Money is not taught in schools.

Schools focus on scholastic and

professional skills, but not on financial skills.

For
example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad
forbade those words to be used. He insisted I say, "How can I afford it?"

He spoke out against

the "entitlement" mentality and how it was creating weak and financially
needy
people. He was emphatic about being financially competent.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial

education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how
money
works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth.

Lesson #1 The Rich Don't Work for Money

Lesson #2 Why Teach Financial Literacy?
Lesson #3 Mind Your own Business
Lesson #4 The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations
Lesson #5 The Rich Invent Money
Lesson #6 Work to Learn Don't Work for Money

Most
of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around.
Each
push is life saying, `Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.

Deep down you were terrified of taking risks.

You really wanted to win, but the fear of losing was greater than the
excitement
of winning. Deep inside, you and only you will know you didn't go for it. You
chose to play it safe."

I have more than 150 employees, and not one of them has asked me
what I know about money. They ask me for a job and a paycheck, but never to
teach them about money. So most will spend the best years of their lives
working
for money, not really understanding what it is they are working for."

The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills, get up, go to work, pay
bills... Their lives are then run forever by two emotions, fear and greed.
Offer
them more money, and they continue the cycle by also increasing their
spending.
This is what I call the Rat Race.

Let me finish the other emotion, which is desire. Some

call it greed, but I prefer desire. It is perfectly normal to desire
something
better, prettier, more fun or exciting. So people also work for money because
of
desire. They desire money for the joy they think it can buy. But the joy that
money brings is often short lived, and they soon need more money for more
joy,
more pleasure, more comfort, more security. So they keep working, thinking
money
will soothe their souls that is troubled by fear and desire. But money cannot
do
that."

The avoidance of money is just

as psychotic as being attached to money\

A job is
really a short-term solution to a long-term problem."