Falcon and Battleborn's responses....

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I don't mean to shit on Falcon and Battleborn here, I only bring up their responses to make a point...

Both told me that it was OK to continue down the financial path they were on because THEY LIKE THEIR JOBS.

I want to point out that THAT IS A FALSE ANSWER.

There isn't a "CHOICE" to be made between doing the smart thing and doing stupid things with money that has anything to do with liking your job.

Let me rephrase that: Doing stupid things with money and then RATIONALIZING those choices by saying "It's OK because I like my job" is ridiculous.

That line of thinking is completely false. The two things have NOTHING TO DO with one another!

Who said you have to quit your job when you become financially free?

The fact is that YOU WILL, but you don't HAVE TO.

Saying to yourself, "I don't want to be financially independent because I love my job" makes no sense whatsoever.

Stop and think about that.

What's the REAL REASON you choose a path of financial mediocrity?

Let's get down to the REAL reason.

Is it FEAR? Fear of failure, maybe? Fear of the unknown? Fear of taking on a challenge where you really aren't sure of the outcome?

Being BRAVE ENOUGH to toss out your comfort zone takes "nad." there is no doubt about that.

Linus carries around that stinky blanket for a reason. It stinks, but he won't let it go. He doesn't have the balls to toss the fucker.

Your limiting ideas about money and success are no different than Linus' blanket. They STINK and you make every effort to RATIONALIZE them to yourself.

Rationalize to YOURSELF all you want. I am not buying a word of it.

I've been where you are. I can see right through your words because I had to be honest with MYSELF and your words used to be MY words.

I tossed my stinky blanket.

[FightingFalcon]

I don't have the time or the energy. There's no other real reason behind it. I'm already way too busy with my job, my Masters and traveling. I have no time or energy to sit down and worry about studying the RE market. Jim Kramer put it best when he said that if you don't have the time to become a professional yourself, that you should leave investment to the professionals.

The last thing I want to do when I come home from work is worry about how my property investments are doing. I'd rather invest in my 401k and know that I'll have a comfortable retirement. Will I be fabulously wealthy? Of course not- but I don't want to die of a heart attack at 35 either.

I am conscientiously choosing a life of financial mediocrity, although I would prefer to call it comfortability. I am totally fine with that. Not everyone is cut out for a job in the cut-throat world of finance. I'm certainly not.

[dustdevil28]

I didn't mean to come of rationalizing that I didn't want to become financially independant. That statement doesn't make sense, of course I want to have that freedom, but at the same time I do enjoy my job and I know that even with a solid financial situation I would still choose to do my job because I enjoy it.

-Zach

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fightingfalcon said:

I don't have the time or the energy. There's no other real reason behind it. I'm already way too busy with my job, my Masters and traveling. I have no time or energy to sit down and worry about studying the RE market. Jim Kramer put it best when he said that if you don't have the time to become a professional yourself, that you should leave investment to the professionals.

The last thing I want to do when I come home from work is worry about how my property investments are doing. I'd rather invest in my 401k and know that I'll have a comfortable retirement. Will I be fabulously wealthy? Of course not- but I don't want to die of a heart attack at 35 either.

I am conscientiously choosing a life of financial mediocrity, although I would prefer to call it comfortability. I am totally fine with that. Not everyone is cut out for a job in the cut-throat world of finance. I'm certainly not.

Whew! You are making all kinds of bogus "assumptions" here.

Who said you had to do RE?

That has been MY VENUE, but the subject isn't RE.

The subject is MONEY.

You probably think McDonald's is in the hamburger business and that Rolex is in the watch business. They're not!

McDonald's is in the RE business and Rolex is in the luxury business.

My REAL business is the subject of Money.

Virtually EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has ever become financially independent has done it in a slightly different way. I say "virtually" because some people inherited the money or won the lottery (and those people are almost always broke in a surprisingly short time period). Everyone else who has reached financial independence has done it DIFFERENTLY.

That means there are an infinite number of ways to do it. That's great news if you're listening.

I am not here to sell real estate. I am here to teach THE RULES OF MONEY.

What I get back are answers like "I don't have time."

LOL

Hokay!

Who am I to talk you out of that idea?

You'll learn. You're one of those kids who has to actually touch the stove to learn what you could have learned from simply listening to your mom.

Enjoy!

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I need to go through this response line by line.

Your mind is filled with so many bogus and limiting ideas that it will take some time and effort to straighten them out.

You need to stop and fucking listen to me for a moment.

The stuff you think is NOT TRUE.

fightingfalcon said:

I don't have the time or the energy. There's no other real reason behind it. I'm already way too busy with my job, my Masters and traveling. I have no time or energy to sit down and worry about studying the RE market.

It doesn't take time and energy to treat your time, efforts and money with respect.

Does it take time and energy to dig yourself into a financial hole?

It doesn't take any more time to do SMART THINGS WITH MONEY than it does to do STUPID THINGS.

It doesn't take ANY MORE TIME to think financially intelligent ideas than it does to continue thinking the false and limiting ideas you currently think.

Jim Kramer put it best when he said that if you don't have the time to become a professional yourself, that you should leave investment to the professionals.

Kramer is a stock trader! What the hell could HE POSSIBLY KNOW about money? He's still working his ass off.

You count him as an expert without EVER seeing the results of his actual trades. He's nothing but a face on fucking TV!

You cannot take advice from people who are still working harder than you do.

If you want to learn stock trading, listen to him if you want. However, you will NEVER reach financial independence by doing that. He hasn't!

The last thing I want to do when I come home from work is worry about how my property investments are doing.

What in the hell makes you think I worry? My investments are a lot more secure than my job was.

"Worry" is what I GOT RID OF!!!

I'd rather invest in my 401k and know that I'll have a comfortable retirement.

I have two questions for you"

1) how do you KNOW that your 401K will provide anything for you? and,

2) what does "comfortable" mean? How could you have ANY IDEA what it will take to be "comfortable" 20 - 40 years from now?

I already know the answer to both these questions. You have no earthly idea! That's the answer.

Will I be fabulously wealthy? Of course not- but I don't want to die of a heart attack at 35 either.

So, now you're trying to tell me that being smart with money causes cardiovascular disease.

That's a new one! I hadn't heard that one before.

I am conscientiously choosing a life of financial mediocrity, although I would prefer to call it comfortability. I am totally fine with that. Not everyone is cut out for a job in the cut-throat world of finance. I'm certainly not.

Hmmmmm....

"cut-throat" is an interesting term. My 13 and 15 year old daughters can handle it just fine. It's too much for you though, huh??

Interesting.