4 Month Update
By Jason
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These last 4 months have been a wild ride, both for my personal life and for this website. World Fitness Network officially kicked off just over 4 months ago with it’s first article. The first month or two were very slow, with some very basic articles as a base for beginners.
The website has grown steadily over the last few months and well over 1,000 of you are now subscribed. Thanks to all those who return regularly as active readers.
How I ended up here:
I worked for a CPA firm for a while out of college. Every day was long… working 8 am to 11 pm during the busy season (3 months) and often until 9 pm the rest of the year. Very little time for family, weight training, etc.
WFN officially began in late October 2007. It started with a simple website that I slowly built for 2 hours a night after work each day. Those hours were tough, but exciting. My background with various internet-related jobs during college was a big help. Combined with many years of successes and failures in the gym and years of reading, and I was ready to make a site to help out others.
But why?
I dunno, but I just didn’t like the idea of going to work every day to make other people rich. I prefer to do what I enjoy and possibly even make enough to support myself while doing it.
While I’m no expert on success and becoming rich, here are a few things that I have come to believe about financial success.
1. You won’t get rich working for someone else: Some people can get rich by working for other people, but it’s not likely. Maybe if you become a star or work your way to the top of a big company. But the problem is that the company you work for wasn’t designed to make you rich. It was built to enrich the person who made the company. They will pay you just enough to keep you happy and working to make more money for them.
2. True wealth comes from equity: This basically means that rich people are rich because they own something. They might have investments (stock, real estate), or often they own a business. They do not think in terms of working a certain number of hours for each paycheck, but rather doing something out of the ordinary that can grow faster than the regular salary increase of 5% per year.
3. Rich people often start a business: Rich people devise a system that works for them. Instead of working on a project for a week that earns $1,000 dollars, a rich person might instead hire another person to do the work for $800 and keep the left over $200. Hire 30 workers under that arrangement and setup a good system (manage it well), and you’ll make much more money. Become an entrepreneur, make wise investments, and see opportunities for exponential growth.
4. Don’t do it just for the money: You might not make money for a while, and if you do, it might not be great at first. Four out of five businesses fail, but the key is to experiment and see what works well. Don’t fear failure.
I’m no expert on getting rich (especially since I’m not rich), but all those accounting and finance classes in college have allowed me to see how true wealth is created. Read books like Rich Dad Poor Dad. It will open your mind to a new way of thinking.
I’ll look forward to the upcoming months. Plenty more content is on the way related to building muscle and losing fat. Thanks again.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Susan Kishner
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Welcome Susan, and thanks for your kind words!
March 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I’ll look forward to the upcoming months too, Jason! I really enjoy reading your posts here