How My Life Changed...

Although I have recently graduated from college and yet to have a ‘real job’, I have spent the past 6 years on an unknown research expedition.

You see, I have always been fascinated with being rich. When I was five, I wrote my dad a card and put it in his suitcase when he went on a business trip. The card read “good luck on your trip daddy, please be nice and get $10,000,000.” When I was nine, I wrote a very very very basic business plan for “Andrew’s Pasta Palace”. Apparently I dreamed of opening a restaurant so I could have pasta every day of the week. As I grew older, my feelings for being rich one day only grew. I became infatuated with expensive cars, watches, real estate, jets, yachts, etc. I learned everything about the lifestyles of being super rich.

During this ‘research period’ (from 2014-present), I ended up learning more than I bargained for. Besides seeing the amazing lifestyles of the wealthy, I also learned about what makes them different from you and me. You see, they’re not any different than you and I. There are only three main things combined together, which puts them in the position that they’re in. 1. Mindset. 2. Work ethic. 3. Cash flow.

You need to have the right perception of how things actually work in the world, and be able to create road maps to and from your desired goals. You need to be able and willing to put in the extra time (work late nights and the weekends, for extended periods). Finally, you need to be able to understand the cash flows of each facet of your life and business. Wealth isn’t created by spending all your money at the stores, or buying a house, or having it sit in the bank. You need to understand how to invest and put your money to work for you.

Okay, so here’s how everything ‘went down’.

In 2017, after a trip to China, I became very ill. A lot happened to me; physically, mentally and emotionally. I took a hiatus from college after the first half of my junior year, and spent the next few months getting treatment in Florida. It was at this point my outlook on life change completely. You always hear about people’s near death experiences and how it changes them. Mine was slightly different. It wasn’t an imminent near death experience, more of “you’re lucky you’re here, otherwise you’d be getting a death sentence in a few months’ time. The way that I looked at my life now was as if ‘the world was my oyster.’ I could do whatever I wanted and nothing was going to stop me. The worst thing that could happen to ME had already happened. So what if I failed, I learned a valuable lesson. Easier and less painful than a slow death.

Leading up to this point, I spent my summers working part-time jobs. I also found several ways to make money online. I would do that on the side. I had no true passion for what I was doing and I would set up my company, spend the money to begin working, then I would bail. I was terrified to fail.

Okay, sorry, but this is something important… You see, our viewpoint of failing is a mental function that we are taught in school. Failing=bad. Take notes, failing is one of the best things that can ever happen to you. If you go through life without failing (because you’re too scared), then you’re not taking any risks. You’ll never succeed without taking risk. This harps back to the point that the wealthy are okay with taking risks. Investing isn’t risky. Investing is a calculated way for someone to utilize risk to grow their money. If you understand the game, then there is a good chance you’ll succeed in it. (If you’re interested, we will teach you!)

Back to the story. So like I was saying, I kept learning about these e-commerce methods. I then started the companies, then bailed on them. I did this six or seven times. I also wrote dozens of other business plans which didn’t come to fruition because they would have cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars (which I certainly didn’t have).

Once I got some help to see clearly and found ways to oversee the fear of failure, I finally got it.

I put all of my eggs in the basket and wrote dozens, perhaps hundreds of pages of a new business plan. This was a culmination of the past 5-6 years of my life… which were by far my most difficult years.

Triton Exchange was born off of the idea of combining my knack for learning about the rich, my e-commerce business interest, and my eye-opening mindset change. I just needed to find an audience to target.

Hmm… Well, I can’t target the top 1%, because they are already in the top 1%, but I guess that leaves me with the other 99%.

In America alone, that is roughly 327,692,624 Americans who might be interested in changing their lives for the better.

I certainly hope you’re one of them.