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Almost bonus time.

My first bonus that was going to be £50+ in my working career. I had already planned to put the amount of money, whatever it was, into a savings account to go towards my first property purchase.

December 22nd 2008. Last pay day of the year.

1 months wage: £xxxx & Annual bonus: £200

Not a lot of money by all means but a big enough sum, so I thought, to help me get to millions.

Risk = Reward.

Idea #1 - Hire a lawnmower or 2 and employ some cheap labour to take care of groundwork at certain estates??

Idea #2 - Purchase a cheap truck and go knocking at doors to offer a removal service or a rubbish collection service. (Standard collection is once every 2 weeks. I’d run alternatively)??

Nope…

I pinned my £200 on HOPE!

Several lottery tickets later I sat in front of my TV watching the numbers roll in.

What did I win? Zero. 100 lines of random numbers and I won nothing.

What did I learn?

Never to play the lottery again. Getting the event but not the journey is not for me.

More importantly I realised then that hope is a sh!t strategy.


The only way I am going to make the money required to have the freedom I want is through my own hard work not on hope.

A question to you:

When did you realise that relying on hope was not a good strategy?
 
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