What's Right? What's Wrong?

BEFORE I go into relieving myself of all the thoughts that are welling up in my head, there's a free book that I want you to read. It is a new book that Robert Kiyosaki is currently working on and he wants feedback from readers. http://www.conspiracyoftherich.com/chapter
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I recall my first encounter with Communism.

How I abhor the idea that everyone shares the same amount of wealth no matter how hard you work.

I recall being exhilarated when I read about Adam Smith's invisible hand.

How free market will thrive without having any form of governing.

One is absolute control; the other is freedom in risk of chaos.

It led me to think, who is to say what is right and what is wrong?

As history proved, it is just the matter of which one being more widely accepted and outlasting the other.

Could it be that the subject of money has no right or wrong?

Unlike physics, chemistry, mathematics or even literature, there is no absolution as to how one should view money.

Money is a man-made tool unlike gravity, it creates its own rules.

It does not extinguish with a "pop" like a glowing splint in hydrogen.

Its behavior can only be perceived and proven by time alone. Constant variables produces variable results.

Though mathematics is closest to the subject of money, money sometimes defies 1+1=2.

Input does not necessarily equals to output.

$100,000 X 10 years in a real estate does not equals to $100,000 X 10 years in another real estate.

There is no universal rule with regards to money. Everybody plays by the rule they are comfortable with.

The winners are those with everything thing they want in life.

The losers are whiners who complaint that they don't have enough.

If that is the rule of money, then, the objective of playing the money game is to have as much money as possible without sacrificing pleasure.

With this objective, one can devise the strategy to play the game.

Laws are man-made tools written to govern other man-made tools.

It can be bent, and sometimes broken. It can also be re-written to benefit those who wrote it.

Laws undergo revolution just like dynasties. Revolution do come, but it takes time. Why? Because the rule of money need time to be verified for its effectiveness.

To quote that book, we started off as "cave men" in the Hunter-Gatherer Age, to the Agrarian Age, to Industrial Age and to today's Information Age.

I observe that the time lapse between each revolution gets shorter and shorter.

The theoretical explanation could be, more people are educated, more brains to spot the errors in the rules.

Then it dawned on me that the next revolution could be coming up soon, and my generation could be the ones leading it.

The pattern observed in the revolutions was that, with each age, more and more percentile of the population are getting richer.

The number of rich people multiplied like rabbits over the past centuries.

So the bottom line?

Could it be that there's a way to get rich that still eluded those who aren't rich yet?

If getting rich becomes less and less of a privilege and more and more of a Right, what then?

Would it cause a disaster that is unforeseen?

Or would it finally create an Utopia that was so sorely sought after ever since the dawn of civilization?

What if the new rule now is that everyone can get rich?

What would you do if there is such a rule?

Would you find out more the game?

Or would you resist the change so much until you are eradicated by time?

If so many people are becoming rich, does it necessarily mean that the rules they play by are the blue prints of the next revolution?

It comes back to the question, what is right and what is wrong?

If there is no right and there is no wrong, only the best way to survive. What would you do?

Survival instincts are hardwired? Or is it nurtured by our own experiences?

If the ultimate objective in the game of life is to live the dreams, does your strategy of winning involve becoming rich?

If the ultimate goal is to live the dreams, does what you do to get there matter so much even as it conflicts your right and wrong instincts?

If your right and wrong instincts are nurtured by your experiences, who is there to tell you when you are wrong about your experiences?

What if those who tell you that you are wrong, are wrong themselves?

Who is there to tell them they are wrong?

What determines the right to judge?

Is it safe to say: if you want to get to somewhere, ask direction from those who had been there?

If you want to be rich, ask a rich man how.

Would it come down to a point where there is no longer a need for a right or wrong?

It is just what needs to be done to get you where you want to go.

We play the game of life.

We win when we win.

We lose when we die.

If we don't die, we haven't lose.

If we don't win, we will eventually die and lose.

To win is to live the dreams.

No dream comes free. If its free, its not worthwhile.

Rules are written by someone to win his own game.

Choose to play by his rules or write your own rules.

You only get to play the game of life once.

Wealth Tip #2 Faith

This information is taken from Think And Grow Rich written by Napoleon Hill
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FAITH

Visualization Of And Belief In Attainment Of Desire


Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

The emotions of faith, love, and sex are the most powerful of all the major positive emotions.

When the three are blended, they have the effect of "coloring" the vibration of thought in such a way that it instantly reaches the subconscious mind, where it is changed into its spiritual equivalent, the only form that induces a response from Infinite Intelligence.

The method by which one develops faith, where it does not already exist, is extremely difficult to describe, almost as difficult as it would be to describe the color of red to a blind man who has never seen color, and has nothing with which to compare what you describe to him.

Faith is a state of mind which you may develop at will... because it is a state of mind which develops voluntarily, through application and use...

Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.

Perhaps the meaning may be made clearer through the following explanation as to the way men sometimes become criminals. Stated in the words of a famous criminologist,

"When men first came into contact with crime, they abhor it.

If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it.

If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it."

This is the equivalent of saying that any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is, finally, accepted and acted upon by the subconscious mind, which proceeds to translate that impulse into its physical equivalent, by the most practical procedure available.

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Millions of people live in poverty not because of some strange force that they have no control over is wrecking them.

They are the creators of their own "misfortunes".

I'm sure many of you would have heard this story before:

When an elephant is still a baby, it is tethered by a very thick rope to a stake firmly hammered into the ground.

It tries several times to get free, but lacks the strength to do so.

After a year, the stake and the rope are still strong enough to keep the small elephant tethered, although it continues to try, unsuccessfully, to get free.

After some time, the animal realizes that the rope is too strong and so it gives up.

When it reaches adulthood, the elephant can still remember how, for a long time, it had failed at trying to escape captivity.

At this stage, the elephant can be tethered with a slender thread tied to a broom handle, and it will not attempt to escape to freedom.

Our mind is the only thing that stands between us and success. It can either aid you or stop you. Have faith in your own abilities.

You may have grown strong enough to break the ropes before you know it.

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Discussion Pointers
  • Believing that you can do something is all you need to get started.


  • Do you believe in the laws of attraction which states that if you keep thinking about something, it will come to you?

  • Does having strong thoughts about becoming rich clash with any of your believes? If so, would you mind sharing your believes?



Wealth Tip #1 Desire

This information is taken from Think And Grow Rich written by Napoleon Hill
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Desire


The Starting Point Of All Achievement

A LONG while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield.

He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own.

He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and eqiupment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them.

Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, "You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win - or we perish!"

They won.
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Everyone who wants to win in any undertaking must be wiling to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it

Wishing will not bring riches.

But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches.

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Discussion pointers

  • Would you agree that if "becoming successful and rich is the only way you want your life to become", you will eventually become successful?

  • Would you give up on something more readily if you had better(easier) alternatives even if the results are not what you wanted?

  • It takes a single intense desire for something to start the process of getting it, do you find this absurd?



A New Category - Financial Advice (Disclaimers)

SINCE this is a blog about money, it seems only appropriate to include financial advices to my readers.

So far I have only posted about my thoughts and concepts given to me by many successful people. The advices were vague and hidden inside the paragraphs.

It is time to give more tangible information to help others out there live a less worrying life.

I have to make a disclaimer here. Only a small portion of the information I post will be my own experience until I have made it into the millionaire club. Most of the information will be from books and audios that I listen to.

Use the information at your own discretion.

You can choose to follow them; understand and modify them; or totally ignore them. It is your freedom.

The information I put into this category will be purely informational facts and less of opinions.

They are proven and tested ideologies handed down from ancient civilization which are still practical today.

The source will be provide and you can easily find it for further reading on your own.

I hope to make this category as informational and helpful to you as possible.

The lessons will be condensed and straight forward for easy digesting.

I'm open to discussions, just post your queries or points into my channel box and I will get back to you.

This is just my way of sharing with you, I hope you will like it. =D