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Up-to-Date Info Here... It's been a tough day to be a Rich Dad loving geek!
First, I got this email [see below] then, while checking my logs I found
this comment on a story which says some guy removed me from his blogroll because I called myself a "Rich Dad loving geek"...uh, why did he add my site in the first place I wonder, since I've always used that tag line.
I mean I don't post very often, I don't really know anything, I'm not very original and my site's design is kind of stale...all these would be good reasons to de-blogroll me, but because I'm a fan of Robert Kiyosaki...that seems kind of silly to me.
I don't really feel any need to defend Robert Kiyosaki...I'm sure he's heard it all before. As for me, all I can say is that I deeply appreciate what I learned from his books. I understand what his is trying to teach and I have applied it with great success to my financial and business affairs.
I also understand that his teachings are not for everyone. Most people are not willing to take full responsibility for their place in life because that would be, in most cases, too uncomfortable. From Robert Kiyosaki's words I have been able to come to an understanding of the patterns in my mind that have kept me from creating wealth and enjoying
money in my life.
I've seen my financial life transform dramatically as a result of the work I've done to apply Rich Dad's ideas. Personally, I will read any book and learn from it. I believe there is at least some truth in everything and having a mind that focuses on finding and applying that grain of truth, is far more important to me than anything else.
It is a person's way that has the real value in life and criticizing and ridiculing is just a waste to me. If you really find someone's words worthy of attacking and fighting against, then a much more productive response would be to examine why those thoughts are offensive to you. Thoughts and ideas are completely neutral, it is us that make them "worthy" or "worthless" and it is nothing more than the orientation of one's heart that turns cluelessness into riches, or riches into misery.
Reader Email:
I came across your site while searching for more information on Robert Kiyosaki. You seem to be very passionate about his writings, etc. I read his Rich Dad book and found it to be an incredible waste of my time. It was drivel, and I'm not alone in that fact. I suggest you do a google search on Robert Kiyosaki and John T. Reed to see the latter's page on Mr. Kiyosaki.
About me; I'm not Rich, but I am happy. Like Mr. Kiyosaki, I'm a merchant-marine academy grad, and also work for XXXXXXX. Unlike him, I don't measure my wealth in dollars and cents. I'm starting to believe that Robert Kiyosaki makes his money, maybe all of his money, by convincing you that his techniques can make you rich, whatever that is.
But, I like your site and it sounds like you are someone who is pursuing his dreams. The world needs more of that. But I think there's got to be more to it than Rolex's, titanium drivers and inside information. I'm not saying turn to god or anything like that... but trust me that more money does not automatically equal more happiness. After making some of the former, I'm choosing to find more of the latter. Hope you do as well.
Good luck.
My reply:
Hi XXXX,
Thanks for the comments; it's always nice to hear someone else's opinion.
To me I've never looked to money for happiness. Happiness comes from a much deeper place than money could possible affect. Money is only good for surface comfort, which in my mind makes its pursuit very worthwhile.
I've never heard Robert Kiyosaki peddling happiness from money, but I have learned a lot from his books and my wealth has gone up as a result of applying his teachings. If you or others think his teachings are a waste of time, that's perfectly fine with me.
A friend of mine said something really wise:
"Money is really worth making, but it is not worth living for."
Take care,
Jon
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Six Figure Blogger? Up-to-Date Info Here... I've finally made my decision to let go of this site, essentially to cut my losses [the most valuable investor's skill by the way] and to get a new domain and set up a shiny new wordpress blog.
The primary reason is the growing sense of limitation with my home made concoction of code. As any software developer knows the most expensive area of an application is maintenance and I've just decided that it's wiser to be writing content and building businesses than spending the time to fix and improve the code behind this site. With so many dedicated people writing cool plug-ins and tools for wordpress, there is no way I can have those type of features and have any time left to write. If I had taken the time I spent just trying to fight comment spam [which is a battle that I have at least temporarily won btw] and used it to write stories I'd probably be retired by now :)
I'm going to leave it online [it makes 5 - 10 $ a day...a good rule on the internet...never take any site down, because you never know when some Google algorithm writer will sneeze and you show up on page one for some prime keyword and cash in big time] and just start over on the new site.
So, forgive me while I get set up on my new home...I'll be posting even less than usual in the next week or two.
I do have a couple little humorous, non financial, links for you to pass the time with while I am busy packing and getting moved:
The first is a very funny, I assume fictional, video called
fear of girls, that makes me really glad I was the kind of geek that was into computers and not
D&D.
And the second one could single handedly ruin the huge online dating industry...imagine you had met the woman of your dreams online...after months of getting to know her, with great anticipation, you set up a face to face rendezvous...only to find out
your fantasy girl was none other than your mama!
Hearing that story is going to do the same for the online dating business that
Jaws did for swimming in the ocean.
Enjoy and see you soon,
Jon
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