Someone asked me if I wasn't being presumptuous commenting on The Wealth Files, but that's not the point here; I'm sure more capable people than me have written more insightful comments on this topic. No, I'm not trying to set myself up as a financial guru; that's not the point of this blog at all. This is about Kathy and my journey through uncharted territory, including the trials, tribulations, lessons learned and overall experiences gleaned from the effort.
So my commentaries are my thoughts about what I am reading, and the lessons that I am taking from the experience. I share them so that others might think about the same lessons and discover their own truths. Because whenever we try to internalize a lesson in whatever it is that we are learning, we each think the matter through in our own way.
Today's quote from T. Harv Eker's The Wealth Files is this one:
"Rich people admire other rich and successful people,
Poor people resent rich and successful people."
There is an obvious connection happening today in our society, but I will not choose that example. Instead I will try to think about it in a different way.
If I could change one thing about this it would be to qualify 'rich and successful people' as those who have achieved this through their own efforts, or have taken an inheritance and turned it into something greater than they received. But if you consider the quote, you realize just how true it is. How many times have you, or I, seen a rich or successful person and thought 'man, how lucky can you get?' I know I've been guilty of that in the past, but if that person built their own wealth, took risks, failed, perhaps failed often and miserably, but kept going until they ultimately succeeded, then who am I to be jealous of them? They worked for what they have, and they have earned the right to enjoy the fruits of their labors.
How many people do we see just sitting around doing little to improve their own lot in life, but complaining about how much others have? We see it all around us, I run into it every single day. People are given opportunities but they fail to take them for a variety of reasons: fear of failure, laziness, circumstances in life that have left them depressed or broken...there are as many reasons for failures to act as there are people. I've heard every excuse in the book a hundred times, including 'the dog ate my Daytimer.' And to be honest, I have also made just about every excuse in the book; I speak about excuses from personal experience.
The bottom line, to me, is pretty simple: if your circumstances are not what you would like them to be, then do something about it. If you just complain and pout, if you do the same thing you have always done but expect a different result, then you will forever be one of the poor people who are resentful of success. There are no good reasons for failures to act, only poor excuses.
But remember, I'm talking to myself here. This is a very personal journey that just happens to be public. If you see yourself in any of these blogs, then I hope they are of value. If they are, please subscribe; like anybody else, I could use some positive feedback too.
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