This isn’t for dreamers…
Earlier this week, Stuart and I asked you some tough questions...
Are you living a life of quiet desperation, frustration, poverty and hopelessness? Is this what you want? Are you prepared to settle for being mediocre? Are you content with being just another non-entity in the faceless billions?
No? Then you're with me and I can help you.
There are fours steps to achieving a life of power, wealth and passion (assuming that's what you want).
The first stage is becoming completely debt-free, including your mortgage.
This the most basic, lowest, essential task for every thinking humanoid (that means YOU) to complete as a matter of extreme urgency. This means breaking out of that part of 'The Matrix' which brainwashed you into believing that 'debt is good'.
If you're not able to do this, then you're making the following statement: “I came into this world with nothing.
Despite countless years of work I have been unable to create a single cent of surplus. My entire life's work produced a negative balance, not a positive one, so I borrowed the efforts of others and spent them on my own comfort. I will probably die without even being able to repay these people.”
What a statement. What a way to live a life.
In case you had the slightest doubt, this is NOT a life of power and passion. This is the life of a poor, helpless, weak invalid who cannot even feed, house and clothe him/herself by his or her own efforts!
Put like that (which is the honest truth) it sounds like a ‘damned poor show!’
The first stage of wealth
Stuart - editor of Money Tree
So stage one - the absolute minimum stage - is to become completely debt-free.
How? I don't give a damn how. Just do it. You are totally surrounded by opportunities - grab one of them. There are DOZENS of business opportunities to get you started! If you can't make it in THIS century and THIS part of the world, truly my friend there is little hope for you.
Think I'm being hard? Too right! Of course ‘it's hard’!
You have years of waste, self-indulgence, wrong thinking and downright laziness to put right. You can't do this in five minutes. Too tough for you? Then pay the penalty. One more digit on the 'broke and powerless' people counter...
When you are entirely debt-free (including mortgage) you are ONE rung up from the absolute lowest. You are still a flat-broke slave with zero personal power and little freedom. Why? Because you must work for your food, clothing, telephone, petrol, electricity etc., etc.
You have absolutely no choice in this.
Your only choice is which master to slave for. After 40+ hours of slavery, you don't feel much like being creative or fulfilling your potential, right?
It's the truth. So consider yourself one up from a beast of burden.
Editor's note: Next week we’ll tackle the next stage next week...