Appreciate Your Fortune
A lesson in wealth appreciation and financial enlightenment.
- No stealing
- No pick-pocketing
- No gambling
- No scams or get-rich-quick schemes
- No fraud, deception or any dishonesty
- No cheating people
- No giving away sensitive information, including the teacher or the faculty
- No bodily harm to yourself or others
- No hostile takeovers
- No con artistry or swindling
- No ridiculously high prices or markups when selling your products
- No hype, fluff or filler when selling your products
- No other miscellaneous illegal activity
Based on the severity of the incidents stated above, you will be penalized a number of points for the number of incidents that you’ve racked up. Your normal point score is 1,000. If it reaches zero, your actual wealth in full will be locked up for a year as punishment of your negative actions. All it takes in this financial test is regular, everyday common sense, and abiding by the law for you to be careful. So here’s the scoring system:
- 1,000 – 800: 100% full wealth kept (Great job; really good!)
- 800 – 600: 80% wealth kept (Not bad; Very good!)
- 600 – 400: 50% half wealth kept/taken (Oh come on! You can do better than that! Good)
- 400 – 200: 20% wealth kept (Needs improvement though. Fair)
- 200 – 0: No wealth kept (Game Over; Literally Poor)
This course will take place for one full year on this date, and ends next year on the same day, or on the first weekday of next year. Remember, this is financial survival, and you must do what’s necessary and right to stay alive. Your financial partners will keep me updated on your progress in full detail, and will report back to me once a month. If there are problems, I will help you, but I won’t be there to be asked for money, and I will not, pull you out if you’re in financial jeopardy. You are responsible for your actions, and only you and you alone, the now-formerly rich and wealthy, will decide the outcome and results of your journey of wealth appreciation and enlightenment.”
“The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one’s mind works – also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”
-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
The Camel Trader of Babylon
You see, when someone is starving, people will do anything to survive whether it’s food or money. Starvation and thirst, desperation and frustration, these are the motivators that will cause people to resort to things that will keep them sustained. It’s like that fight or flight instinct that we had ever since our oldest ancestors in the beginning of time. There are other motivators that help heighten the need for living, such as bankruptcy, having empty wallets and/or empty pockets with no money (being broke or poor), the fear of not having money, financial starvation, the fear of being fired, the desire of the good life that one’s missing out on, the greed and gluttony of food and/or finances, all of it. Although they release our dark side and our primal instincts that devolves even the most civilized person, they also reveal or deepest needs and wants for more than just basic survival.
We all want more and more and more, but if you don’t stop and appreciate what you do have, we’ll never have enough, and I do mean never. Appreciation of the good things in life, even personal ones, is one of the true ways on the road to wealth, riches, financial abundance and overall success.
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