you will fail if and when .

by Odahh
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it is hard to peg success . it seems that many who are trying to study success classify someone as a failure ..if they have not become rich .

so the footbal player at the top of their game right now with a new Superbowl ring ..the pretty wife ..and the big house ..is a success.

but after he is done playing football and loses much of what he had no one pays attention .

how much are lance armstrongs books on winning and being a champion worth now ..if cheating was a main factor in his success .

seems at some point along the line to big success one has to consult or employee lawyers..and bend laws .

but in todays world by noon time most people reading this have probably broken a number of fedral laws without being aware of them .

success is a moving target ..but real failure should be something you can point to .

so lets place the point of failure where .. the amount of money coming in i far less that the amount of money going out. and all operations stop and everything is lost or has to be sold off.

the difference between people who become wealthy and those who either stay destitute ..or get to a point where they tread water for the rest of their lives ..because most wealthy people you studt had these periods .

wealthy people learn from it and do not repeat the same mistakes ..while average people find the next paycheck to paycheck job untill they lose it and everything again .

once a wealthy person or someone who can build wealth goes through it.. they either have a plan to avoid having it happen again ..or know if they lose it all again they can rebuild it .

the last few years i have spent building skill that reduce the amount of money i need to live on ..and have a chance to chreat a small income on the side if needed .

the education system today only trains people to have a job to make money..and exchange that money for everything they need ..so many like myself are lefts with no skills to fall back on when we lose our ability to get a normal job . i have a compressed disk in my lower back much of the pain has been repaired .but i used to work in physically demanding jobs . which when you can't be on your feet for more than 20 or 30 minutes or lift heavy stuff .. it makes it hard to get those .

in any case any work i have gotten has lasted weeks ..

so it has been long term skill development looking for a way i can earn money long term . there is no safety working for other people long term . it a path to repeated failure today .

another reason most people will have these cycles of failure .is that not of their expenses are tax deductible ..and mostly all of what they buy is either consumed ..or loses value .

many people who earn a wage spend a huge chunk of their income getting to work eating while working and recovering from work .

people who build wealth figure out how to get as much of their expenses classified as business expenses ..want to visit some place for a few days..pick a time when there is a trade show or a seminar you can attend .

it is interesting when you study and listen to people who make money over a long period of time ..and can double their income or increase it a huge percent beyond cost of living .

if you just work hard you may never get rich ..most people who work really hard make the bank rich the government rich.. the landloard rich. the supplier rich while they either live of wages or razor thin margins .

wealthy people work hard at improving the production pace or quality and expanding their margins .

if you whine about the middle man making all the money ..one day you may fail . if the middle man is making the money learn to do what the middle man does .

aww hell i am rambling
#fail
  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    The more successful you are, the more people will put a target on you? Is that one of your points?

    This is true if you become a famous rich person but not a successful internet marketer.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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      Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      This is true if you become a famous rich person but not a successful internet marketer.
      Mostly I think that's true.

      However I've seen people "criticize" Eben Pagan before (particularly his Wedding vows) when all the guy does is empower people.
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      "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."―Joseph Sugarman
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    i ended up rambling ..but the vein i was trying to hit .

    you fail two ways today ..you run out of money . or you leave someone else in charge of 100 percent of your income . so at some point the flow of money can be shut off ..and if your only option is to get another job . you are just headed for the same fate over and over.

    a lot of successful famous people ..in many ways are well paid employees who are really only able to cash in for a short time . and then many go splat .

    if you develop skill that say if the worst happened ..you house burnt down..your business closed up and the government seized everything you had left after that. and with only enough money and a passport .. you get a plain ticket..leave the country and you build an income to support yourself . you can't fail long term .


    think about how many millionaires in the Us where immigrants who came over here and drove taxies waited tables or did what ever while they where looking for their opportunity .

    you can work very hard for someone else and have just enough to live on ..or you can work hard building skills that help you create or acquire assets .

    in the im field the biggest asset is your list
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