If knowledge produces wealth, every American should be as rich as a Rockefeller; the U.S. graduates 60,000 new PhDs every year. Whatever they’re learning, it doesn’t seem to make us more prosperous. The U.S.’s entrepreneurs should have been producing new wealth at record rates. The U.S. has the world’s largest single consumer market. We have more people with more money than anywhere else. And we’re ready to spend on whatever new gizmo comes along. But the U.S.A. is no longer getting richer… …it’s going the other direction. Disposable personal incomes are dropping – down 20% from March’21 to March ’22. While wage increases are running at about 5%, consumer prices are rising at nearly 9%. GDP is falling at a 1.4% annual rate. The trade deficit just hit a new record high – at $109 Billion for the month of April. Productivity is in retreat – down at a 7.5% annual rate… the worst since 1947. Consumer prices are rising at the fastest pace in 40 year. Rents in Miami are up 40% year-to-year… 22% in Orlando… 17% in Las Vegas… The issue is similar in every first-world country. Other countries have other problems which contribute to holding their citizens back. It’s hard to focus on building a great start-up when you spend most of your time trying to feed your family. The Internet was supposed to level the world’s access to knowledge, which it sort of has, but it still hasn’t significantly contributed to the wealth of the common man or woman. Sure, there have been some notable successes. The leaders of the big tech companies, for example. Then there are the highly successful middle-tier companies like ClickFunnels, and then on down through the ranks to people making excellent incomes online. But it’s not universal, is it. OK, so if it’s not the knowledge that creates the wealth, what does? It seems to me that the difference is in the person behind the company or business that makes the difference. Not the person as such, but something in them. Something that we can all tap into if we wish. It starts with why. Why are you doing this? What benefit are you giving others? Not what you want to get, but what you want to give. I think it was Zig Ziglar who said, “If you help enough people get what they want, you will get what you want.“ So that why must be about what help you can give others. The next two things you will need in your arsenal are persistence and consistency. So there you have it. The secrets to success. Know your why. Be persistent. Be consistent. Regards, P.S. But what about the knowledge? Well, that’s freely available if you are prepared to search for it. If you have the time to dig through the cesspool of inaccurate or misleading information to get to the nuggets. If your time is more valuable than that, then perhaps you might like to trade a few bucks for the distilled information contained in the No Cost Income Streams blueprints. https://go.wm-tips.com/full Everything that needs to be done in those blueprints can be done by outsourcing or buying a tool to do it faster, but that’s for when you are already making money. Do it all with free tools at first, then scale up from there. |