Get Rich Quick – Fact or Fiction?

There’s no doubt that “Get Rich Quick” has got a bad name. I know why, but in my world it’s not justified. After all, who wants to get rich slow? Like any other skill, getting rich quickly is a skill that can be learned. I would go so far as to say that it should be taught at schools and universities.

The reality of course is I’m only kidding myself. It’ll never happen. The regulators and the educators don’t see “get rich quick” as a skill that can be learned, just like being a doctor or a dentist or a chiropractor or a mechanic or a florist, the list is endless. I believe if you can learn to be “qualified” in any particular skill there is no justifiable reason you cannot learn the skill of getting rich fast either.

Over many years I’ve refined the skill of buying, building and selling businesses very quickly at a substantial profit. There’s a list of strategies I apply to this process and when applied and executed correctly produce a VERY predictable result. It’s what I call ‘high probability of success‘. It’s no different to being able to buy and sell shares and buying and selling real estate consistently at a profit. We all know someone who consistently out performs the masses because of a set of skills or a system that they follow.

There’s a finite bunch of skills that I now teach/coach/consult to other business owners and business opportunity seekers, and again the effect of applying these skills could easily fall into the category of “get rich quick”. Here’s the memorable words of Napeleon Hill from his best seller “Think and Grow Rich”…

“When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

The fact is you perform every task to your level of incompetence. The name of the game is to figure out what NEW competencies you need to perfect. Who you should learn them from (mentor) and who you need to surround yourself with in order that you can improve your level of incompetence and ultimately learn the skill of “get rich quick” also. Remember…

the Task Determines the Team.

So how do you get to be really, really, really good at something? There’s an old joke that goes something like this: A tourist lost in Sydney, spots a man carrying a violin case. She stops the man and asks “How do you get to the Sydney Opera House? The man with the violin case replies “Practise Madam; practise, practise, practise!”

I am somewhat amused by the unrealistic expectations of many people who want to be “good” at something literally overnight. I have seen this with people just starting to learn to write ads. They do it twice and get upset when they don’t get results like mine. MY RESULTS ARE BASED ON OVER 30 YEARS of being in business in many diverse industries and personally coaching in over 100 others, to get the high level of success that I do with my advertising. But everything I now do well, I did badly at first! And guess what – everything I still do badly, I do so because …

I never invested anywhere near the same level of focus, determination,

diligent practise and effort I did in those things I now do so well!

There are very, VERY few things we could not master if we seriously set out to do so!

The steps to mastery are NOT shrouded in mystery as so many mistakenly believe! There are NO secrets. But there are ways to accelerate the process and your progress though those steps! Notably, mentoring. Though short of truly phenomenal ability, THERE IS NO WAY TO SKIP THESE STEPS.

Earl Nightingale said “Expert status in anything can be achieved with an hour a day of dedicated work a day, in a year; no more than three!” I think he had it about right!

Best regards

Mal

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