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The things we think about are the things that we eventually become. They are the things that consume us. As long as we’re going to think we might as well think BIG instead of small. Let your small-minded co-workers fret about the small things. You’re on a road to bigger and better things and you now have better things to do than to be drawn into some petty quarrel.

If you aren’t yet self-employed the only thing you should be thinking about right now is how to make that reality. You need to visualize yourself as you want to be and you want to lock that image in your mind and think of it frequently. The things we think about the most more often that not end up true in the end.

If you are self-employed then you should think about the big picture and not the small little details that seem big, but really just sap your creative and physical energy.

If you’re out of shape and want to get in fantastic shape then you will need to imagine your body as you want it to be. Fix that image in your mind everyday and especially while you are at the gym. Know the outcome before you even get there.

If you’re bad with women, imagine yourself as the suave James Bond type you know you can be. Don’t fret about getting a girls phone number, think about getting a thousand girls’ phone numbers. If you worry about getting one phone number and don’t get it you will be sad and frustrated. If you aim for a thousand number and only get a hundred, well that’s a pretty good deal in my book.

Always view the BIG picture.

The small picture is for the small-minded. Let them keep it.

Slavery has existed for a very long time. Since man first built communities. Slaves have always, and will always, work and toil to make the rich richer. The rich cannot exist without the middle class. The best slaves are the slaves who don’t understand that they are slaves. The best slaves are the ones who toil for their rich masters, doing all the work and paying all the taxes, and think that they are working for themselves – working to make their own lives better.

There isn’t necessarily anything wrong with one giving up his power and working for someone else. The world needs worker bees. However, if YOU have ever had the feeling that you’re wasting your life working a job you hate to make someone else rich then maybe it is time you do something about. If YOU have ever had the feeling that you’re underpaid and that you’re salary isn’t enough then maybe it is time you do something about it.

There aren’t many rules to life, but one steadfast rule is this: YOU CANNOT BECOME WEALTHY BY BEING PAID A SALARY. What you are when you are paid a salary is easily subjugatable. A salary is nothing more than your parents giving you an allowance when you do your chores. If you do your chores at work this week you get your allowance, it will give you enough money to go have fun on the weekend, then you get to go back to work and do it all over again. Maybe if you save long enough you can buy that new entertainment system to further take your mind off of anything important. Just be sure and not show up more than 6 minutes late, more than a few times being tardy and you may be fired.

Wouldn’t it be so much nicer being the one with all the power instead being the one with no power? The answer is yes. To accomplish anything worthwhile in this lifetime you have to do it yourself. You have to start it yourself, build it yourself, and make money by yourself. At some point you will need a team around you to handle operations but when you first start your own business it isn’t necessary.

Take life into your own hands.

Ask yourself one question to determine whether or not you have what it takes to live your life on your terms:

Are you content in your slavery? Pick one.

YES: Cool. You should head on over to another site and read some celebrity gossip.

NO: Excellent. Now do something about it. The world is yours for the taking. Get off your ass and take it.

Would you like to create your own reality?

Would you like to become someone else, someone better, someone who doesn’t take orders all day, someone who lives life on their terms?

Would you like to live your dream?

Would you like to hear the secret about how to create your own destiny?

Well, the fancy secret is that you DO create your own reality. You do create your own destiny. As you are reading this right now you are creating your reality. If you aren’t living up to your potential it is because you chose not to. Make the choice to live life on your terms, your own way. Forget about societies rules how things should be done. Societies rules are meaningless to you. Make your own rules and only follow them.

Everything you see, do, hear, see, and feel exists because you created it. The computer screen you’re reading exists because you created it. The job you work exists because you created it. This article exists because you created it. If you hadn’t come across this website and this article would it still be here? In your world, no, it would not, cannot exist.

Create for yourself a life of abundance. All it takes is the decision to do so. Make the choice. Live life as a slave, following others (who don’t even exist) or live life as the king of your reality.

Whose to say we are all not just dreams of ourselves and that nothing really exists. As long as you are dreaming the dream, LIVE THE DREAM! Don’t let the nightmare become your reality.

Back-up plans are an excuse to fail.

Say you want to be a movie actor. With all your heart you want to be an actor, it’s all you’ve wanted to do. What would you do? Would you move to hollywood as soon as you can, take acting classes and start auditioning right away? Or would you go to school for a degree in whatever just so if you fail at acting you can fall back on something?

Conventional wisdom says you should have a backup plan, just ‘in case’. That you need insurance against a lifetime of failure. Conventional wisdom is for conventional people. They accept their choice of backup plan because they know they are going to fail and apparently they are ok with that. The reality is that if you accept your backup plan and live that life you are a monstrous failure. You are a failure because you gave up on yourself, because you didn’t believe in yourself, because you refused to let yourself succeed.

When you have a burning desire and you put all of your energies into making it a reality the truth is that you cannot fail. Failure is impossible, beyond impossible. It isn’t even a thought. Ah, but when you have that back-up plan still lingering in your mind you aren’t truly giving 110% to achieve your goals. Maybe you’re giving 75%, even 95% but that isn’t good enough. It takes 100% minimum.

Kill your back-up plan and put all your energy into becoming what you truly want to become. If you’re burning desire is to be a Doctor, great, go for it. If you’re burning desire is to be a traveling fashion photographer, great, go for it. Is your burning desire to be a salesman or an office drone or a substitute teacher? Probably not.

Burn your bridges. Pass the point of no return. Give in to your desire with all your heart. You cannot fail. It’s impossible.

Ah, money. Money is our savior. Money is our God. Money must surely be valuable if so many people chase it fruitlessly. But there is a dilemma…

Money is not real. Money is imaginary. We could just as easily use twigs and leaves as currency. The only value money has is the value we give to it, the value we think it has. Even if there were a gold standard (there isn’t) it wouldn’t matter, the only value Gold has is the value we give it. The only possible way to give money value is to use food as currency.

Imagine…

You stumble upon an Island inhabited by people who have not been corrupted by the outside world. This Island is rich in natural resources. You convince the inhabitants of the Island that this paper you have is incredibly valuable. In exchange for this paper they agree to toil away in the mines, giving you all their natural resources in exchange for these pieces of paper. You have an infinite supply of paper, it doesn’t mean anything to you. You take the natural food this island has, turn it into processed garbage with a long shelf life and sell it back to the inhabitants of the island. With all the natural resources you are getting you become wealthy beyond belief.

While you become wealthy the inhabitants of this island become extremely poor, unhappy, malnourished etc.. They think to get better they need more of this paper. Remember, you have unlimited paper, but to keep these people working for you you do not give them a raise in paper. You pretend to be on hard times, you tell them they need to work harder and eventually they will make a good wage. They just need to keep their heads down and power through.

Now what would you think about the people of this island that you were so easily able to convince them they need this worthless paper in exchange for valuable resources? You would think they were pretty stupid. They had a wealth of resources, they had a wealth of free time spent with family and loved ones, they had a wealth of natural food.

Think about the people of this Island, and then think about your office job.

Do you feel duped yet?

Do you still think it’s worth it to toil your life away for what amounts to nothing?

Or do you think it would be a better idea to quit your soul-stealing job and do what you love?

I do.

You’ve only got one life to live. Don’t live it to make someone else wealthy.

If you have a dream that you want to pursue then the first thing you should do is quit your J.O.B. (just over broke). The worst thing you can do is take a “temporary” job to help pay the bills. Five years later you’re stuck at that same job wondering where the time went and what happened to your ambitions. If you don’t have any dreams or ambitions and just want to survive, then by all means take a job. But if you aren’t like the rest of them, you really have dreams of doing something great then never take a job doing something you hate.

The best thing I ever did in my life was quit my job. The job that I hated. The job that I dreaded going to every morning. People thought I was nuts but it didn’t matter. I had a plan and nothing was going to stop me. I quit with barely enough money to survive for a month. That forced me to hustle like never before. It was a very scary time but it has paid off in dividends.

People say “never quit your job until you’re making enough to support yourself”. Yeah, right. That will take you years to start pulling in enough income from your side gig while spending 50 plus hours a week making other people rich. Quitting your job will show you what you are really made of. It is like being stranded in the Yukon with nothing but a rifle. You have to go out and find your own food or you will starve to death.

Obviously, you must have a plan if you quit your job. You can’t quit with no money and no idea of how to start making money. But if you have an idea, and a fire burning inside, then give up the crummy job. You will be glad you did. Either you will succeed and start doing what you’ve always wanted or you will fail. Failure is not a bad thing. Failure is a fantastic teacher. Here is a very simple formula every great entrepreneur has learned the hard way.

1) Fail

2) Learn from your mistakes

3) Try again until you succeed.

There is nothing worse in life than never trying. Unfortunately most of us never do try and we’re stuck in jobs we hate trying to make ends meet, wondering how the guy on TV got so “lucky”. Never trying is the coward’s way out.

You are on this site so we know that you are not a coward. You may walk, talk and act like one but deep down you have something brewing and you are looking for a way to succeed. You’re just scared to take that chance. Well, what are you scared of? Not having just enough money to barely get by every month? Scared of what people might say? Scared of failing?

If you don’t do it now, you probably never will. And you know it. So just take a chance, for once.

*This article is for the guy or girl who absolutely hates their job and thinks they should be doing bigger and better things. This article is not for the person who has a good job and enjoys it.

But then again if you have a good job that you enjoy, why would you be reading this website?

Historically fortunes have been made more so in times of great economic downturns than in times of great prosperity. We are in the midst of the worst depression in most of our lives. And there has never been a better time to make a lot of money and do some good in the world at the same time.

Most people will tell you that now is not the time to start a business. Now is not the time to take a risk. You need to hold on to that crummy J.O.B. (just over broke) because it pays and it’s hard to find a job right now. These people will tell you that you are crazy for taking a chance. Everyone is one of “those” people at some point. Scared to take a chance. But not you. Not anymore. In fact, it is precisely because of “those” people that now is the time to start your own thing. Why? Because no one else is. Everyone is scared to think outside the box. And that’s why you’re going to make your fortune and they are going to toil away in the “safe” jobs with all those great benefits (insurance that they pay for, loss of time and freedom, bending to the will of others, paying more taxes than the average millionaire etc..).

So what should you tell those people about why you’re starting a new business and what it’s all about? Nothing. Don’t tell anyone anything about your plans. There are two reasons for this.

1) Statistically you are less likely to follow through with your plans if you start blabbing about them. The reason is that you subconsciously feel like you have accomplished them simply by talking about them and are less active in actually fulfilling them. How many times has someone told you their great plan to make money and then never followed through with anything? My guess is a million.

2) People will tell you that you are crazy or dumb or both. They will come up with all kinds of reasons and excuses to try and talk you out of doing anything. Deep down no one wants their friends and co-workers to do better than them. That’s why you simply don’t say anything.

So now you know what not to tell people. Now you’re asking yourself what kind of business to start and not tell people about. Well, I could give you all kinds of ideas about businesses to start but they wouldn’t mean anything. Deep down in your heart of hearts you know what type of business you want to start. You may not be able to put your finger on it but you will, eventually. I spent years trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I knew what I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to wake up every morning, put on clothes I didn’t want to wear, rush out the door to sit in traffic for an hour, get to a job I hated, let them tell me when I can take my break, sit in another hour of traffic to get home. All for – what is now in hindsight – a crummy, crummy paycheck.

Now I wake up when I want to, which is way earlier than I ever wanted to wake up when I hated my job. I work from my home office and I generally wear a pair of black shorts to work. I get most of my business done in the morning and do whatever else I want throughout the day. Which is mostly work related. You’ll find you work way harder when you love what you do.

Anyway, back to what type of business to start. What I used to do is visualize what I wanted to do. I didn’t know exactly what type of business it would be but I would visualize myself dressed very well and spending most of my working day driving around to various appointments. I’m a real estate investor so most of my work is spent driving around to peoples houses to see if I want to buy them (the houses, not the people). Before I knew what I wanted to do I had a vision in my head of how I would do it.

I used to live in a tiny little one bedroom apartment. Technically it was the worst place I ever lived. It was actually the best though. That was my laboratory. I would sit around and write out lists of what I could do and what I couldn’t do. Trying to figure out where I could start a business and how. I would write notes to myself that had my goals on them and tape them all over the walls. People who came over thought I was crazy. But those little notes worked. I suggest you do the same. The motivation from these notes is terrific. The best one I had was a note taped across my computer monitor that read “I will be in business for myself by such and such date”. And you know what? I was in business for myself by that date.

For those wanting to start their own business I would suggest leading a very Spartan lifestyle. I don’t mean by killing Persians, but I do mean getting rid of things you don’t need. There is no point in paying a $1500 mortgage if you can rent for $400. There’s no point in leasing a Jag for $700 a month if you can buy a running Toyota for $2,000. No point in going out to eat every night if you can survive on a can of soup and a cheese sandwich. Now is not the time to be wasteful with your money. You need every dime you can get your hands on and it’s ok to live like a bum. It will pay off in the end.

Ask yourself these questions:

Will this $100 cable bill with 500 channels help me reach my goals?

If the answer is no, cancel the cable!

Will going out tonight with my friends and spending $75 on food and drinks help me reach my goal?

If the answer is no, don’t do it!

As your business you need to either pick something you love or something you are en expert at. You need to devote all of your time and energy to that endeavor. Start reading books every single week. I don’t mean the new Michael Crichton or the new Stephen King, or that new romance book you saw at Wal-Mart. Those books don’t exist anymore. Start reading auto-biographies of successful people. Start reading books that have to do with your chosen field. Start reading business books and motivational books. Read all of those books you can get your hands on. Never stop reading those books.

Start exercising! A healthy body is a healthy mind. You will need to be in good shape to start your own business. There will be very, very stressful time ahead and it will help if you are in good physical shape. Lay off the cigarettes and booze too. Those do nothing to help you achieve your goals. They only help to kill you faster. Even if you don’t have a business idea yet, you ARE waiting for the opportunity. Opportunity comes to those who are prepared. In fact there is an opportunity out there waiting for you right now. What are you going to do when it presents itself? Will you take it?

….or will you let is pass you by?