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Successful business or happy family?
Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live brought to you everyday live from Grants Pass Oregon or wherever we happen to be today.
I’d like to talk about a little bit about success and a little thing called, How To Get Rich.
This is a book by Felix Dennis, publisher of multiple magazines back when he was still walking the earth.
He died in 2014 from, I believe, throat cancer, but while he was around, he published Maxim magazine, published……sorry for my finger going across the screen there, published many, many computer magazines.
Felix Dennis’s, How To Get Rich, this is a great read.
I know it’s a real wild title, but it’s more than just about getting rich. But the, the thing that he brings up in here that’s very controversial and got him a lot of attention when he put this book out was that to get rich, to really get wealthy the way that he describes wealth, you probably can’t have a very happy family life at the same time.
And he’s very confident and open about that and so I had to bring it to you.
I have to ask you, what do you think?
Do you think it’s possible?
Have you been able to have a successful business?
Have you been able to achieve what you consider to be a relative amount of wealth or riches and been able to keep your family together?
Did you have a family or are you single?
If you’re single, do you attribute a lot of being single to being a huge part of what’s made you successful?
Or if you are single and think you’d be more successful if you were married or had a happy family that was all together. Or had kids and then maybe you’re married and don’t have kids. These are all just questions. I’m really curious to find out from you whether that’s true or not in your life.
Now for me, I’ve met people who have wives and lifestyles that I would be a okay with. I mean I’m very happy with the life that I’ve, that I’ve come to, you know, manifest.
Very happy with where I’m at, but I’m always looking to go to the next level and try something new and go a little bit beyond.
I’m not looking to necessarily become absolutely filthy rich, but there’s other things I’d like to experience in life and there’s people I know that appear to have that fruit on the tree and they have successful happy families.
I absolutely believe it’s possible now maybe not to the levels that he’s talking about.
Maybe getting to a certain extent you have to completely toss aside a lot of the concepts of a happy well adjusted family.
Maybe you have to be completely absent for too long in order to really achieve enormous sums of money. But then I ask you whether you think that’s what real success is or is real success being able to really……well, I’ll give you my definition.
My definition of success comes down to really finding your purpose for life and being able to fulfill it to the best of your ability.
I think that’s what success is.
If you could define it as such, or you could even say success doesn’t even exist. It’s such an outrageous word that really doesn’t mean anything. It means so many different things to so many different people that it loses meaning altogether.
Does success exist?
Could it exist for you?
Can it exist on multiple levels?
Can you be successful now and still later?
If you are able and still consider yourself successful. I know these are wild questions are just out of nowhere, but I appreciate this book.
There’s a lot of great stuff in it and a lot of little controversies like that, go and read this book.
It’s definitely worth checking out if you’re more of a listener. I have not been able to find an audio book for sale, but I know it was for sale for one time from audible.com and so you can find it at least currently over on YouTube.
Go and type in how to be rich or how to, excuse me, how to get rich is his is his title. How To Get Rich, by Felix Dennis and you can find the audio book version.
I think it’s an unabridged version.
I’m married, I’ve got three kids and one of the interesting things is that your spouse doesn’t always want to talk about business.
They don’t always want to talk about the things that you’ve been interested in and and and working on all day.
If you are like that or if you’re looking for somebody to talk to about your business, go to DreaBizChat.com especially if you are in the self reliance field.
I’m offering a free dream business transformation there.
If you qualify, go to DreamBizChat.com there’s a quick video there you could watch to see if it’s something you’d be interested in or not. And you can find the link also in the description.
Other than that, we’re going to come back tomorrow, have another talk.
Sometimes we talk about something more specific. Sometimes we deal in principals like today, and in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.