Do you want to make money fast? Do you want to get rich in the next few years? I’ve argued that over the next several years, you’re going to have to make a decision about whether you want to be rich or poor…that the middle class is gone, and we just don’t realize it yet. I’d love to be wrong about this, and I will be more than happy to eat my words if I’m proven wrong, but I don’t think I’m wrong… Be that as it may, you have a choice regardless…do you want to be rich or not, fool? If the answer is yes, look at a couple of interesting facts about money.
1. The tried and true advice we always hear about getting rich is to do it slowly. Save a portion of your money, invest prudently. Diversify, live frugally, and wait.
2. Most rich people simply don’t live this way. The Millionaire Next Door even promotes the “tried and true” slow method of getting rich, but within that same book it describes over and over that rich people make money quite quickly. The average millionaire in America makes over $600k per year. What’s slow about that? That seems fairly swift to me. I’ve seen swifter, but $600k per year is not too bad 
Everyone has the same amount of time in the day, yet some people have the capacity to make $8 an hour, while others (who are not necessarily more bright or talented) earn $800 an hour or more. One thing is for sure, the $800 an hour guy is not working a hundred times harder. He’s also not working a hundred times longer.
My point for this post is simple. I want to challenge the basic mentality most of us work from when it comes to making money. Getting rich fast is not some pipe dream. It’s in fact the best way to get rich. If you wait until you’re retired to be financially free, you effectively spend the entire front end of your life waiting to be rich. Waiting to be rich is not being rich. Pushing your goals out into the distant future also makes it easier to settle for less than you’re worth in the meantime. How is that a good thing?
Making money fast is not only possible, it’s the unavoidable result of applying solid leverage to your business. And we have tools at our disposal today that make this easier than ever. Basically what I’m saying is that whatever your dreams are, you can have them.
What are you doing today to make your dreams come true today, not in some distant time in the future?
I like this quote: “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” –George Bernard Shaw
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