Yesterday someone was asking if I or someone else would be able to create a program on how to become a financial success. I answered that I cannot provide a "get rich" scheme any more than I can catch the same handful of water in a river; money passes like a fluid that... carries you from the mouth of the river, by milestones and landmarks, to its end.
I was once homeless (Oh yes homeless) surfing couches and starving cause my pride wouldn't let me take handouts of food. I had found me a new job, and one evening when my friend and I were just hanging out , in order to keep a conversation going I asked how I could become wealthy. He replied, "What are you going to do with the first paycheck from your new job?" I answered, "Pay my bills." He continued, "And the paychecks following?" Rent a flat or house, a car and a computer, I replied. He asked why. I answered, "So I can get a better job." He asked why again. Puzzled, I responded, "To give my Anushka a good education, fulfill my goals, and achieve my dreams."
He inquired as to my dreams, and I replied, "To help others prevent the hardships I've endured, or hasten their way through them with greater ease and less suffering."
He said, "That can be the RIGHT question! Don't ask how you can become rich. Ask what you will be doing with your wealth! Formulate your goals and then pursue those big dreams step by incremental step."
I can share with you how I achieve goals, but I can't charge you money for it. From my perspective, the more successful you become, the better off we all will be.
There are three ways I have taken my friend's advice on how to accomplish new goals:
1. Through experience - the most bitter. I learnt the hard way. The courage to dive into the breach will take you far, but I won't lie that it doesn't come without a toll.
2. By imitation - the simplest. Studying at the feet of great teachers provided me with the fastest acceleration toward my pursuits. Deepest bow to my teachers for enduring my endless questions.
3. With forethought - the most noble. Trusting in my own intuition, imagination and intelligence has allowed me to offer unique expressions of the experiences I've had and lessons I've learned.
When I prepare for a new goal, I download my ideas to paper to organize my plan, check my strategy against how others in the field have accomplished similar goals, and then evaluate my performance against the experiences I have once I have received feedback from the current step.
But money hasn't been a goal for me; money is only a means to realize my goals. As Jim Carrey offered, "I wish everybody could get rich and famous, so they realize it is not the answer."
Money only acts as a form of energy, like a prism, to help others achieve their goals. It couldn't make me happy. Every new medal I won, award I received or paycheck I banked, held lackluster fool's gold when I expected it to make me happy. These things don't have happiness; they only hold potential energy to help with the next goal.
So as my friend suggested, what big dreams do you want to accomplish with the wealth you acquire? You may not have any idea how to achieve those goals yet, but you can find others who have, or you can repeatedly, through trial and error, figure out how to do it anyway. Success is inevitable when you have courage and conviction. Albert Einstein supposed, "The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts."
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough. Do big frightening things with your life and at least one small thing that scares you everyday; the wealth will arrive as it needs to facilitate your goals. Wealth will come and go, like a river flowing. Make your real goal to sail smoothly, carry as many passengers as you can and teach others how to sail happily along on our short trip together.
I was once homeless (Oh yes homeless) surfing couches and starving cause my pride wouldn't let me take handouts of food. I had found me a new job, and one evening when my friend and I were just hanging out , in order to keep a conversation going I asked how I could become wealthy. He replied, "What are you going to do with the first paycheck from your new job?" I answered, "Pay my bills." He continued, "And the paychecks following?" Rent a flat or house, a car and a computer, I replied. He asked why. I answered, "So I can get a better job." He asked why again. Puzzled, I responded, "To give my Anushka a good education, fulfill my goals, and achieve my dreams."
He inquired as to my dreams, and I replied, "To help others prevent the hardships I've endured, or hasten their way through them with greater ease and less suffering."
He said, "That can be the RIGHT question! Don't ask how you can become rich. Ask what you will be doing with your wealth! Formulate your goals and then pursue those big dreams step by incremental step."
I can share with you how I achieve goals, but I can't charge you money for it. From my perspective, the more successful you become, the better off we all will be.
There are three ways I have taken my friend's advice on how to accomplish new goals:
1. Through experience - the most bitter. I learnt the hard way. The courage to dive into the breach will take you far, but I won't lie that it doesn't come without a toll.
2. By imitation - the simplest. Studying at the feet of great teachers provided me with the fastest acceleration toward my pursuits. Deepest bow to my teachers for enduring my endless questions.
3. With forethought - the most noble. Trusting in my own intuition, imagination and intelligence has allowed me to offer unique expressions of the experiences I've had and lessons I've learned.
When I prepare for a new goal, I download my ideas to paper to organize my plan, check my strategy against how others in the field have accomplished similar goals, and then evaluate my performance against the experiences I have once I have received feedback from the current step.
But money hasn't been a goal for me; money is only a means to realize my goals. As Jim Carrey offered, "I wish everybody could get rich and famous, so they realize it is not the answer."
Money only acts as a form of energy, like a prism, to help others achieve their goals. It couldn't make me happy. Every new medal I won, award I received or paycheck I banked, held lackluster fool's gold when I expected it to make me happy. These things don't have happiness; they only hold potential energy to help with the next goal.
So as my friend suggested, what big dreams do you want to accomplish with the wealth you acquire? You may not have any idea how to achieve those goals yet, but you can find others who have, or you can repeatedly, through trial and error, figure out how to do it anyway. Success is inevitable when you have courage and conviction. Albert Einstein supposed, "The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts."
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough. Do big frightening things with your life and at least one small thing that scares you everyday; the wealth will arrive as it needs to facilitate your goals. Wealth will come and go, like a river flowing. Make your real goal to sail smoothly, carry as many passengers as you can and teach others how to sail happily along on our short trip together.
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