Quote From: renagadeI can relate to you to some degree. My background is finance/accounting and after being fired from almost every job I have had because I tried to show them that the accounting needed cleaning up or they were week in this/that area - I finally went out on my own. I then found out that business owners were a lot of the times afraid to know what was actually going on - so let sleeping dogs lie.
I then heard about this book 'Rich Dad - Poor Dad' that was about the authors father who had an earned Phd in education, rose up to be Superintendent of schools and died broke - the other dad who was actually his best friend in schools dad never went past the 7th grade, owned a couple of businesses and when he died he left and estate of 10 million. It was about the way these two men thought. They only agreed that education was the best thing for you and Tuesday was the day that came after Monday! They disagreed on everything else.
Reading this book I found out where I was wrong, and have set out to change things which I am in the process of doing. I found out that I didn't want to 'as the author says - be a slave to a paycheck and wait for a retirement that may not be there'. The author says that most people do not use their brains to its fullest. The other factor he says is to create wealth - and that is exactly what I am attempting to do.
Rog
Thank you for your advice. Are you saying, that instead of focusing on my insecurities and failures, I should be focusing on my abilities and goals?
I have thought about stepping out on my own, starting a business, fear always holds me back. My husband and I have had great ideas for business, but as soon as the idea is out there we are talking ourselves out of it.
My goal in life isn't to be super rich (however it would be nice!), but to be happy and be able to provide a future for my son, whatever he wants to do. All I want is to be is "comfortable". But along the way I want to being doing something that is right for me. I don't see the point of having money and being to depressed, overworked etc to enjoy it.
Thank you
Natalie