Are you too lazy to be wealthy? #4
Once you determined your financial goals and the time frame to get there, you are on a new journey, a new direction and for a while it might be worth keeping it under your hat.
There may come a time when you will need to discuss what you are doing with money mentors, but for the moment don’t broadcast what you are doing.
You have to work hard to be wealthy! You have to get up early, work hard all day and go to bed still working on your objectives.
Yes, money does sometimes grow on trees – or so it seems. Yes, people do win the lottery, the jackpot; people do get sudden inheritances from long lost relatives. Yes people do suddenly find fame and fortune where they sought for none. But it isn’t going to happen to you. Well, the odds are that it won’t.
Most people are too lazy to be wealthy. They may say they want to be, but they don’t.
They may buy a lottery ticket as a sort of half-hearted gesture of wanting to be rich, but they aren’t prepared to put in the work. They aren’t prepared to make sacrifices, study, learn, work their socks off, put in effort and make it a determined and concentrated focus of their life.
And for many people it is because they believe that if you do so you are somehow tainted with evil. But it is OK to work hard to make money? Is it a worthwhile thing to want? It depends on why and what are going to do with their money – I guess.
Most people don’t want to do the work. Yes, they want the money but only if it comes to them by accident, by luck, by chance. Then it’s OK. Then it’s not tainted with sweat and work and passion and focus.
I think if you look at anyone rich enough to be a role model – Bill Gates, Alan Sugar, Warren Buffett, Gordon Ramsey, Richard Branson, James Dyson – you’ll notice only one thing in common … they work their socks off. They might make their money from computers, sales, cookery, business, the film industry, vacuum cleaners, pop music, whatever. But the on thing they all share is the ability to do more in a day than most of us do in a month.
The wonderful thing about wealth is that it’s lying around waiting to be claimed. And those who claim it are the ones who get up early, work hard and put in the hours.
And if you want to be wealthy, you are going to have to as well. In my team I am working with dedicated, focused, ambitious, driven money makers with a sense of humor and fun of course.
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