A deep dive into “The Instant Millionaire” by Mark Fisher

Chapter 6 – Goals how they help!

Suppose your trying to land a job. You go through all the necessary steps and finally, you land the interview. A week later you are informed that you are on the short list. A week after that you find out that you have landed the job and that you will be making a lot of money.

How would you react? Well you would be really pleased with your self, being chosen over hundreds of other candidates – what a feat!

Since jobs are hard to get as they have become scarce over the last few years, you would think this was a very lucky break indeed.

Once the initial excitement has passed what would you be thinking?

I would like to know when I start and what a lot of money means and what other benefits would be offered.

So, you ask your new boss what he meant by “a lot of money,” he guarantees you are going to earn a lot, would you be any further ahead? Worse still you would start having second thoughts about his honesty. The fact that he would not give you a specific figure could quite possibly mean that there was something shady going on, or that your salary wasn’t going to be as generous as he’d been implying. Similarly if he refused to tell you exactly which day you started, you wouldn’t be very happy about it, would you?

As much as you asked you just could get a straight answer from this new boss. What would you do? You would turn the job offer down, would you not? Not only that, if you had decided to take the job you would want everything down in writing, am I right? YES

That goes for LIFE as well.

What most people, or at least the unsuccessful ones, are unaware of is that life gives you exactly what we ASK from it. The first thing to do however is to ASK for exactly what you want.

We will continue this talk tomorrow.

A very powerful short read.