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The less setbacks you have in your life the easier it will be to keep making progress towards your goals and the next level of success you are striving for.

Yesterday I experienced a setback and had one of the most stressful days I have had in recent history – and it could have been avoided.

What happened is I accidentally locked my keys and my phone in my BMW while the car was still running.

In order to get my keys I literally had to get a hammer and break my way into the vehicle.

Luckily the piece I broke can be replaced for a reasonable price – however I lost several hours of my life fighting with my car outside on what was the coldest and windiest day of the year…

And the entire stressful situation could have been avoided…

1. Get a Backup Key

If I had a backup key.  I bought the BMW used and it only came with one key.  I held off on getting another key because a new key costs over $300 from the dealer.

Despite the steep price I bought another key the other day because I never want to get locked out of my car again.

The lesson I’ve learned from this experience is simple and powerful: Always have a backup.

Backup plans save the day.

Here are a few different ways having a backup plan can save the day for you.

2. Back Up Your Gym Bag

Always keep two sets of gym clothes in your gym bag:

2 sets of socks, underwear, shorts and shirts.

I’ve been using this strategy for years and it has saved the day for me multiple times.

If you find your gym bag is too crowded with the extra stuff a strategy I have used is to keep an extra set of gym clothes in the trunk of the car.

3. Back Up Your Files

Storage is cheaper than ever these days. There is no excuse not to back up all of your files.

A great way to do this is with a cloud storage account like Dropbox, or Google Drive.

The price of external hard drives has really improved as well in recent years and you can get a Terabyte HD (1,000 Gigabytes) for as little as $43 on Amazon.

4. Back Up Your Wallet

Keep a digital version of both sides of everything in your wallet.

This way if you happen to lose your wallet you can quickly and easily locate the numbers you need to call to cancel your cards, and order new ones.

5. Back Up Your Income

Get a secondary income.

Work on a side business on top of your main income source.

The less you rely on one source for income the more financially independent you will be.

Financial Independence Is Powerful

For example the most recent job I had was doing digital marketing for a Greek performance shop owner who is literally the most insane man I have ever met.

Rather than being forced to work for him due to only having one income stream I had the freedom to quit without any financial hardship and my life has been better and I’ve been making more money with less stress ever since.

Speaking of powerful side businesses a new business I have started is a powerlifting coaching business called: Deadlift Dojo.

If you’re interested in the best digital resource in the world for deadlifting check out:

Welcome to the Deadlift Dojo

Thanks for listening!

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