Hi MIW, firstly it's not 'spot on'. As far as I know, Rixter has never run his own business, so he has no experience to relate this to, therefore his point of view is worthless.
I agree with his concept of what he said, I do not know him nor his experience, I am often open-minded, so I try not to judge that. We may have similar mindsets that's all.
I do not understand why a discussion suddenly becomes someone's personal experience? When we read a book we can take things away and apply it without really knowing if the concepts or ideas have been really practiced by the author, or if they will work for us, right?
As Ace In The Hole stated, the reality is that most business owners can't simply 'not turn up'. There is no way that a business is 'set and forget'. Anyone that has run businesses will be able to tell you that. Even if you have systems and processes and management in place to run things on your behalf, you still need to manage the managers.
I agree with you that
most business owners,
most people yes, cannot just 'not turn up', especially if you are growing your business, eventually their business becomes there passion and they do not for see it as their job, rather they love what they do.
Business and the world in general is constantly evolving, you can't simply just throw the keys at your no. 1 guy and say 'I'm off to travel the world. See ya in 12 months!' and come back expecting things to be just how you left them.
You are limited though by your belief, I personally know of friends who travel the world 8 months of the year, each year and have done so for the last 12 years. YET, their income and wealth keeps increasing....Their son runs part of the business now with the so called "managers", I never intended to go into the details of how things are run but people in true business leverage not just money but time by levering people too.
Another option is to sell the business and my other successful friend sold his. So it really depends what one's needs and desires are...
All RK does is fill books full of useless crap that sounds great and sells well, but most of it isn't relatable to the real world. Rich Dad, Poor Dad was good as a way to plant the seed. The rest of his stuff is garbage. Why would you take advice from a salesman whose success came from selling books and seminars?
For those that are interested, I strongly recommend reading the book 'Good To Great', which is frankly much more relatable to the real world in business terms than RK could ever possibly hope to be.
As I reiterate, I am open minded, I will read and listen to all, even you, what I do with that information is then up to me or you, right? I am not enhancing others more or less, I have read many authors, I am just presenting my point of view, that's all. We are all different and as I say we like our tea or coffee differently, right? SO yes we agree with some and disagree with some....
Your point above was presented to me by another dear friend, about 15 years ago, who suggested I fill in authors' pockets by buying their books or seminars, or whatever!
AND, my answer to this was and still is..."If I take one thing out, from that useless crap as you put it, and apply it and make my life better, I do not care how much they make!".
Since that time I have learned few dear lessons and gained some too, so you see it's up to our mindset, to see whether it is of any benefit to us!
The concept I tried to illustrate unfortunately applies only to few, only few are on the top if we look at a pyramid scheme of things. However, I have seen people with nothing making huge leaps ahead... Perhaps sharing this on this forum is not such a great thing, you tell me?
