Keep Going

Money is a beautiful thing.  When I think about money, I dream about all of the things money will get me in the future.  Probably the most comforting thought about a large amount of money is the eradication of scarcity.  Scarcity is a pestilence that plagues you when you don't have resources, and it is a symptom or corollary of powerlessness.  

Scarcity applies to many concepts, perhaps most notably:  money and women.

Scarcity applies to money in the following way.  Suppose you only have $100.  Spending $50 of that $100 represents a big chunk of your money.  However, if you have $10,000, spending $50 hurts a lot less.  The more zeroes you add on to the total number, the less and less that $50 hurts, until you can spend $50 with barely even feeling it.  The difference between feeling it all (with a total net worth of $50), and feeling it at $50,000,000 is massive.  .0000001% pain compared to 100% pain.  Numbers don't lie.  

The same concept applies to women.  If you have one woman in your life, every little thing she does could potentially upset you.  If she's posting pics of herself on social media for dudes to gawk and jerk off, shamelessly courting attention (typical 21st century bullshit that makes monogamy a retarded notion) talking to dudes behind your back, posing in pictures with them, riding around in their cars, etc... that is definitely enough and plenty to piss you off and make life pretty miserable.  Imagine taking your girl on a special trip or a date and she's sharing all that with other dudes via social media.  Imagine if you get married and the hoe just up and says "I want you out of my life."  What then?

And yet, the opposite is true with money.  When you're the one with money, you're the other guy.  The tables shift from you worrying about your disloyal hoe flirting with other dudes, and you become the guy that other guys are worried about.  Instead of you asking "hey, who's texting you..." it's the other way around.  Because money attracts hoes like flies on shit, you'll be too distracted by all the hoes to be at all worried about all of em'.

Just keep going, and you'll get to that point. 

Fair weather fans versus REAL fans

Fair Weather fans versus REAL fans

As an entrepreneur, I believe you need fans, people who will root for you, believe in your ideas, believe in the greatness of your idea, always there to listen, understand and positively critique your ideas. These are REAL fans, people who are there for you in the good times and the bad.

Contrast this with fair weather fans. Fair weather fans are basically the people-version of fool's gold. A fair weather fan supports you in the moment, yet the second they are angry, they “stop” supporting you. Real life, real mature people don't work like this. You can't live your life in a rational way if you can't rely on the support and alleged foundation beneath you.  If the foundation crumbles and falls away every single time you actually need it, then it's not really a foundation at all.  This is one reason why relying on people, as a rule, is not a very intelligent way to live life. 

A fair weather fan reveals him or herself as a fair weather fan – instead of a REAL fan – in moments of emotion. You miss a shot or fumble the ball, and they start shouting obscenities, shouting for you to get off the field. They jeer your and mock you when you lose. They sing your praises when you win, and call for your downfall when you fail.

It is difficult to tell the difference between fair weather fans and REAL fans, because fair weather fans are great actors. They can fake the sincerity and legitimacy of a REAL fan, but their true colors are typically revealed, in the cavalier and flippant way they treat you when it suits them, and in the heat and nastiness of their words when they are angry.  True support and real fans do not behave like this.  When you discover that you are dealing with fake fans - and not receiving the real support you deserve - take advantage of every opportunity to reach out and find real support.  The difference - in its emotional affect on you - is profound.  It can be something as simple as finding an intellectual equal who can understand you, or just a warm and friendly person to fill the void that the phony fan left.

The ultimate key is to feel absolutely no shame or remorse when you are finally in a position to turn the tables and eradicate/free yourself from the negative voices and unsupportive characters in your life.  Your fake fans feel no remorse when turning the tables on you, filling your ears with negative words and weighing your soul down with unproductive, negative energy.  Thus, when you find the solution, embrace them fully, and watch the power of the fair weather fan fade.  After all, they are only powerful to the extend that you give them power.  So give them none.

This probably applies most relevantly to gifts and allowing fans to share in the success of your ventures.  In my experience, people are profoundly ungrateful.  They do not respect gifts at all, and giving someone a gift is absolutely no guarantee that they will respect you or even treat you with decency.  In fact, the the opposite seems true.  Fortunately, I learned this lesson before I ever spent even $10,000 on someone!  My first reaction, when I realized just how ineffective getting a gift for someone is, was to never get anyone a gift again.  Yet, a potential strategy to offset this would be to buy gifts for more people... just to see what would happen.  I will never buy someone anything worth that amount of money, no matter how rich I get.  

Money over everything is a mindset, and a way of life.  Money is not cavalier or flippant.  Money is 100% loyal.  If you respect money, money respects you.  

Look in the Mirror

You ever just look in the mirror and say to yourself:

Damn, brother.  You did it.  You did it, despite these doubtin' ass bitches.  You did it, without the love from so-called loved-ones.  You did it all on your own.  You did it, even when they told you that it couldn't be done.  You did it even when they called you a loser.  You did it even when they tried to point out that you haven't accomplished your goal yet, that those running in the rat race were momentarily ahead of you.  You did it, even though they tried to comment and pass judgement on your sales abilities, your sales partnerships and even your clients.  You did it, even though they called you a liar, and didn't go nearly out of there way like they should've to get you deals.  All those contractors they get deals, and no deals for you?  Damn, brother.  You did it, despite these doubtin' ass, unhelpful bitches.

Fuck that stupid ass old man and you fools who listened

There once was a young man and an old man. The young man worked in big industry, while the old man was a former military man. The young man focused all of his time and energy studying big industry and utilities. The old man believed in conspiracy theories, thoughtless notions for which there was no evidence. But the young man had incredible insight, a product of his persistence and determination. Some of the most angering times were when fools and idiots – the perfect sort of audience for the the old man – listened to his “wisdom” instead of the young man, whose real insight and discoveries were actually meant to change the world. As the young man began to change the world, he began to obtain followers, many more followers than the old man could ever dream of. 

These fools had no ability to even recognize genius. If thoughts were music, they would clap and cheer for a random collection of non-rhythmically played notes with equal appreciation and excitement (or much less so!!) that they would for a true work of musical genius. At night, this reality tormented the young man. He found it difficult to sleep, and often felt nearly paralyzed by all of the rage. But he kept going.

The young man made himself promises.  He would get big.  He would blow up.  He would change the world and change industry.  He would affect markets on a national or even global basis.  He would actually cause the change that the old man only talked about.  He would win through action.  He would have to walk through the valley of doubt and death, but he would win, and the triumph would be as sweet as the struggle was bitter.  Success truly would be his revenge.  Revenge would come in the form of all the attention and appreciation that his success would bring him.  

Not just his financial success (and he was all to familiar with how easily people are swayed by money), but also the intellectual greatness (that which the old man did not possess, but was believed to!) to accomplish success, to make the picture in his head (the old man shut up, hopefully silenced by mother nature to allow the new fresh blood to come in) a reality.  He would be honored and praised for making his dream come true, and part of his dream was this very thing:  to be known for an actual real-world accomplishment.  It was the old man's fakeness and unsupportable claims that he found so angering, and the depth with which these idiotic ramblings infatuated and fascinated the fools you listened.  On occassion, they would even interrupt the young man's work and thoughts to talk about this utter fucking nonsense.  

But the young man kept going.

This an example of reality making the final determination of glory. Although it made the young man sick to have to endure the fools in his face blathering about the old man's nonsense, the young man persisted through these times – he continued to the swim through the bog of unrecognized genius – and eventually won. Now, the tables are reversed. The old man is dead, and no one will remember his cockamamie, half-insane ideas. And the crazy genius, whose intellect is just as crazy as the old man's ideas were ridiculous... changed the world and is remembered by history. Cesare Borgia would approve.

Change reality

The best possible position to be in when faced with having to accept a bad situation or be around negative and un supportive people is to distance yourself from them as much as possible during the day. If they have to go to work or school, that is probably the ideal – or vice versa. This way, the negative person has limited affect on you. The key is to make sure that your days are very productive. The more productive your days are, the fewer days you have to spend in hell.

Making money equals freedom. Freedom equals happiness. Therefore, money equals happiness.

Money can free you from almost any unpleasant situation. Money can free you from negative, unsupportive, non-entrepreneurs who think like rats in the matrix maze instead of business people.

A case of the Mondays

First post

When you are constantly waking into a situation that you want nothing more to change your motivation to alter reality is at its highest. This is perhaps why people who come from extremely unfavorable circumstances are often those who reach the absolute heights of success. The situation could be one of infinite unpleasantness, or at least an infinite options of the type of unpleasantness!

Power

I kept going, and I keep going.

Sometimes, it is a blessing if you are forced to engage the opposite of your beliefs.  It helps sharpen your resolve.  It helps define what - specifically - you hate.

I usually get on this blog to pour out my rage, to get it out of my system so I can get on with life.

Some pretty crazy things are going on, and getting ready to happen.  I wonder if they would be happening like this if I hadn't been forced (or... forced myself?) into situations where I felt emotions.

It's interesting to observe situations with an objective eye, after the emotion has waned.  The metal of a sword is hot when it is molded, yet it is cold as ice when it cuts through the enemies flesh.  This, I think, is a proper metaphor for anger and rage.  So often, a war starts, a battle breaks out, we begin to hold some sort of grudge, over a particular event - or series of events (an insult, hurt feelings, damaged ego, sense of betrayal) - and this one thing is what causes the battle to break out.  Someone was offended, and that person was the wrong person to offend.  Something like that.

And I wonder, is this wise?  Should such aggressive responses be necessary.