Lesson 1. Instead of working for money, create ways to make money work for you.
A job is really a short term solution (getting enough money to pay the bills) to a long-term challenge (building your net worth). Yet many people get locked into such high expenditure habits they are forced into continuing to work for someone else all their lives. Those who build high net worths, however, realize the key is not how much they are paid -- it’s finding ways to make their assets work for them generating additional wealth irrespective of what they do with their own personal time.
An astute financial strategy is to start a business that will generate money even when you’re not physically there. The majority of people, however, are so focused on what they’re paid that they miss all the opportunities to achieve this goal.
This creates a couple of paradoxes:
1. The majority of people work for someone else because it makes them feel safe and secure. In other words, they’re working out of fear of not being able to pay their bills. By contrast, the people in society who are paid the most are often so wealthy they don’t have to work to pay their bills -they work because they are passionate about whatever it is they are doing.
2. Most people who are paid more money for their work end up getting into more debt rather than building their net worth. Their expenses rise as their income rises, because of all the desires they have.
The key to overcoming these paradoxes is to learn how to make money work for you, instead of looking at a job or even a career as a way to earn money. If you can achieve that, you start to make fear and desire work for you instead of against you. Ignorance intensifies fear and desire. Instead of thinking with your emotions, learn how to use your emotions to think creatively. Choose what to think about rather than react to your emotions and you lay a good foundation to move ahead.
‘‘ Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and desire. First, the fear of being without money motivates us to work hard, and then once we get that paycheck, greed or desire starts us thinking about all the wonderful things money can buy. The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills, get up, go to work, pay bills is then set. Their lives are then run forever by two emotions, fear and greed. Offer them more money, and they continue the cycle by also increasing their spending. This is what I call the Rat Race.’’ -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
‘‘More money seldom solves someone’s financial problems. Intelligence solves problems. There is a saying a friend of mine says over and over to people in debt: "If you find yourself in a hole...stop digging."’’ -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
Lesson 1. Instead of working for money, create ways to make money work for you.
A job is really a short term solution (getting enough money to pay the bills) to a long-term challenge (building your net worth). Yet many people get locked into such high expenditure habits they are forced into continuing to work for someone else all their lives. Those who build high net worths, however, realize the key is not how much they are paid -- it’s finding ways to make their assets work for them generating additional wealth irrespective of what they do with their own personal time.
An astute financial strategy is to start a business that will generate money even when you’re not physically there. The majority of people, however, are so focused on what they’re paid that they miss all the opportunities to achieve this goal.
This creates a couple of paradoxes:
1. The majority of people work for someone else because it makes them feel safe and secure. In other words, they’re working out of fear of not being able to pay their bills. By contrast, the people in society who are paid the most are often so wealthy they don’t have to work to pay their bills -they work because they are passionate about whatever it is they are doing.
2. Most people who are paid more money for their work end up getting into more debt rather than building their net worth. Their expenses rise as their income rises, because of all the desires they have.
The key to overcoming these paradoxes is to learn how to make money work for you, instead of looking at a job or even a career as a way to earn money. If you can achieve that, you start to make fear and desire work for you instead of against you. Ignorance intensifies fear and desire. Instead of thinking with your emotions, learn how to use your emotions to think creatively. Choose what to think about rather than react to your emotions and you lay a good foundation to move ahead.
‘‘ Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and desire. First, the fear of being without money motivates us to work hard, and then once we get that paycheck, greed or desire starts us thinking about all the wonderful things money can buy. The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills, get up, go to work, pay bills is then set. Their lives are then run forever by two emotions, fear and greed. Offer them more money, and they continue the cycle by also increasing their spending. This is what I call the Rat Race.’’ -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
‘‘More money seldom solves someone’s financial problems. Intelligence solves problems. There is a saying a friend of mine says over and over to people in debt: "If you find yourself in a hole...stop digging."’’ -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
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