Rich
Dad Poor Dad
Robert T.
Kiyosaki
CHAPTER NINE
Getting
Started
I wish I could say acquiring
wealth was easy for me, but it wasn't.
So in response to the question “How do I start?” I offer the thought process I go through on a
day-by-day basis. It really is easy to find great deals. I promise you that. It's just like riding a bike.
After a little wobbling, it's a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it's the determination
to get through the wobbling that's a personal thing.
To find million-dollar “deals of a lifetime” requires us to call on our financial genius. I believe that
each of us has a financial genius within us. The problem is, our financial genius lies asleep,
waiting to be called upon. It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that
the love of money is the root of all evil. It has encouraged us to learn a profession so we can
work for money, but failed to teach us how to have money work for us. It taught us not to worry
about our financial future, our company or the government would take care of us when our
working days are over. However, it is our children, educated in the same school system, who
will end up paying for it. The message is still to work hard, earn money and spend it, and when
we
run short, we can always borrow more.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of the Western world subscribes to the above dogma, simply because
it's easier to find a job and work for money. If you are not one of the masses, I offer you the
following ten steps to awaken your financial genius. I simply offer you the steps I have
personally followed. If you want to follow some of them, great. If you don't, make up your own.
Your financial genius is smart enough to develop its own list.
While in Peru, with a gold miner of 45 years, I asked him how he was so confident about finding
a gold mine.
He replied, “There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.”
And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and in a day come up with four or five
great potential deals, while the average person will go out and find nothing. Even looking in the
same neighborhood. The reason is they have not taken the time to develop their financial
genius.
I offer you the following ten steps as a process to develop your God-given powers. Powers only
you have control over.
1. I NEED A REASON GREATER THAN REALITY: The power of spirit. If you ask most
people if they would like to be rich or financially free, they would say “yes.” But then reality sets
in. The road seems too long with too many hills to climb. It's easier to just work for money and
hand the excess over to your broker. I once met a young woman who had dreams of swimming
for the U.S Olympic team. The reality was, she had to get up every morning at 4 a.m. to swim
for three hours before going to school. She did not party with her friends on Saturday night.
She had to
study and keep her grades up, just like everyone else.
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When I asked her what compelled her with such super-human ambition and sacrifice, she simply
said, “I do it for myself and the people I love. It's love that gets me over the hurdles and
sacrifices.”
A reason or a purpose is a combination of “wants” and “don't wants.” When people ask me
what my reason for wanting to be rich is, it is a combination of deep emotional “wants” and
“don't wants.”
I will list a few. First the “don't wants,” for they create the “wants.” I don't want to work all my
life. I don't want what my parents aspired for, which was job security and a house in the suburbs.
I don't like being an employee. I hated that my dad always missed my football games because he
was so busy working on his career. I hated it when my dad worked hard all his life and the
government took most of what he worked for at his death. He could not even pass on what he
worked so hard for when he died. The rich don't do that. They work hard and pass it on to their
children.
Now the wants. I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be
young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want
money to work for me.
Those are my deep-seated, emotional reasons. What are yours? If they are not strong enough,
then the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasons. I have lost money and
been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and
going forward. I wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 4? with many learning
experiences along the way.
As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong
reason
or purpose, anything in life is hard.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STRONG REASON, THERE IS NO SENSE READING FURTHER.
IT WILL SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH WORK.
2. I CHOOSE DAILY: The power of choice. That is the main reason people want to live in a
free country. We want the power to choose.
Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future to be
rich, poor or middle class. Our spending habits reflect who we are. Poor people simply have
poor spending habits.
The benefit I had as a boy was that I loved playing Monopoly constantly. Nobody told me
Monopoly was only for kids, so I just kept playing the game as an adult. I also had a rich dad
who pointed out to me the difference between an asset and a liability. So a long time ago, as a
little boy, I chose to be rich, and I knew that all I had to do was learn to acquire assets, real
assets. My best friend, Mike, had an asset column handed to him, but he still had to choose to
learn to keep it. Many rich families lose their assets in the next generation simply because there
was no one trained to be a good steward over their assets.
Most people choose not to be rich. For 90 percent of the population, being rich is “too much of
a hassle.” So they invent sayings that go, “I'm not interested in money.” Or “I'll never be rich.”
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