Wealth Takes Work - Poverty Takes Nothing
May 15, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice
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You have to accept in life that not everything is easy. You have to accept in life that if you take the path of least resistance you’ll end up in the largest pool at the end with the least options. You have to realize and accept in life that anything worth doing takes effort.
It’s sad that so many people take the “effort” to go to work everyday but don’t go that extra 2% and make a lunch or cook a dinner. I mean if you buy a coffee or two a day, buy lunch out ~5-8$+ and then when you get home have nothing in the fridge because you were too lazy the night before so tonight you’re lazy and order in or go do pickup. Does this sound familiar?
I think many people go through phases in their life; one phase is that of the beaten down path to nowhere of least resistance. It’s so easy all you have to do is NOTHING and go for the ride. The sad part is this easy do nothing ride always has an abrupt ending usually saddling the voyager with financial stress, problems or even ruin.
Life is about being better everyday; it’s about putting your energy into productive things that make you money and having the mindset of preserving the funds you receive for your energy. Why waste your energy all day at work just to throw the output around like it’s abundant? We’re a society living with unlimited wants and scarce resources. Read that again if you hasn’t sunk in because it’s true.
Energy via physical or mental labor is all we really have on this planet to earn for us until we’ve gotten to a position where you hire others inputs or your own outputs have amounted to such a substantial sum of money that it will work for itself and you.
It’s been a while since I was studying Economics but I do remember that Labor + Capital are the only real inputs we have control over in our lives to create outputs. It’s funny how we can be too lazy to cook dinner yet immediately forget that the $ we spent on takeout was earned earlier that day via physical or mental labor that predominantly is not of our choosing. You can like your job but if you made substantial income or had enough capital chances are you would spend your time differently wouldn’t you?
Take the challenge today. Make today the start of the rest of your life. Make today worth it. Make today the first day that you get home and lie your head on the pillow and say I played the game of life the smart way.
We become bored and tired with life through working sometimes so it’s so easy to slip away and just waste the money you worked so hard to obtain. The powers at be WANT this to happen to some extent. Imagine if everyone had an empowered mental attitude / perception? Imagine a world where the majority of people managed their financial lives similar to a way that some of the largest corporations do; cutting costs and finding cheap sources for the products and services they need.
We’re lazy and that is the problem. We love conveniences and most of us waste our money day in day out then complain about how working life isn’t so hot or envy someone who has discipline. Statistically more people reasearch their products online then purchase them at a retail store. What the heck!? Why not try them on at retail store then order them online and wait a week… Did you go to the store naked? Of course you didn’t and chances are unless you’re leaving on a trip tomorrow you don’t need that consumer product that you just bought and paid not only the store owners rent, profit, fees etc…
I’m rambling now but you get the gist of what I’m saying. We’re our own sovereign society inside us. We can complain how the powers at be waste their money and spend aimlessly but why do we have to follow the same path of least resistance? Some of you may be doing a good job but I assure you; you could be doing better.
Ever wondered where your life would be if you became the person you are inside instead of just a mold of what other people around you are doing or who you’ve been led to believe you are through years of education destroying your ambition and training you to push paper in someone else’s dream?
Are you living your dream or are you just a cog in someone else’s. I’m working on an uber niche project which is going to be fun and hopefully profitable. I’m done taking the easy route.
Want a quick example of how these concepts affect everything in life from your finances, relationships, health you name it? Look at this blog I didn’t post for a few days; sure I was on business but I still could of made quick posts and I did spend time online. Looks what’s happened; about a week ago we had 240 subscribers; now it’s down to 197 of you loyal ones(thanks). In life everything is growing or wilting; sadly many of us go to work then throw it away so we’re just spinning our tires and wondering why we don’t have more.
Make today the best day you’ve ever had. No more tomorrow because remember that all you ever have now or ever will is the moment of NOW. If you don’t feel like doing X now you won’t feel like doing it in another “NOW” moment further down the road as you’ll probably also have the regret of if I had done this where would I be. Stop wondering.
Sorry to burst your bubble but moving forward and growing takes some work. You know when you’re in the path of least resistance and you know when you have that special edge working. When you lay your head on the pillow tonight I want you to say “wow; I moved forward today in many ways”. That’s what I’m going to do. I’m done taking the path of least resistance; it never did bring happiness and wealth and you know what; it never will.
It’s your day; your life; your destiny. Make it everything it can be because there are no second takes. Furthermore forget your past as there are no such thing as failures. Everything is a success as it’s a successive step towards who you want to be. Believe you me regardless of how bad you have it success breeds success and small steps quickly turn into giant leaps.
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Hey Rob,
Nice philosophical ramblings
Whatever you have written makes sense! Work hard and one shall reap the fruit of his or her labour, good advice.
Thanks Bobby. Too many people expect the rewards without the effort. Nothing in life is free and anyone who has achieved anything put the required work in. “You get what you give…”
The new generations are having it easier than the previous ones, therefore they don’t have the motivation to work hard and don’t quite understand the benefits of sacrificing.
In any area of our lives; work, marriage, etc. success has a price tag and that price tag is hard work and persistence. These efforts require sacrifice. The amount of success you achieve is proportional to the amount of hard work and sacrifice you’re willing to make.
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Thanks, Rob! I needed that jolt of reality and now I feel more empowered since I’m not going to be walking around all day on autopilot! I’m going to be fully cognisant of what I’m doing and what choices I’m making.
Great article. So many think that just signing up with a company or starting a blog or even getting a website will actually make you money. It actually takes work. Just because you are online does not make you rich. Why not build a residual income slowly and solidly over time. It seems everyone is after the quick money. Find something and stick with it!
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