CHAPTER 10Making Money Doing Nothing
“Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fucking have any.”
—BEN AFFLECK, “The Boiler Room”
In this section we are going to be discussing making money and about some of the mistakes people make. We'll talk about what's realistic, what's really going on out there in the business world, and how to increase your income. There is no get-rich-quick scheme out there. There is no magic bullet, no magic pill that you're going to be able to take like in that movie “Limitless”—although some would say our brain formula Clarizene by Cloixonné is pretty close.
There are plenty of guys out there offering self-help, life coaching, or business development who say, “I'm going to show you how to go from zero to seven figures.” Most people aren't even paying attention to what that means. That's from zero to a million dollars. You may have seen these guys on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or YouTube saying they're going to show you how to go from zero to a million dollars literally starting from nothing.
It is the most unrealistic whacked-out fraud I've ever heard of. What they're really doing is they're selling you some out-of-the-box kit on how to make money. What they're not showing you is something realistic. And most of it is not tangible stuff. It's just vapor.
In your job and in your personal life, what can you do at this very moment to make more money? Because that's what most people are talking about, right? Most people ...
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