that lead them to [where they are].
Although I don’t know where she is-as a layer of optimism atop the her (then) pessimistic cake, I imagine that she is “one of them”—and who’s story I’d love to hear.
You see, I’m a firm believer in meeting people where they are at. And before I continue, let me give you this writer’s words who wrote this article and uploaded those infographic with it.
This is what/the words she prefaced the infographic with:
What do Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett have in common, in addition to their fairly sizable net worths? More than you might think.
An infographic developed by social-media marketing company NowSourcing details some of the qualities and traits shared by the rich (we’re talking those who earn more than $160,000 a year and have $3.2 million in assets). If you want to take a page out of Bill Gates’ playbook, wake up early, exercise, read more (definitely cut back on your reality TV intake) and write a daily to-do list.
For more tips and statistics, including a gender breakdown and where the world’s nearly 31.7 million millionaires call home, check out the infographic below.
…And before I go on, let me preface what I am about to say too because (already-even before I continued from where I asked yous to #staytuned) a couple of nonthinking people who knee-jerkedly was ready and hoping I was preparing for some Oprah Armageddon when (for the record)…simply because Oprah is one of the examples in the infographic-beyond her control (and especially considering my write up having not even been finished before expecting this to be a diss)…I’ll have you know this: There is no need for me to set up to diss somebody who’s known me/my name even before the birth of Twitter and Facebook (probably in early 2000s or so) and who, with that alone, I have at least a little respect for–someone who’s taken the time to email me back from their personal email (while on vacation in 2012).
So for the record, and considering the liiiitle bit of a rapport I have with her (over the average person reading this), I would think I’d be a little more couth than to prepare a public diss via my blog—(simply because some graphic artist put her name on an info graphic that a writer chose to write about?).
No.
If for any reason there was ever a reason for me to diss “Oprah”-she’s given me enough respect and courtesy such that I would be couth enough to use that very chain of command when she took it upon her self to write me back from-not via my blog-in public to embarrass her.
I’m no coward. If I have a rapport with or someone’s phone number, email or access to them in any way off social media, I’m not the coward to use platform to do it on the sneak….
Anywho.
That’s not what this is even about (dissing Oprah, Warren or Bill Gates)-they just so happen to be the examples used in this writers article and infographic as the source of her article. They are not necessarily the subjects—of what I am about to say.
So now that we’re clear on that…are we clear enough for me to move forward?
Thank you!
So at any rate.
I get it. I do that too (what the writer mentioned regarding Bill Gates’ playbook where she wrote:
“If you want to take a page out of Bill Gates’ playbook, wake up early, exercise, read more (definitely cut back on your reality TV intake) and write a daily to-do list.”
I get it.
Those are the basics. Right now, in my modest life—no where near having earned as much as Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffet, wake up early, exercise, reading, very limited TV intake, writing a daily to-do list is a basic routine (that requires much to do within). On the level of Bill Gates, those are foreseeable.
I see a lot of articles like this-when trying to inform everyday people about habits, rituals or practices of successful people like as Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffet. But the best way to reach everyday people when giving a “playbook” is 80% through their “Taco Bell stories” and 20% advising them of already successful people’s rituals and habits.
It would on be logical to know that a life (like the girl who ranted online) versus a successful person’s life would be vastly and by contrast: different.
And one of the things that come with being financial successful (versus the average person) is this: their money buys them time (for certain rituals and habits and all else that they can routinely adhere to and do).
Whether you’re Bill Gates or Bill DowntheStreet however, time is really the only value we all have. Time buys us options, things…and even more time.
So the fact is: You have to meet people where THEY are at
