My 1st Million At 33 – yes, you can do it too

From age of 10 to 19 (teens and pre-teens), a person is forming the basis of his or her views on life.  This is also the most important period to build up one’s knowledge, abilities, & skills that could be used for the rest of his or her life.  Most young adolescents may not understand how important their educations are until much later.  Enjoying their growing independence from parents and the companionships of their friends, their center of focus may simply involve around friends.  Friends certainly are an important aspect of one’s life, but friends cannot do your job, nor earn money for you (at least not everyday).

At this stage in life, in respect to a person’s future wealth, I suggest to understand wealth, forming a healthy attitude towards money & life in general, and to prepare for wealth, establishing a solid foundation of learning & knowledge.  What is a healthy attitude?  In fact, what is an attitude?  An attitude is a default or habitual reaction or a course of pro-active action towards something.  Healthy attitudes (and attributes) include being positive, optimistic, pro-active, objective, resolute, and persistant instead of being negative, pessimistic, reactive, clouded by bias, vacillating, and giving up easily.  One may be born with a certain set of positive and negative characteristics.  But one could learn and improve oneself.  At teens, you question every authority, and every why on you should do this or that.  But don’t just question for rebellion.  Question for the true sake of questioning.  Think and contemplate, meditate if you will.  Ask why.  Seek an understanding of life and the world at large.  Essentially, you’re forming and shaping your responses to the world around you, your attitudes.  But no matter what conclusions you have reached through your search in understanding the world & life, what’s more important is actually in how you react & interact to the world.  The world may not change immediately, but you can change how you react to it.  Between a positive and negative attitude, you always want to choose the positive one, simply because it’s better for you.  Understanding wealth & money as they’re part of the life, but not all of the life, nor none of the life.

To prepare for gaining wealth in later life, it is necessary to have a solid foundation in learning & knowledge.  Every step in the education ladder is important to the next.  And if there is any mis-step, you should catch up immediately in the next step.  Very often, a teen may ask, “why do I need to learn this or that?  I will never need it.”  The truth is that educations from elementary to high schools (and even some parts of college) are the basic learnings that one should have.  And by basics, it means that it’s a foundation for you to build your other professional skills later on.  You may not know when you will need it.  But when you need it, and you don’t have it learned, you may not find your way out, and may find yourself in serious disadvantage.  Opportunity does not wait for you.  Either you’re prepared, and catch it, or you don’t.  If you are going to deny the school and what school can teach you, you may be able to find your group of friends supporting or joining you for now, but you will find yourself very lonely later.  Can’t even answer a basic question in interview?  Sorry, next person.  You’re on your own.

In summary, here are my advices for the people from 10 to 19:

1. Understand the world & life.  Train yourself to interact/react to the world & life in a positive way.
2. Solidify your learning in schools.  Your basic learnings will go a long way.

With a good understanding & solid preparation, it will then make wealth possible.