Getting Started Motivation | Rich Dad Poor Dad

“There is gold everywhere.

Most people are not trained to see it.”

I wish I could say acquiring wealth was easy for me, but it wasn’t.

So, in response to the question “How do I start?” I offer the thought

process I go through on a day-to-day basis. It really is easy to find

great deals. I promise you that. It’s just like riding a bike. After a little

wobbling, it’s a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it takes

determination to get through the wobbling. That’s a personal thing.

To find million-dollar “deals of a lifetime” requires us to call on our

financial genius. I believe that each of us has a financial genius within us.

 

The problem is that our financial genius lies asleep, waiting to be called

upon. It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that

the love of money is the root of all evil. It has encouraged us to learn a

profession so we can work for money, but failed to teach us how to have

money work for us. It taught us not to worry about our financial future

because our company or the government would take care of us when

our working days are over. However, it is our children, educated in the

same school system, who will end up paying for this absence of financial

education. The message is still to work hard, earn money, and spend it,

and when we run short, we can always borrow more.

 

Unfortunately, 90 percent of the Western world subscribes to the

above dogma, simply because it’s easier to find a job and work for

money. If you are not one of the masses,

I have personally followed. If you want to follow some of them, great.

If you don’t, make up your own. Your financial genius is smart enough

to develop its own list.

While in Peru, I asked a gold miner of 45 years how he was so

confident about finding a gold mine. He replied, “There is gold

everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.”

And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and

in a day come up with four or five great potential deals, while the

average person will go out and find nothing, even looking in the same

neighborhood. The reason is that they have not taken the time to

develop their financial genius.