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I wanna come back to working on my projects. I mean those activities, including watching videos, reading and thinking, which were oriented at making valuable content that can bring an adequate income. It’s hard to reset my brain and focus it on something I’ve despised for all these years. But it’s just a game. I failed playing that game when I was at an early stage of my independent life. I remember I wrote about profit-oriented activities in 2008 right before I got mad. I said then that investing a couple of hours into reading about finances may make me a millionaire in a decade. Fortunately, I found something totally different to read than books about finances. Being a millionaire nowadays is as shameful as it was since the advance of the agricultural revolution. Too much responsibility to place on one’s shoulders, and, as a result, too little time to think about “the real world.” Yet, I’m ready to challenge “my” beliefs to see if those expectations could come true. I’m pretty good at getting things done. My ability to understand English and digest vital information is now at its peak. I’m creative, fast, insightful, ambitious—so why not play that game? Maybe just for fun, maybe as a kind of competitive endeavor with my gf, maybe to acquire new skills and get out of my comfort zone—does it make sense?

Now, the most important thing is to change my mindset, beginning to think about money in a sort of a positive way. Also, being honest about what I’m doing to achieve financial independence is priority number one. If I write about it every day and count all my activities, if I have enough passion for necessary action—what possibly could go wrong? The question is how to build a certain set of habits and sustain it in the long run?

Business project from scratch.
A step-by-step guide of shifting from a philosophical to an entrepreneur’s mindset.
Goals: to create online business with an income over 10,000$ per year.
Actions: Getting information and figuring out what exactly am I supposed to do.

1. Watching “7 Finance Books That Changed My Life” by Marko-WhiteBoard Finance. Here are the books: The Richest Man in Babylon, The Millionaire Next Door, The Intelligent Investor, Think and Grow Rich, Total Money Makeover, The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing, Rich Dad Poor Dad.

2. Started reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. There is a strong desire to read the whole book in one approach, committing myself to it before I dive in. I have an expectation of finding myself in place of Poor Dad; hence, it’s possible that I’ll judge the book and the author or make fun of them from the very beginning, instead of actually reading and reflecting upon the material. However, if I oblige myself to read the whole book, without evaluating before what I’m gonna find there, I have better chances to obtain important information. So let’s do that. Now, it’s 1pm and there are 220 pages. I think it’s worth making notes, while getting through the text and learning “business” vocabulary.

Poor Dad: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
Rich Dad: “The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
Most of us learn about money from our parents… sadly, money is not taught in school.”
Chapter One: Lesson 1: The Rich don’t Work for Money.

It took me for about two hours to get through the introduction and chapter one. To my surprise, I found that the philosophy of Poor Dad wasn’t precisely close to my philosophy and that the philosophy of Rich Dad was quite similar to what I think about life in general and jobs in particular. The story of a business man teaching nine-year-old kids to work for free in order to understand the difference between “working for money” and “making money work for you” was pretty funny. Now, I need to take a small break, but later I’ll definitely get back to reading.

6.30pm.
Spent another hour reading chapter two: Why Teach Financial Literacy? In this chapter, there is a concept of “assets and liabilities”, which is too simple to put in down here.
 
8pm.
Two more chapters. Now, I’m a little bit more convinced in the importance of my own business and can tell the difference between “the history of education” and “the history of taxes and the power of corporations.”

Finished the day with chapter five: The Rich Invent Money.

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