I’m hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Christmas is always a great time to show some people how much you appreciate them with a gift that requires some deep thinking. This year my father and mother or “Santa” purchased me “Why We Want You to be Rich“audio CD by Donald J. Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki. Even though there were many mixed reviews about this book (mostly negative) there’s a ton of great information in the book. First thing that I loved about it was the topic of financial education. Financial education should be taught at every school in America. It amazes me that someone can learn how to become a doctor and still not know how to balance a check book.

Second thing I liked about the book is its controversial topic of social security and Medicare. Because both of these authors are so popular they can spread an unpopular message and make it a hot topic. I like the fact that they think “gimmies” are the reason why America is failing. Right now, I’m reading the book Atlas Shrugged; which revolves around the notion that socialized programs makes people lazy and unsuccessful. I’m a total believer in reforming our social programs in the U.S. because they are designed to motivate laziness.

Third topic that I liked about the book was fact it wasn’t an investment book. When I originally read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I was kind of disappointed that it didn’t really teach me how to become rich. All it taught me is to think outside the box and not to become a corporate robot. All of Robert T. Kiyosaki books are educational and motivational references. They are not “how to become rich” books, but more on the lines of “what knowledge do rich people have”books. The line that they hammered in my head throughout the audio book is “You can give a man a fish and he eats for a day. You can teach him how to fish, and he’ll not go hungry the rest of his life.”

So instead of just reading all the negative reviews about the book, decide for yourself and either buy the book or audio CD’s. In my eyes it was an interesting book.

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Continuation of “A Different kind of Investing”, Goals Equal Success #1, and more things that I’ve learned from “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived” by Steven K. Scott.

Dreams are nothing more than the completion of goals set by the individual. Like I said before, I truly believe that every dream is possible if you have a detailed plan to achieve it. The world cannot stop you when you have the drive and plan to succeed.

Here’s the story of two groups of people that share a common dream, but have two totally different ways to attain it. They both want to be popular musicians in two different genre of music. They both have great bands, vocals, talent, and lyrics, but one band lacks motivation and planning skills.

The first band started small, but they all had the dream of greatness. The band developed a plan on how they would be able to accomplish that dream and make it a reality. They played at every place they could and always try to get their name out there. They also saved as much money as possible to be able to record their songs in a studio. They spent countless hours trying to perfect their sound. When everything was done, they finally released a studio quality CD. They found a music manager to market the band to record labels and are on the track to stardom.

On the other hand, the second band’s popularity ignited much faster. They were invited to play at some big bars in Atlanta and everyone liked their sound. After hearing a couple of their songs, I asked them to play at a party I was having. They were incredible. They just had that sound that everyone liked, but lacked the most important aspects to achieve true success.

They didn’t have any motivation or anything that resembled a detailed plan. They had less motivation than a college student wanting to study calculus (Which means they had zero motivation). After playing at a few bars, they decided that they were too good for those places and declined the offers to play again. They thought someone was just going to listen to their album and give them millions of dollars.

Instead of practicing they partied. Eventually, they couldn’t play anywhere. The band to this very day doesn’t know where they went wrong. Even with all their talent they still crashed and burned. I guess they just felt they were too good and didn’t need to practice, play, and promote.

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Continuation of “A Different kind of Investing” and more things that I’ve learned from “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived” by Steven K. Scott.

You ever wonder why some people are successful and others fail? According to this book, there are two significant things to do to become successful. The first thing is to plan correctly, and the second is to seek consul. This post will discuss how planning correctly can really change your life.

Let me first ask a question that I know everyone has heard before. Do you want to be rich, successful, and have loving relationships? I would say everyone I know would want to answer yes. Here comes a question that most people don’t hear after that first question is asked. How are you going to be rich, successful, and find loving relationships? Isn’t that question much harder to answer? Let me show you some steps to make this process as fun and easy as possible.

1^st. What are your goals? Everyone has there own individual goals like: being rich, successful, loved, and popular. Everyone also has a dream job that they would want to do: movie star, rock star, politician (my dream), doctor, astronaut, stand-up comedian, and etcetera. Write out all your goals. They can be short term, mid term, or long term. Make them as broad as possible. After you have them all written down, list them in the order of importance to you.

Here are my broad, but arranged goals: Relationships, eFIPO & other Websites, Knowledge, Career, Money, Charity, High School, House, Higher Education.

2^nd. After they are to your liking, write how you plan to achieve those goals. Again, make these pretty broad. Here’s my first goal with broad steps to achieve that goal.

Relationship
Spend as much time with wife and kids (I’m not married or have any kids, but still a dream of mine)
Get my kids involved in school activities
Take trips with my wife and kids as much as possible
Bring kids to grandparent’s house as much as possible

3^rd. Take your most important goal and describe it in detail. My most important goal is relationship building within my family. Here is the definition of the family life that I would like to achieve in the future. -Spend as much time with my wife and kids and have a loving family. I would love the ability to have a really strong family by always having an open door and an open heart. I want to love and motivate all my children to be whatever they dream to be. I want a loving wife that shows that we will be in love till we are grey and old. I want to be with her sitting in a hammock at 65 and still cuddling and loving each other like the first day we met. Our home will be warm and inviting to our kid’s friends, and family. I want to participate in as many activities with my kids in and out of school. I want them to feel loved, secure, and a bond that cannot be broken.-

4^th. Take your description and add a short, mid, and long term steps that are easy to accomplish. The way I want to achieve a loving family is to begin with a loving relationship with my future wife. Here is how I hope to accomplish it.

Have a great relationship with my girlfriend

• Be kind and gentle

• Be respectful and listen

• Do not overreact

Save for a ring
Prepare a speech to deliver to her parents to ask for her hand in marriage

• Outline how long we have been together

• Say how much I love her and her family

Propose
Get married

• Help in the wedding, let her make most of the decisions because it’s her day

Have a lot of fun with my new wife

• Do things we both enjoy

• Do things she enjoys

• Have nights for just us

• Have nights with friends

• Always tell her what is on my mind

Develop a very strong relationship before we decided to have children
Move to a house with a good school district and neighborhood
Have the kids
Be there for my wife in time of need
Decide whether she should work or I should work
Play sports with my kids and share my wisdom with them
Talk to them and be supportive of their aspirations and dreams
Make them feel secure by promoting a safe and comfortable household
Show my kids that their mother and I have a great relationship and bond
Promote a healthy lifestyle and exercise with my family
Have family discussions and keep an open door policy
Always stay true and loyal to my wife and kids

5^th. Do this with all your goals. I know this seems long and tedious, but it works wonders. You may be asking yourselves “Jeremie do you do this?” Yup! I have about six pages of ways to accomplish my goals and its growing. I truly believe that if you have a detailed plan, you can achieve anything. If I were to give you an address to my house, it would be nearly impossible to find. But if I gave you detailed directions then it would be extremely easy to find. Your life is not much different.

More to come soon….

Goals Equal Success #2

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Things that I’ve learned from “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived” by Steven K. Scott.

I just finished a great book tonight and wanted to share some thoughts with the readers of eFIPO.com. Steven Scott’s “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived” is in my opinion a very powerful and meaningful self-help book. It tells his story of how he was fired from every single job he had (I think nine was his magical number). How did a man that was living paycheck to paycheck end up making $600,000 a week? How did he gain this fortune after being a corporate failure? He read the “Book of Proverbs” by the wisest and richest man ever to live and applied the wisdom he learned to his life. The writer of the “Book of Proverbs”, King Solomon, described in detail how to achieve true happiness and receive the rewards that come with it (true love, great relationships, and of course WEALTH) if you applied the knowledge correctly.

I am not going to write everything I learned from this book in one single post. I will separate it to about four or five. The first thing that I applied from this book is to change your enemies to friends. Recently, I had a huge disagreement with one of my old roommates. She lived with me for over a year and a half and in less than one month our friendship was destroyed. Is it not weird how much effort we can put into creating a relationship and in one moment it could be shattered? Relationships are very fragile and it requires work to keep it strong. *Some words, if said in a certain way, can hurt more than being hit by a brick. So choose your words carefully and always think before you open your mouth.*

After not talking for months, I decided to let my anger pass and I finally realized that “Maybe it wasn’t all her fault. Or maybe it wasn’t her fault at all.” This epiphany led me to write a letter of apology to her. So much was lifted from my back writing it and I felt whole again when I sealed the envelope. Once my other roommate finally met up with her, he gave her the letter and she said “Oh great, what does he have to say now?” After reading five seconds into the letter she had a smile on her face. When she read the whole thing she set it on the table and sighed in relief (like a huge weight was lifted from her back). She then looked at my roommate and said “God, this makes things much better.”

Once my roommate told me this story I knew that this book was correct. Sometimes when you put people feelings first magical things can happen. I realized that the things that were argued in the heat of the moment were falsities. The period of no communication was a cooling off time and the letter was the ice-breaker to rekindling our friendship.

When you correct your mistakes things fall in place much easier. A few days after I wrote the letter I received two new job prospects. Fate is sometimes a funny thing, but when you perform acts of kindness good opportunities usually come your way.

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