Daily-Strokes

There's a very high probability that at this point you are not satisfied with your salary.

If you are; congratulations but then again maybe you know someone who isn't.

Truth of the matter is we can never get enough. Whether or not you are going to get a salary raise tomorrow; you are still going to need more. It's just like what they say; The bigger your account balance, the longer your list of expenses.

I believe that one of the hardest things in this life is getting up each morning, bathing just so you can go work on something unsatisfying.

There's so much talk about passion, which i respect but then again; we don't eat passion! We still need the bag.

That having been said, I hope we are now on the same page.....

My hope at this point is that you take my statements on faith just as you would take those concerning a law of physics if they were promulgated by Einstein.

Imagine you start to earn $50,000 a year in salary (a very nice wage), and you don’t spend a penny of it and somehow manage not to pay any taxes either, it would still take 40 years to save two million.

Check out top ten people on The Annual Forbes billionaires list. Who do you find? The usual suspects. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet. All entrepreneurs; (Proving as if you need proof; that the house never loses).

You can work your way down to the hundreds. You will still not find an employee!!

The only way to become financially stable is to start your own business, even if it’s just on the side.

Say you want to amass tonnes of millions of dollars in wealth; if you aren’t willing to work to create something new and different. If you aren’t trying to do something Zuckerbegian. Something Netflixian; forget it.

At this point you might be thinking: Maybe people are happy only because they are more productive and earn higher. So which comes first, the chicken of the egg?

Of course, this is where the phrase, ‘easier said than done’ has a particular relevance. Good habits may be the answer, but how do we create them in the first place? Daily Strokes of Effort is the correct answer.

With apologies to the delicate nuances of neuroscience here is what happens in a nutshell: within our brains are billions upon billions of neurons, interconnected in every which way to form a complex set of neural pathways.

The more we perform a particular action, the more connections form between the corresponding neurons--cells that fire together, wire together.

Applying this: getting stable, in financial terms, is a result of investing in yourself and others, taking risks, doing hundreds of small things right.....and then doing one or two things really, really right

Of course trade-offs are inevitable. Work hard on any one aspect of your life and other aspects suffer. Incredible business success often comes with a heavy personal sacrifice.

The more money you want to make, the less happy you may need to be. The happier you want to be, the less money you may be able to make.

In a perfect world, you could have full measures of both....but this is not a perfect world.

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