Brian Skrobonja talks about the five habits billionaires live by, habits you can use to create your own financial freedom.
Tune in to hear the benefits of having ruthless focus, how frugality with purpose can actually give you more freedom, and why you need to start looking at your life in decades instead of paychecks. Expect to hear practical ideas you can start right away, like trying a 30-day luxury swap, creating a simple "not-to-do" list, and carving out time each week to invest in your own growth.
These habits aren't about making more money. They're about making smarter decisions with the money you already have.
- Brian starts by explaining the habits billionaires live by, habits you can use to build your own financial freedom without ever needing their billions.
- Habit #1 – Relentless Focus. Brian reveals why focus beats chasing every opportunity. When you treat your biggest financial decisions as limited, you naturally filter out the noise.
- Billionaires like Warren Buffett, built their fortunes not by jumping on every hot IPO, but by concentrating on businesses they deeply understood, like Coca-Cola, American Express, and Apple, and letting those few bets compound for decades.
- Habit #2 – Frugality with a Purpose. Learn how to spend with intention instead of deprivation.
- When most people hear "frugality," they think of avoiding fun and living on less. But the kind of frugality billionaires practice is built on ensuring money serves a purpose instead of wasting it away.
- Learn how trimming just one recurring expense and redirecting it into savings, investments, or even a passion project can completely shift your financial future.
- Try Brian's 30-day luxury swap challenge: Pick one expense that's nice, but not essential, maybe a subscription or upgrade you don't really need. Cut it for a month, and redirect that money toward your retirement account, debt payoff, or travel fund.
- Habit #3 – Long-Term Vision. Brian emphasizes that one of the most dangerous habits with money, and in life, is thinking too small and too short-term.
- Most people plan only until the next paycheck, vacation, or bill. But billionaires stretch their thinking into decades, sometimes even generations.
- Learn how to apply Jeff Bezos' "Day One" mindset and how it can help keep you hungry, curious, and willing to make bold moves for the long game.
- Brian shares how you can apply this principle to your own finances and career, so that you're not just reacting to what's in front of you, but building something designed to last.
- Habit #4 – Investing in Knowledge. Brian shares why billionaires obsess over learning: They treat knowledge like an asset that compounds faster than money.
- The goal of reading and studying isn't to become a walking encyclopedia, it's to build a mental toolkit that helps you spot opportunities, make sharper decisions, and avoid costly mistakes.
- Habit #5 – What Billionaires Don't Do. Learn the power of ruthless elimination: Billionaires don't have more hours than the rest of us, the difference is what they choose to ignore.
- Brian explains that billionaire success comes from cutting out distractions, declining projects that don't align with their goals, and saying "no" to almost everything that doesn't matter.
- How to create your "Not-To-Do List": Brian challenges you to write down three things you'll ignore for the next 30 days. Maybe it's obsessively checking your portfolio, doomscrolling the news, or saying yes to commitments that drain your energy.
- According to Brian, billionaires are successful because they know what to work on, what to ignore, and they build habits that compound for decades. The good news is you don't need a billion dollars to build these habits.
Mentioned in this episode:
Common Sense Financial Podcast on YouTube
Common Sense Financial Podcast on Spotify
References for this episode:
Lesson 1 – Relentless Focus
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