Event and Process

Event refers to the moment of success.


When an athlete takes part in Olympic Games and wins his first championship, it is an event. When Barack Hussein Obama took part in the presidential election and won it, it was an event. When someone becomes suddenly famous by singing a song, it is an event.
Behind every event, there is a process which makes the event almost inevitable. The athlete took training many years for the Olympic games but you don't know. Barack Obama put effort of many years which could let him become a president before the presidential election, but you don't know. The unknown singer might sing many years before she sang the song which made her become instantly famous, but you don't know.
So someday if one of your friends or acquaintances suddenly becomes rich, don't think that he or she is just lucky. He/she is not just lucky, he/she must have failed many times before that event, or he/she must have spent many years which would make that event inevitable.
So if you want success, please be willing to go through the process.

Why are a lot of people not rich

Why are a lot of people not rich?

First, they don't believe that they can make a lot of money. Since they don't believe that they can make a lot of money, they won't try to seek methods or formulas which can let them make a lot of money.

Second, if you ask them whether they want to make a lot money, they will say "Yes."  But what they really mean is that if a lot of money can suddenly fall into their lap, they will gladly take it. If you tell them that it will take them some effort, they will say, "OK. Forget about it."

They don't believe that they can make a lot of money and they don't want to put forth any effort in making a lot of money. So, how can they be rich?

Want to be looked up to/thought highly of

When we came to this world, we didn't know anything. We didn't have any needs except for a few very basic physiological needs. After 20 years or 30 years of living, we have formed many needs. This means that those needs are not innate, they are just learned.

One of the needs we have is that we want to be looked up to and thought highly of by people.

Why do you want to be looked up to and thought highly of by people?
I don't know. I just learned that.
how did you learn that?
I don't know.
Why did you learn that?
I don't know.

How did you learn it?
Can you remember, when you were young, if someone looked up to you, your parents would have a very pleasant attitude as if it was very good that you were looked up to, therefore you learned that it was good to be looked up to.

On the contrary, your mom would have a sour attitude if a moment ago a person didn't look up to you and now the person was left, as if it was not  good if you were not looked up to by a person.

How did it affect you?

Since I wanted people to look up to me and think highly of me, I would always try to seem capable and smart, this is fine. However, if I found that what I had done turned out to be not so smart or wise, I would tempt not to admit it, because I knew that if I admitted it, people would find that I was not so smart or capable as they had thought I was, they would look down upon me or think low of me. Since I didn’t want them to look down upon me or think low of me, I would  cover it and continue to do what I had been doing and don’t change it. In this way, I sacrificed the way to live a better life, I sacrificed a better life to maintain people’s favorable or good impression of me. It isn’t worthwhile.

It is OK that people to look down upon me or think low of me.  I don’t have to let people look up to me or think highly of me.

How can you make a lot of money

I think that you all want to make a lot of money. You may often ask, "How can I make a lot of money?" This is a wrong question which will lead you to a dead train of thought. Instead of ask you how you can make a lot of money, ask you how you can help other people. If you help one person, you can make a little money; if you help one hundred people, you can make some money; if you can help 1 million people, you can make a lot of money. If you can help 10 million people, you will make a huge amount of money.

Find an unmet need, or a need that is not met well, then meet this need or meet the need better than existing providers.  Make sure that you can distribute it to many people.

Think of a way/method, a product, a formula, or a service that can help people, and figure out a way that can distribute your help to millions of people, then you will be financially rich.

It is easy to make money. Making money is to help people. How can you help people? How many people can you help?

hard-working to smart-working

When we came to this world, we didn’t know anything. Now after 20 years or 30 years, we seem to know everything.  We have our opinion or cognition of almost everything. This means that our opinions or cognition of everything are not innate, they are just learned.

Making money needs or requires hard-working.

Why does making money need hard-working?

Money can only be made by hard-working.

Why can money only be made by hard-working?

I learned it.

How did you learn it?

My parents imbued me with that idea.

Why did your parents imbue you with that idea?

They believe that idea.

Why do they believe that idea?

I don’t know.

Mom, why do you believe that idea?

I don’t know.

How did it affect you?

Since I believed that making money should be hard-working, I wouldn’t think about the ways to make money which didn’t require hard-working, if there was some ways to make money which didn’t require hard-working, I wouldn’t believe it, I would simply ignore it. since I didn’t think about the ways to make money which didn’t require hard-working, I ended up making money just by hard-working, therefore I’ve been always hard-working to make money.

Making money doesn’t require hard-work, making money requires smart-work. Making money requires work, but the work doesn't necessarily have to be hard, but it has to be smart.

We're selectively living in this world

When we desire a goal that we believe we can achieve in our heart of hearts, we will be attentive to it, we will keep a watchful eye on any messages or information that can lighten us how to achieve it. Every day, every moment we are exposed to unlimited messages or information. What message or information we will receive or get depends on our mind selection. Yes, we selectively receive and absorb the messages in our daily life. We choose information that can conform to the cognition/beliefs we've already had, we just want to confirm it with information from an external source.  Or we just selectively receive messages that we are subconsciously seeking. So we either get messages that we've already had, but just to confirm the same message in  our mind, or we just get messages that we are seeking. What we are seeking, what we will have.

Even our thoughts we have are selected if we actively think. We think how to create wealth, then our thoughts will naturally revolve around it, we will have thoughts about creating wealth. If we think that we can achieve a goal, our thoughts following this belief will revolve around how the goal can be achieved; if we don't think that we can achieve a goal, our thoughts following this disbelief will revolve around justifications why this goal can't be achieved. When we don't believe a goal can be achieved, we will get justifications and confirmation why it can't be achieved; when we believe that a goal can be achieved, we will start to get ideas how it can be achieved.

 What messages/information we receive are selected, what thoughts we have are selected.  Selection creates difference between people's mind. We're selectively living in this world.

Mediocrity

When we came to this world, we knew nothing, after 20 years of living or 30 years of living, we seem to know everything, we have our own opinion of everything. This means that our own opinions of everything are not something we congenitally have prior to or when we came to this world, we learned them along the way we have been living, and we will continue to live forward to learn more things.

If your parents are mediocre people, as most of parents are, the chances are they would imbue you with ideas/concepts/beliefs/views that belong to mediocre living, since it was a long time which spanned many years, those mediocre ideas/concepts/beliefs/views have been deep-rooted in your mind and you even forget  that those ideas/concepts/beliefs/views are actually learned and mistakenly take them as how this world works. We have been used to mediocre living so long that we even don't want to change for a better living because we have become very comfortable to it by getting used to it so long. Once change, it challenges our very ideas/concepts/beliefs/views about reality that we have possessed for so long and been comfortable with, we may feel upset, we may feel uncomfortable. We are mentally used to mediocre living. Our parents would let us understand we could only be able to live a mediocre life, have mediocre means, achieve mediocre goals, marry a mediocre girl, enjoy mediocre happiness and fulfillment and we don't deserve an abundant life, we don't deserve a lot of wealth, we don't deserve a magnificent life, those are what we can merely wish but will never really have.

Therefore, to live an extraordinary life, you have to reclaim that you deserve an extraordinary life and you need to learn to believe that you have the ability to live an extraordinary life.

This may seem intimidating, because from our past experiences, we have already formed an opinion that we don't have that ability to live an extraordinary life. If we had that ability to live an extraordinary life, we would live a much better life now than we are currently living,  that's our reasoning. However, when we think this way, we make a mistake, because our ability is very much bonded to our beliefs. We can only be as capable as we believe that we can be. Our ability is bonded to our ideas/beliefs/concepts/views. Mediocre thinking produces mediocre ability. We simply need to change our thinking/mind to empower our ability, to free up our ability.

We also don't believe that we deserve an extraordinary life. Why? That's because of the drawback of the mind. We may arrogantly believe that we think freely and we have free thinking, but actually all of our thoughts/cognition are simply learned or enlightened by an external source, or simply extended by reasoning from a learned or enlightened thought/cognition. If we can simply grow thoughts/cognition ourselves, we wouldn't need education(Education here including schooling, experiences, reading books, watching TV, listening to radios, or reading this blog, etc.). Simply put, we need someone to tell/enlighten us that we deserve an extraordinary life or experience an experience which tells/enlightens us that we deserve an extraordinary life, obviously our mediocre parents didn't do that to us, or we might have someone occasionally telling us that we deserved an extraordinary life  but in the meantime we had 10 people or even 100 people who told us that we just deserved a mediocre life. We simply learned to forget that occasional incident.

So now you can assert(I enlighten you) that you deserve an extraordinary life. Simply believe that you deserve an extraordinary life is not enough, you have to work to realize it because our life is created by ourselves, therefore you should be willing to change your beliefs/opinions/thoughts so you can possess new beliefs/opinions/thoughts that can nurture high ability.

Opportunistic thinking

Do you want to start a business but don't have a business idea? It is easy to find a business idea.

Making money is a process of helping other people, delivering value to other people.

What goals do you want to achieve? Are there any other people who have the same goal as you? Can you launch a service or product to help other people realize their goals?

Are you anguishing in a tough situation? Think about it, in the country, is there only you who are anguishing in that tough situation? Or are there 100,1000,10000, 100000 or even more who are in the same situation? If so, can you do something for them? Can you help them solve the problem or at least partially solve the problem, or can you give them some mental support like empathy? Like a movie, TV drama, magazine, it doesn't necessarily solve your problem, but it may make you feel better and you will see that you are not alone. It may strike a deep chord with them which may make the movie or TV drama a blockbuster.

What value can you offer to other people? If you can offer value to thousands of people, you can make a good business, if you can offer value to millions of people, you can make a great business.

From everything, either good or bad, there is an opportunity.  A lot of people want to buy stocks, good, you can make money by helping them buy stocks. A lot of young adults are single and feel difficult to find a mate, good, you can make a lot of money by helping them find a mate. A lot of people are cynical, good, you can make a lot of money by creating a place for them to express and indulge in their cynicism.


You don't have to start a business which does something completely new. You can do something other people have already been doing, as long as you can do it better and distribute it to more people. For example, there are many coffee shops, you can also open a new coffee shop, as long as you can do it better, maybe add one function to it, or serve a purpose which other coffee shops don't serve, and then you brand your coffee shop, duplicate it by store chaining or franchising, you can deliver it to a lot of people.

4 Mindsets

Our behaviors and actions create the outer results, and our behaviors and actions are dictated by our mind, therefore it is our mind that dictates the outer results, so it is imperative to have a correct mind.

Mindset 1: There are no outer issues, there are only inner issues. The outer world is a perfect world, the issues are only inner. Our thoughts, beliefs, desires, fears, biases, unclear thinking, etc. are the roots of the issues.

Mindset 2:  Take 100% responsibility for your life. We're the reason for everything. If something fails, it is because that we make it fail. Don't think about if you will succeed or fail. Whether you succeed or fail doesn't depend on anything else, whether you succeed or fail depends on what you do and how you behave,  if you succeed, it is what you do and how you behave that makes you succeed, if you fail, it is what you do and how you behave makes you fail. What you do and how you behave are dictated by your mind, so it is your mind that makes you succeed or fail.

What mind should you have to make you succeed?
You should believe that you will succeed as long as you correctly do, as long as you correctly behave.


Mindset 3: Positive thinking makes us more likely to achieve our goals. Positive thinking empowers us, can do more help to us than so-called rational thinking. Positive thinking is more enlightened than realistic thinking or rational thinking. Positive thinking motivates our mind while realistic thinking or rational thinking just makes us feel good but not necessarily get better. Realistic thinking or rational thinking makes us underachieved by not motivating our mind.

Mindset 4: See opportunity from everything you see. Try to take advantage of everything.  Examples: when there is an economic crisis, good, this is an opportunity, I can take advantage of it. When there is an economic boom, good, this is an opportunity, I can take advantage of it. When a bad experience happens to you, good, this is an opportunity, I can take advantage of it. From everything I see, I see an opportunity at it.

Innovation and Distribution

One way to make money:

Innovation and distribution:
Innovation: you don't have to completely invent a new product or service. You can just reinvent a product or service, or modify or improve an existing  product or service, or add a modern element into a traditional product or service, repackage it and reintroduce it to the world. Innovation is just half of the battle while distribution is the other half of the battle which eventually determines the failure or success of a business. Sometimes you can succeed with a mediocre product or service if your distribution is immensely successful, while sometimes you will not succeed if you have an excellent product or service if you can't successfully deliver it to the hands of million people. People don't pay you just because you invent or have an excellent product or service, people just pay you when you invent or have an excellent product or service and actually deliver it to them.

Methodically/technically, it is easy to make a lot of wealth. Think about what value you can offer to the world, think about what value you can offer to other people that can help other people, and you know how to distribute this value(product or service) to millions of people, you can be rich. Money is a reward for your contribution to this society, the society values rich people because rich people have made great contributions to this society.

Or think about what goals you have, and how you realize your goals, think about it, can how you realize your goals help other people realize their own goals, if yes, tell other people how to realize their goals, if you can successfully tell millions of people how to realize their goals, you can be rich.

Or how do you improve your life? Can how you improve your life help other people improve their own life, then tell it to millions of people, if you can tell millions of people how to improve their life, you can be rich.

Simply put, to get rich is to deliver value carried by either a product or a service to millions of people, or to deliver huge value to hundreds of people.