Are Rich People Smarter or Braver than You?
Posted 04-03-2009 at 10:58 AM by J. Smith Adams
Have you ever wondered what is the real reason some people are so much more successful than others? Let's first eliminate the trust fund babies, the temporarily rich lottery winners and inherited wealth. You are still left with thousands if not millions of people on the planet who through their hard thinking have created financial security for their families. So what's wrong with you?
Heady Stuff
For one, intelligence is so overrated as to be a marketing scheme. When I say intelligence, I mean IQ scores, academic prowess and the like. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of education and believe in learning as much as you can for as long as you can. I admire those who have alphabet soup after their name. But that has little to no determining value as to whether one will make real money in their life.
I can see the frowns...yes, doctors, lawyers, and MIT engineers will statistically be more financially successful over the span of their life, but I'm talking about wealth, not comfortable living. The chasm between comfortable living and wealth is long and wide. Those that make it across do so for one reason, persistence.
Here Little Chicken
One of my heroes in life is a man named S. Truett Cathy, the billionaire founder of Chick-fil-a. Truett Cathy represents the absolute model of how to become successful beyond measure. According to Forbes, Cathy is the 799th richest man on earth.
Sixty years ago, Cathy had an idea for a chicken sandwich. Of course, everyone said no one would buy it, you know, the regular imaginatively impoverished comments. Cathy kept pushing. He had no money to buy chicken to even test different recipes. So he went to the Atlanta airport where Delta airlines packaged their food trays for flights. He noticed Delta had to cut away portions of the chicken so it would fit onto the trays. He asked for the throw away chicken. They said sure. This was the beginning of the Chick-fil-a sandwich.
Grow Some Grapes
As I said in an earlier post, in life, boldness is rewarded and timidity punished. Cathy learned early that you will never get what you don't ask for. Over the last 60 years, Cathy has grown one of the most successful chains in the country and was one of the select few food chains to report a profit in 2008.
As freelancers, you got to grow some grapes! You have to be willing to get up in the morning and call 100 companies that use your service and present yourself as a better option. If you're a writer, instead of waiting for someone to hire you, how about going to a website and rewriting the home page? Call the owner and say this is a better version of your copy, now hire me to do the rest.
You can do it if you really want to. Do you want to?
J. Smith Adams
Elance Money Secrets
Heady Stuff
For one, intelligence is so overrated as to be a marketing scheme. When I say intelligence, I mean IQ scores, academic prowess and the like. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of education and believe in learning as much as you can for as long as you can. I admire those who have alphabet soup after their name. But that has little to no determining value as to whether one will make real money in their life.
I can see the frowns...yes, doctors, lawyers, and MIT engineers will statistically be more financially successful over the span of their life, but I'm talking about wealth, not comfortable living. The chasm between comfortable living and wealth is long and wide. Those that make it across do so for one reason, persistence.
Here Little Chicken
One of my heroes in life is a man named S. Truett Cathy, the billionaire founder of Chick-fil-a. Truett Cathy represents the absolute model of how to become successful beyond measure. According to Forbes, Cathy is the 799th richest man on earth.
Sixty years ago, Cathy had an idea for a chicken sandwich. Of course, everyone said no one would buy it, you know, the regular imaginatively impoverished comments. Cathy kept pushing. He had no money to buy chicken to even test different recipes. So he went to the Atlanta airport where Delta airlines packaged their food trays for flights. He noticed Delta had to cut away portions of the chicken so it would fit onto the trays. He asked for the throw away chicken. They said sure. This was the beginning of the Chick-fil-a sandwich.
Grow Some Grapes
As I said in an earlier post, in life, boldness is rewarded and timidity punished. Cathy learned early that you will never get what you don't ask for. Over the last 60 years, Cathy has grown one of the most successful chains in the country and was one of the select few food chains to report a profit in 2008.
As freelancers, you got to grow some grapes! You have to be willing to get up in the morning and call 100 companies that use your service and present yourself as a better option. If you're a writer, instead of waiting for someone to hire you, how about going to a website and rewriting the home page? Call the owner and say this is a better version of your copy, now hire me to do the rest.
You can do it if you really want to. Do you want to?
J. Smith Adams
Elance Money Secrets
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