“If we are born poor, it is not our fault, but if we die poor, it is!”…… Bill Gates
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without discipline. When
you have no discipline, you are incapable of committing yourself to any job or
business. You lack consistency, sincerity, reliability, punctuality, focus and
dependability. “Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do
not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Check the records; the role
of honor for champions does not include men and women who lack self-discipline.
Without discipline, only a miracle can save you from the jaws of poverty.
You may succeed to make millions but lack of discipline on
your part will soon fritter the whole lot away. Former world heavy-weight
boxing champion Mike Tyson who won millions of dollars from his fights became
broke within five years of his last major fight purely on account of lack of
discipline. It can happen to anyone who still does not believe that everyone
needs iron-discipline to make and keep money. “Self-discipline, through an
appropriate and strictly enforced budget of time and expenditures is an
essential for financial independence.”
This is a price anyone who hopes to attain financial independence must
pay. For example, I chose to “punish” myself and literary drove myself crazy
to put these articles together. Sometimes, even at very odd hours of the night
I chose to stay awake to write. I had a choice either to sleep or go partying
but instead I wrote and kept on writing to meet my dead-line. This is the kind
of price many people are unwilling or unable to pay to achieve something. That
is mainly why they remain poor.
