Some Things I’m Pumped About

So it’s Saturday morning and I woke up around 5:50, my mind racing and alive with ideas as I prepare for the gym. One of my old friends, (Todd Young – a great networker), used to say there are 3 steps to success in business.  Get Excited Get excited Get excited! I really love that advice …

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Finding Your Freedom Number

Freedom, as defined by Robert Kiyosaki in the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, is when your passive income equals or surpasses your monthly expenses. If you don’t know what your monthly expenses are, you will not be clear on the amount of passive income needed to reach your freedom day. Freedom Day: That point in …

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A Rich Man’s View Of Wealth

‘All persons are hypnotized from infancy by the culture in which they grow up.  The prime task of adult life is dehypnotization, enlightenment.’ -Willis Harmon and Howard Rheingold Have you heard the phrase ‘time is money‘? What does that even mean? Money is money and time is time.  2 seemingly totally different things. Robert Kiyosaki teaches …

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The Dirty Truth About Opportunity

Sometimes I hear people trash talk others for promoting business opportunity. Their rationale is that “real businesses” only promote products to customers and not ‘opportunity‘. Well here’s (what some would call) the dirty truth about ‘opportunity’. Everything most of us do is based around opportunity of one form or another.   Employees usually go to work …

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Biblical Riches & Magical Wish Granting

For the last week or so, I’ve been spending a few minutes each morning reading from the ‘Good Book.’ Do I believe the Bible is word for word, literally and categorically the word of God? We’ll save that discussion for another day. Besides that, I can see a whole slew of reasons for becoming familiar …

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Science Of Getting Rich Revised & Updated

For the last 9 years, I’ve been studying an interesting book in a cyclical rotation on our morning mastermind. It’s called The Science of Getting Rich. This book has helped me to cultivate a prosperity consciousness and has influenced my current philosophy in helpful ways. It’s helped me to believe that, contrary to popular opinion, building a …

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Maximum Profits

I read a little book a month or so ago called, “Convert : The Simple Little Formula That Sold 50 Million Worth Of Products & Services Online” (awsome headline right?) The book was written by well known online marketing guru Frank Kern. In that book he mentioned something I thought was super interesting that all …

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Eyes To See

This morning I heard a GREAT thought from Bill Moist on our daily mastermind. He shared a distinction that I thought was so insightful from Robert Kiyosaki. Here it is. “Investments aren’t risky, investors are.” Of course, bad investments can be risky but great investors typically don’t make bad investments do they? That’s because the skill …

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A Truckload Of Hammers

You see your neighbor pull in their driveway with a dump truck filled so full of hammers, some of them are spilling off to the side. What do you think about this? ‘Slightly odd‘ you might say. ‘Evil?’ – probably not. ‘My neighbor must be a crook.’ – unlikely.  Swap out the hammers for stacks …

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Financial Cannabilism

Why don’t cannibals eat comedians? They taste funny. Ha ha… all kidding aside. In our book of the month, The Richest Man in Babylon, we learn about the man who desired gold and the lessons he learned from the Richest Man. The first being, a part of all you earn is yours to keep. The …

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The Richest Man

A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” Father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying.” 🙂 “In old Babylon there lived a very rich man named Arkad.  Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth.  Also was he famed for his liberality.  He was …

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