the costs of that decision. Oh, that car that you wanted to get, that 1980, 1982 piece of shit that you really wanted that you told your spouse that you're just gonna fix up and it was gonna be easy. What's the long term costs? What's the long term cost, guys? See, learn to know a really good deal. It has to sound and feel good in all

ways. Before it's actually a good deal. And you have to count the costs. Everything has a cost, physical, emotional, spiritual, learn to understand the long term costs of these decisions that you make. Cost is only an issue often in the absence of value. Learn to purchase goods and services that align with your goals and personal values. You'd be surprised how constraining this is in a good way. If you actually purchase things based on values, you purchase things based on that are aligned to your goals. Then you actually don't purchase that much because a lot of the crap that we buy, a lot of the junk that we buy with money is from your entertainment. It's for side, it's for time bandits, it steals time from you. It takes away from your goals. If you were to only purchase stuff, let's look at this in a

positive. If you are only purchase stuff that are aligned to your goals, you wouldn't have a lot. You wouldn't own a lot. I'll give you one of my best examples. When I was going through my master's programs, my master's degrees when I was younger, I lived in a single apartment that was rented out a room, a 10 by eight room, essentially, a 10 by eight room. It was like 300 bucks. It's eight by eight, when I would sleep, when I would sleep, guys. You could almost touch both sides of the room with my feet. Now, my arm stretched out. Certainly I could do that. I lived super cheap because there was no point in purchasing anything opposed to just making sure that I could bring money in, that would be slammed towards the cost and the expense of these master's degrees. Guys, I did that

for three and a half years. I grinded through that. I only spent money on things that were aligned with my personal values and my personal goals. You'll find how much money you save when you align yourselves to your right goals and to the right things in life. Number six, money doesn't buy happiness. Sharing your wealth is real happiness. Now, I'm gonna go into this a little bit because I've heard plenty of people say that this is bullshit and I have heard plenty of jokes like I'd rather be crying in my Bentley than in my Chevy. Yeah, I get it, I get it, I get it. Money doesn't buy happiness. But I'll concede that there is actually some truth that money can buy happiness. It really can, for a moment, it's like kind of like the pursuit of pleasure, right? It's an insatiable idea, this happiness.

because I've heard plenty of people say that this is bullshit and I have heard plenty of jokes like I'd rather be crying in my Bentley than in my Chevy. Yeah, I get it, I get it, I get it. Money doesn't buy happiness. But I'll concede that there is actually some truth that money can buy happiness. It really can, for a moment, it's like kind of like the pursuit of pleasure, right? It's an insatiable idea, this happiness. Yeah, it comes and it goes, but it's fleeting and it's for a moment in time. Here's what I really think of this thing, this idea should be when it comes to money doesn't buy happiness. How about this? The best way of saying this would be to say that one of the best ways to be happy is to share your wealth with others. Let me say that again.

One of the best ways to be happy is to share your wealth with others or say differently. Money can buy happiness temporarily as everything tends to grow dull over time. Does it not? Doesn't that, everything tends to grow dull? Even the lambo's guys. Even the lambo's tend to grow dull over time. Even if you put flame throws on there and striped pipe that thing and it's the loudest thing that you can hear for two miles away, it still gets dull. Even the race cars get dull. Even that pretty little thing gets dull. This is the nature of the world guys. Familiarity breeds contempt over time. Does it not? Familiarity breeds contempt. It's too easy. You don't appreciate it like you used to guys. I'm going way into this, but let me get back to it. Money can only, money can buy happiness temporarily as everything

tends to grow dull over time. But sharing your wealth with others consistently allows for a richer and fuller experiences in life. That's what I wrote down. I love sharing my wealth with others. Yeah, money can buy temporary happiness. I'll concede that. So when people say money can't buy happiness, I tend to chuckle and say, well, it can buy temporary happiness. But sharing your wealth with others, that brings in my mind eternal content to this. Eternal well-being, internal feel goods, good, juju. When others can benefit from the wealth that you've accumulated, the money that you have. I would even go as far as to say that there was once a famous profit back in the day who talked about money, not pretty often, or sorts in the old books of sorts. And he, generally, when it came to money, his ideas of money were to use

money to influence others. To use money to help others. To use money to take care of others. And so there, you too shall gain in those rewards. You too shall gain in that contentiveness. You too shall gain in the value of giving life to others through your wealth. I like this idea from this old profit of sorts back in the day. I think he knew what was up. Let's go to number seven, last but not least. Being all you can be. Being all you can be in this world is possible for everyone. Let me say that again. If you've missed it, you've blanked out. You've been chilling in the shack. Or maybe you've been listening too long. You started to tune out a little bit. Let me go over this again. Being all you can be. Being all you can, Billy, be is possible for

up. Let's go to number seven, last but not least. Being all you can be. Being all you can be in this world is possible for everyone. Let me say that again. If you've missed it, you've blanked out. You've been chilling in the shack. Or maybe you've been listening too long. You started to tune out a little bit. Let me go over this again. Being all you can be. Being all you can, Billy, be is possible for everyone. But being rich. Being rich with material wealth is not for everyone, period. Sorry, guys. I think that's just something that people need to wake up to. Being all you can be is possible for everyone. Yeah, you can be everything that you can be. You can be the best version of you. You can be the most contented and successful and grateful individual of the life that you've

been given by the good Lord above. You can be all that you can be. But being rich with material wealth is not for everyone, period, sorry, not sorry. Having lots of money doesn't mean that you're successful or even happy or content or even that you're a good person. I think we could probably think of a plenty of examples of where people have lots of money but they're not good people. Having lots of money just means that you have lots of money. Like that's it. Having lots of money just means you have lots of money. Who you are, your identity is inside, go back to my podcast on that if you want more information around who your identity, where your identity really should be. But who you are and having your identity inside is where your real wealth is. How do I know this? I'll give

you my best example. How do I know that who you are and your identity being inside here is where your real treasure lies or your real wealth lies. It's all in here, guys. How do I know this to be true? How do I know this to be true? I'll tell you, my best example. Now I know this to be true, that my true wealth, my true riches are inside and not my money is because my kids don't care about my money. They only care that I'm here, that I'm there, that I'm with them. You say, well Peter, that's not a good example. Yeah, it is because it's based on my example of my life going back. You see, that was all that I was frank, that's all that I frankly cared about. I didn't care if my dad had money or had, actually he had

no money, but I didn't care about my dad's financial position. I just cared that he was there. I just cared that my mom was there. I just cared that my brothers and sisters were there during that sporting event, during that spelling bee, during that competition, during that moment when I really needed them, that's what I cared about, nothing mattered. If I look back into my old life, my younger life, my formative years, my elementary, my middle school, even my high school, I never cared about what money my parents had. Frankly, it wasn't even within the calculus of my decisions back then anyway. But I'll tell you, even if it were one of the options, it would be probably one of the last options. The first option, the thing that I cared most about is that they were there. And that's why I know, that's why

my younger life, my formative years, my elementary, my middle school, even my high school, I never cared about what money my parents had. Frankly, it wasn't even within the calculus of my decisions back then anyway. But I'll tell you, even if it were one of the options, it would be probably one of the last options. The first option, the thing that I cared most about is that they were there. And that's why I know, that's why I know that this inside being present, having experiences, using money for experiences, using money to help others, using money to further others, is only brings back good treasure in life to you, good blessings, good juju to you. Nobody cares about the money you have. They care about what's inside. And if you are one of those individuals who are greatly blessed with lots of wealth, they will bless

you, people will bless you even more. If you use your wealth for them, if you use your wealth to create awesome experiences to help people, to put them to the worthy causes in life, that's where real riches are, that's where real wealth is. And that's what they don't teach you in school. They don't teach you a none of this in school. So let me know in the comments below, did I miss anything? What are other money things that you didn't learn in school? It's a journey me in this episode of Things You Didn't Learn in School. We are getting close to the end here, guys. And I enjoy every more of the chair or that, doesn't matter, really. But have a great day, guys.