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A Bigger Bucket Won’t Solve the Problem
Everybody would love to increase the size of their
bucket. No one’s going to turn down an annual
raise or a better job with more pay.
If bucket
carrying is your only source of income, they I say
carry the biggest bucket you can. That’s only
common sense.
But the fact remains that carrying buckets is never
going to make you financially free.
Carrying
buckets will never make your family safe and
secure – no matter how big your buckets!
Why?
Because as long as you carry buckets, you have to
show up and do the work in order to get paid. The
day
you stop carrying buckets, that’s the day the
money stops coming in!
Illness or Injury
Layoffs
Retirement
Man’s bucket carrier has gone from the “millionaire
next door” to the “bankrupt guy next door” because
he neglected to build pipelines while he was
carrying buckets.
When his bucket dried up, so did
his lifestyle.
“Pipelines are your lifelines,” my father used to say.
Are you beginning to see why?
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LESSON THREE
The Power of the Pipeline
T
his is the tale of two polar opposites – a big-time
baseball player and a small town elementary school
teacher.
They couldn’t be more different – one was a young
man and one was an elderly woman. One was paid
millions a year and
the other never earned more
than $!0,000. One lived his life in the spotlight.
The other lived her life in a small town in
Massachusetts.
But these were only small differences compared to
the personal and financial choices each made. You
see, one of the people you’re going to read about
built pipelines and retired a multi-millionaire. The
But Pablo was not easily discouraged. He
patiently explained
his pipeline plan to his
best friend. Pablo would work part of the
day carrying buckets and then part of the day
and weekends building his pipeline.
He knew it would be hard work digging a
ditch in the rocky soil. He also knew it
would
take a year, possibly two, before his
pipeline would start to pay big dividends.
But Pablo believed in his dream, and he went
to work.
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The Parable of the Pipeline
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other stayed a bucket
carrier and, as I write this, is
teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The stories are about two very different people, but
that’s not what’s important. What’s important is the
choices they made and the lessons you can learn
from those choices.
After you hear these two tales,
it should be crystal clear why building pipelines is
the only way to create true security and true
financial freedom.
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