How Anyone Can Build a pipeline Of

Your Choices 
= Frustration
= Freedom
The Ballad of the Ball Player 
Let’s begin with the tale of the famous baseball 
player. Over the years, this talented athlete has 
made some bad choices, both personally and 
financially. 
His personal choices have led to a broken marriage, 
alcohol abuse, and drug addiction. That’s bad 
enough. But his financial choices have been just as 
bad, for he’s also broke. I’m sure you’ve heard of 
this athlete. He’s been in the spotlight for almost 20 
years now. 
His name is Darryl Strawberry. His story is a 
cautionary tale for what you should NOT do in 
order to achieve financial freedom. 
Darryl Strawberry has been playing professional 
baseball for almost half of his life. The 38-year-old 
outfielder broke into the major leagues when he was 

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still a teenager and was immediately hailed as the 
“next Ted Williams.” 
Strawberry has made a fortune during his career – 
somewhere between $2 and $5 million a year. And 
that’s just from playing baseball. Add another 
couple million a year from endorsements, personal 
appearances, speeches, and autograph signings, and 
he’s earned $50 to $100 million before his 40
th
birthday. 
Strawberries Don’t Field Forever 
A guy making that kind of money ahs to be set for 
life, right? 
Wrong. 
According to a local newspaper report, “Strawberry 
has no income or savings to support his current 
wife, Charisse, and their three children…” 
$100 million and not a thing to show for it. 
What happened? 
He spent it. 
Expensive houses. Expensive cars. Expensive 
lawyers to defend his run-ins with the law.
Expensive divorce. Expensive drug and alcohol 
rehabilitation clinics. 
As I write this, Strawberry has been suspended from 
playing baseball. Which means he has no income 
coming in. the only thing still coming in are the 
bills. And they come in day after day, month after 
month, as steady as the rain in a monsoon. 

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