And the consumer is spending this holiday season.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Time is a valuable resource and "spending" it everywhere at once isn't worth the effort.

I am wanting to be able to stop working full time sooner than later as I would like to be able to spend more time with my family and enjoy life. 

I'm going off the understanding that you still need to spend 500+ hours in the business to achieve material participation (please correct me if I'm wrong). 

That's why we require clients to spend a couple days with us in Milwaukee up front, so we can get on the same page and determine an asset quality.Hint: the hood looks much better on a spreadsheet than up close in person.

Spend a little more money than you might have been planning to, buy in a better area (i.e. not a “turn key” 100k house off the mls), and self manage.

Most will have large scale marketing engines where they spend thousands or tens of thousands a month, and operate or license time in call centers.

Learn to control your spending and pay off debt.

You can tell how invested he is in others by how much time he spends making free content and answering questions in his group.