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Are you sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth? (Part 2)

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Last week Thursday I discussed the concept of sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth (which I learned from Alex Mandossian), and how it applies to your financial life. The big ‘a-ha’ I mentioned in that post referred to when I realized the concept applies to spirituality as well. I’ll discuss that in a moment, but first…

Here are a few more thoughts on the financial issue.

Over the last year and a half, every now and then I would get frustrated in my work place thinking, “I deserve to be earning way more money than this…” And honestly, I really did deserve more! For the value and skillsets I brought to the table, I deserved a heck of a lot more. And many of my co-workers felt the same thing and thought, ‘you’re getting paid what?! Sean, the value you bring to this company is worth far more!’

My lesson to learn though was…

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Are you sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth? (Part 1)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Change the way you look at things

Tonight I had an a-ha moment!

I was thinking about the last year and a half in which I’ve been working at a job with a minimal salary, why I was willing to do that, and why I’m willing to continue doing that.

It’s the concept of ‘sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth,’ I learned from my mentor Alex Mandossian.

While I’ve been primarily correlating that term with the concepts of financial wealth, this evening I connected it to my own life in a completely different way.

I’ll first explain it in the most common way though, which is financial wealth.

I believe that there are many people in this world that (more…)