Career success seems easy

It is actually easy to figure out . Or understand.

90 percent or more of the people who buy I m product are happy consuming those products and have no real interest in producing and distributing them.

Our consumer economy would implode if this wasn't common to every consumer product and books and info products that are not purchased by a business and written off as a business expense . Are consumer products .

Steve jobs pointed you can only really pull this off before you have a wife and children and major liabilities .

Unless like Jeff bezoz you have a wife who will support you and not feel abandoned when you are working all the time .

And as you get older it gets harder to put in those long hours .

Most of the 1 percent are over 60 and have been building their wealth for 35 years .

So the 1 percent stuff matters if you point to age and geographic location or cost of living in that area .

Anyway there is no real it.

Or maybe the majority don't know what it is .

Wealth or assets are things that produce income or hold or increase in value.

And the rich person usually does pay more in taxes even when paying a lower percentage

The critical element is productivity and sustainability .

Because most of the elements of a successfully life are put in place over a few decades

I get what you are saying... but I think MANY think they need to be working on ONE thing for 12 hours a day to be successful... and I don't think that is the case.

We will just say, for the sake of saying I have a 9 to 5 Job.... its not that i don't like it, but I know I will never get "Ahead" in life as it were if I just stayed with this job. The "Job" provides everything "I need" ( pays my bills, feeds me, gives me shelter ) but in terms of "Wants" just not doing it for me.

Its the time you spend outside of the 9 to 5 grind that matters... its dedicating 2 hours a day into something that can change your life. Look here: https://www.warriorforum.com/warrior...days-ebay.html and see that 2 hours at work at creating financial change.

Did it change my life? Maybe not in a financial sense... I earn a better than decent income... but having a $40,000 gross December that translates into $30,000 profit... that's life changing for more than a few... and ONLY 2 hours a day ( ok a bit more in the month of December )

Where would you be today if you started something like that 1 year ago? I can tell you the answer to that... 6 digits richer.

2 hours a day isn't asking much... and sadly I don't think most can muster that... and then to say you need 12 hours a day... you might as well ask the someone to find a way to the moon. Success isn't necessarily the amount of time... its doing something that is proven to work, and doing it consistently within an amount of time.

Don't want to hear it from me... try this: jump right to 2:00 in.

I know I come across as a blow hard and know it all.... but its a product of education... you don't build and develop over 5000 website in your life time and not "obtain" knowledge. I simply know a little about a whole lot of things... but then the little develops into near mastery in things like advertising, and business in general, and obviously building websites and SEO and this and that and the other Experience is the best teacher no?

It takes one to have another... and in the process learning how to use what you have learned as LEVERAGE in getting what you want, and the other end NEEDS

You probably have a better way of stating it .

Technically... A lifetime... so I started working when I was 5 so about 47 years to be exact. If you go read that thread, it is broken into sections like how to write a description, and how to take photos, how to SEO etc etc... Each of these are crafts within themselves - but for me they are a part of a whole... literally a life time of lessons and experience culminating in 12 months of producing income.

Looking at SEO for eBay in particular there is actually very little to read on the subject - its not at all documented like say Google is. But "In my Day Job" I work with Google on a daily basis - so I draw that experience to the table. a little testing here and there ( pulling in my CRO experience ) and I can quickly have a better understanding of the mechanics of "Cassini" the part of eBay that determines how your item will list in a search result. And YEAH..I find it fascinating - I know, Im a geek ok ok ok

This is the part of the equation... that I just cant explain... I absolutely do not want to say I am special - but business potential just jumps out at me - an example while writing about Instant Pots, I ran across "Star Wars Instant Pots" I just had to look... they sell for $89 retail and sell for $200+ on eBay and as of right now there are none to be found on Amazon ( I have ordered 80 of them - so far )

In my daily life I do this all day long... Its like there is a red flag that says look me up or something. My wife is actually on the opposite end of the spectrum.. I can tell her "hey look for X" and she will come back with the least expensive place to buy 1 or any number of bulk - its kinda scarry actually.

Did you know you can walk into Walmart right now and buy a can of Teriyaki Spam and list it on eBay and double your money after all the expenses ( shipping, fees, packaging etc )? We are taught the "Concepts" of supply and demand in school, but hardly anyone REALLY understands it... or that THEY could actually be on the SUPPLY end of supply and demand. And its THIS that I think is my mental trigger.

If people think working twelve hours a day 6days a week is part of the formula for success .

And they don't look for what they enjoy doing or have the potential to be among the best at . It is silly .

Financial success is easy to define you have assets that provide the income that supports your preferred lifestyle

It is so much harder to do work you don't really enjoy every day and not have the lifestyle you prefer. Instead of taking what you can get and having beggers can't be choosers as a life motto.

It takes a large amount of effort to build the skills and habits initially .

But rich and wealthy people tend to grasp the true cost of things in their lives .

If they smoke they know how much they spend every day how much they spend in a year .their net income their gross income .so they know how many hours they had to work in a year to pay for their smoking habit .

Or they can figure it out in ten minutes.if they really want to smoke they might even grow their own tobacco .