You Need a Rocket!. Martin B Ayles

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      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Throughout this book you may find parts of it a little blunt. I guess you could call it brutally honest! Some of what I have written may offend. If it does, it may be because I am simply describing things that may have happened or be happening in your life; things that you may not have faced up to yet.

      Please, do not take offence if something does hit a nerve or two, just take action and change instead!

      You can choose not to read on if you do get offended, but it is not meant intentionally to upset you, so don’t take it personally. Just take personal responsibility!

      If this still scares you, then put this book down and quit reading. Just remember though, the challenge with society today is that quitting is the easy option and keep in mind no matter what you do in life, you can always quit! So don’t quit. Step up and take the challenge! You owe it to yourself and maybe to others as well. By taking action from reading this book, it may help you to positively change and influence someone else’s life for the better – and all from the knowledge you gained, simply because you chose to read this book to the end!

      Although far from an easy challenge to solve, a change to the education system would be a great milestone in the future of generations to come. As to what these changes would have to be? Well that would be a very long chapter and depending on who has the input as to how many suggestions for changes to the education system there would need to be.

      Our style of teaching is out dated and fairly mundane. I am sure that there is some passionate teachers out there but they now have to spend half their days worrying about running the metal detectors or abiding by the strict regulations of being able to apply disciplinary action to students.

      Teaching out of text books is more or less a parrot fashion method of teaching and although needed in some areas, every person has a different method of absorbing information and the way in that they learn and perceive information.

      Children are often not interested in some of the subjects that schools teach. If the teaching method were fun and lively, the students would retain more knowledge and enjoy attending school a lot more. Unfortunately, we teach through the memorization of textbooks, instead of learning through lessons. For example, if they used the concept of a board game, such as Monopoly as a teaching methodology for teaching life and investing skills, then I am certain that they would be pleasantly surprised at the results.

      The first reason for this is that life and investing is a game. The second reason is that it is fun. It involves basic math, buying property, taking mortgages, obeying the law and avoiding jail, paying bills and fines, using leverage and collecting or paying rent. But most of all, the lesson is that four houses equals one hotel! You see, the lesson behind Monopoly is more than a game just about money. It is about starting off small with one house and collecting a little rent, then mortgaging for your second house and collecting more rent and so on, until once you have four houses that you can trade up to buy a hotel, because a hotel provides a lot more income than a house.

      The lesson you get from monopoly is that the knowledge required to do the small property deal is the same as the big hotel deal, but if you didn’t start with the small deal first then you cannot do the bigger hotel deals. Monopoly also teaches patience and the value of time.

      I guess the sad part about society today is that computer games have taken over games like Monopoly, and these days a lot of kids are often playing violent games rather than real life games. You see, games allow you to be creative without any real risk. They allow the imagination to run free, and today when negative games with poor or no lessons are being drummed into kids, one must assume that these games will have some influence on the child as they grow up.

      So I hope that my influence will help to educate and assist children and their parents as well. I promise to donate a lot of my time to fun useful education for the future and one day I may even be able to convince someone to make positive changes to the education system.

      At the age of 27, I consider myself young. I have had nearly ten years of full-time work experience, as well as various attempts at my own businesses and studying as well. In that time, I have also been unemployed and in a lot of consumer debt. I’ve had everything from credit cards to store accounts and when the banks started chasing me I was continually borrowing money from anyone or anything to pay that money back. It was a vicious cycle.

      I was fortunate to be introduced to network marketing at just 17 years old. One of the greatest benefits I had from being involved in this business was a program for the business builders that involved a book of the month and an audiotape of the week. I always read the books and listened to the tapes over and over, and found myself enjoying them and looking forward to all the new ones. I know to this day that if it wasn’t for the books and tapes I would most probably be in some undesirable situation somewhere.

      The education process offered was interesting. They had seminars with great guest speakers like Laurie Lawrence and Peter Daniels. I learned great lessons from being involved with network marketing.

      A friend from the network marketing business realized I had a genuine interest in improving my financial position. He invited me to a 3-hour seminar. I was so intrigued by the presentation that I went back the next night! On offer was a one-day workshop on real estate investing with expert Dolf de Roos. I had to put the $1,000 registration fee on my credit card, but for some reason I knew I needed to be there. That was in 1998 and I spent the next two years getting out of debt. At the time getting a job was the only way I knew how to get out of debt, so after 2 years of hard scrimping and saving, I was able to purchase my very first investment property in July of 2000!

      And the rest as they say is history. In less than 2-years I have purchased over $5-million in holding property and made a lot of cash along the way. I have been able to generate more cash flow using the stock market and my real estate investments. My family and friends noticed a change as I went from unemployed to a wealth of information on investing and money. I even started assisting a lot of others to do the same as I was doing.

      Friends began requesting help to change their financial position and their friends also came to me to find out what it was I had done to become wealthy at such a young age. It was then that I had to begin charging, as demand increased for my time and it got to a point where I was charging people a few thousand dollars to hang out with me, hear their challenges and help them deal with their financial issues. Usually when we got to the bottom of it there was a stack of emotional stuff jamming their brain, so they couldn’t fill it with good data or the information they needed to make a stack of cash.

      Their financial position when they came to me for help was often a very empty wallet with a full credit card or two hanging out of it with a 20% per annum interest charge attached. You see, it’s often not simply bad money management (although that’s a good starting point) it’s the life management and your own mind management that makes a difference to the size of your wallet and bank account, not the cash! Cash is just the physical result of doing enough of the right things СКАЧАТЬ