You Will Never Be A Millionaire!

[SteveO]

My family did not agree with my ways either. Fortunately, not caring was an option.

 

[Wal-Mart Vendor]

I received this text a few years back from a very close family member. It said " Your always chasing shadows, always dreaming of becoming a millionaire, haven't you gone down this road too many times? There's something wrong here"!

I kept it and looked at it almost everyday! What he did not know is he did nothing more then motivate me! Don't let ANYONE stop you from living your dreams! How can you be a failure if you never try?

 

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[Sean Marshall]

What he did not know is he did nothing more then motivate me!

It's said that revenge is a powerful motivator. It's not necessarily revenge in this case but you know what I mean. Messages like that can be extremely motivational. Use the energy to catapult you right into what you want to achieve.

I love the quote by our own Allen Crawley who said, "Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise". LOVE IT!

 

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[The-J]

people say they want to be rich but how will you know that you have enough ?

why are you working so hard for ?

to be happy ? to be free ?


what's the meaning of life for you ?


i don't want to be a milionaire but to have my bills paid

if someone said to me " look, i will pay your bills , i will give you 3000 dollars a month but now onwards you must accept to never try to become a millionaire "

i would say " god ! sure !! "

i don't want to be rich, i want to be free !!

I'm going to tell you right now: if you take this Fastlane stuff seriously, you WILL hit that point.

I know I've busted your balls before because you're bad at statistics and you should go ahead and retake it in school, but I know you can do it.

If you want to pay your bills without a job, you CAN. Anyone can. I truly believe this.

It's not easy but you'll get there.

Once you get there, though, one of two things will happen:

1) You'll start to want more

2) You'll get complacent

#2 is a bad thing and you need to avoid it until the day you SELL your business.

#2 is the same kind of complacency that turns sprightly 22 year olds into fat and sluggish 30 year olds. It's the same kind of complacency that keeps people in jobs they hate, in relationships that are toxic, in hometowns that are stifling.

You think that's all you want, but until you get there, you won't understand how damning that attitude can be.

 

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[Ninjakid]

Someone somewhere has become a millionaire. So you know it's possible. Just keep trying it again and again until you get it right.

 

[TonyStark]

Family is always the first to dismiss your dreams and ambitions...

 

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[Deleted20833]

Haters gonna hate

When I was losing weight (I use to weigh 270lbs) my FAMILY was telling
me I was getting "too skinny" I was looking "anorexic"

While at the same time STRANGERS were telling me I looked great

Sometimes the closest to you will hate the most

 

[Dwight Schrute]

I had to fight for everything I have now! Still pisses me off...a**hole!!!

Glad to meet another member of the nowadays rare "I don't thrive by thinking positively"-crowd

 

[Ninjakid]

I could not understand anyone saying that to me, especially my family. I went from only having a 10th grade education to owning my own business, home, cars, so what is wrong with wanting enough to have a good retirement and leave some to my kids?

Oftentimes people will only like you if you aren't doing so well. But when you're living well, that's when people have a problem.

It's the people who are stuck in their own rut who want to see you in the same hole.

 

[jon.a]

No, you just need to figure out how much that will cost per month and then create long-term passive income streams that generate that monthly amount...

Just a few thousand a month makes a huge difference in everything.

 

[V8Bill]

The problem with some family members is they think they're better than you so if you start to become successful (let alone a bona fide millionaire) that proves that you're better than them (in their warped way of thinking) and that blows their minds.

Another thing that often happens in these situations is they fear losing you. They fear losing your company and leaving them out of your new group of friends. They don't consider that you'll take them with you because "they could never become a millionaire". When you leave to hang out with all your "rich" friends you'll leave them behind and they like things just the way they are so they try to keep you down under the guise of "keeping you safe from disappointment". So they feed their own doubts by projecting them onto you.

The ultimate irony will be if you become a millionaire to go back and thank them (or even better - thank them publicly in a speach) for sending you that message because it was largely responsible for spurring you onto to be your best and serve millions. They'll love that...lol

 

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[SteveO]

I had to fight for everything I have now! Still pisses me off...a**hole!!!

Straight to anger! I understand this but it does not do you any good. I don't even see how it can be motivating. Let it go.

So what if you had to fight for everything? So what if someone said words you don't agree with. So what about feeling the victim....

 

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[SteveO]

What if it's your own mother? Just today at a hotel room while vacationing, I had a screaming fight, I snapped at her. I feel bad, and I'm 18 a child in her eyes....

Think about the effect that you are having on your mother and the effect you are allowing her to have on you. Arguments and disagreements don't do anything to help. Feeling bad does not help either. Realize who you are as a person.

 

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[V8Bill]

Yes sir!!! Perhaps the eventually could be moved up a bit.

Yep, that's the part I work on. Shortening that time between "pissed off" and "over it". In traffic I've got it down to almost instant.

 

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[SteveO]

Yep, that's the part I work on. Shortening that time between "pissed off" and "over it". In traffic I've got it down to almost instant.

I have been working on the "getting pissed" part myself. In fact, I have been working on that for many years. We have automatic responses to everything based our belief systems. Without those reactions, our choices are different. The direction that we lean and decisions we make will change if we change our automatic responses to items we are faced with.

 

[458]

I stopped talking about my shit a long time ago. 99% of people that know me have no idea what i do and probably don't care, including family. I don't need any baby mamas or tort lawyers ruining my shit.

 

[GMSI7D]

people say they want to be rich but how will you know that you have enough ?

why are you working so hard for ?

to be happy ? to be free ?


what's the meaning of life for you ?


i don't want to be a milionaire but to have my bills paid

if someone said to me " look, i will pay your bills , i will give you 3000 dollars a month but now onwards you must accept to never try to become a millionaire "

i would say " god ! sure !! "

i don't want to be rich, i want to be free !!

 

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[OVOvince]

yep, i've gotten the same responses.


and that's one of the reasons why i want to become a millionaire even more tehehehehehehe

 

[Guest34764]

if someone said to me " look, i will pay your bills , i will give you 3000 dollars a month but now onwards you must accept to never try to become a millionaire "

So settle for mediocrity?

That's not what the fastlane is about.

You don't have to be rich to be fastlane, but you have to make the effort and strive for wealth.

 

[V8Bill]

So settle for mediocrity?

That's not what the fastlane is about.

You don't have to be rich to be fastlane, but you have to make the effort and strive for wealth.

But that's not growth. Just ew.

Not necessary to put someone down because they want freedom.

Obtaining freedom is the ultimate goal for many (I believe most). Some want to be free to make money and others want to make money to be free. For those (including me) financial freedom is a means to that end. For a lot of active business builders it's not about the lust or love of money. Not everyone wants to immerse themselves in business every single waking hour of every single day of their lives forever until they die.

I'm in business to obtain freedom and if someone was to hand it to me on a plate I'd also jump at it and spend my life doing what I wanted to become a "millionaire" for. I have zero need for labels like "millionaire". I believe that in the context of this site the term is used both literally and also as a metaphor. Lots of people will achieve the freedom they crave way before they become a "millionaire" (and all it's various definitions).

Sure, business is fun for many people and there's nothing wrong with that (I like it because I get to meet cool people as well) but going hell for leather every day just to make more, then more, and more and more money with no end or purpose in site isn't for everyone and I think that's probably a good thing.

 

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[Wal-Mart Vendor]

I could not understand anyone saying that to me, especially my family. I went from only having a 10th grade education to owning my own business, home, cars, so what is wrong with wanting enough to have a good retirement and leave some to my kids? It's pure jealousy!

I had to fight for everything I have now! Still pisses me off...a**hole!!!

 

[mws87]

I could not understand anyone saying that to me, especially my family.

It challenges their beliefs, their reality. Humans tend to have a "center-of-the-world" syndrome (I'm sure there's a scientific term for it, but, it escapes me.) You see, most people live life believing their reality, their world, beliefs, etc. are ideal and absolute. Then, when someone comes along who challenges that, they feel the need to defend those beliefs. Hell, some people will WANT you to fail, crash, and burn just so, in the end, they can feel they were right all along; nobody likes putting their own foot in their mouth.

On the other hand, a lot of family--from what I've seen, anyway--doesn't know exactly where your mind is at. They don't know what you're thinking, how you're going to do it. They see things like this as nothing more than delusions of grandeur. Remember: people are conditioned through their entire lives to think and act a certain way.

As mentioned, the best thing to do is show, not tell. The best revenge is living well/success/etc.

Keep your victories private until they're too massive to conceal. Then, all those people who said you can't will desire to know how you did.

 

[V8Bill]

I need to get a harder shell

Not really. It hurts when people attack you in any form. What matters (and what you can work on) is how much it hurts and how long you let it affect you. Acknowledge being pissed off for 2 minutes but then let it go. Every time it comes up just acknowledge it, feel it - even debate it in your mind (or call them names) for a moment to see if you can strip away some of it's power - then let it go.

You can't avoid emotions and feelings but you can decide how and for how long they affect you.

 

[SteveO]

Not really. It hurts when people attack you in any form.

Is this true? We all get attacked on a regular basis. Why do some handle it better than others? It has more to do with how you accept the energy.

 

[V8Bill]

Is this true? We all get attacked on a regular basis. Why do some handle it better than others? It has more to do with how you accept the energy.

Sure, that's the initial reaction but if people (you care about) are telling you that you're a hopeless fool (for example) that would "hurt" initially and maybe for a little while but it doesn't have to stop you in your tracks and leaving you a moping mess for the next 10 years. You feel it, assess it and dismiss it if you want to eventually move on. Some people do this so fast that it looks like nothing affects them ever at all. It does, just for not as long. The faster you can get over stuff, the faster you'll get moving again.

 

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[Almantas]

The opinion of people is a reflection of their own lives and experiences. I would feel sorry for their limited belief system, nothing more.

 

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[Kingmaker]

i don't want to be a milionaire but to have my bills paid

if someone said to me " look, i will pay your bills , i will give you 3000 dollars a month

Wrong website. If you're looking for a Daddy it's www.seekingarrangement.com

 

[GMSI7D]

Once you are free you would get bored, there is nothing as exciting like having an ambitous goal and working towards it.

i promise you when i am free, i won't get bored at all

all i want in my life is fishing, watching the stars with my binocular and mining for minerals in the french alps as a hobby

i am basically a monk

this is enough for me

i thought i wanted the good life: the nice chalet in the alps and so on

but at 40 , i am mature enough now to see reality

 

[G-Man]

Talking to my dad about some of the insane risks I've taken in the last couple of years (and his disapproval of my answering emails and phone calls at night time and on weekends), I explained to him that my motivation wasn't to get rich, just to get to the point where I didn't wake up every morning with my day already belonging to another person. His response:

Someone will always own your time.

I have that phrase written on my desktop. The sheer sadness of it is extremely motivating.

 

[Wal-Mart Vendor]

It's said that revenge is a powerful motivator. It's not necessarily revenge in this case but you know what I mean. Messages like that can be extremely motivational. Use the energy to catapult you right into what you want to achieve.

I love the quote by our own Allen Crawley who said, "Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise". LOVE IT!

That's an awesome quote!!