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Originally Posted by Dusty  Why are you not rich? |
I could question this with the counter-question of "What is your definition of rich?", but I don't feel like doing that right now. Any positional definition will soon reduce the answer to this question to basic mathematics.
I'm not rich because I haven't learned how to identify any opportunities of significant magnitude. They obviously don't teach that skill in schools, and even for most people it results in a trial and error sequence that not everyone successfully completes.
I often ask myself similar questions, along the lines of "I was a tech-ish kind of guy most of my life. Why can't I figure out a way to become an internet millionaire?", or even something on a less grand scale ("Why can't I come up with something that makes me money equal to, say, apartment rent in a "global superstar city", and have it working in the background as I do something else during my days?") or the like. But I haven't a clue how to identify highly profitable niches and gain advantage in them of
any worthwhile scale, let alone of the scale that makes one rich.
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Originally Posted by Dusty What is the B.S. story you've been telling yourself?
I'm not rich because I tell myself money is hard to make. Money is always "out there" and not here and now. |
I feel you. I'm no different; in fact, sometimes I'm even more scared because I don't even know if I'll be able to arrange to have money when "out there" becomes here and now (e.g. the farce that most retirement planning seems to have become).
What gets to me is that beyond a certain level of income (which isn't rich by most people's standards), the paths to the next socioeconomic stratum become more and more nebulous and/or low-percentage; it's not really certain what path in life will truly have a high probability of making one, say, a multimillionaire in today's real terms.
Therefore, oftentimes I just don't really know what to do next, or even first. I'm unable to formulate a plan of any kind towards becoming rich.
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Originally Posted by Dusty With everything we want in life, we must be a vibrational match for it (LoA) |
I'm not a fan of "LoA". Positive thinking is good, but it certainly has its limits.
What happened when I followed The Secret's advice for two months. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine Boxing and The Law of Attraction
Those aren't new, but still quite relevant on this board which still seems to be hung up on the "Law of Attraction" hokum.