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Posted over 14 years ago

Are You A 'Lucky One'??

4476Do you know what most people do when they are confused?  NOTHING; and do you know what happens to their wealth?  Exactly…nothing.

Wealth comes to you when you accept risk – I’m not going to sugar coat it.  If you think you can become wealthy without some sort of risk, you are sadly mistaken and you will probably keep doing nothing.

However if you understand ‘risk’ has degrees and levels of sophistication, it becomes part of your success.  It’s because you will  begin using your money as a tool to bring you more money.

Do you want to continue working for your money?  Every day, year after year in a job or business just to make enough money?  Would rather not want to be one of the ‘lucky ones’ who can do what they please and love?

THE LUCKY ONES

My friends, of the many successful people you know, do you consider them ‘lucky’ or ‘smarter’ than you?

Well they aren’t, they are ACTION TAKERS – and I’ll bet many of them were UNLUCKY in life way more that YOU think you are today.  But if all you see is ‘luck’, then you are not an action taker no matter what you say.

BUT I AM – IT JUST DOESN’T WORK FOR ME

Yea, I’ve been there – taking a step to do something and then BLAM I smash head on into a wall.   Why am I not lucky like these other guys??? Why me???

I’ll tell you why – its life filtering out the speculators and the people who want something for nothing.  ACTION TAKERS (or the ‘lucky ones’) look at the wall and figure a way around, over or through it.

Everyone else turns back and finds every excuse why it didn’t work out for them, reasons why they are not ‘lucky’.

Sorry, but that’s BS.  The biggest successes are people who faced risk – personally, financially & socially - they conquered their walls.  Are YOU prepared to face risk?  Are you willing to negotiate your wall?

I know many people who will just turn around when that wall comes up yet they tell me “I wish…”

I tell them “stop wishing and start doing”.

If they did, they would no longer be a victim – they will have control and choice – and that’s what I’m trying to stir up in your mindset.  But the truth is, money controls these people ( bills, food and shelter to pay for) and they can’t see past that wall to what exists on the other side - they wait...for luck.

So am I one of the lucky ones?

Is my friend (who inspired this post) spending his life ‘catching up’ while the ‘short school bus’ now all of a sudden ‘lucky’?  Is he just someone our maker shines down to giving an award for excellence and morality because he had a ‘tough life’?

I don’t think so; we, among a lot of other people are ACTION TAKERS.  We are smart, yes Ian…smart action takers!  We are taking educated risk and to some,we  get luckier every day that passes by.

The reason I write this today is because once again I was part of a room full of ACTION last night at REIN.

The support, energy and enthusiasm were so thick you could have cut it with a knife.  Isn’t that way more amazing then cutting ‘tension’ with a knife?

If I had the choice of what to ‘cut with a knife’, it wouldn’t be ‘tension’ as I wouldn’t be in that room in the first place.

Go out, and make yourself one of the ‘lucky ones’.


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