Enjoying The Rat Race?
Enjoying The Rat Race?
The fact that you're reading this confirms that you have crossed
the line and have taken an interest in creating wealth for
yourself.
What is the rat race you may ask?
Every morning, you get up and prepare yourself to go to work -
shower, breakfast, get dressed, travel by bus/train or drive
your car, work from nine to five, get home to your family and
have dinner, read the papers or watch the boring old television,
then off to bed till the next morning.
You get two to three weeks holiday leave each year and
occasional overtime work. Every payday you receive your pay for
services rendered to your employer. If you don't like your job
anymore, you find another employer for better pay. Year in, year
out, it's the same routine. You work for somebody else, not for
yourself. You focus your efforts in making somebody else richer.
That is the rat race.
Ask yourself this question: "Do I really like the drudgery of
the everyday mundane routine that I follow just to scrape a
living for myself and line somebody else's pocket?".
I believe you'll agree that as an employee, your world is
confined and limited to certain and specific information only.
You hardly have time for other activities. You cannot diversify.
And the only solution is to go outside this confinement, into
the open, and venture into a wider field.
As an employee, you hardly learn anything new. This limits your
knowledge potential, virtually crippling your mind. Another
disadvantage you get for being an employee is that your income
is limited. An average employee earning an average salary could
hardly put aside a certain amount of money for savings for
future use. Even an above average employee who could put aside
some savings would hardly have enough for retirement use. It is
pointless to compute the savings of below average employees,
they are lucky if they don't get debt-ridden.
The majority of people trapped in this race don't even realize
it until it is too late.They only notice it at times when they
run short of cash for unexpected expenses or when they realize
what will happen to them when they reach retirement age. And
still they forget about it and do nothing to improve their lives.
You must realize the need to get out of the rat race as early as
possible. To achieve this, you need to change your way of
thinking - from thoughts of working as an employee for someone
else, to thoughts of being in control of your own time and
money. This doesn't mean you have to quit your day job right
away. You could spend your free time learning and actually
implementing moneymaking activities while still working as an
employee. Once you're financially secured and have enough
knowledge on acquiring wealth, that's the time to get out of the
rat race and start enjoying your life.
Once you are out of the rat race you continue to work only this
time you work for yourself and not for other people. When you
work for yourself, it does not mean that you're being selfish
you're just being smart. Nobody's going to look after your
financial security except yourself.Better do something about it
now.