Decide to be a Millionaire
Intrigued by a reference during a recent business meeting, I picked up the book “Rules for Renegades” by Christine Comaford-Lynch. Apart from an extremely high recommendation, I wanted to touch on one of the more powerful moments I experienced and have thus “borrowed” from Christine.
As an entrprenuer, I have an insatiable curiosity for learning, exploring and improving new ”things”, and an equally ambitious attraction to the thrill, work and reward of a new venture - of taking risks. Although I haven’t always seen it as such, failure in my life now is a virtually non-existent term. Where there is no sense of failure, there is no apathy, complacency or pessimism. Anything is possible. Thats is what I believe.
And while I have always had an unexplainable, unshakable and often frightening (to others :))drive when it comes to pursuing my passions, challenging norms, acheiving success and “making things happen”, I had never thought about the declaration of any formal decision to cement and guide my future searches and ventures. Atleast, not until I met Ms. Comaford-Lynch.
In her book, Chrisitna doesn’t say she is a high school drop out, or lament over her lack of college degree. However, she doesn’t ignore it either. She owns it. She “made a decision to drop out of high school” and “made a decision to drop out of college” (a college she talked her way into without a high school diploma!). And a few years later, she made the decision to be a millionaire. Three years and ten million dollars after she made that decision, she began helping others do the same.
The compelling aspect to this “decision” awareness exisits in its practicality. Making decisions is so commonplace - an everyday, multiple times a day occurence, on several levels ranging ifrom life changing to soda flavor - that I lost sight of their purpose…and of thier power. A decision is a plan - a promise - the follow through.