Poverty

Characteristics of Poverty

Poverty Is a Lack of Comfort

When you are poor your chair sucks, your TV is too small, your house is inadequate, it doesn’t have enough rooms, the bathroom is too small, the kitchen is not big enough, your neighbors get in your space, there is just a lot of uncomfortable things in your life. You can’t afford a car so you are uncomfortable in a crowded bus or train, or you can afford a car but it is too small and very unreliable. Your house/ apartment doesn’t have Air Conditioner and the summer is very hot so it is uncomfortable for you to get work done there.

This lack of comfort chases you wherever you go.

So if you are still uncomfortable about something in your life, you are not rich yet. When you are rich and get an uncomfortable weather, you just move somewhere else.

So the first thing in your road to get rich and wealthy, it’s to one by one remove things that are uncomfortable in your life.

Comfort will bring satisfaction, joy, productivity, an easy life, la joie de vivre, one of the many definitions of happiness is just comfort, the right meal when you feel like it, the right song from the best sound system, comfort is a truly amazing thing, it is the spot, true wealth is not filled with just things, things mean nothing and you can’t take them with you when you die, but you can take the memories of all the comfort and happy life you had. Always aim for the privilege of having comfort in your life.

Poverty Is a Lack of Reliability

Reliability is another word for peace of mind.

When you are poor you can’t rely on yourself, you can’t rely on your friends and family because they are poor too, if they are not, they are probably tired of handing you their money, you can’t rely on your job to cover everything you need. You can’t rely on your bank account to get you out of situations you may encounter. You live pay check to pay check.

Reliability is not defined by a particular thing, but it is truly a way of living that is characterized by options and backup plans, so that everything you do and have is guaranteed to be there tomorrow. Normally this comes from working with the best in every industry category, and money can buy that.

You have an important job and you have a kid, but the nanny is sick. You hired a company that sent a nanny to your house, you didn’t hire the nanny directly, so the company just sends another nanny to cover for the time the other nanny is sick. that is reliability.

Your big and main business took a fall because the market is not good right now, you lost 1 million, but some company you bought stocks a few months ago has just been acquired by Facebook and you made 2 millions, that is reliability.

There has been a huge blackout in your city, but after 10 seconds in the dark, your generator boots up and provides electricity to your house and all your needs, that is reliability. 

Your internet is not working, you need to send an email today that will close a multi-million deal, you call the company and they activate a backup internet service that relies on satellites, you get to send the email and close the deal. That is reliability.

You can count on things around you. They are under your control.

Reliability will bring peace of mind, productivity, the ability to control your life in this chaotic World, it will bring order.

To get reliability you must work with companies that charge a premium for reliable products, that are 99,9% guaranteed to not fail you.

Poverty is a Lack of Rest

Maybe we say rest in peace when people die because we know how little rest life brings and even worse when it is a life of poverty.

In poverty there is no rest. There is no true rest of body and mind. Tomorrow always brings a problem, a new person at the door collecting a debt, a new bill that must be paid, a new late fee for unpaid bills.

Bad news become usual news, because the way we live in poverty is such that we can’t afford for something to go wrong, everything should run smoothly, all the money and time we have is already not enough. Dealing with a problem is taking time from work or sleep, and when we do that we risk getting fired.

Stress is constant.

Being successful or rich is by no means just rest and no work.

Being rich is like playing a video game, you may lose but that doesn’t really affect you. Being poor is like being the video game character that is being played by life or rich people, when the rich people lose you are the one who is affected. The rich people are seated and mostly relaxed when playing the business and life game, you are mostly on your feet, sweating and running for your life. You have a meeting to announce that your business just took a big loss, but you are somehow relaxed, you lost this game, that is bad, but it doesn’t destroy your world. Remember, you have a diversified portfolio of businesses.

I have this awesome friend who was telling me a story about how he got a product that came from overseas and is very hard to import into our country, so hard that some people import it and then lose it in customs because they can’t afford the taxes. So he said they brought him the invoice for the product, and he just vuwooga (that is the sound of money hitting the table), paid. They brought the invoice for the shipping and insurance and he just vuwooga, and paid. They brought in the invoice for the VAT for the government and he just vuwooga, and paid. All from his bank account, without calling anyone, without having to break a sweat. With no problems whatsoever.

Having rest in your life will bring peace of mind, easy life, an auto lane for almost everything in this World, things will just be and happen faster to you.

You are successful when you don’t have to stress about getting a table at the last minute in a crowded restaurant, when you don’t have to worry about most requests you make to the government or to other people, when you don’t have to stress about managing your life and your world.

Poverty Is a Lack of Own Time to Spend as you Wish

Time is money. It is the number one currency in the World. It is hard to believe, but the vast majority of people in earth don’t own most of the time they have in this earth.

In Poverty most of your time is used and in return you make very little money. Poor people either undersell their time and expertise or someone just takes most of it and doesn’t pay fairly. Abusive bosses make their workers work overtime and don’t pay for it, like their workers’ time is not valuable.

When you are poor, you don’t get to spend as much time as you would like with the people you love, you don’t get enough sleep, you don’t have much time to learn new skills or to improve your education, you are not as informed about new opportunities or industries because you don’t have time to read about them, you waste a lot of time commuting to and from work on crowded buses and trains, your me and alone time to date yourself is very reduced.

The best thing about being a successful person is not free time, it is owning your time and having control over it. You will work a lot to be successful but you are working on your own terms. You can work from the comfort of your own house, you can take your kids to work whenever you want (you are the boss), you can delegate and use time for personal matters, You can wake up and get to work later.

Owning your time will bring a sense of control over your life, you will feel like the architect of your own life.

You will be truly successful when you can just hit pause whenever you want and go do something else. When you make time, and have the power to control the time of other people who work with you or under you.

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