Why “defense” wins championships…

aka – The “key” to being financially successful…

Question for you:

Do you watch football?

I do.

If you’ve ever watched football…

And you’ve paid attention to what it takes to become a championship football team…

Then you’ve probably heard the quote:

“Defense Wins Championships”

Well, when it comes to becoming financially successful…

The same rule sort of applies.

Because…

You can think about the process of MAKING money as having a good offense, right?…

And PRESERVING that money as having good defense.

In fact, that concept – combining a good offense WITH a good defense – was one of the best pieces of advice that I received from a mentor of mine….

Anyway…

I want to tell you a story from this past weekend of how that played out at home (because I think you’ll like this…)

So you see…

My focus, in our house…

Is MAKING the money.

I’m extremely good… VERY good…

At making money…

Both for myself and for my clients.

But…

To be perfectly honest?

I don’t really have the patience to SAVE money.

I’m not one of these people who clips coupons or looks for deals online.

The way I look at it is…

My time is so valuable that it’s not really worth my time to try to get the best, bottom-dollar deal.

However…

Fortunately, I’m married to someone who an absolute PRO at that…

OBSESSED with finding the best possible deal…

So in our household, if I’m the offense…

Then my wife?

Is probably the best defensive coordinator a guy could possibly ask for…

And this weekend, this sort of thing played out in the most unsual way…

(I’ll tell you the story of exactly what I’m talking about…)

So my wife is really big into going to estate sales.

Always looking for bargain finds.

Like… For example last year…

She found a $3,000 Herman Miller ottoman for $50 at a second-hand consignment store.

She snatched that thing up and right now it’s sitting in our living room.

And this past weekend, she stumbled upon an estate sale that had a treadmill desk…

And THIS is the sort of thing my wife LIVES for…

Now…

My wife already has a treadmill desk.

But I’ve been looking to pick up one myself.

The problem is, I have a massive 3 monitor setup…

And there are only a few models out there that can HANDLE three massive monitors…

Well… She just happened to stumble on one of these models at an estate sale…

Something that’s called ‘FitWork By Design’

A super high-end desk that sells for $5,000 online.

And when she went to this estate sale, she found a virtually brand-new model for…

Get this…

$500 bucks.

Now… The way I look at it?

That’s a f*cking amazing deal.

And I would’ve snatched that up in a nano-second…

But not my wife. Because you see, my wife?

SHE wanted to get the price down FURTHER…

And after a few rounds of negotiation…

At the end of the day they settled on $350 bucks for the damn thing.

BOOM.

And by the way…

In case you’re curious…

Here’s a photo of the damn thing in our house, yet to be assembled:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100394012143311

So anyway…

The reason why I’m telling you all this is this:

If you’ve swam in the IM swamp long enough…

Then you know most people spend all their time talking about what it takes to MAKE money…

But at the end of the day… It’s not what you make…

It’s what you KEEP.

(Remember that.)

I know people who bring home EXTREMELY high incomes…

But they have a monthly nut that puts SO MUCH pressure on them every single month…

(With ZERO defense…)

They CONSTANTLY have to step up their game…

And they never get ahead.

So I just want you to think about that for today.

Offense might make the headlines – especially in IM world…

But defense wins championships.

Something to chew on….

Peace out!

Ryan :-)

P.S. If you want to read a longer story of how this “defense first” mentality helped me make it big in my FIRST online business…

You might enjoy this guest post here I made a while back on Dr. Glenn Livingston’s blog:

http://www.payperclicksearchmarketing.com/success-story-why-i-never-play-the-lottery/

You’ll see the POWER of this approach first-hand, and the kind of impact it can have on your bottom-line with some REAL $$ examples…