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If you're not doing what you LOVE to do...not amount of wealth will make you happy. Obviously, BEING without money sucks, too, and it affords opportunities, however, if you have to work ungodly hours or do things you don't like to earn it, then all you'll do is buy crap to fill that void during your off hours and be resentful around your family and friends. Don't follow that path.
I play golf, too, but have yet to 'find' a way to make money. I live in the northeast. I would someone day love to own a golf course. The one I play at regularly is 36 holes, but they are trying to sell it for commerical development since it will fetch 70 million plus, and the family owns 10+ other courses. Sad thing is...this one fits a great nitch. Its affordable: $21 to play after work, all you can get in. This applies after 2pm. Before 2pm is like $29. And with 36 there's tons of options. The course plays pretty green, tougher putts, harder from the Blues. I go up there after work many nights to golf. Better than being a member and paying thousands of $.
Just follow your dream. Go to where golf is...Florida, AZ, Texas, Cali. Check out the various pro teaching schools, or work for club manufacturers. The other thing...think of products you would like that are cool gimmicks. I think of the Just Golf T's, or the Be Happy Ones. Stuff like that which is simple and unique. Some couple came up with a Boston/New England t shirt company using our famous ACCENT as its base. Totally cool idea. Totally obvious too.
You have to COMMITT to the dream before its realized here and now. Often, the "if and when" excuse prevails, and most people WAIT until circumstances are perfect, not knowing they never will be, and that luck and opportunity lies nearby, and isn't totally obvious, to anyone. Im training myself to see more and do more, and do it now. When the idea/thought strikes, not then, or when.
I like the stockmarket. I have always liked it. If I make a certain %, i don't think "gee what can I buy," I think, "now I can roll my profits forward and buy higher priced stock." I like the idea of blazing my own path. I like the idea of making my OWN golf swing and my own trading system. Make your own way. I think people believe a path beyond what they know and feel is out there...as if the army has it (we will make you a man), or a company has it (follow this path), or a college degree has it (get the degree and you'll be happy and successful.) That isn't so. It's ALWAYS a state of mind.
That degree you get will be obsolete soon and you will need to go back or need a higher education
That job you have will come and go as jobs do.
That money you have will grow and wilt based on your management.
Nothing is permanent, so there can't be an IF and WHEN with success, money or life. Since we are progressing...there's no point to GET TO. Because that point is coming and passing. It's like being on a roller coaster and waiting for 1 piece of track or 1 angle...it will come and go. Is that the happiness you seek? 1 moment in time? happiness, wealth, success isn't a destination. It's the TRACK. The WHOLE ride. The whole rollercoaster. You either like getting on rollercoasters, or you don't. You don't hate it, but get on for 1 piece of it, because it goes so fast you'll miss it anyways. Life's the same way. The joke that is funny is said, told, and laughed. Then you reflect back on it to remember...that was cool and it felt good. The kiss from a girl is only a moment, even if its 30 minutes, you may never kiss that girl again, and you'll never have THAT moment back. It's forever etched in history and your brain, only as ever having happened. Never to return. And never to be found. Never to be recaptured.
Money IS abundance. Its a piece off the ABUNDANT tree. You can't be wealthy but suck elsewhere. You can be terrible with people, but you can't be stupid about how your run your life. Even lottery winners. Sure, they get millions of dollars, but I know a lottery winner. He won 20 million. He gets 866,000 per year, before taxes. Know what he did? Foolishly...he bought a WHOLE development for his family. His house is HUGE. 2 out of 3 of his daughters live at that house. 1 has her own home with her husband. 1,000,000 home. It's nothing special either. That's just prices up here. When daddy's lottery winnings run out, she can't pay the property taxes on it to keep it. Moreover, he has sent them to practically every college in the area. What are they doing with the degree? Nothing. Waiting for prince charming. The even more sad fact is...they aren't Hot. Maybe cool, but you're talking about girls whill attract regular joes, who won't be able to give them what daddy's lottery winnings did. That's the ONLY investment this guy made. He has little liquid cash. Most of his yearly budget eats that up. He has 8 years left on this annuity. He won't be able to keep his property, let alone the one's he bought his family. Why?
Mentality. He was poor before, he's mentally poor now. Everything is consumption. His daughters are worse off than if they had the money. They will, without a doubt, BE BROKE. It's sad. The guys is nice as can be, but his wife just won't accept that the ride is over soon. And here's money. All they could use. Are they happy? Heck no. They have dough, but they personally aren't effective. They can't survive. They have no market value that would pay them 800k per year, even if they could buy ANY education in the US. It's a shame. Poor people rise up, and make 800k from nothing. And here's people getting 800k, and all the money they have in the bank...gets blown. Vacations. Toys. Maintenance. Several homes on 1 plot of land. Oh, and to be fair the father will have to give the other 2 daughters 1,000,000 each or a home of equal value. Otherwise he was UNFAIR to the younger ones. How can he do that? His budget is easily 400k, and his annual mortgages are like 150-200k, not counting utilities!
Money, given to them, but no personal worth INSIDE. No awareness. Nothing to grasp onto. Nothing to say they experienced. They did what the average american does, on a grander scale. Sure, they have some cars and bikes, but so what? I'd rather LEARN and EARN to buy it, so I can do it again and again.
Don't follow money. Follow passion. Follow you. Sure, if you're into sales, and can selling anything, go find the market that will pay you the best. But if you only like financial sales, why would you do tech sales, maybe get paid more and hate it? When you LOVE something with passion...you're resourceful, committed; it isn't work. You just want to do the best you can. And that to me is why if people follow whatever passion they have big or small, the world is perfect...because everyone has their ultimate purpose, and everyone is better off, wealthy, and happy, with people doing their best, so you get the best products/services from the best people at the best price.
A-Unit
