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?
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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