How to be Poor You have probably run into books, articles,
videos and audios titled “How to be rich”, “How the Rockefellers made and kept their
wealth”, “how you can become rich” and “How to be good with money”.
In fact, on this channel, there are videos with these same titles.
The aim of these videos is usually to empower you the audience so that you may exponentially
increase your income through the advice you receive or through the personalities you read
about.
Becoming rich is hard work; you need to wake up early, to exercise in order to be healthy
enough to work, to meditate, to complete tasks that you tick off every day and to save diligently,
among other difficult things.
On the other end of the spectrum is poverty.
It is only fair that since we have talked so much on how to be rich on this channel,
that we now tell you how to take the easy option of being poor.
So pick up a notebook and take some notes; because with the following unorthodox tips,
we tell you how to be poor as quickly and easily as possible.
Avoid Knowledge If you want to be poor, the easiest way to
do it is to shut out knowledge.
This can be done through several ways; 1.
Ensure that you don’t try and learn any new and innovative ways to increase efficiency
in your job.
2.
Avoid people who try and introduce you to new ways of improving your business, and.
3.
Most importantly, mock and ridicule everyone you may worry has more knowledge than you;
they cannot be in your circle.
To illustrate this point, I’d like you to meet Jack.
Jack’s family has been running a clothing store along a street in a small town somewhere
in the world.
There are other businesses that sell fabric along this same street, and while competition
has been tight, the store belonging to Jack’s family has managed to stay afloat.
Sure, it doesn’t bring in much revenue or profit, but Jack, who is currently running
it, has faith that the business will survive like it always has.
Now, Winnie, an acquaintance of Jack, looked at the business and saw that it had the potential
to grow if only Jack and his family were willing to be creative about it.
So, she offered this piece of advice to him, including tips on how to increase their customer
base, how to be a more attractive business than his competitors and how to reduce costs
in the business in order for profit to increase.
Jack, however, trusted in the faith of the generations before him; the business has always
survived, he kept telling himself.
However, Jack’s competitors didn’t have the same attitude to knowledge like he did,
and a couple of years after Winnie offered him, that priceless piece of advice, that
could possibly have saved his business, Jack’s closed his business due to consistent losses.
We cannot confirm that Jack ended up being poor, but we can deduce that since he closed
down his primary source of income, things might have not gone too well for him and his
family.
Understand that the World Owes You Since the world owes you everything, all you
have to do is complain about everything until the world gives you what you want.
Don’t bother trying to get a degree; after all, just like Mark Zuckerberg and the rest
who never completed their degrees, you too will become a multi-billionaire tech mogul.
Suzy is one such person.
No day will pass if she hasn’t complained about something, or everything.
If she isn’t complaining about her under privileged status, she will be complaining
about why she has to stay-up late to complete her work.
And that she doesn’t get paid for overtime!
Why is it that she doesn’t get paid for overtime like the rest of her colleagues when
they stay late?
Can’t the company splurge for a decent meal?
These are the sort of complaints Suzy complains about often.
To be poor, all you need is to be like Suzy; understand that the world owes you and complain
bitterly when you don’t get what you want.
Also, be sure to avoid mentioning the part you may have played to get yourself to where
you are.
After all, your complaints about your boss having you stay late after work, unpaid, may
get little attention when your audience realizes that it is because you procrastinated and
did not deliver the work within the deadline given.
Good Money Habits; What are Those?!
Those who want to be rich are told to develop good money habits; to save every time they
receive a pay check, to avoid borrowing aimlessly, to budget for and track all the money they
spend and to invest wisely.
This is not the kind of advice you are looking for when you want to get poor; just ask Randy
Joe.
Randy thought he wanted to be rich.
So, he did what everyone who wants to be rich does; which was wise, he approached Mark a
rich and successful man, and who had the kind of wealth that Randy was hoping to accrue
by the time he was Mark’s age.
Mark gave him good advice, a section of which was dedicated to good money habits.
He gave Randy advice on how to invest in things and on how to get the best price for the money
he invested; he shared knowledge on the best ways to budget and track spending, and he
was very insistent on the need to have good saving habits.
After hearing the advice, Randy was excited to start his journey to wealth.
However, he felt like he did not need to start saving right away since he could always wait
to earn more first.
He also disregarded Mark’s advice on investment since he trusted his money with a friend who
had informed him, passionately, of the profitability of the business that Randy was investing in.
Randy did not end up doing very well financially, a testament to the fact that when you ignore
all good money habits that successful people are talking about, you will very easily fall
into a financial muddle.
Self-Discipline is for Uptight People One of Joyce’s life goals is to never be
referred to as an uptight person.
She has seen a lot of uptight people in her time, walking around with their tight schedules
and their daily lists and their motivational books and their confident smiles.
While she does not mind the latter, she has a problem with being viewed as uptight.
For this reason, you will never find her trying to take stock of what she needs to do in order
to achieve her goals or even sitting down to write down these goals in the first place.
Self-awareness is too cliché for someone like her, so no need to look inside in order
to discover her purpose or something along those lines.
Her habits are just alright; there is no need to incorporate any new ones that may be deemed
better for achieving goals.
Sure, Joyce earns only a few dollars above the minimum wage; but at least she is a free
spirit who is not bogged down by timetables and stuff.
She is not an uptight self-disciplined person.
Procrastinate, and don’t apologize about it
World peace could be achieved today if the people who procrastinate decided to band together.
The procrastination of goals and tasks is a challenge that is experienced by almost
everyone, mainly because it is quite easy to procrastinate.
Procrastination is also one of the shorter routes that one can take on the journey to
becoming poor.
Just ask Nancy, a world-class procrastinator who was hell-bent on starting her final year
design project tomorrow.
She would seemingly have something better today; yesterday, there was drama in her dormitory
so she didn’t get started on the project.
However, she still had eight months to complete her project, so no worries.
Soon, eight months went down to six and then suddenly, she only had a couple days to complete
her project.
A lot of late nights and tones of coffee later, she managed to complete her final year design
project.
Of course, she was able to complete her project; after all, she is a world-class procrastinator.
To date, she can be heard saying that if she hadn’t almost killed herself those last
final days in an attempt to complete her project; she would have ended up poor.
Therefore, if you are looking to be poor, make a habit of procrastinating, and don’t
burden yourself feeling guilty about it.
What Everyone Else Says about You is Right Conforming to what everyone says about you
is yet another simple way to become poor.
People are always opinionated when it comes to what goals they think you should be pursuing;
what friends they think you should be keeping; essentially, how you should be living your
life.
When you start agree to what people say about you no matter how harsh it may be, and start
changing yourself to be more likeable or acceptable towards them, essentially, erasing everything
that makes you who you are and unique, then being poor will come easy.
Where your friends, family and acquaintances give you suggestions with regards to your
career and money, do not think twice.
Immediately do what was suggested, because it is important to keep your friends close
and your family closer.
Felix has always been a conformer, and being unsure of his career and money goals made
him a target for unsolicited advice.
When he joined college, he listened to what his brother told him and four years later,
he got out with a Degree in Literature that he did not know what to do about.
He watched his friends start families a couple of years after college, and he decided that
that was something that he wanted to do.
Being a conformer can lead to you losing your career path, which eventually leads to you
being poor.
Develop an Addiction Walter started drinking at a friend’s birthday
party in his first year in college, and this is a habit that he kept up with since.
When he got his first check in his first job, he sunk almost half of it drinking with friends
and being merry about this first pay.
Afterwards, while he did not spend 50% of his monthly income drinking in the times after,
he still spent a significant amount of money on alcohol.
By the time he stumbled into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting almost a decade later, he
had very little to his name.
This is the journey of most addictions, since the compulsion to feed the addiction is almost
uncontrollable.
If you are looking to avoid poverty, stay away from any mind-altering substances and
other addictions if you don’t need them.
However, if poverty is your goal, develop an addiction to drugs, gambling and other
similar addictive behaviors.
If you are looking not only to be poor but to also pass down poverty into your generation,
these are the tips that you should share with your kids and their kids.
Poverty is easy; all you have to do is sit back and let the world make all your decisions
for you.
So in summary, if you want to be poor:
1.
Avoid knowledge 2.
Have a “the world owes me attitude” and complain about everything
3.
Avoid good money habits at all cost!
4.
Be undisciplined 5.
Procrastinate and don’t apologies about it
6.
Shove down your own opinions because everyone else is right
7.
Develop an addiction
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