Are you on the way to anything?

Excuse me, may I poop your party? Thank you. 

We all love to see ourselves involved into intensive processes, having a modern and very up to date attitude, we use modern gadgets and know what to do to reach goals, estimate time to deliver, be a team player, work hard and so on. 

We're on it.

Oh, really? Here's the party poop part. 

Have you ever thought: are you on the way to reach your real goals? Do you often think about your real goals? Do you even have any real goals? I'm not talking about things like becoming a better person or reaching nirvana. All of us want to become a better person. I'm talking about material world.

Let me bring you an example. Would you like to have a villa for $5 million? Of course, you read about billionaires and multimillionaires who buy and sell their villas for $200 mils, yachts for $70 mils etc. You live in illusion, that actually YOU operate that amounts of money. What is $5 mils in the modern world?

Let me show what is $5 mil for YOU, buddy - this time in the real world, not in your imagination.

Simple math, watch my fingers. Let's say, you catch a dream job, where you earn net $10000 a month (after you paid all the taxes). Your life partner also earns something, you pay your bills from her/his salary. You put your $10K on deposit and collect money to buy that villa. It's going to take as “little” as 500 months for you get the money for that villa. 

41 years.

Not that little money anymore, is it?

However, this is also an illusion. Let me break it either. Believe me: it is for your own sake. Is the real estate not going to grow in those 41 years? Can you earn $10K a month after taxes for 41 years? Can you earn $10K a month BEFORE taxes AT ALL? 

See where are you really located? Sorry for breaking your lovely happy-dreams illusion that you’ll reach everything in your life if you are a good team player, work hard, deliver on time, use the recent MacBook Pro and look like a geek.

This all is not enough. 

Was any of the people who reached really significant things in their lives a team player? None of them. Read my lips: N-O-N-E O-F T-H-E-M.

Did anyone of them reach what they reached because they read fancy books how to become a millionaire? None. Trust me on that one.

Did they deliver on time? Oh, please.

Did they do anything the way you do or think you should do to reach to the top? Blind answer: none of that.

Go thru the list of what you do and how you do it and be sure: you do everything wrong. Truth hearts, right? 

Well, you can still keep your MacBook Pro, but the rest will hardly help you reach something real in your life. Well, let me correct myself - you can still get a good retirement program with that attitude you have and move to Florida as you grow old or whatever the elderly people paradise in your country. 

Or maybe you recognise you’re on the wrong way and choose the right way now before the life is behind you? 

Here’s the part, I’m supposed to give you a valuable advice how to make it to the top.

I’ll leave it empty. You find your own way. 

But you need to wake up first.

Good morning. Rise and shine.