My Recipe

I started writing this entry probably over a month ago. I was driving home from somewhere (I don’t even remember). I was so excited to get home and blog about My Recipe and such. I got home and started writing this. Then an email popped up and I got distracted. But I’m back to my ”My Recipe” entry now! I guess I’m just in a blogging mood. Lol! 

Okey dokey, I’m gonna take this opportunity to share with the world a valuable insight to the way my brain works and the way I communicate with my own self (which is what this blog is about). The way I motivate myself. I suppose that this entry will be quite lengthy. But don’t nestle in for a nice long read because you probably will get fed up with this entry before I’m done. This post can be summed up by one word: “opinionated and abrasive”. So if anything, you might want to get the Rolaids.

All right people. This entry really amounts to nothing. Know why? Because I’m not trying to start a religion with my blog. My blog is for me. My thoughts are for me. I made this thing public because I enjoy knowing that people can find out what I really think if they care to know. What does that do for me? It makes sure that I don’t go around acting like somebody I’m not. As I develop relationships with people I could put on an act. But I’ll be a bit more genuine if I know people can find out the “real” me when they hear about my blog from somebody.

So what does that have to do with “My Recipe?” Nothing it was basically a disclaimer. And, no, nobody said anything about my blog or about being offended by it or anything like that at all. I’m just writing this because I want to get it down in bits and bytes for the record.

So here’s My Recipe. My own personal recipe for navigating this world from birth to death. Note that I said that this is “MY” Recipe. I realize that this recipe suites my tastes. It probably doesn’t suit yours. Has anybody ever told you that it is wrong to not like the taste of some food? No. Think about it, “It’s a sin to not like chocolate.” How absurd. The thoughts in my blog are My Recipe. I don’t expect you to like my recipe. Nor do I think you are somehow stupid or dumb or making a mistake if you don’t follow My Recipe. My Recipe is for me.

So where am I getting the ingredients for My Recipe? I figure that if I want to be successful I need to learn from people who have been successful. So I’m seeking out people that are good at what I’m trying to do.

What am I trying to do? I’m not going to lie or cover it up at all. I’m trying to make millions and millions and millions. I’m talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Some day I will hear about a CEO of some company getting a rediculous salary of $5 million and I’ll just smile to myself because that’s how much I made in the last month. Who in the world has dreams this big? Me. Why? Because people do it. Yes, it’s rare. But there’s no reason I can’t do this.

I’ve already taken some necessary steps to make sure I am on a path that can lead me to my goal. I quit my corporate job. That was the most important thing I’ve done since I graduated from highschool. I’ve taken two crucial courses (at my own expense) in the last couple of months. A Real Estate course and a Stock Market investing course. Who are the 3 most notable richest people alive today? Let’s see, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump. What are their fields of expertse? Software, Stock Market Invsting and Real Estate.

And what are the 3 things I’m focusing on now? Software, Stock Market Invsting and Real Estate. You got it! Every wonder why I picked them? Because there are a lot of people who make millions in each. There aren’t really other fields where a true mint is being made these days. I want in on the millions. “The journey of a million miles starts with the first step.” Well my motto right now can be summed up by a similar statement. That statement is:

“The journey of a hundred million dollars begins with the first step.”

I am in training right now. I am learning what is out there. I may decide that Real Estate is not for me. Or that Software isn’t for me either. Or I may find a unique way to combine all 3 to form something powerful. Who knows how it will all pan out. But you’ve got to start somewhere.

I am also building a mentality. A rich person’s mentality. Why? Because I have to know what to do with money once I have it. The funny thing is that I am really working off of something I’ve had since I was a kid. My dad always used to say, “You’ve got wine taste and a beer budget.” And he was right. Someone recently also said, “Your way of looking at life is out of sync with your surroundings.” He’s totally right also.

Right now I think like somebody to whom money is no object. Yet my surroundings indicate that I am not made of money. In fact, I am not rich right now. But I totally understand that. I know that I’m “In launch mode” like a freind recently told me. I’m not in orbit yet. But at least I’m not sitting on the launch pad simply thinking about outer space. Or like other people who haven’t even built their rocket or even thought that they could even make it to outer space. No folks, I’m in my rocket, the flames are propelling me upwards.

Each of the past few months since I left the corporate world has taken me to a whole new level. It’s amazing. My goal is for that effect not to just to continue, but to compound. Each month gets it’s power added to the past months. Every month I can do more and make more $$$ than I could last month. I want to have record breaking months every month till I’m making a hundred million a year. Then I’ll put my rocket on auto-pilot.

So all of that is out of the way now. Here are the details of My Recipe. It’s actually quite simple.

The highest priority is learning to be a successful Stock Trader. This is the most important simply because it is “scalable”. When I learn the ropes I can do the same trade with $1,000 or with $10,000,000 and the technique is the same. Eventually this technique will become second-nature to me. In addition, I can trade stocks from anywhere in the world. There’s also the beauty of it being a simple one-man operation. Software and Real Estate both require cooperation with other people to make money.  The final and most compelling one is that I can make money in bear as well as bull markets. Secure, comfortable and exciting are some words that sum up what it’s like to be an expert in this field. Learning to be a successful trader is the foundation for my other pillars of success.

So that being said, my next priority is Real Estate. This is because I want to have the inside track on the most beautiful/valuable property that I can invest in. Investing in Real Estate is a great instrument for storing your wealth. There’s also another reason. Based on research I’ve done, the USA is headed toward a 20 year or so depression. It won’t be sudden like in 1929. It will be gradual, starting around the 2016 timeframe. During this time Real Estate will become very cheap. I want to “know the ropes” so I can be right on top of these great investment opportunities when they become common. Most people will be flat broke and struggling just to keep their head above water during this time. The people with the money will be able to have almost anything they want at a realtively inexpensive price. I want to be in position to be on the good side of that.

The third ingredient of My Recipe is Software Development. The main reason is simple. It’s how I am currently making good money. It is a field that I have become an expert in. I’m specialized in this field. If the stock market disappears and the USA turns into a Communist country where the government owns all property I’ll still be able to make good money with my software skills. Software is also a good way to lock in recurring income. If I’m able to capture a niche market or two with an e-commerce website of some sort that is money that keeps rolling in without me having to do much. I just hire some employees to maintain the biz and everything keeps running.

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Okay, by now any normal christian person is thinking something along these lines, “Well . . . he sure thinks he’s invincible, doesn’t he? We’ll see what happens when the Lord decides he needs some humility and sends something his way that he doesn’t exepct. Then he’ll be in the same boat as all the rest of us. You know, there’s a reason that most people don’t think like that. It’s because it’s arrogant and unrealistic. You should have faith instead. Just trust the Lord. Let the Lord bless you. Don’t try to do everything your way. Like Cain in Genesis. He’s trying to use ‘the arm of the flesh’ to get what he wants. I won’t be a bit surprised if the Lord knocks him back on his butt at some point.”

Ahhhh, yep. I’ve dealt with this for years now. I don’t believe that the Lord is evil and is only looking for reasons to punish his children. “Look at that flat broke christian family with every sort of problem you can think of. The Lord must love them because he’s putting them through all those trials.” WHAT!!!! The first blessing he gave every human is also the most important one. YOUR BRAIN!!!

And I think he wants us to use it. The answer to most of the problems we encounter in life can be solved by simply taking a second or two to use OUR OWN BRAIN. There’s nothing “arm of the flesh” about that. God gave our brain to us to help us. After all we wouldn’t be able to read our Bible without it. We make dumb mistakes when we don’t use it. We end up in trials when we don’t use it. We never get out of our ruts when we become content to continue not using our brain. Some christians think it’s more virtuous to be a spiritual-vegitable. They are always playing the faith card. They talk about life in such impotent, helpless and pitiful terms. “Having faith” and plain laziness look very much alike these days. It’s too bad. God’s already given them the solution to their problems right between their ears. But they just want help the easy way. They want a blessing to be provided just because they had faith. That’s what I call looking for a holy handout. Or maybe we can call it the Wednesday Night Welfare program.

So I’m taking this brain God’s given me and am trying to use it to the fullest. I’m taking this body of mine and am going to work it hard and get the most out of it.

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Here’s the reason I’m doing all of this. The reason I want to be highly successful. The reason I want security, a comfortable lifestyle, and riches.

It all started in around 9th grade in High School. I realized that I had the same desire that Soloman had. I wanted wisdom more than anything else in the world. No, I didn’t make a promise to God that I’d try to want it. I just wanted it. I liked observing everything I could. I loved asking “why?” I was always trying to figure everything out.

At about this same time I realized that what I wanted was to be the world’s best father. I realized that this is the primary goal of every Christian man. Some guys think that they have to put their ”religion” above their family. I think that is flat wrong and a sin. It’s God, Family then Church. These guys that can barely feed their families but have a big library of theology books absolutely disgust me. They drive around in embarrasing cars. Their kids get made fun of because of their Goodwill clothes. Their wives can’t even afford decent makeup. They spend their time perfecting the art of thinning out powdered milk instead of just figuring out how to make more money. It’s quite absurd if you think about. The effort people go to to make due with what little they have. I’d rather use that same energy to just figure out how to make more money.

Anyway, I want my wife and kids to know that their father/husband takes care of them. That they do not lack for anything because “Daddy” is successful. They don’t have to understand anything about what I do. I just want to know that I take care of my family. This also includes my parents. I hope to be able to take care of them in grand style someday.

These religion-first types (notice I didn’t say God first) that put acting and looking religious before even their family end up dying broke. They saw their parents put in a nursing home with nothing they could do about it. When asked if they could help they always recited the laundry list of problems in their life that left them with no time, energy or money to help. This is NOT what the Lord wants.

I want to be like Abraham. If any of Abraham’s friends or family needed anything they could count on him to help. He always had the means. He was a hard worker. He didn’t just sit in a cave and pray. He used his brain and body that the Lord gave him to literally fight for what he wanted.

And that’s what I’m doing.