The Difference between YOUR bank account, and BILL GATES'

Ok, so I have just bought three houses, and have an offer in on a fourth.

All within a month.


And they are my first properties.

Why would I all of a sudden get so "gung-ho" about doing real estate?
It has NOTHING to do with the climate, nothing to do with the economy,
nothing to do with my personal finances. I'll tell you why:

I am finally APPLYING the knowledge I have been gaining.

I noticed this pattern where everyone gathers information, and then ACTS on it.
Some people need NEVER-ENDING information, others need very little.

For myself, I usually need very little to go on for something, but Real Estate
kinda scared me. I kept getting knowledge until I finally put it into action.

And OF COURSE, I could have done it long before; there was nothing to be afraid of.

So, then I realized that the difference between me and some of my other friends
was APPLIED KNOWLDGE.

The only difference between MY bank account and Bill Gates' Bank account is APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Not only did he learn to build a business, he also APPLIED what he knew.
Warren Buffet APPLIES what he knows to Stocks.

So, that's the whole thing:

"The only difference between YOUR bank account and anyone else's is APPLIED KNOWLEDGE"

It's a nice quote, isn't it?

The Difference between YOUR bank account, and BILL GATES'

Ok, so I have just bought three houses, and have an offer in on a fourth.

All within a month.


And they are my first properties.

Why would I all of a sudden get so "gung-ho" about doing real estate?
It has NOTHING to do with the climate, nothing to do with the economy,
nothing to do with my personal finances. I'll tell you why:

I am finally APPLYING the knowledge I have been gaining.

I noticed this pattern where everyone gathers information, and then ACTS on it.
Some people need NEVER-ENDING information, others need very little.

For myself, I usually need very little to go on for something, but Real Estate
kinda scared me. I kept getting knowledge until I finally put it into action.

And OF COURSE, I could have done it long before; there was nothing to be afraid of.

So, then I realized that the difference between me and some of my other friends
was APPLIED KNOWLDGE.

The only difference between MY bank account and Bill Gates' Bank account is APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Not only did he learn to build a business, he also APPLIED what he knew.
Warren Buffet APPLIES what he knows to Stocks.

So, that's the whole thing:

"The only difference between YOUR bank account and anyone else's is APPLIED KNOWLEDGE"

It's a nice quote, isn't it?

How is it out there?

I've had this thought on my mind lately, and I figured I'd blog about it-

I've been watching "What the bleep do we know", and reading more about spirituality lately, and I just think that we have it all wrong. I was a bible-thumping Christian for a minute (I even just capitalized "Christian"- old habits die hard I guess), and I think now I was just being lazy.

Lazy because it "let me off the hook", from thinking.

Of course it'd be nice to have all the answers, or better yet- let someone else have all the answers for me, but the older and wiser I get, the more I realize just how disgusting and lazy that attitude is. It just grosses me out at this point. Anyway-

My friend Matt just had a baby, and I'd been thinking about the afterlife lately. It just seems to me that when people think they have this idea about the afterlife that seems graspable- and they relate it to life now- it sounds ridiculous to me.

Could you explain to a fetus what it's going to be like when they are born?

First of all, you wouldn't be able to even communicate with a fetus.
Second, if you could, the fetus would have NO frame fo reference for being "outside",
much less understand that there is a SEPARATE (maybe we're not separate?) being "outside" this wall.... the list of impossibilities goes on and on, doesn't it?

So I think the afterlife is THAT incomprehensible to us here as THIS life is incomprehensible to a fetus.

I took a long time to say that, but that's what I think now.

How is it out there?

I've had this thought on my mind lately, and I figured I'd blog about it-

I've been watching "What the bleep do we know", and reading more about spirituality lately, and I just think that we have it all wrong. I was a bible-thumping Christian for a minute (I even just capitalized "Christian"- old habits die hard I guess), and I think now I was just being lazy.

Lazy because it "let me off the hook", from thinking.

Of course it'd be nice to have all the answers, or better yet- let someone else have all the answers for me, but the older and wiser I get, the more I realize just how disgusting and lazy that attitude is. It just grosses me out at this point. Anyway-

My friend Matt just had a baby, and I'd been thinking about the afterlife lately. It just seems to me that when people think they have this idea about the afterlife that seems graspable- and they relate it to life now- it sounds ridiculous to me.

Could you explain to a fetus what it's going to be like when they are born?

First of all, you wouldn't be able to even communicate with a fetus.
Second, if you could, the fetus would have NO frame fo reference for being "outside",
much less understand that there is a SEPARATE (maybe we're not separate?) being "outside" this wall.... the list of impossibilities goes on and on, doesn't it?

So I think the afterlife is THAT incomprehensible to us here as THIS life is incomprehensible to a fetus.

I took a long time to say that, but that's what I think now.