Before I get Super Super Rich!

Life before someone gets super rich is an unknown for most of people. This is because very few people really believe it will happen to them. They simply do not believe that, in a time not far far away, they will get super rich.

Fancy this for a while:

Fancy your life, your everyday routines, your mindset, your attitude, friendships, social behaviour, all happening under the utmost certainty, that, one day, sooner than later, you will be super rich. Less than 5% of the general population lives in this condition.

So, let me tell you how it is. After all, I am about to be extremely rich, for sure:

The bits and pieces of everyday life feel different. Hope is different. Perseverance is different. Both winning and losing taste different. Believing, beyond any doubt, that you are about to become super super rich makes life taste different. The only common denominator of all these different tastes of life is … you guessed it … difference!

Lets brake down this unnatural thinking in simple A, B and C:

Here are three reasons about how it all starts:

This obsession, that huge amounts of money is just around the corner, originates from your first childhood experiences. And it is all about wining. It does not matter if you are actually wining or not. But getting what you want from people most of the times (i.e. 90% plus) by confronting, persuading, pressing, manipulating, recruiting them etc. is the forerunner of the obsession at hand.

2. People like you. Like, really like you — a lot!

Money comes out of attraction! People attracting people means actually people doing things together, sharing mutual purposes. The more people you can attract the more money you can make. What really makes someone a millionaire is their ability to attract people in the thousands. What makes someone a billionaire is their ability to attract people in the millions — you get the picture. So, while a child, having 90% success rate at people liking you is another sign that you are all set up to get obsessed with the idea of imminent riches.

3. You are very good at … anything.

Say, for instance, sports: Earning medals in the summer camp is not going to help you being humble. School: High marks are not gonna do the humble business too. Family: Being praised by your parents ten times a day, having to cope with a steady smile of pride and gratitude is another step forward for the riches-to-come mindset.

It was Steve Jobs right? He said: “be different” or sth like that. He said “stay foolish” yes? What a whistleblower! He nailed it with two quotes!

It is all about difference. Interestingly, not money.

Yes! Being a soon-to-be-millionaire has nothing to do with money. Ask yourself this: Isn’t it the simplest thing to say that people who actually make a good deal of money would practically be the ones believing in huge riches to come? Wouldn’t this be the next natural step for them?

Nope.

Actually, people that do make good money will seldom hope to be super rich. This is because they are part of the system early. They have worked through the system, have played by the system’s rules and they make good money. No, these people do not believe they will be super rich soon. And this is because playing by the system’s rules includes minimum risk. No risk, no joy — and they know it. So, being different actually means not doing things the expected way, which, in turn, means taking risks. Which, in turn, means that making good money is not a prerequisite towards filthy riches. In fact, making good money is an obstacle in your certain road to huge fortunes. Be different, means be risky. How many filthy rich people you know that did not take huge risks? Exactly…

People that a) have a good foundation of childhood success and b) do not make good money (see why above) are the ones that believe they are going to make all the fortunes in the world. Oxymoron works here perfectly and the super glue is hope! Have people always liked you? Have you always been the best at everything? Has wining been virtually the only thing you know? That’s exactly where hope has to play a role. That’s exactly where hope has to fill the enormous vacuum. Your are not super super rich — not just yet. In fact, you are not even making good money. And having been the super star in your life movie means one thing: between you and a total personality breakdown lies only hope! The foolish kind of hope!

So, in case you really think you are the chosen one, the one that is about to make ridiculous fortunes, it all comes down to these two trivial options:

OPTION A: The blue pill

By taking the blue pill, you experience everything through a huge magnifying lens of hope! E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g! Lost that deal? Hope for sure the next will be much bigger and make up the loss. Couldn’t buy this new car? Hope for sure that when you are actually going to buy one, it will be a super car. Can’t even pay you bills? Hope for sure that when that huge payment comes you will pay all the bills in one swift move!

It is not about it at all! And, what is believing in yourself, anyway? Only mentally sick people do not believe in themselves.

You are accustomed to wining from childhood, to be really liked and be praised a lot. You are very good at virtually everything you do! You think different and you risk a lot! You belong to the less than 5% of the general population that has actually the skills and the mentality to make huge fortunes! And, now, this very moment, you are somewhere between broke and miserably average — if not in huge dept. Make no mistake: Hope is the only think between you and insanity. Hope is the religion that will save you! Your brain automatically brings up hope at each and every aspect of your everyday life. Lost a deal? Hope! Got fired? Hope! Can’t pay bills? Hope!

OPTION B: The red pill

By taking the red pill, hope ends. When hope ends, you end too. Period.

You can still keep being alive for trivial purposes like supporting your loved ones, be there for your friends, act for the general good and all sorts of things like that. Surprise! You are dead! (btw, yes, that was a FNM homage).

Take the blue pill.

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