Selling, Believing & Achieving The Billion-Dollar Dream
When I was younger, it was always inspiring to read the success story of how people went from having nothing to owning everything. I liked watching marketing pitches that were well scripted, the jingles on TV that sold some particular products with well-crafted stories, it was easier to live in the mirage that life wasn't so hard.
But I was wrong, I have come to believe that transitioning from one stage of life to another teaches us something different about money, the mind is flexible to cultivate money thoughts and ideologies when it hasn't experienced any life-changing financial occurrences.
Our Experiences Are Bendable
When people haven't experienced some mind-bending, or heart-wrenching phenomenon about money, it's easier to tailor their beliefs to what they know, what they've seen online, what they were taught in school, and the opinion they've formed through these theoretical experiences but when they begin to experience life, they'll start to adjust some of these rigid ideologies to create a sort of balance in what they know and they're learning daily.
For example, I know people whose billion-dollar dreams were to get the best grades in school because it automatically qualifies them to get the best job in the country. High-paying jobs, official cars, sweet holidays in the Bahamas, and fat compensations.
It's not all fallacy
.....and isn't to say jobs like this aren't available in Nigeria, but the people who have it keep it in their circle, hoarding it and playing dirty in other to prevent the general public from getting the same opportunity they're enjoying. However, because these people have not studied the terrains they're in, it keeps their goals closer to wishful thinking rather than to reality.
They feel like their plan A is infallible, hence they do not need a plan B. But what I use to tell people is that since no one has the power to see the future, there's still that slight possibility that even foolproof plans might fail.
This is a lesson you'll learn when you've experienced failure and disappointments
even though your plans and arrangements were 100% solid. Now, these people despite their grades found out that it (their grades) couldn't sell them enough, they've realized they ought to build better connections, and they realized they didn't study the system they were in.
They were playing in a field of their thinking that success on paper translates to success in reality. But when they went through the working experience of staying under a nagging boss, a demanding job, they realized that they should have worked to build a secondary life, because while their plans were good, they forget that it might become redundant with time.
Another example is that it's easier for a five-year-old to say they want to be an astronaut. The reason is that they adore being an astronaut, they've virtually lived the dreams in their mind, keying into the success stories without putting the difficulties into perspective.
When they get to let's say 15 years, they might say they want to go into real estate, now the difference in the sudden change is the time, they've attempted the realization of their dreams and found out that they might not even have the Mental fortitude to bring that dream into fruition, dreams are easier to accomplish when they're written on paper because it's hard to envisage the possibilities of failures, the challenges of obstacles and the reality of unforeseen circumstances.
It's easy to build castles from wishful thinking.
One ultimate thing I tell people is that it's easier to make money when they have money and it's harder for them to do so when they don't have. This isn't to say sudden rag-to-riches stories are not true.
Sometimes some of these stories are engineered and stimulated by society to keep people tethered to the idea that it's easy to make money. Sometimes, people forget who they are while trying to build or be successful in life. Some people think they'll suddenly hit the jackpot and become wealthy overnight
Gambling schemes sell these ideologies
we're in a generation where people are hardly conscious of improving themselves gradually, they're keyed into the well-edited videos and ads made by Fintech companies, forgetting that we now live in a world where the people who are already wealthy builds businesses that are meant to take away from people who have very little.
One thing I have come to understand is that while everyone is competing, for the mega accomplishment, there are people who are playing by different and favorable rules. Not everyone is playing by the same rule, hence our timing, experience, and accomplishment will be different, there's nothing as "easy money" in life, irrespective of how our minds might trick us to believe otherwise.
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Where is the easy money? You have to work hard for it and to think your grades can make that money, then it´s deceit unless you are lucky which isn´t rare. The truth is that connection might help some people whereas, those without connection will find themselves in a tight position.
Goals are easier to achieve through mere imagination and thinking which only happens in your thought but in reality, it is not.
This is why, while thinking that your grades would pave way for you into becoming successful overnight, you need a plan B already in action because as one grows up still having that mentality in hand, experiences they go through will change their thinking and realize it is not that easy.
Good grades are magical especially when it finally becomes a key to success. I know a friend who is a programmer, and a student, he mostly pays attention to the programming, more than the school he's actually attending. Because he feels that he would definitely build something tangible firstly. It's more like sticking with what takes care of the bills and I could relate.
I think sometimes, luck is good, and people who have connections would agree. I'm mostly praying for luck these days.
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Your friend believes in skills paving way for him more than grades attained from school. Yes, you are right that good grades are magical when they are only the key to success, but that was in the past and not when things are taking shapes today.
He just have to stick to something that brings food to the table (programming) because he wouldn't want to live on the idea of waiting till he finishes school before using such to work.
Take my school for instance, we went to school, graduated since last year February and haven't still gotten our result, not even statement of results. Now, for someone waiting for that without having plan B or building a skill will suffer 😁😁
I also need luck too. Who doesn't?
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Money makes money is one of the shortcut rules to making money I heavily agree with. Rich people don’t necessarily even need to use their money to make more money. Their status and connections (friends and networks) are enough to get them into positions of good returns.
You’ll find that more often than not, these rich people operate entirely outside the rules that govern money, how it’s made and how it’s spent, and that gives them some edge over the poor and average person. Even though there’s no “easy money”, their status affords them the ability to venture into investments that bring the illusion of it. Passive investments for example, even though not completely easy money, can be seen that way since you’re not doing the work yourself. Problem for the poor is that even with the knowledge of these kinds of investments, they’re still crippled by a lack of money to invest.
It comes easy when the means is there. However, I use to think that having these means or striving to be wealthy in this diabolic and competitive world is not easy as people are no longer playing by the book. I know what you means. Wealth automatically open doors you won't even expect. So many people worship wealthy people, they make affiliation with them and even try not piss them off, we have that in a world where people are competing mentally for resources.
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It comes easy when the means is there. However, I use to think that having these means or striving to be wealthy in this diabolic and competitive world is not easy as people are no longer playing by the book. I know what you means. Wealth automatically open doors you won't even expect. So many people worship wealthy people, they make affiliation with them and even try not piss them off, we have that in a world where people are competing mentally for resources.
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There are different rules for people and it's tough for people to move up in the world. I think it's foolish to only depend on one plan. Not everything will go the way you want it and it's always good to have backup plans.
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Backup plans are great, plus I think we all have the advantage of individualism, where we can discover things for ourselves.
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I Im not mistaken this goes into neural plasticity, the power of molding mindset based on pure science, the power of the mind have no limits, experiences and time could really hurt it, for example when ppl tell a kid not to think they can be an astronaut because its really hard better be a salesman, its true its very hard to become an astronaut not many ppl are, but if that kid lives in an environment of motivation and you teach them there are no limits the possibility of becoming an astronaut might increase, same for having a plan B it goes with experience, been positive and believing there is nothing impossible cant work without been wise too, here is when the plan B comes into play, all this things I mention are very hard to accomplish now days because of the society that we live in, thx for sharing ✌️
Of course, I know that with the right motivational environment, anything is absolutely possible. However, I wrote from the perspective of a Nigerian and how, these things can be really challenging.
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It is not easy to get money without hard work. Even though you were a first class student in school it doesn't determine if you'll be wealthy. You need to hustle to achieve that dream life.