Book: Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men – One Message

Authors: Donald Trump & “Rich Dad” Robert Kiyosaki

Donald and Robert want you to become rich to become part of the solution to the problems we face as a nation and the world.

Professional investors, as Donald and Robert are require transparency in all their investments. 

1. Free from pretense or deceit
2. Sheer enough to be seen through
3. Readily understood.

 Mutual fund companies are not required to be transparent – not required to disclose their true expenses.

 401K is a savings plan, not a retirement plan. “Saving money” became an obsolete idea in 1971 when money stopped being back by gold and became “currency.” Saving money is bad financial advice.

 Quotes from Trump:

 “What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping it to yourself?”

  “We as a nation cannot solve our financial problems if we think with an entitlement mentality. It’s this mentality that’s really at the core of the problem.”

 “Be your own financial advisor.”

 “Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner.”

Quotes from Robert:

 “Most of my wealth comes from my gold mine in China, my silver mine in South America and my real estate companies and oil partnerships in the United States.”

“My poor dad valued security, and my rich dad valued freedom.”

“Money buys me more choices in life.”

“The difference between a saver and investor is one word – leverage.”

 “There is very little leverage in you working hard.”

“10% of borrowers use debt to get richer, 90% percent use debt to get poorer.”

 FOCUS – “Follow One Course Until Success”

“Leverage is the key to great wealth.”

“If you want to be rich and keep your wealth, your mind – your financial education – is your greatest lever of all.”

“Rich dad taught me to use my mind to make money… not to make excuses.”

“Money is the celebration of success, just as lack of money is the reminder that we need to learn more.”

“Leverage is the ability to do more with less.”

“Strategic Partners creates leverage and is often called OPR, other people’s resources.”

“Rich people use more leverage than poor people. If you want to be rich you need leverage. If you want to be really rich, you need a lot of leverage.”

“I like business and real estate because I have control. I do not like paper assets such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds because I do not have control.”

“The tougher the negotiation, the more relaxed the environment needs to be.”

“Rather than living below our means, we constantly work on expanding our means, increasing our income, building assets and serving as many people as we can.”

 Book: Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men – One Message

(Clears Throat)

Ya Know, I was just Thinking — “My opinion on Money as been ALLL messed up virtuAlly my entire Life.”   I have never hated Money, and I actuAlly have almost always respected Money, however, recently I have been Seeing Money as a prison, a farce, a distraction.   Ever since I Became a “Spiritual” man.   I AM Now almost entirely finished reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad for my First time.   I say my First time, Because I AM going to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki many times in my Life — I AM SURE.   Why???   Because Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a great book!!!   Thanks to Me reading my Rich Dad, Poor Dad book, I have been awoken from my retarded ass irrational Belief about Money — ever since I Became a “Spiritual” man, that is. I Love Money.   And I AM Now UNafraid of yet another thing — and that is, speaking yet another One of my TRUTHS.   I LOVE MONEY!!!   One more time — I LOOOOOOVE MONEYYYYYY!!!!!!   And You are a Broke Liar if You Believe Money is bad.

Money is Not bad.   Money is empty.   Money is neutral.   Money is a tool…in fact, Money is a universal tool.   Tools are Not inherently bad or good or anything for that matter.   Tools … just …  ARE what they ARE.   Period. Here I AM Thinking that Now that Because I AM “Spiritual”, I do Not focus on Money, nooo, Money is a trap, Money is the root of All evil, Money is THEE anti-”Spiritual”.   Forget that.   You Know what Money is???   Get ready Because You are going to Be using and Hearing what I AM about to say for years to come.   Ready?!?!?!

MONEY      IS      WILL      POWER      IN      FORM.

Got it?!!

SpirituAllity is Nothing but developing your inner “Money” Source.   The Source that does Not run out.   “SpirituAllity” is developing your ability to Become YOUR OWN FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM — — — Creating “Money” i.e. — Choices, Free Will, Capability — — — OUT OF THIN  — FREAKIN —- AIR —— also Known as — THE VOID. Get this.   “SpirituAllity” & “MateriAllity” are Two so-called “opposite” masks on the SAME FACE.   NIETHER of them is Real.   BUT!!! “SpirituAllity” is RealER. Why???   Because SpirituAllity is Always Here.   SpirituAllity is the relatively invisible Source from which All relatively visible ‘Things’ are Formed.   Thought.   Emotion.   Imagination. — — —      — — —      — — — Books.   Speeches.   Cities.   Spiritual Always comes first AND material is Always on it’s way OUT of existence.   Once Spirit Becomes matter, it is in its latest cycles of growth and therefore is inching closer and ever closer to Death — return to Spirit.   The more material anything Becomes, the more immaterial that thing Becomes.   Cycles necessitate paradox.

So Spirit is just the better Form of Choice, Freedom and Will Power.   Why???   Because Spirit is the Source, which means that Spirit gets first dibs, Spirit runs out last and Spirit is Always fresh (i.e. “Present”).   Money is the Form Form of Choice, Freedom and Will Power & Spirit is the Formless Form of Choice, Freedom and Will Power.   That’s it.   Also, Money is the dependent Way do achieve greater and ever greater Free Will.   You must depend on something outside of You in Order to receive your Money……UNLESS……YOU are a Central Bank of the sort that can and does CREATE its OWN Money — THEN, THAT is the closest that You could EVER get to Spirit on the ‘Material’ Plane.   THAT is Material magic — pulling from The VOID — like a Shaman, Magus or New Age Manifestation SUPER Expert.

In conclusion, let Me TELL YOU that your Belief about Money is trash, UNless You Love Money ALMOST as much as You Love your Soul.   Why are You broke???   ARE You broke???   Why are You living from paycheck to paycheck to paycheck like a dog chasing its own tale???   Because Money is “bad” ???   Because “I Don’t Care about Money” ???   Because You are lying out your ass??? HINT: Always go for the Number 3.   Where on Earth did you LEARN about Money???   DID You learn about Money???   Where could You possibly have gotten your Self-sabotaging, insane, delusional Beliefs about Money???   Probably School.   Probably University.   Probably Society.   Probably Parents.   Probably stupid dumb ass poor ass “UNlucky” helpless broke folk that You are foolishly emulating.   Our gap between Rich and errrBody else is is widening like a Mother’s vagina during delivery.   That’s wide, dude.   EVERYTHING around You costs Money.   EVERYTHING. SO DO YOU THINK THAT IT IS TIME TO LEARN ABOUT MONEY AND START LIVING AS THE RICH FOOL THAT YOU DREAM ABOUT???   “Hell Yeah!!!!!!”, says my other Self.

So where o where do we start.   Well how bout, somewhere other than — FORMAL EDUCATION.   YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO BE FINANCIALLY IN-DEPENDENT IN SCHOOL.   YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO BE EXCEEDINGLY FINANCIALLY OUT-DEPENDENT IN SCHOOL.      Duh!!!      FinanciAlly in-dependent people with Minds capable of critical analysis and financial genius are PLAGUE to their Slave-Masters.   Thus, KILL THEIR SPIRITUAL WILL POWER FIRST — — — THENNN KILL THEIR MATERIAL WILL POWER SECOND (that Way they NEVER tap into their capacity for Infinite IN-dependence).   Perfect Plan.   And everyBody around You, except for those “special” few (few = 3), canNot THINK for themselves, canNot PAY for themselves, and canNot BE for themselves — — — just to have what they deserve, desire and are thus, destined to realize … … … but destiny can last forever, and Infinity is a pretty long time to Be patient, passive and imPerfect.

Just research.   Search for Financial Truth.

1)   DEFINE your financial goal.

2)   SEEK your financial goal.

3)   ENJOY your financial goal.

Simple.

Also, what I AM about to say is somewhat UNrelated to my most recent points, but this is just wunuh dem thangs that is pissin Me off Because it is just so stupid.   I AM a Salesman.   “Oooooo, Run AWay!!!   Ahhhhhh!!!!!!   Fuck You!!!   You HEARTless lying crook!!!   You scumbag!!!”   Yeah, yeah, yeah, Why don’t You go sleep in your empty bank account…and Trust Me, it only takes One Per Cent more than Ten Per Cent of us to take out All of our Money from our bank accounts and You would See just how empty your bank account REALLY is.   Regardless, I AM a SalesMAN.   People EXPECT and most importantly, people “KNOW” that I AM only interested in their Money and would sell them their own feces if I could.   People Know that I do Not really Believe in what I sell — “Sales people are Hustlers, don’t You “Know” that??????“   Wrong!!!   Hustlers are Hustlers.   Sales people do what got You everything that You own and everything around You…UNless You were stupid enough to get tricked by a Hustler, which happens to ALL of us — it’s Name is GOVERNMENT, & HEALTHCARE & PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG DEALERS.

Let Me tell You somethin.   If You and your people that YOU Know, would apply your  Same principles about Money and anything from a Sales person Being a mixture for INSTANT Say-tanic ‘Conflict of Interest’, then y’All would Not Trust … …. …

1. POLITICIANS — (“Trust” Sales Person)
2. FOOD & DRINK SUPPLIERS & PRODUCERS — (“Energy” Sales Person)
3. TOBACCO INDUSTRY — (“False Inner Peace” Sales Person)
4. MUSICIANS — (“Sound” Sales Person)
5. PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS — (Mutha F**k*n “DRUG Dealers” — “Lack of Inner Strength” Sales Person)
6. DOCTORS — (“Health” Sales Person)
7. EMPLOYERS — (“Carrot On A Stick” Sales Person)
8. SOCIETY — (“Identity” Sales Person)
9. ‘NEWS’ MEDIUMS — (“InFormation/Thought” Sales Person)
10. BANKS — (Insatiable Loan Sharks — “Credit, i.e. Empty Confidence” Sales Person)
11. CHILDREN’S MEDIA — (Toys, Cartoons, Movies… — “Kick ‘Em While They’re Down” Sales Person)
12. UNIVERSITY — (“Good Employee/Slave Mentality” Sales Person)
13. MILITARY & POLICE — (“Fight for Peace” & “Security” Sales Person)
14. WOMEN — (“Look at Me, Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me!” Sales Person)
15. YOUR SELF — (“Competition” Sales Person)

See what I mean???   Hahahahahahahahaha.

AnyWay, take that smile on your face and brighten someBody’s day with it.   Learn how to achieve, maintain and expand your financial in-dependence.   Remember how to achieve, maintain and expand your Spiritual in-dependence, i.e. DUST OF YOUR FREE WILL and Be easy.   Live YOUR most Perfect Life, so that You don’t project your discontent on your environment and perpetuate UNnecessary dis-ease resulting from Self-sabotage and foolish Ignorance of Self-Reflection.

“If another ‘I’ can See something in You that You canNot See in yourSelf — — — — — — You got work to do.“

— Me, mutha$^#%@

I AM posting SIX of my best Sources of Financial Consciousness at my bottom.

Thank You,

In the NAME of my BALANCE, the WORD of my LOVE,

Jelani Asar

Void) THIS is how IIIIII make Money.   ONE Way, that I make my Money.   I SELL OxySilver.   Join with Me and Sell Life-Saving and Sustaining Solutions to non-Super Success!!!   OxySilver is the MOST AMAZING supplement that exists outside of You, (and thus, is based on a System of out-dependence,) THAT I HAVE FOUND THUS FAR — and I AM a DEVOTED researcher and Mind-Body-Spirit NUT.

I ALSO make my Money by Writing my Blogs, Writing my Freelance Articles and Writing my Book on … … … You guessed it … Mind-Body-Spirit — FREEDOM & SECURITY & BLISS. I also have Created my very own GOURMET Cookie company Named — Jelani’s Signature Gourmet Cookies — look out for Jelani’s Signature Gourmet Cookies over (y)our Holidays!!!   I AM still developing my website to Perfection, however, I can certainly direct You to my Business Partner —Mr. Kevin “Delicious Delights & Catered Cakes” Ashford’s — Website — http://www.cateredcakes.com/home.cfm?view=main&link=3. Just so You Know, I bake my cookies with my finest glorious golden Ghee (look it up if You are UNfamiliar with “Ghee” — Ghee is our greatest and most UNIVERSALLY beneficial OIL – ON OUR PLANET.   See if I AM lying.) , my Honey, my Agave Nectar, my Natural& Organic Ingredients and my Love, and my FREE SPIRIT —— All for You babay. I AM ready to grace, add to or SAVE your “Thanks Giving.”   I give Thanks to You.

LOOK into OxySilver and You can See what I AM All about — — — OxySilver — — — by Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Mr. Jelani Asar DuBois Snipes & Mrs. Healthy World LLC — MY Homesite — www.OXYSILVER.com/1319

People with RICHES in their EYE do Not ally with poor products, of any sort.   See Why I chose OxySilver as ONE of my THREE main means of Cash Flow generation.   Thank You.   — www.OXYSILVER.com/1319

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1)   Great Intro to Thinking like the RICH B**CH that You are destined to Become — — — Rich Dad, Poor Dad — — — by Mr. Robert T. Kiyosaki — Amazon.com — http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_7?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rich+dad+poor+dad&x=0&y=0&sprefix=rich+da

2)   Great Way to dissolving your Beliefs that make You AFRAID of Money instead of IN LOVE with your Money — — — Breaking The Money Barriers (and Workbook) — — — by Dr. Michael J. Duckett — Amazon.com — http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Money-Barriers-Michael-Duckett/dp/0966810708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258298173&sr=1-1

THREE)   Great Way to Know how You get when You get Money and property in your hands and how HIGH You get off Money — — — Monopoly — — — by The Parker Brothers — GameHouse.com – Computer Ed. — http://www.gamehouse.com/mac-games/macintosh-monopoly-here-now-edition

4)   Great Way to really really really LEARN how You and your BeLoved MONEY treat each other as You play this Game of Life and do your best to fly aWay from ‘The Rat Race’ — — — CashFlow 101: How to Get Out of The Rat Race — by Mr. Robert T. Kiyosaki & his Wifey — Homesite — http://www.cashflowboardgame.com/

5)   BEST Way to Know the TRUTH about Money, Banking and World Government — — — The Creature from Jekyll Island & (Book & Seminar) — — — by Mr. Edward G. Griffin — Homesites — (Book) – http://www.realityzone.com/creature.html — — — (Seminar) – http://www.realityzone.com/cr4.html

SIX)   Hardcore Truth about Money, but DO NOT allow these Words and Sounds and scenes to draw You back into your conditioned Money hole.   Number 5 and Number SIX reMind You that everything, even Money is Illusory and ULTIMATELY Not Real, which is Why I AM posting this Knowledge LAST.   HOWEVER, regardless of how “UNReal” Money is, it is God on your “Material” plane, REMEMBER THAT — — — What Is Money? — — — by Mr. David Icke — YouTube — 

Void) THIS is how IIIIII make Money.   ONE Way, that I make my Money.   I SELL OxySilver.   Join with Me and Sell Life-Saving and Sustaining Solutions to non-Super Success!!!   OxySilver is the MOST AMAZING supplement that exists outside of You,( and thus, is based on a System of out-dependence,) THAT I HAVE FOUND THUS FAR — and I AM a DEVOTED researcher and Mind-Body-Spirit NUT.

I ALSO make my Money by Writing my Blogs, Writing my Freelance Articles and Writing my Book on … … … You guessed it … Mind-Body-Spirit — FREEDOM & SECURITY & BLISS. I also have Created my very own GOURMET Cookie company Named — Jelani’s Signature Gourmet Cookies — look out for Jelani’s Signature Gourmet Cookies over (y)our Holidays!!!   I AM still developing my website to Perfection, however, I can certainly direct You to my Business Partner — Mr. Kevin “Delicious Delights & Catered Cakes” Ashford’s — Website — http://www.cateredcakes.com/home.cfm?view=main&link=3 — — — Click on the sub-title — “Specialty & Gourmet Desserts” under the “Menu” title. I bake my cookies with my finest glorious golden Ghee (look it up if You are UNfamiliar with “Ghee” — Ghee is our greatest and most UNIVERSALLY beneficial OIL – ON OUR PLANET.   See if I AM lying.) , Honey, Agave Nectar, Natural& Organic Ingredients and my Love, and my FREE SPIRIT —— All for You babay. I AM ready to grace, add too or SAVE your “Thanks Giving.”   I give Thanks to You.

LOOK into OxySilver and You can See what I AM All about — — — OxySilver — — — by Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Mr. Jelani Asar DuBois Snipes & Mrs. Healthy World LLC — MY Homesite — www.OXYSILVER.com/1319

People with RICHES in their EYE do Not ally with poor products, of any sort.   See Why I chose OxySilver as ONE of my THREE main means of Cash Flow generation.   Thank You.   — www.OXYSILVER.com/1319

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Freebee (Numer-ology – Our Study of  Letters & NUMBERS):

M – O – N – E – Y

M = 4

O = 6

N = 5

E = 5

Y = 7

MONEY = 4 + 6 + 5 + 5 + 7 = 27

27 = 2 + 7 = 9

MONEY = 9 =Universal Service

REMEMBER That.

Living most of my life working and trying to save money has been a good and rewarding experience.  It is also all I know.  So when I was inspired by the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad to make the choice to become rich, I said “Great – How do I start?”

The author of the book, Robert Kiyosaki, recommended that to start you should go back to the basics of saving.  Get 3 piggy banks and label them savings, investing, and tithing.  Put money in them every day for ninety days.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a penny or a dollar or five dollars, the point is to train the mind to think the way of the rich.  Rich people save, invest, and give away.  So each day you get up and before doing anything else, keep your daily commitment to save.  Over time it will become a habit.

Never being a good saver and thinking that was an easy way to start, I put a system in place.  I got 3 mason jars, labeled them, and put them in a place where I’d see them every morning.  I decided on 2 dollars each jar.  I spent 6.60 on a latte and scone at Pete’s each morning, why not spend that much on myself?  So for several days I got up, went out in the morning to get my coffee and scone, then came home with my change and added my 2 dollars into each jar.  Happily going along, one day I put my money in first THEN went to Pete’s.  I was standing in line and all of a sudden started to think – hey!  Why am I giving Pete’s this money when it should be going into the banks!  At that moment I saw that it had already started to change the way I thought about money.

So start small – save a dollar every day and make it a priority.  You’ll be amazed at how quickly your mind changes, and how quickly you start accumulating some cash!

Most of us have grown up thinking that it was hard to get rich, and that we’ll have to spend our lives working harder and harder if we want to even come close to wealth in our retirement.  How’s that going for you?   Well, it wasn’t going well for me until I learned that I had to start thinking differently if I was even going to come close to becoming rich.

Fear of the unknown is what keeps most people back in life.  Changing the way we think takes time, takes retraining of our thoughts and lots of practice.  Most of our habits, particularly around finances, keep us from getting rich whether we realize it or not.  Our habits and a lifetime of wiring in our brains have us resisting the thought that there could be a better way to make and manage money.

In the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, he spends time explaining the different mind sets between the rich and the poor and middle class.  Not that one is wrong or right over the other, just that they are different ways of thinking.  Different realities.  Forming a different mindset takes time.  It takes knowledge, experience, success, and failure.

You also might think it’s not OK to want to be rich – that it sounds greedy or self-serving.  Struggling with this is normal, but just think: If you become rich enough to provide enough cashflow and assets for yourself and your family for a lifetime, the fear of struggling to make ends meet and preparing for retirement savings go away.  That struggle is real for you, and how big the fear might be relevant to someone elses struggles is irrelevant – It’s important enough for you as an individual to remove that fear by becoming rich.

Improving your financial future and working to become rich starts with changing your mindset – retraining the way you think so you will be better informed to make better decisions that will help make you rich.

There has never been a time in history when there has been a greater exchange of wealth. There has never been a more urgent time then now to get educated in your financial future then today. today may even be too late, that is how urgent it is!
You are either informed and part of the 1 to 3% of the wealthy or you are going to settle and be left behind. I am sorry if it sound abrupt but I do not like to see families kick you of their homes and people loosing their jobs. If you do not become financially educated to protect yourself from the greatest transfer of money that the world has ever seen this could possibly happen to you. This recession is only the beginning and in the next three to five year will be significant if you are going to be part of the affluent or sit on the sidelines and wish you educated yourself and your family for what is to come. I highly, undeniably, must start your financial education with Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich by Robert Kiyosaki. it will light a fire under your butt and make you take massive action.

The major conspiracy is education; conspiracy against our education system to keep the majority of society uninformed so people have to seek outside of our school system if they what to become better informed. It all comes down to education.

The 4 major causes of our finances:
• Retirement conspiracy against our retirement because this country is in such great debt that in our lifetime we will see social security fail. There will be a tremendous increase of forced retirements therefore creating a higher social security class. The baby boomers are in their retirement years and the government is lying about supporting that demographic.
• Inflation conspiracy because money is not money anymore it is monopoly money and it is printed as much as it is needed. The money gets stretched thinner and products get more expensive.
• Taxes are increased because the Federal Reserve System tries to pay down the debt that is created from the printing of money which comes social security and income tax from the middle class and the struggling not from the rich.
• Debt which most of the population is in because of the inflation and taxes. It is from the cost of just surviving today.

As you can see there is an urgency to educate and learn as much as you can to prepare yourself for what is to come. It will get worse before it gets better.

Valerie Leuba
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Just to let you all know that the November meeting of MK Cashflow club will be held on the second  Thursday of the month, 12th November 2009, instead of the first Thursday as usual.

This change is due to Nikki and Jim taking a few days off to cruise round the med and unfortunately they won’t have room to pack the Cashflow game boards!

You are welcome to rib us on the nature of doodads (who was it got the yacht last?) when we see you all on 12th and we promise not to bore you with our holiday snaps and stories.

This is a great book, but if you haven’t read the first book, Rich Dad/Poor Dad, you need to read it before you read this one. It will make more sense. But over all this is a great book, and I am very glad I had the chance to read it while it was being written.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad, if you didn’t already know, is one of the books written by Robert Kiyosaki. The idea of the book came from his experiences with two ‘fathers’ while growing up. One father was a traditionally educated man that went through college and had a corporate style career in education. The other father figure, who was actually a friends dad, never graduated college or did well in school in general, but created and ran successful businesses that made him rich. The lessons learned from each father were invaluable to making the book a success because people rarely get to see both sides of the financial spectrum at the same time. His experiences help him explain the differences in the mentality between rich and poor people in a way most people are able to grasp.

Go To School, Get Good Grades, Get a Good Paying Job… Maybe.

As times change so does the way we earn money. The classic advice of our parents and grandparents is to ‘get a good education, find a good job at a good company and the company will take care of you. The sad part about that is that many people still believe that! Times have changed which also changes how we earn money. The problem with that is the advice for how to earn money hasn’t changed with it.

Why the Rich Don’t Work for Money

This is probably the most important step to start understanding how to create wealth in your life. Robert Kiyosaki explains that there is a trap most people fall into that is fueled by fear and greed. It is the trap of trading your life for money and almost everyone has their price. Once the right price is offered, by a company or job the person is trying to get, the snare is set. The fear of not having money to buy the necessities in life is the emotion that causes people to seek out jobs. It is the greed of finally getting the money and starting to think of all the things you can buy with it that trap a person. The fear and greed causes the person to continue waking up early and wasting their life away at a job they probably don’t even like. And all it takes to keep them in the trap is a measly little raise each year that probably doesn’t change anything in their life. So, working hard for money will never change your life. A job is actually a short-term solution to a life long problem. It only solves the problem for the time being because as soon as you stop working the money stops and the problem persists.

Why Just Being Rich Doesn’t Solve Everything

Since fear and greed are an emotion, having money in itself doesn’t always solve the problem. If a mental shift is not made and we are unable to change our emotions from controlling us the problems will continue. The problems like being scared of not having enough money will persist. On top of those problems the rich person also fears losing the money, of what people will think of them if they don’t continue being rich, of not being able to earn more and buy even nicer things. The emotions of fear and greed are still there even though money and abundance are present. That mental shift needs to happen.

Don’t Be The Donkey Chasing The Carrot

Robert Kiyosaki compares most peoples lives to a donkey chasing a carrot. People are so focused on chasing that next pay check they never take the time to step back and see where it is taking them. It’s just like the donkey chasing the carrot on a string in front of him. It is getting the rider where he wants to go, but the donkey is only chasing an illusion. If the donkey only knew what was going on he may reconsider chasing after that carrot and decide its not worth it. We need to do the same and take a step back.

‘Living our lives in fear, never getting to achieve our dreams, working hard for money, waking up in the middle of the night terrified about paying bills is no way to live.’ says Robert Kiyosaki. Realizing a job is only a temporary solution to money problems and learning to ‘use our emotions to think instead of think with your emotions’ is an important step to getting out of the trap. Continue asking yourself ‘is working harder really going to solve my financial problems?’ Once you realize it won’t solve your problems your conscience and sub-conscience mind will start looking for ways to solve this problem. Start researching wealthy people, what they do and how they do it. Ask questions, read books, listen to audios and go to seminars. Find out what the rich are doing and how you can emulate them instead of your carrot chasing co-workers.

David Eigenfeld is a top internet marketer and home business coach, working with people from around the world. Most recently David has started an ‘online marketing boot camp’ with his team of mentors and is offering the course, for free, to people interested in learning how to market any business or product online.

The goal of the boot camp is to teach others how to achieve their goals, dreams and aspirations by applying strategies used by top internet marketers today. To learn more about David and his team of mentors visit him at http://www.link2profits.com .

Innan jag fortsätter vill jag bara säga att Rich Dad är en bra bok, precis som uppföljarna. Böckerna har gett mig många bra insikter. Som exempel kan vi titta på sidan 268-269 i Cashflow Quadrant (den svenska utgåvan); “Snabbguide till rikedom”. Där kan vi läsa att att skillnaden mellan framgångsrika medelklassinvesterare och fattiga bl.a. handlar om att de som är fattiga ofta tänker att man ska bli rik fort (t.ex. med hjälp av lotteri) medan de framgångsrika medelklassinvesterarna sparar 10-20 % av lönen som de investerar långsiktigt. Detta är i linje med alla andra böcker jag har läst om investeringar och om hur man kan bli rik.

Men nu är jag så trött på Rich Dad’s “gapighet”.

Om man lyssnar på Robert Kiyosaki på Youtube t.ex. bli man bara irriterad. Och när man väl har sett det där lyser det igenom i böckerna också. Han har sagt t.ex. att hans livsstil kan bara upprätthållas om man är rik, och rikedomen börjar vid 10 miljoner dollar!! Låt oss vara uppriktiga, jag tror inte att så många procent av världens befolkning kan komma upp i de summorna. Ibland känns det som att han föraktar hårt arbetande människor som gör allt de är kapabla till. Robert Kiyosaki skriver vidare (samma sida som ovan) att de rika de skapar produkter och service som de kan sälja till de fattiga och medelklassen (underförstått: de manipulerbara klåparna). Det vidriga är att han inte verkar inse att vi alla är beroende av varandra. Ingen kan bli rik ensam. De fattiga och medelklassen är till för att köpa hans produkter så att han kan bli rik! Jag förstår ju att man måste ha köpare till produkterna, och att företagen är till för att tjäna pengar, men när han skriver på det här sättet bli jag irriterad över det kortsynta eller vad man ska kalla det.

Robert Kiyosaki tjatar mycket om att pengar arbetar för dom rika så att själva inte behöver arbeta. Visst, jag vill också att mina investeringar ska ge mig avkastning/ränta/utdelning, men det betyder inte att man ska förakta arbete. Om man jämför med mina ”investeringsidoler” (Graham, Buffet, Aktiestinsen, Fisher, Lynch etc.) så arbetade alla hårt på sina kontor eller arbeten under många år. De har genom sina liv visat att arbete i sig är något bra och inget att förakta. Warren Buffet har inte tänkt att lägga av, vad jag vet, och han är nästan 80 år. Det är något som jag tycker att Rich Dad kan fundera lite över.

I am ready for 8 New Rules About Money from the money expert, Robert Kiyosaki. When I heard the title, “Conspiracy Of The Rich”, I thought to myself, is the Rich Dad hammering the rich now too? Hmmmm…..

As I began to read the first chapter online, it was VERY intriguing, I thought “wow”, he has managed to provide us with lots of great education and information while also separating his own richness from the rest of the rich craziness and greed out there. Kiyosaki manages very well to be one of us regular folks who just happens to have found out how to make millions and is doing the tell all thing about the really, really rich. NOT that being a multimillionaire isn’t really, really rich.

You can read the first few chapters and see how you like it. That is what I did and I have to pass this on because it is much needed info that Americans are financially and educationally starved for.  I especially liked his explanation about why Nixon took away the gold standard and how it is that American kids are NOT taught a lot more about money in primary education.

The ultra successful author and investor deserves to be known as an authority. I was already a big time reader, fan, and CashFlow Game player/student.   I have learned so much from Kiyosaki over the last five years. His book CashFlow Quadrant is another of my all time favorites.  It is easy to see how he has naturalized the law of attraction within himself.

The man is a master and the wonderful thing is that he is also a teacher – an unbeatable combination.

Another Kiyosaki home run!

I have been reading my new book stated in the title. It is one I highly recommend, as I do all of the Rich Dad books in the series. The opening of Chapter 3 is powerful.
“The Day the Dollar Died
On August 15, 1971 the U. S. Dollar died on that day, Without authorization from congress President Nixon severed the relationship between the U. S. Dollar and gold, and the dollar became Monopoly money. After that the bigest economic boom in history began. Today, in 2009 as the global economy collapses, central bankers of the world are creating trillions of dollars, yen, pesos, euros, and pounds by following Monopoly’s rules for bankers.”
Wow…this book was written to teach us how money works in the world today. If you really want to know how to make and keep more of your money then read this book. If you want a great explanation of economics, then read Thomas Sowell’s book Basic Economics. If One Big Ass Mistake America is allowed to continue his socialist ways we’re in for a bumpy ride. Hold on.

You must have read Robert Kiyosaki’s book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’.  It is a world best-seller and an excellent read. I had two dads too. My two dads each gave me a different perspective on life, both highly valued.

Philip Sercombe was my natural Dad. Independent, ferociously hard-working, humble, highly sensitive, exceedingly generous, intensely proud of having been a Royal Marine, and a devoted Christian determined to live out his faith, my real Dad left home mid-teens to get away from a repressively Victorian, legalistic home and make his own way in life. His best ever decision was to marry my mother Betty (an exceptionally saintly, though thoroughly down-to-earth woman, now 90) and together they reared us four kids through the tough days of post-war Britain. Dad was great. He died a few years ago at the ripe old age of 88 and there were 200 mourners at his funeral – which says something.

But Dad wasn’t perfect, nor the only ‘Dad’ I had. This week I visited the grave of Campbell McAlpine who was born a year before my real father and died last January. Campbell was my mentor and friend for 35 years and was most of the things I needed that Dad was unable to be. Campbell wasn’t perfect either, but understood me in a way Dad couldn’t.  He was a guiding light through good times and bad, and one of the most secure people I’ve ever met. I needed that.

The family together for a summer supper last year.

I have three amazing children, a daughter and two sons. Both the sons, Ben and Jonna are expecting to be dads in the next month, and I’m feeling a little insecure as to what I may have shown them about dadhood.  We’ll see.

And that’s the point. What have I shown them? Regardless of what I might come up with now, it is the dadhood of the last 30 years that counts the most. I’m quietly reliving the years when they were small, the things we did and didn’t do through their teenage years, my dadhood whilst they were going through university, and their business careers, the lot. Thankfully there are few regrets – and they themselves are very reassuring as they talk about their upbringing.

The philanthropist Albert Schweitzer once said, “Example is not the best way to influence people. It is the only way.” Whether I’m being a dad, coaching dads in Powerchange, or thinking about the sort of dad I want to be in the future, I know it is what I show in my life that has the most influence. As Eliza Dolittle said, “Words, words, words – I’m sick of words.  Show me!”

Example – its the only way; especially when it comes to being a dad.

Someone I met at a recent event sent me a link to this video – which really interested me – you can see the video here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMUspZyNuo

Traditionally – getting a good education and getting a good job was the usual way. I myself have a legal background – spent 6 years at University studying and event achieved a Merit in my Masters! I then went on to work for a legal organisation as an employee and thought that that was what I wanted to do – and it was .. for a while.. until I realised that I wanted more – that I was tired of a 9-5 JOB that did not fulfil my needs – maybe I had changed or grown but my passion lied elsewhere and I began to yearn for financial freedon amd financial independence. 

I left work three years ago – to start my own home business.. and things have improved for me so much .. I am now involved in many initiatives that interest me and keep me busy – I am working when I want and how I want and doing the things that I choose and that I love – I am independent and doing my own thing and have lots of free time and the most important change in my life has been that rather than working for money – I now have my money working for me!  Now I have different income streams, some which are passive – which means that after a little bit of work – the money just keeps coming in

Enjoy the video – and think about your situation – are you being financially intelligent? Are you working for your money or is your money working for you?

To your financial success and intelligence!

It is a choice to achieve what you seek. Self motivate. What is important to you? Kiyosaki explains, it is a mind-set to want to be rich. It is simply a state of thought. Only you hold yourself back with your own belief. The information needed to take you to the next level is available. We are living in the “information” age. It is a mind-set that will lead you or hold you from fulfilling your dreams. Anything is possible in this life, but you must tell yourself first and believe. False Emotion Appearing Real or as Kiyosaki puts it FEAR is overcome by education.

From August 11, 2009 to date I have listened to Rich Dad’s “You Can Choose To Be Rich” 12 disc Audio Program. I have studied the work manual, “Guide To Real Estate Investing“. I have read the book, “Increase Your Financial IQ” written by Kiyosaki. I have purchased and just started learning how to play “CASHFLOW”, the board game. My next study material includes ”Rich Dad’s 3-Step Guide To Wealth” workbooks, plus many more resource materials which I will list as I read/learn and then provide an inservice for here at this blog.

What I have learned to date is how to change my thought process regarding money. Such as, how to protect my money, how to invest in myself through education and how to open my mind up to the belief that my dreams and goals arewithin reach. I have much debt right now because I used poor decisions with previous money useage and investing. I am ready to change all that. I am ready to learn from my mistakes, remember them to not repeat them.

My wife and I own two seperate homes together. We have 1 child, 6 vehicles, 4 motorcycles, 2 ATV’s and have balances on a total of 5 credit cards extending to approximately $48k dollars owed on them. We are living on 1 income (wife) as I stay home to raise our child and educate myself. Needless to say, we are selling items off as the months pass. One of our homes has a maxed HELOC and the other was purchased at the peak of the market. I have been unemployed for 2 years after selling my start-up business (job) and have been searching for a new direction.

I awoke upon reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” written by Robert Kiyosaki and it was right then that I knew I could never punch a time-card again. Even now, in the most desperate of financial times of need and with a child no less. I have some college under my belt, no degree, no certificates, no licenses. Will we succeed? Can it be done? Can we make it out of debt and reinvent our lifestyle to include living above our means without having to seek bankruptcy, foreclosure, debt-collections and forced into credit counseling? I will…. we will….. and in the minds of many, you may bare witness to this near impossible event event and find belief that if I can succeed…. well then damn it… anyone can.

wish us luck….

Why do we stand by and wait when we should be active in our personal financial lives? I know, you’re busy, right? Do you fall asleep when you start thinking about financial numbers and budgets?

Make it easy on yourself. Start believing in yourself. Your kids need you. Follow me. Everyone should have a plan based upon what is important to them. You should have one. You should teach your kids about your plan and make sure they understand that financial justice for themselves (saving and investing regularly) should not be optional. Financially, that means learning how to save as a basic principle of your personal financial life.

How?

Read our previous blogs on our 1% plan. Spend time on sites from Suze Orman to Dave Ramsey and others. Educate yourself on what you feel strongly works for you. Don’t settle for what someone else tells you.

Don’t settle on “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Find out why. Find out what separates the rich from the poor in habits and strategy. Anyone can say, “Well, they have money.” All rich people didn’t start with money.

Read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” Spend 30 minutes of your day five days a week learning about saving and investing.

Take control of the learning process and then take control of your financial destiny. Get involved and teach your children what you learn.

Find people you identify with who have pulled themselves up to the next level or reached goals you would like to reach.

You can do this!

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL

In this country we don’t do enough to teach our children about money, managing money, saving regularly (and automatically), compound interest and steady investing for a long-term future. As a parent, we are always concerned that they get a good education and go to a good college so they can make a lot of money or have a valued career path. The truth is that we could do our children the biggest favor and one of the best things by sharing with them sound saving and investing principles.

You can join our free Facebook group (or have your children do it, too) by searching in the Facebook bar on your “wall” for “Live The Lifestyle Your Family Deserves.” Click on “become a fan.” It’s free and it ties our free blogs into that group.

If you want to give your children the same information we are giving ours, you can purchase the only thing we sell on any of our blogs or groups. It’s called “How To Survive Any Financial Crisis” and you can get it for only $4.95 at www.middleclassmoney.com.

Thank you for reading our blog and good luck!

Loyd Ford
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