Evolution XXIII

There is no such thing as lucky!

Sometimes we look at people that are in a position of great success in their careers now, doesn't matter if it's a great soccer player, a phenomenal brain surgeon, a great investor in the stock market or a traditional business owner and we think he or she is really lucky.

What we don't see behind is all the hours they put in the doing, in the work it self, we don't see how many hours they work a day, in some cases we can even affirm day and night, maybe 14 to 16 hours a day, Monday to Sunday, and don't forget no HOLIDAYS. 

So there are really people willing to work 16 hours a day?

If you didn't saw yet the movies The Social Network and Jobs it's a good start to have one ideia, there you can understand how Apple and Facebook in this example were started.

Do you think Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and Microsoft just a few examples were created from 9 am to 5 pm from Monday to Friday?

Being a Entrepreneur is a way of life, is not a thing you have on and sometimes you can turn it off.

Even when Entrepreneurs are in vacations somehow they find a way of being connected to their businesses, it's their baby so they need to take care of and even when they don't have direct connection by phone or internet mentally they are thinking how they can serve better their customers, how it's possible to do even more then it's being done now.

This description above doesn't mean is forever, it means specially in the beginning is fundamental be like, is not different like a rocket when is going up in the phase of taking off, it will use the most of the fuel, so is the same with you, you need to be obsess or you will be average, and by the way average people achieve average results.

If you are more into sports like soccer or any another sport for example see the 2 movies that Cristiano Ronaldo has about his life and you will understand how a champion is made of!

Bottom line if you have passion for what you're doing you will be willing to put in the extra hours.

Most of people now live for Friday's night but in most of cases even they will plan better that weekend that is coming then their lives in a short and long term.

It's really interesting to see, what  common people post in social media when everything we see in general looks like there is a dream magical night waiting for them in the weekends the night of Friday and Saturday and then that somehow when Sunday night arrives turns into a nightmare a "oh no tomorrow is another Monday".

 So let's go by Monday.

Nooo today is still just Tuesday.

Come on we are already in the middle of the week today is Wednesday.

UF almost there today is Thursday and...

UPI thank God today is Friday!!!

Sunday night starts all over again.

Don't get me wrong if you just want to have a job it's ok with that nothing against it, after all we need good people also as employees for corporations but if you have a entrepreneur bone you just can't have a job, you even don't support that ideia of being working for someone else dream.

Let's say for example you're a professor, and you love to teach, or you will all your life be a traditional professor, nothing against all the good professors in the world, but if you are a entrepreneur you will create a www.lynda.com for example and don't gonna stay just working for a school.

"The harder I work the luckier I get" perhaps you know this saying and is very accurate.

Nothing is free in this world everything has a price and the more value you provide, the more problems you will solve, more the market place will compensate you, is just simple as that. 

Of course in some situations the timing and the place where we were born can give a little advantage but even like that there is no such thing as lucky!

So for your own good if you make it here so far means you want more from your life so please do a huge favor to yourself, please define what you like, your passion, learn about the subject, become an expert, a professional, define your mission, choose a mentor, invest in yourself, learn and then share with the world and the world will take care of you!

PS: By the way have a great weekend ;)

- JM

Evolution XXII

How to become more productive and achieve more!

The secret to success in all areas of your life it's your MINDSET,
it's your philosophy towards life! 

 

Your mindset is the key to become more productive and achieve more, when good things happen and when bad things happen.

There are people that become really affected, they get really upset when things go wrong and then others uses that to grow, to improve, look at that like a learning experience and you need to have that mindset if you want to achieve more and become more productive.

If you want to be a person like people follow, to join you in your movement, listen to you, is always about your mindset.

All of us had bad things happened, all of us have experiences that maybe aren't the best, maybe we have toxic relationships, but you have to have the mindset that sometimes I win, sometimes I learn and right now if I'm not winning, I'm not having success so I must be learning, must be a lesson to me to learn through this adversities, through this challenges.

My goal, my philosophy is to help other people, because there were people that helped me to understand how to become better, learn skills yes, skills are great, a lot of people want to know the how to, but you never gonna be successful if you don't have the right mindset, the right philosophy. 

So what could be holding you back from becoming more productive and achieve more?

Maybe you look for excuses not possibilities, there's some adventure, some new business, some new project you could create, some movement you could start and you look at the list why it can't be done or why shouldn't be done or you shouldn't do it.

There are a lot of good excuses why Amazon couldn't work, Uber, Airbnb, Apple couldn't work, Steve Jobs would be a failure. It's the way you approach, the mindset, are you looking for the excuses or the possibilities?

Sometimes you buy a faulty premise. There are convention beliefs, foundation beliefs that used to be true, but no longer is and sometimes it was never true. 

If you really want to achieve more find a way to contribute to the lives of others and to serve many.

Serve to many leads to greatness.

Contribution to others leads to a better life.

Become a lifelong learner by reading every single day, listening, watching, attending, having careful with your associations because you become who you hang around and set a budget monthly to your personal development, your personal grow.

Use a consistent method of operation: daily, plan, take a minute and plan your day, a to do list.

Most of people that are not productive haven't prepared themselves sufficiently, so what is the one thing you really want to accomplish and haven't done that yet? And which one of these above is the reason?

Have a great week and create something amazing!

- JM

Evolution XXI

Some things you need to know about MONEY

Money offers FREEDOM and SECURITY!

Money can give you security, pay for your home, provide to your children future, their college fund, your retirement fund so gives you security. 

Money also gives you FREEDOM, gives you freedom of choice, to you live where you wanna live, to drive the kind of car you wanna drive, to visit the kind of places you wanna go to your vacations, to not have a creepy boss, a creepy job you hate, that you go there everyday.

Money is a eco for value produced. The more value you produce, more money you gonna receive. The way to get more money is to simple produce more value.

Rich people will save the world. If you wanna save the whales or if you wanna save the forest the best thing you can do is become wealthy to support those causes that are near and dear to your heart.

Not becoming financial free is an insult to the force that created you. Doesn't matter what you consider that force, if it's natural or spiritual, doesn't matter the label you use because if you don't became healthy, happy and wealthy that is an insult to the force that created you.

Have a great week, go for it, lets do something amazing this week and be FREE!

- JM

Evolution XX

How you grow your WEALTH?

You have to spend less money then you take in every year!

You have to spend less money on your living, on your buyings, mortgage, your transportation, food, cell phone plan, etc, because if you don't you can't grow your wealth, you always be broke which it will be optimistic because more then likely you probably always be in debt.

Most people today spend about 125% of what they are earning. You need to take a percentage and have to put it to work, growing your wealth, power of compounding / power of compound interest.

Decide now to live in X percentage of what you take in every week or every month.

You use that percentage and then use it to invest that percentage in 3 buckets.

Bucket number 1 - Low risk so usually means low return investments but almost all investments in this bucket have no risk at all then it means also low reward.

Bucket number 2 - Moderate risk, moderate return. In this bucket you can have real estate investments, stocks and investment funds.

Bucket number 3 - High risk but also have potential to high return. Mostly new emerging tech stock companies, it means high reward.

Depending of your profile and character you decide the % for every each bucket but never forget that bucket number 1 should have the biggest % because like that can never be lost the principal.

Then decide according your personality if you like more to take risks for example the percentages for buckets number 2 and 3.

Decide today to learn how the money system works that is designed to keep you in dangerous servant.

Have a great weekend and decide to be in GOOD mode ( Get Out Of Debt ).

- JM

Evolution XIX

Why you need to achieve FREEDOM?

True freedom abordes a couple of things: money, material things and relationships!

It is really important that you don't diminish money and material things as part of the reward of becoming free.

Becoming free it allows you to choose, choose about the kind of home you live in, the kind of car you drive, all these cool stuff is FREEDOM.

But it is FREEDOM how you make your day, what time you wake up, wake up when you finish sleeping, doing work that mean something to you, doing things that enhance your life, give value to your life, spending time with the people who are important to you, so there is a lot of freedom with that.

When you achieve FREEDOM you achieve also security, you need to have security, you don't want to be at mercy of some boss that can laid you off, you don't want to be at mercy of some changing in economy or in your industry, you need to have the security knowing your bills are paid, your home is debt free and you can provide to your future.

If you are poor you can not help anyone else because you even can help yourself.

When we are poor we are missing the mark that our Creator, the energy that created us, the force that created us given us.

We supposed to be free, we supposed to be healthy, we supposed to be happy, if you are poor you are placing a burden in other people, in society to meet your need and if you are poor you can't really contribute to society in a full manner. If you are poor you can't help charities, you can't contribute to noble causes, you can't do good work and you can't help others.

There is no shame in being born poor, lots of us born poor, a lot of you reading this born poor, I don't think there is any problem be born in poverty, what is the problem is to stay in poverty, because is an insult to the force that created you, for you to be born in poverty and stay in there, to be born in sickness and stay there, born in unhappiness and stay there, that is an insult to the force that created you, with all the incredible inherited potential that is alive in you and you just only need to uncover.

But also for you can transform yourself like I wrote in the book TRANS4MATION it's up to you! you need to overcome the victim mindset, you have to let go be a victim and you have to transform yourself into being a victor.

You can be a victim or you can be a victor but you can't be both, you have to choose one or another.

How can I know if I'm being a victim? Well if you need to ask yourself that question the answer is probably you are. How do you stop being a victim and transform yourself into a victor? The answer to that question is a simple answer: You decide to.

Don't forget that money doesn't make you happy, material things doesn't make you happy, I agree that material things doesn't buy happiness but money and material things allow you FREEDOM of expression and is that FREEDOM of expression that makes you happy.

The most powerful benefit of you becoming free is who you have to become, is the person you have to become to create FREEDOM.

So have a great week, be amazing and don't forget to be FREE!

- JM

Evolution XVIII

The only FREE cheese is in the mousetrap!

You don't become wealthy winning the lottery or get in inheritance.

Studies reveal that who win the lottery 10 millions, 50 millions or 100 millions, in average 10 years later those same people who won the lottery 10 years ago are broke or even in worst financial situation than before.

So how that is possible?

Someone said if we took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets.

If we want to create wealth we need to create value. Solving problems or add value ( these are the only 2 options we have and it is how wealth is created ).

Or did I fall into entitled mentality, did I think that the world owe me something, the government owe me something, wealthy people owe me something or have I understood how the principles of wealth really work?

No anyone ends up in poverty by mistake and no one becomes a millionaire by accident right?

Someone doesn't become sick by mistake, these are all consequences of patterns, these are consequences of habits. 

We all need to have really good habits:

Here below are some good habits we should have:

a) Living with integrity ( tell the truth, truthful in our relations, truthful with ourselves, doing the right thing because we all know when we are doing the wrong or right thing to do ).

b) Eating healthy, eat for energy, we need to eat for nutrition, eat in a way that fuels our bodies and allow us to do the things we want to do.

c) Self-development, daily self-development, set aside time to read, listen everyday some good nutrition for the mind.

d) Exercise, the human machine, this body, these bodies that we have, that we live in, they work better if we exercise everyday.

e) Practice self-discipline, If we have self-discipline we exercise because we know it is supposed to do like that. If we have self-discipline we eat healthy because we know it is supposed to do like that. If we have self-discipline we do the right thing.

f) Read every day, every successful person reads everyday.

g) Taking action, we do something that takes us closer to our dreams. If we have goals, if we have objectives, dreams to accomplish, we really want to accomplish them, then we really have to take action.

So get up and move forward.

Have a great weekend and just Do life!

- JM

Evolution XVII

Why you need to be free?

Debt is a prison and is best to escape as soon as possible!

To you become free you cannot spend more than you earn. Just as simple like this and you gotta commit on that right now.

To become free you cannot spend more than you take in.

To be free you need to be able to meet your own needs, mean you have to have your shelter, you need to have your food, you need to have your transportation, your medical care, your dental care, your eye care, you should be able to take care of your needs.

You should save at least 10% of your net income every month so you can handle occasional emergencies and if you became unemployed you should have aside enough money in the bank to pay for the expenses at least for 6 months.

To help you the best thing you can do every single month is a financial statement. 

You add all the debts you have ( every credit card, every student loan, every single thing ) put in one side. The other side the assets you have ( certificate deposits, savings accounts, retirement fund ). 

Add up all the debt, add all up the assets and see where you are.

Make more money by doing things you can do to add value and solve problems.

If you wanna to be free you need to create value to something or you solve problems to something and when you create value and solve problems people will give you money.

So like always just do life, be free and have a great weekend!

- JM