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How Winning is Done
OCTOBER 1, 2013 BY VICTOR PRIDE 84 COMMENTS

Morning, friends.

And a beautiful morning she is. OK, to be honest it's night time for me. I'm on
the other side of the world at the moment. Bangkok, to be precise. But I did
have a nice morning and I hope you do the same.

On Bold and Determined I have said over and over again that losers will always
try and take you down a peg or two. Self improvement is some sort of allergy
to losers. They want to take their misery out on winners and I'll show you a
perfect example.

Normally I ignore hate mail but I wanted to share this 100% real hate mail I
received just the other day:

“You might be big, you might be strong, but it took you a long time to get there
and you make a living only because you live where it costs nothing to live, i.e.,

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Vietnam and Cambodia.”

Hatemail Harry has accused me of working hard in the gym, living cheap and
being smart with money.

Guilty as charged.

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Yes, it's true. I worked out for many years to get big and strong. Yes, it's true
that I live cheap. And with good reason. But first…

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Let me show you a picture that illustrates why I am big and
 strong:

Notice two things.

1. I'm in a gym.
2. I'm covered in sweat.
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That's a picture of me on vacation at a beach resort town. That liquid on me

isn't Mountain Dew, it's sweat. Sweat equity, to be precise. You can't buy your
body with money, it costs sweat. You can buy all the surgery and you can buy
all the steroids but you can't buy the sweat, and the sweat is what gets you
there.

Your business costs you sweat equity too. You can't buy money, you can only
earn it. You earn your money by building it up and working on it day in and day
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out, no matter how much you don't feel like it. You earn your money and you
earn your body by the same exact method – consistency.
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Winners don't start & stop, start & stop, start & stop repeatedly, but losers are
always “getting ready to start” or “taking a small break”, or sending snide
remarks to their betters.

Five months ago I wrote a blog post entitled How to Improve Your Mood by
Making More Money. In that post I said:

“ Right now I make 3.5 grand per month doing nothing … Now I expect
to make 8+ grand per month doing a lot more work.

That was 5 months ago when I made that public statement and stated my
intention. My income for the past 5 months has been exactly what I said it was
going to be.

That's what sets the go-getters apart from the no-getters. Sweat equity,
determination and dedication to goals. Putting in the work to reap the rewards.
Something losers can't comprehend. First you do work, then you get paid. If it
takes years then it takes years.

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Losers want to do nothing and have the spoils of war given to them. Warriors
do the work and then take the spoils of war as their right.

7 years from A-Z. Strength, Confidence, Pride, Accomplishment.

How Winning is Done

Put in the time and put in the effort. Like Rocky says, take the hits and keep
moving forward. I've been in the gym for 7 years and Bold and Determined has
been online for 3 years. When I started weight training I had no physique, no
base, and no real strength to start from. When I started online I had no
connections and no knowledge whatsoever about building an online business.
But I had heart, consistency and desire. I spent an entire year living on $800
per month so I could learn.

In the time it took the Hatemail Harry to send me a hate mail accusing me of
being big and strong and smart with money he could have went to amazon.com
and fired off an order for How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis and Arnold: The
Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He could have spent

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his time learning how winners got their winning done. He could have spent his
abundant free time learning a new trade that would make him better as a man.

Design Your Lifestyle

I've personally got all the free time in the world, if I want it. I truly could work 4
hours per week if I felt like it. I don't have to punch a time clock and I don't have
to be in the office by 9:00am. That was no accident, that was by design and
intent. Rather than spend my time working in some office, paying taxes so
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welfare recipients can get new smart phones, I have found a better solution. It's
a 4 part solution:

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1. Make money on your own terms.
2. Live abroad.
3. Leverage a 1st world income to get maximum benefit in a developing country.
4. Take advantage of the foreign earned income exclusion so you don't owe income
tax.

When you spend 330+ days abroad each year you can take advantage of a
little known tax program that lets you keep your foreign earned income up to
about 98k. Hatemail Harry might be happy to know that not only am I big and
strong, but I also get to keep my dollars earned. Rather than throwing money
away on inefficient, childish tax programs I keep it instead.

If you aren't familiar with the US tax system the taxes owed on a 98k salary are
about thirty thousand dollars. Poof. Just gone to some governmental nitwit
programs. Using the outline above you could put that money in the bank rather
than flush it down the toilet.

Or you could send hatemail to winners. Don't bother me none either way.
Hatemail just gives me fuel for the fire and I'll take all the hits and keep moving
forward.
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