You can work hard at your job and make a living or you can work hard on yourself and make a fortune…

-Eric Gutman

It’s common knowledge that getting a good education will land you a job. What’s uncommon knowledge is the hidden secret that self education is the doorway to real prosperity and abundance.

I remember being attracted – while still in my twenties – to a headline I read in a direct response ad placed in a magazine I was reading.  The headline was something like this:

“Most people don’t make any money because they’re  to busy spending all their time trying to earn a living”

The truth of that statement resonated with me and I bought the book “The Lazy Man’s Way To Riches”.  I was working in an automotive assembly plant at the time.

All these years later the truth of that statement has never diminished.  The greatest single reason people fail to live the life they love is because they severely limit how prosperity and wealth flow into their lives. They keep themselves blind to the possibilities.

So they sell the single most important asset they possess:  TIME

The most productive time of their lives is sold off – often at a huge discount – 40 or more hours a week in order to do little more than survive.  And they actually believe that living within the tightly controlled little world their fixed income provides is what life is supposed to be like.

NO IT’S NOT!

Life should be a series of adventures – one dovetailing into the next.  Each a new page or chapter in your book of life. At some point “money” should no longer be the biggest obstacle to “doing what you want – when you want”.

Instead of life being a book of adventure stories – to many people opt for only two or three chapters:

School -  Work – Retirement

Because the work chapter of their lives represents the largest single time period in their lives – many actually put off until retirement – those experiences which would have enriched and transformed their lives – if only they could have experienced them ten or twenty years earlier.

Instead of working on themselves – whatever “ongoing education” they participate in is usually work related – just enough to make sure they can hold onto their job until they can retire.

The greatest gift life has given you is the time you’re alloted to experience it.

If your “year” is measured by the highlights of vacations and time off from work – why not turn your “work” into a vacation.  Make the rest of your life the “highlight of your life”,

Why not begin now to live the best years of your life while you can still fully immerse yourself into the experience?

I mean, you can always get a job.

-Bob