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Earning money is a game.

If you know and play by the rules, then you
reap your rewards.

If you don't, well then no matter how hard you
work, how hard you struggle, you won't get
anywhere.

Don't you ever wonder why some people earn
five times, ten times, or even twenty times more
than the rest?

Are they twenty times smarter?

Do they work twenty times harder?

Or are they just twenty times luckier?

None of the above.

Many of those people might even have been
twenty times lazier than you were in school.

They even probably had twenty more F's than
you did but they're twenty times wealthier than
you are now.

So now you might be asking yourself, "What
happened? Where did I go wrong?"

What happened is that they know how to play
the game. They know how to make their money
work for them.

Yes, we learn a lot from school.

We learn reading, writing, science and math.
We learn literature, essay-writing, chemistry,
physics, algebra, and trigonometry. We even
learn social studies and religion.

But no one ever taught us how to earn money;
they tell us to get a job, that's all.

What are we going to do with money? No one
ever taught us what to do with money.

No one ever taught us how to manage our
money or how to invest it when money is the
most important subject in our adult lives!

Now, that's just insane, not learning about
money when you'll be dealing with it 'til the day
you die!

A lot of people say money isn't everything.
And, yes, to some extent that's true.

Money isn't everything. You also have your
family, your love life, your friends, your health.

But what a lot of people forget is that
everything is money.

You know why?

Because without financial security, without
financial independence, we would be burdened
by money too much that we might end up
overlooking the really important things.

The everything-that-money-is-not: your family,
your relationship, your friends, your health.

All of us have heard of at least one person in
our lives who had parents who were so busy
earning money that they forgot the other
important things in life like their family or their
wife or husband.

The fact is, whether we like it or not, we
need money to live. Life is everything.
Everything is money.

All our lives, we've been rammed so hard with
things like, "Study hard, get good grades, get a
good job, and you're set for life"; "Investing is
risky"; "Don't play with stocks"; "Don't be so
stingy"; and other things like that.

We've been brought up to think that money is
evil. But money is only evil when you make evil
things out of it.

The fact is, money is just paper.

Look at it; it looks like paper. Smell it; it
smells like paper. Try burning it; it burns like
paper. Heck, it is paper!

You see, money is essentially a symbol. It
simply exists to make trade easier. It's there
for practicality's sake.

Just imagine if we kept the barter system up
until today. You know how complicated that
could get?

Say you wanted a new car. If we were in the
barter system right now, what would you trade it
in for that has the same worth as a car?

A lot? A yacht? A home theater system? A
thousand expensive cellphones?

How do you equate the worth of one object to
another?

If I was the car salesman, it would be so easy
to say that the car I'm selling is worth a house
by the beach and a yacht.

How could you argue with that?

With money, trade is fairer. If I tell you that
the car is worth $30,000 and you ask why, I
can count its features that make it worth
$30,000.

If you're not satisfied, I can ask the company
for the breakdown: the cost of each material,
cost of production, transportation, the
electricity we use to display it, and the labor.

See, it's easier to justify numbers than words
or objects.

Besides, wouldn't it be funny if we earn
objects instead of money?

Just imagine getting different objects for
every payday.

Your boss will come up to you and say, "Since
this is your first month, you get a chair for the
work you did. Next month, you'll be getting a
table. Once your probationary status is over,
you get a kitchen showcase."

Imagine that.

All I'm trying to say is that you need to
unlearn some things that have been rammed into
your head forever.

Money isn't evil. You are if you do evil things
with it!

It doesn't have some sort of special power
that hypnotizes you into doing evil things. You
don't let money control you. You control money.

And that's how you can get wealthier too; by
controlling money.

By learning how to double it. By learning how
to invest it and use it to your advantage.

You should erase all these anti-wealth
information from your head or else you might end
up working hard all your life, going around and
around in the rat race only to end up broke and
unhappy.

Don't wait 'til it's too late to realize these
things. Get out of the rat race and pave a path
of financial abundance and independence.

(by: Malcolm P)
Thanks to: smurky