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I tweeted this and posted it in the Telegram Group, and felt it needed to be here, as well as the newsletter.<br />
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Whatever you think, I think this is the most understated, important concept for obtaining financial freedom.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 22px"><b>YOUR SYSTEM is more important than your EFFORT.</b></span><br />
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I realize that might be controversial, but it isn't when you consider the fastest man on earth is NOTHING when hindered by a poor system.<br />
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The most powerful factor in wealth creation has nothing to do with motivation. It has nothing to do with effort, persistence, discipline, or the usual suspects commonly pushed. While these help, the most important thing is likely something you never considered.<br />
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It's this...<br />
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The most powerful tool for wealth creation is within the <b>SYSTEM</b> you put yourself in. Your choices dictate the <b>system</b>. For example, if you elect to get a job as an electrician, that's a <b>system</b>. A doctor? A <b>system</b>. A cashier? It's a <b>system</b>. Nurse? You've given yourself a <b>system</b>.<br />
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Likewise, electing to be an entrepreneur also endows you with a <b>system</b>.<br />
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Starting a sandwich shop on the corner? <b>System</b>.<br />
Starting a software company? <b>System</b>.<br />
Joining an MLM to sell overpriced goods and far-fetched fantasies? <b>System</b>.<br />
Starting a YouTube channel? <b>System</b>.<br />
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Self-endowed systems go beyond jobs and business. An aspiring actor is part of a <b>system</b>. Artists. If you become a politician and are elected, congratulations; you're now part of a <b>system</b>. Enter office with a net worth of $1M, leave 15 years later with $250M.<br />
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Ultimately, the SYSTEM determines how your EFFORT, motivation, and discipline compounds into momentum, or lack of it. The SYSTEM determines if you have access to asymmetrical leverage--which creates wealth- or no leverage at all.<br />
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What leverage does your system offer? Or does it?<br />
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The best analogy of the SYSTEM/EFFORT Concept is equate your system to a vehicle.<br />
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Many jobs are like a tricycle.<br />
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If you throw Usain Bolt on a tricycle, you'd beat him in a race. Did he suddenly get slow? <b>No, the problem is a poor system suddenly marginalizes his EFFORT.</b><br />
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So many people work harder and longer than myself. And they're more talented. Their work ethic isn't the issue; it's that the system they've adopted hinders their effort.<br />
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<a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/attachments/51181/" target="_blank">View attachment 51181</a><br />
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Want to get paid what you're worth? Change your damn system and get off the tricycle.<br />
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This is why Fastlane Entrepreneurship is the most potent SYSTEM; it's a system swap where your effort compounds and gives asymmetrical leverage a chance. A great effort in the JOB SYSTEM gives you a 4% raise. A great effort in a BIZ SYSTEM gives you a 4000% raise.<br />
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<b>SYSTEM > EFFORT > MOMENTUM (via Compounding)</b><br />
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Choose wisely.
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</blockquote>Thank you for clarifying this MJ… it has cleared the dense fog in my eyes.<br />
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Part of the problem is that I have been thinking that business is a Blackbox, with luck and bad luck, mystical, and you can make it with any business endeavor and that results may be secured by a process where I apply an effort and things happen mysteriously inside the Blackbox and luckily I secure the results that I have been dreaming about that are desirable or unfortunately I don’t secure them.<br />
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Furthermore, as a civil engineer, instead of creating a system, I created my employment where I think that I am a businessperson, but I am not, I am just working like before without a boss that I am reporting to with few employees that report to me. Although that is where most business started, I think I have relaxed for too long as my own boss.... and things must change and are going to change....</div>
