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I'll start off.
My goal (once I earn my first million) - is to NOT have a self absorbed mindset, but that is common between a Poor person and a Billionaire - Keeping my life simple, so I can keep it REAL - Through my father I meet plenty of people who earn 1-30MIL per year, they tend to be 'flashy', they have their MASSIVE houses on the beach, their BMWs, Ferraris, Lambos etc - Also they tend to have this disgusting attitude and mindset of thinking they are superior species. - It saddens me how people get OFF from knowing people are feeling jealous when they see them in their Ferraris etc. - It crushes my heart when I think about how middle class earning, humans feel cheap, weak, inferior in comparison. - I don't understand why literally ALL of my dads millionaire friends are MALEs with their 'trophy wives' - This tends to be a major demographic.
These millionaires ALSO tend to have multiple luxury cars, MULTIPLE luxurious houses in the SAME city (WHY?) - Why not have multiple houses around the globe? Investments into non profit organisations? Just 1 car will do? Do they never feel that all those luxury goods are TOO much for 1 person?
My dad has 1 friend (well, a family friend through my grandparents) who owns a company in a major industry here in Australia - his a billionaire. Drives a 80K LEXUS and Lives in a 500,000$ Home (my own father who makes 99% less then he does drives and lives in 4x the cost more car and home) - this guy only splashes in areas where he gets to experience things with OTHER humans, for example, he owns a private jet - he takes his friends (who aren't big earners at all) on trips to other countries for their birthdays etc. Think about it, if your friend was a billionaire, and you earnt 100K a year, how much MORE would you feel comfortable around them when their personal life luxuries are only slightly better then yours? Yet their luxuries tend to be experienced with you included,. - He's trying to preserve what money takes away, the connection between humans.
I guess he has inspired me to understand the value of modesty and appreciation of whatever I currently have.
This billionaire told me once, "Look at the average household pet dog, he/she is always running a muck, happy. That little creature gets crazy when YOU walk into the room, NOT when you leave it at home all the time with fancy new objects - it doesnt care about the objects, it only cares about YOU. We humans are not that much different."
So many of my friends dislike their parents for one common factor 'never being home' - always at work. (They are the wealthy friends) - When their parents are back home, they are still 'NOT there' - my friend quoted "My Mum just comes home and asks me meaningless questions, she has no time to listen to my problems, my feelings, my hurt - instead, she thinks she's offering me something 10x better, sending me to the best known (expensive) therapist in the city, when we do go on family holidays, I get my own suite/apartment, so I am even more distanced - we eat at restaurants that are so cold, official and lifeless, oh and she is on her phone most the time"
Interesting... this is way too common.
I have one friend, who's parents are incredibly poor. (Have no assets, and is now currently looking for a checkout job at a supermarket) - His mother has a million dollars worth of love for my friend - their relationship blossoms. They don't go on family trips (due to money) but they do go to trips to the local beach which (I've attended one with them) and woahhhh, inspiring love.
Luxurious things only artificially enhance the experience. If there is no foundation of love, something luxurious isn't going to be felt or appreciated. For example, through my photography hobby I have connections with some of New Zealands top private accomodation stays (they call them lodges / estates / retreats) I stayed in this pretty magical villa, which had all the bells and whistles (views of snowy mountains with a turquoise blue lake in front of it, glass windows every morning to watch the sunrise over the mountains - helicopter that picked us up outside our door on the lake, private ice skating ring in the snowy forests, luxury hot tub at midnight sipping $500 bottles of wine under 1,000,000 stars in the night sky with the soft warm glow of our villa in the distance - finishing the night off in one of the softest, biggest, lonely emotion inducing beds I have ever slept in (slept alone in it). - sounds very dreamy right? The first day is always like "WOW I am in heaven" - Funnily enough, by the end of my stay there, I REALLY wanted to get back to my hotel room at the Hilton, I felt depressed, sad, lonely - I wanted to be at that luxury place with OTHERS or someone special, not alone - I remember thinking "Today I have one of many things only large money can get get you in travelling (this place was worth several thousands per day to just stay at, remember I was there FREE on a photography connection) - but I felt really bad.
How am I opening 2016? (My position)
18
No Real Job (No degree, no high school completion)
I have a few startups, which together are making me nearly $1000 a month (am working on it to get to 1K per week, then hopefully something like $300 per day)
$10,000 in MY savings.
45K in Assets (Photography gear, Car, Laptop etc)
Live with my sisters in my parents City home (my parents live in the countryside) (no bills)
Desire to 'travel'
Very few friends - (which is OK for now)
Often feeling alone, lost, stuck - but pulling myself out each time and gradually feeling stronger and stronger.
Goals:
- Earn a weekly income that can support my ultimate goal to go travelling in 2016 to really 'figure out my mind' - trying to understand and find a project that WILL benefit others, that is of value and will be that double edged goldmine for me (helps others, and funds me a lot of money to put back into making other humans experience on this earth just that little bit better)
-Befriend entrepreneurs with similar outlooks on life and goals (basically anyone who isn't greedy and likes to put others first)
-Combat my anxiety and depression (Has held me back SO much)
-Gain acceptance and strength to be the real me (this'll be harder for me then making $1,000,000 is)
Now your turn! Share with me YOUR 2016 goals, mindset, inspiration (or whatever is on your mind for 2016)
My goal (once I earn my first million) - is to NOT have a self absorbed mindset, but that is common between a Poor person and a Billionaire - Keeping my life simple, so I can keep it REAL - Through my father I meet plenty of people who earn 1-30MIL per year, they tend to be 'flashy', they have their MASSIVE houses on the beach, their BMWs, Ferraris, Lambos etc - Also they tend to have this disgusting attitude and mindset of thinking they are superior species. - It saddens me how people get OFF from knowing people are feeling jealous when they see them in their Ferraris etc. - It crushes my heart when I think about how middle class earning, humans feel cheap, weak, inferior in comparison. - I don't understand why literally ALL of my dads millionaire friends are MALEs with their 'trophy wives' - This tends to be a major demographic.
These millionaires ALSO tend to have multiple luxury cars, MULTIPLE luxurious houses in the SAME city (WHY?) - Why not have multiple houses around the globe? Investments into non profit organisations? Just 1 car will do? Do they never feel that all those luxury goods are TOO much for 1 person?
My dad has 1 friend (well, a family friend through my grandparents) who owns a company in a major industry here in Australia - his a billionaire. Drives a 80K LEXUS and Lives in a 500,000$ Home (my own father who makes 99% less then he does drives and lives in 4x the cost more car and home) - this guy only splashes in areas where he gets to experience things with OTHER humans, for example, he owns a private jet - he takes his friends (who aren't big earners at all) on trips to other countries for their birthdays etc. Think about it, if your friend was a billionaire, and you earnt 100K a year, how much MORE would you feel comfortable around them when their personal life luxuries are only slightly better then yours? Yet their luxuries tend to be experienced with you included,. - He's trying to preserve what money takes away, the connection between humans.
I guess he has inspired me to understand the value of modesty and appreciation of whatever I currently have.
This billionaire told me once, "Look at the average household pet dog, he/she is always running a muck, happy. That little creature gets crazy when YOU walk into the room, NOT when you leave it at home all the time with fancy new objects - it doesnt care about the objects, it only cares about YOU. We humans are not that much different."
So many of my friends dislike their parents for one common factor 'never being home' - always at work. (They are the wealthy friends) - When their parents are back home, they are still 'NOT there' - my friend quoted "My Mum just comes home and asks me meaningless questions, she has no time to listen to my problems, my feelings, my hurt - instead, she thinks she's offering me something 10x better, sending me to the best known (expensive) therapist in the city, when we do go on family holidays, I get my own suite/apartment, so I am even more distanced - we eat at restaurants that are so cold, official and lifeless, oh and she is on her phone most the time"
Interesting... this is way too common.
I have one friend, who's parents are incredibly poor. (Have no assets, and is now currently looking for a checkout job at a supermarket) - His mother has a million dollars worth of love for my friend - their relationship blossoms. They don't go on family trips (due to money) but they do go to trips to the local beach which (I've attended one with them) and woahhhh, inspiring love.
Luxurious things only artificially enhance the experience. If there is no foundation of love, something luxurious isn't going to be felt or appreciated. For example, through my photography hobby I have connections with some of New Zealands top private accomodation stays (they call them lodges / estates / retreats) I stayed in this pretty magical villa, which had all the bells and whistles (views of snowy mountains with a turquoise blue lake in front of it, glass windows every morning to watch the sunrise over the mountains - helicopter that picked us up outside our door on the lake, private ice skating ring in the snowy forests, luxury hot tub at midnight sipping $500 bottles of wine under 1,000,000 stars in the night sky with the soft warm glow of our villa in the distance - finishing the night off in one of the softest, biggest, lonely emotion inducing beds I have ever slept in (slept alone in it). - sounds very dreamy right? The first day is always like "WOW I am in heaven" - Funnily enough, by the end of my stay there, I REALLY wanted to get back to my hotel room at the Hilton, I felt depressed, sad, lonely - I wanted to be at that luxury place with OTHERS or someone special, not alone - I remember thinking "Today I have one of many things only large money can get get you in travelling (this place was worth several thousands per day to just stay at, remember I was there FREE on a photography connection) - but I felt really bad.
How am I opening 2016? (My position)
18
No Real Job (No degree, no high school completion)
I have a few startups, which together are making me nearly $1000 a month (am working on it to get to 1K per week, then hopefully something like $300 per day)
$10,000 in MY savings.
45K in Assets (Photography gear, Car, Laptop etc)
Live with my sisters in my parents City home (my parents live in the countryside) (no bills)
Desire to 'travel'
Very few friends - (which is OK for now)
Often feeling alone, lost, stuck - but pulling myself out each time and gradually feeling stronger and stronger.
Goals:
- Earn a weekly income that can support my ultimate goal to go travelling in 2016 to really 'figure out my mind' - trying to understand and find a project that WILL benefit others, that is of value and will be that double edged goldmine for me (helps others, and funds me a lot of money to put back into making other humans experience on this earth just that little bit better)
-Befriend entrepreneurs with similar outlooks on life and goals (basically anyone who isn't greedy and likes to put others first)
-Combat my anxiety and depression (Has held me back SO much)
-Gain acceptance and strength to be the real me (this'll be harder for me then making $1,000,000 is)
Now your turn! Share with me YOUR 2016 goals, mindset, inspiration (or whatever is on your mind for 2016)
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