What can you loose? Money and time, but in the case of money you can always do more, time is more valuable but is better to loose time than doing nothing and wasting it, the learn experience is what you can gain by taking more action

But, I’m not sure
You can waste your life doing something you don’t like for the rest of it
You can throw away your life because you follow what other people think is best for you
You can pass your life thinking and doing nothing about it

The higher you aim (and do) more people will criticize you, even if you aim low usually the same people will criticize you, identify them and be deaf hears to what they have to say

Death is a very good motivator, I truly believe in reincarnation and a life after this one, but who really knows?

Is not for me
We have used excuses every now and then, life is the journey, an experience to live, to enjoy, and exceeding expectations is what makes us be proud of ourselves, ask yourself, what will I do if I didn’t have fear ? The answer will amaze you

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• Work – There’s a promotion to someone less prepared than you, but since he is friend of the manager . . .

• Health - Wash your teeth 3 times before your appointment with your dentist

• Financial – Buying a new latest model car, but there is no money to eat, or to pay the car

• Spirituality – What you say is not congruent with your actions

The real success mentality is make to last, you don’t have to be making a high amount of effort every certain period of time to reach it since every day you work on it, the journey in a success mind gives us nothing less than satisfactions and happiness, is supported in strong foundations which has been constructed in years, all the goals that you set out you finish them in the most honest and highest satisfactory way

• Work – Very capable, the leadership is build an you get promotions by own merit

• Health – Through time you are done well taken care of yourself

• Financial - You live a perfect financial independence, you wisely saved and invested

• Spirituality – A leader in the community, can give advice due to your more than enough experience

It matters what you choose to do and the way you choose to do it; whatever you achieve in life, people will spoke of you, at success or at appear victory, in both ways you’ll become someone, is up to you to decide how you want to be

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin

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Not for everyone
A lot of people just don’t want to understand the game, so they don’t play at all, is funny that they’ll try to divert you whenever is possible, don’t distract yourself with small things that doesn’t deserve your attention in that moment, your financial and business requires your total attention, this people can put your overall game in danger !!

To win the game
Every turn is a big chance of winning or losing, depends on the changes you receive and the decisions you make (opportunities)

When is your turn to throw the dices you really know what to expect to a certain level, but nothing is for sure (life)

Is a matter of how much properties you own rather than how much money you have in your pocket (entrepreneur sense)

Have to know when to pawn your countries in order to get some money to buy more properties; also have to know when to not do this (leverage)

Overall organization makes the game faster, fun and reliable (administration)

You have to watch out for “innocent cheating” in other players, maybe a misplaced dollar, a bad calculation when returning money, a double turn (corruption, dishonesty)

There are this fax and mail cards (law, economy, taxes) that can get some money from you to other players with each house or hotels you own, but with every house or hotel you own, you can cash more money of rent (fear, risk)

You get bored, angry and frustrated; you even don’t want to play anymore when you are losing in the game (debt)

Happy and excited when you are winning; it gets easier and a lot more fun (winning)

Difficult when you are playing for the first time (inexperience, learner)

Some people just think that is a very hard game, with too much rules and a waste of time, then, they go sit in the couch and turn on the TV (employees)

If one country doesn’t have an owner, or if the owner wants to, you can buy it (assets)

If someone owns the country were you are and the owner is not willing to sell, you have to pay rent (liabilities, business)

If you have played well, you will have some countries of your own, you can go to the bathroom before you next turn and still you will be able to make some money (passive income)

You can “help” someone in need when they are short in cash by buying that country you need to increase your empire for less cash of what you regularly have pay (buy and sell demand)

“Help” to improve other player game by selling them the country that just need in a significant higher price (sell, fill a need, potential clients)

Irrelevant but true

I sell all my properties and give the money to someone, who doesn’t know how to play, I teach him only the basic of the game, this took me like two minutes, I didn’t have anything but money, so I was imagining that in a very short period of time I was going to lost the game, maybe before I have finishing taking notes for this post, it was a surprise for everyone to find that my money increased by a 200%, I also get in 2^nd place from five people playing (management, business)

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2. Lower your spending plan
Frugality is the key to get to your goals faster than expected and realize what things you really don’t need in your life

3. Discipline
Having a culture of work and constance no matter what (the weather, your mood, the dog of the neighbor) will help develop that precious business-like mind

4. Habits
The work place is an excellent lab-rat to test your habits: punctuality, procrastination, mindset, minimal supervision, under pressure . . .

5. Business income
An already established business that is reliability and secure that brings to you at least 75% of your current spending needs

6. Realistic
Don’t let risky predictions, emotion or optimist blind your judgment, we are talking about your freedom here! Is better to wait until we are able to tying loose ends more toughly, but remember not to wait much!!

7. Optimist
This point contradictory with the previous point, but don’t let pessimist decrease your productivity action, also beware of know-all naysayers like your friends, coworkers and family

8. Fear
Don’t let fear make you panic, dominate it! But also don’t ignore it completely, maybe is your primal business instinct calling

9. Proactive
Don’t procrastinate, that is something we do often at work and it really doesn’t have that much of an impact. But in our business this is a great damage to our person as an entrepreneur

10. Find your business and passionate it
Don’t leave your job until you are 110% sure that you are migrating to something better for yourself, please take note that money has very little to do with this when you are working with your passion

Remember that is the journey, not the destination what it counts : )

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Energy

Meat needs more energy from our body to dissolve in nutrients and the stuff that remains needs more time to go completely out of our system than the rest of foods, the energy that doesn’t requires our digestive system to process fruits and vegetables is used by the rest of the body letting us to think with more clarity and improve our overall energy in our normal days

Health

Sometimes we think that without a big, fat piece of met in the food will not be satisfy and we be hungry all day long, the stress, the growth hormones, the deficient health of animals, the fat and everything else that comes from meat that we eat stays in our body, resulting in the fast progressive damage of our health

Compassion

There’s no meat in our plate that one day was alive, the extreme conditions that animals are before they die are cruel, this animals are born and live in spaces so small that they can’t move the rest of their life, some of them get crazy and the constant pain of seeing death everywhere is a living hell for all of them

Eat for living VS living for eat

¿Aren’t we fat enough?

Global Warming and world hunger

Each animal raised for human consume has a cost in the environment, the energy and natural resources of the planet are being bad administrated, water and soil are wasted everyday because our taste buds

If we apply the currently wasted energy in growing living beings for eating to agriculture, we will see a significant diminution of world hunger, since if by far more cheaper in cost resources a veggie lifestyle

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Don’t leave your 9-5 job is you are not mentally prepared; almost everyone tells you that you need some income before you leave your job to go to your entrepreneur journey, that is certainly right, and achieve that financial freedom isn’t to hard to accomplish:

• Pay your debts and don’t make new ones
• Declutter all things that sucks money right out of your pocket
• Find your passion, and monetize it!!
• Join, train and work for free (or almost) in a honorable MLM company for at least 3 years
• Make money online

As you can see, is not so impossible to leave your job and became more independent, but are you ready for that? Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? If you have a self employee thing or you are the owner of a real business, you still got to go to work even if you:

• Are sick
• Sleepy
• Tired
• Raining
• Don’t like it, someone has to pay the bills

See my point ?, there’s a big difference between being an employee to being an entrepreneur, you work more for less at the beginning financial speaking, that is why is so important to work on something that you love, let you passion drive you to your success

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Also, is needed to define in what category you are right now and in what category you want to be:

Financial dependent – Employees and self-employee are cataloged here

Financial independent – Owners of any kind of business that produces positive income are in this group

Financial free – The same as the financial independent group, with two huge differences: the first is that independently that you work or not you make money and the second one is that you earn more than you can spend

Take in consideration that is not a bad thing to be a workaholic, if you enjoy life by working for someone else and don’t affect third parties is all right, but the chances that the company or your job is going to take care of you when you can’t work anymore are very remotely

Frugality is an important aspect of the equation, the more frugal you get, the more fast you can achieve your financial free goal, also, being frugal can make you realize of all the unnecessary things you accumulate in material and emotional terms, this can change a bad habit into a good one, sometimes we daydream about all the things we can do when we get rich: investment, savings, obtain passive income streams, acquire assets that brings money to our big fat bank accounts, but we often lost sight of the journey thinking in the goal, if in the financial aspect you are a disaster now and your earnings are not so big, imagine what will happen if you get lucky and create an enormous amount of wealth in a very short period of time, you will end with bigger debts

The aspect of living a financial free life that I’m being most attracted to is related to choices and freedom; the freedom to choose when, why or with whom I’ll spend my time, if your time is controlled by someone else is rather difficult to be really free and create the lifestyle you desire

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