James Dicks's Blog – September 2010 Archive (4)

I can’t take it anymore, as a United States Marine, I served this great country to protect our very rights that seem to be not slowly but quickly disappearing, at almost an alarming rate. Well enough is enough, I will continue to…

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To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don’t know how to dream—they’ve never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free.



Other people, deep down, don’t believe that they deserve wealth or success.… Continue

I always wanted to be millionaire. I clearly didn’t inherit this desire, because my parents weren’t rich. My father seemed to work as hard as anyone trying to create lasting wealth as an entrepreneur and I guess by the time he retired he had created a nice little nest egg, but that was his retirement and probably not much more than someone retiring from a big company.



For me, I always wanted freedom. I saw that the lack of money bothered my father.

He felt trapped in a business… Continue

Several years ago, in the best-selling book The Millionaire NextDoor, the authors described the day-to-day lives of contemporary millionaires: what they think, what they buy, their daily habits, and so on. What came through loud and clear was a mindset of success.

Those millionaires next door were recognizable—in other words, in lots of ways, they weren’t all that different from you and me. But they were distinctive in the way they thought about the world, and about their…

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