Wealth File #15
Rich people have their money work hard for them.
Poor people work hard for their money.
By T Harv Eker
If you’re like most people, you grew up being programmed
that you “have to work hard for money.” Chances are good,
however, that you didn’t grow up with the conditioning that it
was just as important to make your money “work hard for
you.”
No question, working hard is important, but working hard
alone will never make you rich. How do we know that? Take a
look in the real world. There are millions—no, make that
billions—of people who slave away, working their tails off all
day and even all night long. Are they all rich? No! Are most of
them rich? No! Are a lot of them rich? No! Most of them are
broke or close to it. On the other hand, whom do you see
lounging around the country clubs of the world? Who spends
their afternoons playing golf, tennis, or sailing? Who spends
their days shopping and their weeks vacationing? I’ll give you
three guesses and the first two don’t count.
Rich people, that’s who! So let’s get this straight: the idea that
you have to work hard to get rich is bogus!
The old Protestant work ethic states “a dollar’s work for a
dollar’s pay.” There’s nothing wrong with that adage except
that they forgot to tell us what to do with that “dollar’s pay.”
Knowing what to do with that dollar is where you move from
hard work to smart work.
Rich people can spend their days playing and relaxing because
they work smart. They understand and use leverage.
They employ other people to work for them and their money
to work for them.
Yes, in my experience, you do have to work hard for your
money. For rich people, however, this is a temporary situation.
For poor people, it’s permanent. Rich people understand that
“you” have to work hard until your “money” works hard
enough to take your place. They understand that the more your
money works, the less you will have to work.
Remember, money is energy. Most people put work energy
in and get money energy out. People who achieve financial
freedom have learned how to substitute their investment of
work energy with other forms of energy. These forms include
other people’s work, business systems at work, or investment
capital at work. Again, first you work hard for money, then
you let money work hard for you.
When it comes to the money game, most people don’t have
a clue as to what it takes to win. What’s your goal? When do
you win the game? Are you shooting for three square meals a
day, $100,000 a year in income, becoming a millionaire,
becoming a multimillionaire? At the Millionaire Mind Intensive
Seminar, the goal of the money game we teach is to “never
have to work again... unless you choose
to,” and that if you work, you work “by choice, not by necessity.”
In other words, the goal is to become “financially free” as
quickly as possible. My definition of financial freedom is
simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to
work or rely on anyone else for money.
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