Chapter Eight
GETTING STARTED
There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.
I wish I could say acquiring wealth was easy for me, but it wasn’t.
So in response to the question “How do I start?”
I offer the thought
process I go through on a day-to-day basis. It really is easy to find great
deals. I promise you that. It’s just like riding a bike. After a little wobbling,
it’s a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it takes determination to
get through the wobbling. That’s a personal thing.
To find million-dollar “deals of a lifetime”
requires us to call on our
financial genius. I believe that each of us has a financial genius within us.
The problem is that our financial genius lies asleep, waiting to be called
upon. It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that
the love of money is the root of all evil. It has encouraged us to learn a
profession
so we can work for money, but failed to teach us how to have
money work for us. It taught us not to worry about our financial future
because our company or the government would take care of us when our
working days are over. However, it is our children,
educated in the same
school system, who will end up paying for this absence of financial
education. The message is still to work hard, earn money, and spend it, and
when
we run short, we can always borrow more.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of the Western world subscribes to the above
dogma, simply because it’s easier to find a job and work for money. If you
are not one of the masses, I offer you the following 10 steps to awaken your
financial genius. I simply offer you the steps I have personally followed. If
you
want to follow some of them, great. If you don’t, make up your own.
Your financial genius is smart enough to develop its own list.
While in Peru, I asked a gold miner of 45 years how he was so
confident about finding a gold mine. He replied, “There is gold everywhere.
Most people are not trained to see it.”
And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and in a day
come up with four
or five great potential deals, while the average person
will go out and find nothing, even looking in the same neighborhood. The
reason is that they have not taken the time to develop their financial genius.
I offer you the following 10 steps as a process to develop your God-
given powers, powers over which only you have control.
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