How I Will Be Rich

Hey everyone!… actually, it’s probably just Matt and I reading these posts, but hopefully soon we’ll have some dedicated readers.

I’m Joe, and like Matt said, I’m 22 and attending Cal State San Marcos for Marketing. While I’m not slamming the books into my head, hoping that something will sink in, I’m working part time for a couple of companies. My “day job”, throughout the week, is working alongside Matt at the shutter manufacturing plant. I’ll let you get a grasp of how ravishing that industry is by reading Matt’s last post. On the weekends I spend my hours at the local Whole Foods Markets working for my wonderful girlfriend’s natural food promotion company. While hocking organically goodness, I’ve met various successful people that have started their own businesses and try to lead their own path through life. Working in both of these positions have allowed me to use my time, not only to complete my job, but to absorb many of the inner-workings of a business. Prior to these two jobs, I did not know much of how a business was run or what was needed to get one rolling; The only thing I knew was that my head needed to get in the game.

Spending the time at work with Matt has been one of the most beneficial things I could have done for expanding my needed knowledge in business. I can, almost fully, dedicate that fire in me to get things rolling to Matt. Digging up any free second we can at work, we’ll spend quickly throwing out some business ideas for the near future that we so madly long to begin. This blog comes from a direct result of our dire need to get something going and in the works.

As Matt stated in his previous post, this blog is more or less going to show our path during our journey to our goal.

“And what goal would that be ‘ol Joe?”… Well that goal I will tell!

It is definitely not to make all the money in the world, but rather to be happy and comfortable. We, and hopefully along with everyone else, believe that you shouldn’t have to wait until 50+ years of age to start the “Golden Years”; START NOW!! There’s no point to dibble dabble in the 9-5 positions that float around on Monster.com for 30 years and hope that you’ll end up with some nice retirement savings when it’s all said and done. Our goal is simply to kick that predisposition of getting a comfortable job out of the window and dragging those Golden Years, that seem light years away, and bring them into our lifetime, NOW! We want to live that life that has always seemed so far out of reach. Let me list a few things I wouldn’t mind doing in the upcoming couple years…

Travel to Europe and cycle around Italy, check. Buy a car that doesn’t make a pinging noise when accelerate going up hills, check. Purchase a house in San Diego and be able to call it my own, check. Complete an intense 200km, six-day run throughout Costa Rica, check. Wrestle bears and finally capture Bigfoot in some far off land… we’ll just say in the middle of Russia, check check check cheek chekc chkee.

Ok, well I got a little carried away there, but now you can see how excited and anxious this can make you! We all have the fire like this in us, you just need to find a way to free yourself and be financially comfortable enough to go out there and conquer the world!

Here’s a little quote from a book I just finished that I completely agree with:

“If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not constantly demanding more from yourself–expanding and learning as you go–you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.”
-Dean Karnazes, Ultra Marathon Man

That quote and this post pretty much sums up how I like to live my life. Crazy? I like to think not, but I wouldn’t put it against you if you called me that.

Now on to blogging madness!!

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This is my first (real) entry in to our Web log and since no one will probably read this for a while until I actually start posting something interesting, I will just post a little about myself and why I wanted to create this blog. My name is Matthew and I am 24 years old. I work full time running the family business. We are in the exciting industry of window coverings. More specifically, we make wood shutters. I know that this sounds like an amazing and fulfilling industry to be involved in and everyone out there wants to know how they can get in to this gold mine but I’m actually looking for bigger and better things. I am an investor that mainly dabbles in the stock market and I am trying desperately to set up some sort of online business. My ultimate goal is to make my fortune in real estate but that still seems a little far off for me. I read constantly. I go through about a book a week and sometimes even two. Every single book is either about business, investing, finance, entrepreneurship and so on and so on. They say the best way to learn anything is teach and I feel as if a blog is a good method to regurgitate all that I have learned and all that I have studied. If people actually read and get something from this, then I guess that is just an added bonus.

I frequent many blogs and will probably repost some of the great advice or give opinions on the less than stellar advice that I’ve read. My current favorite blog is the “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” Blog. I check in on it daily. Ramit is a great writer and has a lot to offer (Maybe that’s why he has got a book deal in the works). I am a fan of Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, Retire Rich, Retire Young) mainly because the way he writes gives me hope for the short term. I’ve read The Millionaire Next Door and I think it’s a great book, I highly recommend it. I will go in to a little more detail in a later book review. My problem with it is that it conveys a message of, “be frugal, save, invest and maybe someday you’ll be rich.” Although I think that’s great advice and you can’t just go out blow all your money, it is so much less that satisfying. I’m young now and I want to have fun. I like books and authors that write about how to make money young and meet your life goals before the typical retirement age. I believe it’s important to invest and to spend modestly but at the same time, I want to get in to real estate and I want to travel and I want to do it before I’m 50.

A friend of mine, Joe Fier, who will also contribute to this blog, has a very similar mindset. We have basically decided that when our two minds work together, we can basically accomplish anything. Expect great posts and information from him as well.

I’ll end on this…
We will be rich. I am 100% confident of this and we completely plan to document our path to get there. We want to teach people how we are doing it along the way and inform people of the books that have changed our lives. Feel free to comment if you agree, disagree or want to call us names but I will get there.

-M

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My name is Matthew Wolfe and my buddy Joe Fier and I are starting this blog as a motivational tool. We plan on updating pretty much on a daily basis and discussing various financial issues. We are doing this to get our own personal goals out in the open and so that others can hopefully learn from our ideas, mistakes and triumphs. I’ve completely written a first blog post to explain my initial points of view when starting this blog but unfortunately it is saved on another computer. I will try to post it soon. (It is much longer than this)

I hope people will find this useful or at least interesting.

-M

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