How You Become A Millionaire in Three Years
No, it's not MMM, this will be our entrée to discussing that though.
When I'm not brooding about my many duties as an executive in fellowship, or trading penny's for the thoughts of some dear friend (often female, because they understand the deeper things of life), when I'm not doing any of the above, I'm doing something geeky, like listening to a Jane Austen audiobook, catching up religiously on The Walking Dead or watching a Ted Talk video. The latter was the case when I happened upon a good looking black man. He started off his presentation saying such narcissistic things as "you're the CEO of your life", “you're the only one you need to make happy”, and basically you just need to do you. It was all sounding quite worldly and I was already tuning off when he disclosed that he had gone from zero to millionaire in three years. Now that caught my attention, why not, it was plausible, and verified by the very fact that he was on Ted. I guess that’s a bonus point on its own, everyone, no matter how different their views are from yours. Shut up and listen up when you’ve done something remarkable. So I listened to the fellow, and he said to think BIG! Some Nursery school teaching coming your way in 3, 2….
B is for Books
The thing is, you already know this-leaders are readers. But did you know that if you read miscellaneous books you would get miscellaneous results? And that's what we do init? Like the kid in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen who took shots haphazardly and in quick succession with hopes that inevitably one bullet would hit something. We read A and B and X and L, but just like you don't take drugs for illnesses you don't have, you don't read books that don't deal with your problems. You don't read a book on homemaking when you're trying to build a yacht (they will say I'm not being Nigerian now, okay, when you’re trying to build a canoe). Being a Jack of all trades doesn't mean jack if you don't know jack in your trade. Focus your mental energy. He did the math, 10minutes a day, 30 days a month means twelve books a year, it's hard to stay put with all that head knowledge, believe me I've tried. Books don't just teach you how to do and become things, they stir up dissatisfaction with your current state of being, they assure you that there's more, the grass is greener on the other side, but there's a bed of lily's further out that's even better.
I is for Individuals
You know this too, but come on, let's be honest, your friends are your friends because they make you feel comfortable, not because they challenge you. There's a girl I used to know, she's one of those people who aren't entirely honest with themselves, and too scared to look in the mirror for fear that she wouldn't like what she sees. Being the critically scathing person that I sometimes am, we were almost constantly in conflict, needless to say she was generally displeased with me, and I'm not the kind to like that which doesn't like me first (see God in 1 John 4 vs 10) But, But! (I cannot stress this enough) I stuck around, because despite the fact that I found her just as irritating as she found me, the girl had a vision that wasn't totally removed from mine, and I believed she could achieve it, someday. Now I wasn't going to miss out on being a part of that because she didn't push all my right buttons. She said something similar herself, you don't need to surround yourself with only the people that make you feel good about yourself, you need to surround yourself with people that are headed where you're headed more or less, people who, may not be able to share in your jokes, but can certainly share your dreams.
G is for Goals
Nothing new here, except, he proposed the idea of rather than setting a number of equally valuable goals, you isolate one that is overarching (that covers almost all the rest) then, underline it with a number of easy steps that are in one way or the other related to it .For instance, I want to become a professional footballer by the time I'm 21 is the overarching goal. The steps would be:
Save and Buy a soccer boot; Play FIFA five hours a day; Play real football one day a week; Study Messi’s technique December; Study Ronaldo January; Research Football Clubs this weekend; Send Emails to retired footballers asking for advice.
From the above you see your steps can be as applicable to your goal as playing real football one day a week to playing video games five hours a day. The idea is that leaping, crawling or flying all takes you forward towards your goal.
And there you have it folks, think BIG! Like Jesus did in Luke 2 vs 46 when he tarried in the temple, no doubt getting acquainted with the torah he intended to fulfill, surrounded by the teachers he intended to supplant, listening to them and asking them questions. If thinking big is something twelve year old Jesus could do, then what say you?
When I'm not brooding about my many duties as an executive in fellowship, or trading penny's for the thoughts of some dear friend (often female, because they understand the deeper things of life), when I'm not doing any of the above, I'm doing something geeky, like listening to a Jane Austen audiobook, catching up religiously on The Walking Dead or watching a Ted Talk video. The latter was the case when I happened upon a good looking black man. He started off his presentation saying such narcissistic things as "you're the CEO of your life", “you're the only one you need to make happy”, and basically you just need to do you. It was all sounding quite worldly and I was already tuning off when he disclosed that he had gone from zero to millionaire in three years. Now that caught my attention, why not, it was plausible, and verified by the very fact that he was on Ted. I guess that’s a bonus point on its own, everyone, no matter how different their views are from yours. Shut up and listen up when you’ve done something remarkable. So I listened to the fellow, and he said to think BIG! Some Nursery school teaching coming your way in 3, 2….
B is for Books
The thing is, you already know this-leaders are readers. But did you know that if you read miscellaneous books you would get miscellaneous results? And that's what we do init? Like the kid in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen who took shots haphazardly and in quick succession with hopes that inevitably one bullet would hit something. We read A and B and X and L, but just like you don't take drugs for illnesses you don't have, you don't read books that don't deal with your problems. You don't read a book on homemaking when you're trying to build a yacht (they will say I'm not being Nigerian now, okay, when you’re trying to build a canoe). Being a Jack of all trades doesn't mean jack if you don't know jack in your trade. Focus your mental energy. He did the math, 10minutes a day, 30 days a month means twelve books a year, it's hard to stay put with all that head knowledge, believe me I've tried. Books don't just teach you how to do and become things, they stir up dissatisfaction with your current state of being, they assure you that there's more, the grass is greener on the other side, but there's a bed of lily's further out that's even better.
I is for Individuals
You know this too, but come on, let's be honest, your friends are your friends because they make you feel comfortable, not because they challenge you. There's a girl I used to know, she's one of those people who aren't entirely honest with themselves, and too scared to look in the mirror for fear that she wouldn't like what she sees. Being the critically scathing person that I sometimes am, we were almost constantly in conflict, needless to say she was generally displeased with me, and I'm not the kind to like that which doesn't like me first (see God in 1 John 4 vs 10) But, But! (I cannot stress this enough) I stuck around, because despite the fact that I found her just as irritating as she found me, the girl had a vision that wasn't totally removed from mine, and I believed she could achieve it, someday. Now I wasn't going to miss out on being a part of that because she didn't push all my right buttons. She said something similar herself, you don't need to surround yourself with only the people that make you feel good about yourself, you need to surround yourself with people that are headed where you're headed more or less, people who, may not be able to share in your jokes, but can certainly share your dreams.
G is for Goals
Nothing new here, except, he proposed the idea of rather than setting a number of equally valuable goals, you isolate one that is overarching (that covers almost all the rest) then, underline it with a number of easy steps that are in one way or the other related to it .For instance, I want to become a professional footballer by the time I'm 21 is the overarching goal. The steps would be:
Save and Buy a soccer boot; Play FIFA five hours a day; Play real football one day a week; Study Messi’s technique December; Study Ronaldo January; Research Football Clubs this weekend; Send Emails to retired footballers asking for advice.
From the above you see your steps can be as applicable to your goal as playing real football one day a week to playing video games five hours a day. The idea is that leaping, crawling or flying all takes you forward towards your goal.
And there you have it folks, think BIG! Like Jesus did in Luke 2 vs 46 when he tarried in the temple, no doubt getting acquainted with the torah he intended to fulfill, surrounded by the teachers he intended to supplant, listening to them and asking them questions. If thinking big is something twelve year old Jesus could do, then what say you?
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