Getting Rich Is Automatic

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For this week’s installment of Rich Dad Wednesday, we’re heading back to the Guide to Investing, but the section I’m reading:

Getting Rich Is Automatic…If You Have a Good Plan and Stick to It

…applies just as well to business, so have no fear Internet business wealth seekers, this is for us too.

I have to confess that at first it was surprising to hear Robert’s rich dad describe what investing was to him,

…for me, investing is as simple and boring as following a recipe to bake bread. Personally I hate risk. I just want to be rich. So I’ll simply follow the plan, the recipe, or the formula.

For me investing, and building a business, have been anything but boring, more of an emotional and financial roller coaster ride.

I’m liking the sound of this “following a plan” concept.

Robert then goes on to ask the obvious question, to the affect of: if getting rich is so easy, why aren’t more people willing to follow a recipe to become rich?

“Because following a simple plan to become rich is boring,” said rich dad. “Human beings are quickly bored and want to find something more exciting and amusing. That is why only three out of a hundred people become rich. They start following a plan, and soon they are bored. So they stop following the plan and then they look for a magic way to get rich quick. They repeat the process of boredom, amusement, and boredom again for the rest of their lives. That is why people do not get rich.”

Sounds about right.

On the Internet there are a million ways to start a new plan to get rich and their are a million gurus telling you their plan is the best one; all designed to entice you from the last plan that you were following.

All you have to do is get the person right at that point of doubt in their current “plan” and feed them a good story, convincing them that your plan is going to work, and you’ve made your sale.

With an audience of computer addicts, who are naturally inclined and pre-conditioned to avoid the feeling of boredom at all cost, this is the easiest market segment to sell into.

The point of this story then is to remind myself [and you too, unless you're already rich] to just pause the next time you’re going to buy a new Internet business concept or product.

Is it really a new plan that you need? Is the current plan really not working or are you just craving the adrenaline rush of starting a new plan, or new direction?

“New” is a very powerful drug and most of us are addicts. Rich dad’s ideas above illustrate that success usually is reserved for the people who can do things differently from the way everyone else is doing them.

Here’s Rich Dad’s action step for getting rich:

Are you willing to start with a simple plan, keep the plan simple, but keep learning and improving as the plan reveals to you what you need to learn along the way? In other words, the plan doesn’t really change, but are you willing to allow the plan to change you?

Yes______ No _______

Trust me on this one, I’ve tried a lot of plans…any one of them could have made me rich, so I can only conclude that it’s me that didn’t work, not the plan.

I’ve got a plan now and I’m learning to let the uncomfortable feelings of boredom and doubt just pass through me, and continue to work on my plan. It’s a relief actually, the feeling of boredom usually comes right before a growth period, so I’ve begun to enjoy the cycle without needing to seek out the drug of “new” that comes with another plan.

Jon Symons
Studying Rich Dad and buying all the latest crappy plans from Internet gurus, so you don’t have to.

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