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That is a mantra that a mentor spoke to me. I have never forgotten it but I have forgotten who said it. My bad. I am reminded of this mantra because it still applies to me today. I am a big thinker with big goals and I want them now. You may have similar feelings. So how do I manage my impatience? I surround myself with the people and the resources to keep me on track.

Being energetic is great. Energy dissipated in many directions at the same time is not conducive to results. Spinning your wheels is not productive. It may feel like you’re doing a lot of stuff but it’s just being busy for the sake of being busy. This is the difference between someone who lives from pay cheque to pay cheque and someone who is financially independent. I know this because I’ve been-there-done-that.

I am listening to Robert Kiyosaki’s Conspiracy of the Rich and he reminded me what real work is. Real work is 90% mental and 10% physical. The vast majority of people spend 90% of their time in physical labor and 10% or less on mental efforts. I remember the effects of being conditioned in school. Between kindergarten to Grade 7, I was a voracious learner. Between Grade 8 to 12, my enthusiasm lost steam with every year until graduating year I couldn’t wait to get out of school. We have been conditioned to think that thinking is painful and boring instead of pleasurable and exciting.

Knowing this, you can begin the shift. The first step towards change is awareness. And this is why we give ourselves unreasonable goals. We do not take the time to use our mental facility to think through the steps for achieving an unreasonable goal. Remember: thinking is linked to pain. Something you don’t want to do due to all those years of negative conditioning. Ergo, we set ourselves up for fall after fall which only reinforces the other conditioning: to stay in your comfort zone. It’s safer.

Be unreasonable.

My unreasonable goal dated November 25, 2001 was to be a millionaire by November 25, 2010. And I thought giving myself nine years was on the verge of unreasonable but I stretched the possibility that it may be possible. If I had given myself a two year goal to achieve that status, I would have given up or done things to sabotage that goal. And I definitely would not have put much thought in how to achieve it. By giving myself just under a decade, it gave me the breathing room to plan and strategize how to accomplish it. And that was painful work at first. But you work through the pain of having to think and you can create a new conditioning.

Thinking Equals Freedom. True freedom. Huge net worth. Lots of cash flow. Financial independence. Emancipation. Stop being a slave to your conditioning. Be free.