How far will you go in your life, career and building wealth depends less on how strongly you row or how hard you work, it’s more about the kind of boat you select.
A person on cycle will overtake a person who is walking easily. The only thing is you need to bild a cycle first while the other person can start walking immediately.
A 9-5 job is like walking. And a Business is like a cycle. The effort is more in the former and speed less whereas the effort is less in later and speed more. So learn to build a cycle. Learn to run a business.
Sometimes you can be your business. You may be a writer, painter, speaker, a good sportsperson, investor etc. Use your skill and your cycle.
I will post some of my favourite extracts from 4 hour Work week by Tim Ferris.
What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN
Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.
People don’t want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. Ski chalets, butlers, and exotic travel often enter the picture
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?
It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money—a lot more money—by doing half of what you are doing now.
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