I frequent the forum sporadically,but have gotten a lot out of the book,blogs and videos and thought it's about time I contribute some things from my "Wealth" successes. I won't be able to go into every detail and realisation as I could go on and on,but I'll try and keep it really succint as not to bore.
Before we go any further, you may want to stop reading now, and here is the warning- in terms of financial or liquid monetary assets I basically have nothing. NOTHING. But already I feel like a MF wealth success? Is that a contradiction? I don't think it is.
I've posted in this subforum as I think this covers a lot of the rules of a fastlane success, see if you agree....
Part 1
So what is wealth? In MF, on p42, MJ says its a combination of three fundamental F's;
Family (relationships)
Fitness (health)
Freedom (choice)
He then says his book is designed to address the freedom part of the trinity.
And thats why we have been attracted to his (and other posters) excellent analysis of things at the forum,book etc.
As others here have probably noticed, a lot of the distinctions apply to general life aswell and MJ will often reference say health examples also.
So I'll cut to the chase;
I'm in in my 20s,as a kid I loved playing sports but had to give up due to some injury problems.
Early/mid 20s, my "career" was going amazing I had doors opening to some big big opportunities in my industry but decided to take a low level job for a 6-12 months, move back in with my Mum and her remarried family & focus on trying to get better before embarking full tilt ahead!
Without boring you with the details my issues never cleared up and I progessively got worse. To the point that my whole body seemed to be shutting down. I saw various doctors etc but couldn't get to the bottom of my problems.
Slowly just getting to the toilet became a massive challenge and at my worst points I was literally bedridden. To add another level of complexity, though my Mum had temporally let me live under roof she wasn't very supportive outside of this one element.
Out of my close friends, several basically disowned me and some of the others lived in different parts of the country/continent which made it hard for them to help. And others I was too ashamed to explain what had happened to me as we slowly lost touch. I had no other family of note.
The only medical professional that seemed to be onto something had ran out of ideas, I saw a high end high reputation specialist who said I'd have to get used to it and live with the situation probably for life.
At my worst,where for example just moving my neck to look left and right could cause ridiculous consquences- my mum, had told me I had move out. Though my low end job employers had been amazing I obviously wasn't able to work at this time so my money was tight and I didn't know what to do.
I felt backed into a corner.
I started to look at state funded care homes to see if I could get a place in one of them and got a couple of books (such as Christopher Reeves) to help me find some acceptance in my condition.
I'd got into Zen type writings and kind of accepted that if this is what life was saying the way things would be then inner acceptance would be necessary. (which I interpretated to mean that if I was lucky I might get to live in one room for the rest of my life and hopefully see out onto a garden or something)
Part 2 to come....
Before we go any further, you may want to stop reading now, and here is the warning- in terms of financial or liquid monetary assets I basically have nothing. NOTHING. But already I feel like a MF wealth success? Is that a contradiction? I don't think it is.
I've posted in this subforum as I think this covers a lot of the rules of a fastlane success, see if you agree....
Part 1
So what is wealth? In MF, on p42, MJ says its a combination of three fundamental F's;
Family (relationships)
Fitness (health)
Freedom (choice)
He then says his book is designed to address the freedom part of the trinity.
And thats why we have been attracted to his (and other posters) excellent analysis of things at the forum,book etc.
As others here have probably noticed, a lot of the distinctions apply to general life aswell and MJ will often reference say health examples also.
So I'll cut to the chase;
I'm in in my 20s,as a kid I loved playing sports but had to give up due to some injury problems.
Early/mid 20s, my "career" was going amazing I had doors opening to some big big opportunities in my industry but decided to take a low level job for a 6-12 months, move back in with my Mum and her remarried family & focus on trying to get better before embarking full tilt ahead!
Without boring you with the details my issues never cleared up and I progessively got worse. To the point that my whole body seemed to be shutting down. I saw various doctors etc but couldn't get to the bottom of my problems.
Slowly just getting to the toilet became a massive challenge and at my worst points I was literally bedridden. To add another level of complexity, though my Mum had temporally let me live under roof she wasn't very supportive outside of this one element.
Out of my close friends, several basically disowned me and some of the others lived in different parts of the country/continent which made it hard for them to help. And others I was too ashamed to explain what had happened to me as we slowly lost touch. I had no other family of note.
The only medical professional that seemed to be onto something had ran out of ideas, I saw a high end high reputation specialist who said I'd have to get used to it and live with the situation probably for life.
At my worst,where for example just moving my neck to look left and right could cause ridiculous consquences- my mum, had told me I had move out. Though my low end job employers had been amazing I obviously wasn't able to work at this time so my money was tight and I didn't know what to do.
I felt backed into a corner.
I started to look at state funded care homes to see if I could get a place in one of them and got a couple of books (such as Christopher Reeves) to help me find some acceptance in my condition.
I'd got into Zen type writings and kind of accepted that if this is what life was saying the way things would be then inner acceptance would be necessary. (which I interpretated to mean that if I was lucky I might get to live in one room for the rest of my life and hopefully see out onto a garden or something)
Part 2 to come....
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