Genius Deepak

I just came across a very nice story. There was a generous old man in a light house. His responsibility was to lighten up the oil lamp so that the ships could arrive safely. In the mean time, two to three persons came to him and requested to have some oil for their use. Being generous he gave some of the oil away. Later when the ships arrived, the lamp went off due to the lack of oil. And many ships collided and lives were lost. So his very purpose was lost because he did not focus on his priorities.

Similarly many of the activities which may not lead to our ultimate goal in our life, suck out time and energy. So it is important to set goals and as you keep reading your goals, you won’t dissipate your energies. Remember that a magnifying lens when kept upon a paper and under the sun burns it by the power of focus. Today I typed out my life’s goals and printed it. I pasted the paper on the back of my room’s door.

My Life’s Goals:

1. To evolve as the Marketing Genius of 21st Century
2. To continue to have a balanced and exciting personal, social and work life.
3. To keep building business systems to retire young and retire rich, to create jobs and to serve people.

You cannot become rich without learning to become more generous. To make more and more money by working less and less, you have to do it by serving more people. Employees who expect a pay raise for doing the same job are nothing but greedy. Job is a long term risk. In business, eventhough you may work hard in the beginning, you can later earn more by working less. Use OPM, other people’s money and OPT, other people’s time as a form of leverage to become rich. The rich continue their education after their degree because we know that education is a very powerful form of leverage. To get rich you have to pay a price, and the price is not always measured in money, its financial intelligence.