At some level we all desire to be financially successful. Financial success solves many of life’s problems. Being financially successful means you no longer have debt, you no longer worry about paying your monthly bills and you don’t need lenders to finance major purchases like cars, homes or college education for your kids. Financial success means you no longer have to “work” at a job you do not like or are not passionate about.
At it’s core, financial success is about freedom.
But financial freedom comes at a cost.
For too many stuck in poverty or the lower middle-class, that cost is a lottery ticket – looking for a short-cut to financial success.
But for self-made millionaires, they believe there are no short-cuts to financial success. Creating financial success is a process and that process comes at a cost far more significant than a lottery ticket.
Jim Koch, co-founder of Boston Beer Company, left his $250,000 a year consulting job in 1984 to pursue his passion – building a business around his family’s beer recipe. Everyone around him, including his father, advised him against it. Despite the many entreaties from his family and friends, Jim made a fateful decision to give up his well-paying consulting job and pursue a dream.
Today, Jim is worth in excess of 1 billion dollars.
Over the past sixteen plus years I have devoted all of my available time to studying the differences between the rich and the poor. One thing I’ve noticed, one correlation, one common thread, is that at some point, the entrepreneur-self-made millionaires in my study made a decision to do something radical – to give up what they had and pursue a dream.
When you pursue a dream, you are forced to step outside your comfort zone. That’s not an easy thing to do. And because it’s not an easy thing to do, very few do it.
That’s why there are so few self-made millionaires.
The average person is simply unwilling to give up what they have, the good, in order to pursue something great. Fear and limiting beliefs hold most back from pursuing the great.
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And contentedness. We are happy right now as we retired a year ago. Gone is the desire for massive amounts of wealth. We have each other. We have property. We have no debt. Biggest concern is our children’s future and our nation.