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230. The reason why most people don't succeed

The Sweaty Startup

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How to Avoid the Golden Handcuffs

The golden handcuffs are basically when you start earning more money when you're doing ok, you start spending more money. All three of those things lead to one thing, which means you are going to become addicted to that pay check. Addect needs a drug. Because if your pay check stops at any point, you can't make the boat payment, the car payment, to house payment, the motor home payment. Itn pay for your expensive va s, pay for your visa cards, your date nights, all the expensive things that you've bought with that job. So what happened is you're stuck. You have absolutely no choice but to continue doing exactly what you're doing. No game

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