Would you play a game if you knew it was rigged?
Maybe someone paid off the referee, or someone paid the players on your team to throw the game. Would you play a game where you knew you couldn’t control the outcome? Most of us would say no, but without understanding it, that’s precisely the game 90% of the world is playing.
GAME #1 –
Let’s face it. From the day we’re born, we are immediately conditioned and shaped by outside forces. Our parents raise us with specific values and, along with society, impose certain expectations.
Many of us are expected to graduate high school, go to college, maybe go to grad school for some more schooling. Many rack up hundreds of thousands in student debt to just graduate, then spend the bulk of our lives paying back those loans as we climb the corporate ladder.
We contribute to our company 401(k)’s or entrust our money to financial advisors because it’s what everyone else is doing. Few of us know that our retirement plans and financial advisors are getting fat on fees on commissions while providing us returns that don’t even keep pace with the markets.
We’ll buy houses and incur more debt – usually more than we should – based on realtors’ and mortgage brokers’ “recommendations.” Many of us are a paycheck away from disaster or from taking out second mortgages on our homes to avert disaster.
We’ll have and raise two or three kids and set them on the same path you have been traversing – the only path you know. You finally reach age 62 or 65, and you can finally retire and realize that you barely have enough to get you to the grave.
Is anybody winning in the game I just described? Does that sound like living? Birth, school, work, and death?
This game that 90% of people call life is rigged. It’s rigged so that you never rise above mediocrity. You will never win the Super Bowl playing Game #1, but 90% of us are stuck in it.
Many people don’t realize that there’s another game – Game #2 – a game free of market manipulation and the madness of the crowds.
In this game, you can break the cycle if you dare to break from the crowd. Instead of the birth, school, work, and death path, the path in Game #2 will look more like birth, school, work, new life, and legacy. In this game, death isn’t final. In this game, your legacy lives on. The Kobe Bryants of the world will always be remembered because of the fullness of their lives.
GAME #2 –
The competitors in this game don’t play by the same rules imposed in Game #1. These competitors refuse to be bound by their jobs. They want to break free from their jobs, but they know that a 401(k) or financial advisor will not be the ticket to financial independence.
They need to break from Wall Street to forge their path, which inevitably leads them to alternative investments.
Those with the courage to break free from the crowd are inevitably drawn to real asset investments offering passive cash flow – free from Wall Street manipulation.
Passive investments allow for scaling through leveraging the expertise of multiple experts across multiple assets. Only through passive income can an investor create multiple streams of income that can be reinvested to build wealth.
With multiple income streams, investors can repurchase their freedom from the system (i.e., Game #1 that everyone else is playing). With passive income, these investors can break the chains of a job, a 401(k), and Wall Street.
Instead of trading time for money, these financially independent investors – the wealthy – can buy back their time. With this time, they’ll spend more time with their family, give back to their communities, and do the things they want to do and not the things they have to do.
In Game #2, the competitors aren’t happy to retire semi-comfortably and die. They want their legacies to live on and invest accordingly. They are favoring the compounding benefits of tangible assets that cash flow and appreciate over time, the wealthy can build multi-generational wealth – wealth that will last several lifetimes.
Which game would you rather play?
One that is rigged or one where you call the shots?