Life hacks worth remembering. [Altucher Confidential] January 27, 2023 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( I feel like Iâve written 600 posts about either failure or naked people. Iâm taking a break. [Hero_Image] Get Yourself 1,000 $2 Bills & 100 Waiters Pads By James Altucher James Answers Reader Question⦠âWhere Are You Putting Your Money Now?â [Click here for more...]( Hi, James Altucher here⦠And I get asked questions all the time from my readers. Some ask me about investing. Others ask me about building a business. Still others ask me about my books. Well, I recently received a question that I wanted to personally take the time out of my day and answer⦠because it could impact a lot of my readers, including you. I was asked where Iâm putting my money now⦠given that stocks, cryptos, and everything else are all crashing. Itâs a good question, which is why I sat down on camera and recorded a brief video. And I want to share it with you today. [Click here now to watch.]( [Chris Campbell] CHRIS
CAMPBELL [Ed. note: Important housekeeping note: Coming soon, your emails will be coming from a new email address: [AltucherConfidential@mb.paradigmpressgroup.com](mailto:altucherconfidential@mb.paradigmpressgroup.com). Ensure delivery of every email in your subscription by [following these simple whitelisting instructions.]( It’s Friday and things are winding down at our HQ. To prepare for the weekend, we present to you an “oldie but goldie” from James. It’s one of his most popular articles ever. And it includes two of his all-time favorite “life hacks.” I’ve tried them. Though the first is harder to get in a post-covid world, they still work! Read on. BOMBSHELL: Ex-CIA Advisor Releases New Biden Evidence [Click here for more...]( [This crazy new Biden story]( is 1,000 times worse than the media will let on. If you think Biden is a life-long corrupt politician who will do anything for money and power, youâre right. And now, former advisor to CIA and Pentagon Jim Rickards has just uncovered [this new Congressional evidence that will send shockwaves through Washington.]( Get Yourself 1,000 $2 Bills & 100 Waiters Pads James Altucher I feel like I’ve written 600 posts about either failure or naked people. I’m taking a break. Instead, I’m going to share two things I’ve done that have changed my life for the better and I don’t know anyone else who does them. A) Get yourself 1000 $2 bills. You used to be able to get $2 bills by going to your local bank and asking them to order it from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve threw out all of their antique copy machines that were set aside for $2 bills. They had a million vintage 2003 (signed by John Snow) $2 bills lying around. If you went to your local bank branch and asked for $2 bills it will take about 2-3 weeks to get one thousand of them. See if it still works. Why? 1) When you go to a place where you plan on being a regular, always tip 30% and do it all with $2 bills. Nobody is ever going to forget you and you will always be treated well. Plus people will fight with each other to be the one serving you. That’s a nice feeling. You don’t have to be rich. You just have to have $2 bills. Note: DON’T waste $2 bills on tips for cab drivers. They are never going to see you again. 2) When you are breaking into a new scene, always use $2 bills. For instance, when I started playing chess for money at Washington Square Park I would always pay off with $2 bills but when I won I’d get $1s or $5s. Pretty soon, everyone was hoarding their $2 bills. My currency was flowing through the local economy. Everyone knew who I was. It was a shortcut to popularity because that’s how desperate I was for friends among a bunch of drug addict homeless chess players. 3) When I was dating, I would carry a thick wad of cash. A $100 bill on top, $2 bills filling out the whole wad. Time to pay for dinner, I’d bring out the wad (impressive), peel off a $100 bill (pathetic) and then amaze by tipping with non-stop $2 bills. “Where did you get those?” people always ask. Give a cryptic answer. “I do some projects with the government.” Extra tip: it helps to go to the same restaurant the night before the date so everyone who works there is excited, anticipating what you will do. 4) Conversation piece. If you pull out a $2 bill people say three things: “what is that?”, “where did you get that?”, “they are so beautiful” 5) Because as far as money goes, they are beautiful. I love the back of the 2 dollar bill. So much detail. B) Buy 100 waiters pads. I’ve written about it before but I can’t stress it enough. 1) It’s easy to write ideas. And the width is too short for you to put a lot of details or write a novel or whatever. It’s just for writing down ideas. I write at least ten ideas a day on waiter’s pads. Over the course of a year that’s almost 4000 ideas. I do it seven days a week. 2) If you are writing down ideas in a restaurant then the waiter thinks you are in the business and serves you faster. Trust me, this always works. In fact, if I am getting poor service I just pull out my waiter’s pad, put it on the table, and suddenly everyone is very attentive. 3) At the beginning of a business meeting I pull out the waiter's pad and someone always says, “I’ll take two cheeseburgers and a coke” and everyone laughs. It’s a good conversation starter. 4) It’s a good way of showing you’re frugal. When everyone pulls out their moleskin notebooks that cost $40 a pad you can say you paid 10 cents for your waiter’s pad. Frugality is great when you are trying to raise money. 5) I’m bad at remembering names. At the top of every page in the waiter’s pad are small shapes representing the different types of tables. The shapes have numbers representing every sitting position. You can write down the names of who is at the meeting and where they sat. 6) they fit in your shirt pocket. As opposed to almost every other pad. I tried to think of a third lifehack but I couldn’t. For 10 years I’ve carried around waiter’s pads and $2 bills every day and have had enormous success with both of them. The key is you are inviting people into your universe. To keep them guessing about what might happen next. It’s a mystery! $2 bills and waiter’s pads are a good start. Oh! And my special handshake. But I’ll save that for another post. Best, James Altucher
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