A short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "Are You Winning the Money Game?" (T. Harv Eker, recorded Jan 9, 2020). The speakers contrast being "rich" with being "financially free," arguing that financial freedom (the ability to never have to work or worry about money) should be the primary goal and requires different strategies than simply becoming rich. The excerpt repeatedly stresses choosing freedom first, then pursuing wealth.
Statistically, there's really only 5%. A 5% chance that you ever get into the highest income bracket and only a 1% chance that you will ever get to what most people would term as rich. And even if you do earn a fortune, you might still be required to work 10 to 12 hours a day to keep that income and lifestyle that you created. You know what?
To me, this is not winning the money game.
That, that it's actually being a slave. Yeah, a rich slave, but still a slave. To truly win the money game, you need to become free financially. Free financially. Free financially what? Free. Because once you are what Free, you have a real, and here's the key word choice. What's the word choice of what you.
Want to do with your life. And to me, that's what it's all about. It's about choice. Yes or yes.
And here's what most people don't realize that. And this is big.
Now listen closely.
That rich and free are different. Let me repeat. That rich and free are different. Not only do they take different amounts of money, but the strategies. The what? The strategies for getting to each are very, very different. And that is absolutely critical that you understand. If we want to become free. What's the word? Free. As soon as possible, we, we need to go directly to free and not the much longer, longer route of trying to get rich and then hopefully be free. We need to put our energy, our attention and our strategies on freedom first. And then after we become fully financially free, after we have won the money game, after we never have to work again, and after we never have to worry about money again, then and only then we can add an entirely new.
Goal to be rich.
I hope you, and I pray you.
Understand this because if you really do, you just change your, your life good or good.
