A few days ago, I watched a program about high-income skills by renowned king of high-ticket sales Dan Lok, and ideas have been brewing in my head since that program.
When I took an assessment, it was clear that I was under the label of Silent Rainmaker (there was a little page they made to express this very fact).
This means, for those who don’t extrapolate well, that I have the means to succeed. All of the keys of success lie within the region of space occupied by this brain, and the keys to succeed remain in the sense that we must develop a system which works for us.
See, ADHD allows us to use our brain without even really understanding why we have this particular difficulty in the first place. We have a very specific set of rules which are not universal– that is to say, what works for one ADHDer might not work for the next.
Our understanding of certain things is unsurpassed by all except those who have hands-on experience in such fields, but the very thing which gets us into some trouble is the lack of organization skills, the lack of planning skills, the lack of [skills considered boring to us because that’s just how it is], general forgetfulness, and a slew of other things which might have been repeated in past posts. I have oftentimes overlooked very important aspects of life, such as planning and organization, specifically because I had never expressed such an interest in learning those skills.
It seems to occur to me now that we can unearth skills considered “beast mode” to some, but to those people who don’t have ADHD, we just do a lot of nothing. We appear to be lost in our thoughts constantly. But at the same time, we tend to lose focus a lot of the time because of the sheer volume of ideas randomly coming to the forefront of our conscious minds from the depths of the unconscious or subconscious minds.
Here is where things become interesting. We have ideas all the time. As children, we were taught in a traditional schooling system which only served to grant us enough rote and quoted information (legalized plagiarism, if anything) to get us through high school. As adults, we are given the boot to go straight to work, college, military, or self-education. Among all of these given bits of information, we have not yet developed a system of education which caters to those who have very specific learning capacities due to the sheer number of teachers who have the tolerance to deal with us ADHDers being– well, critically low or non-existent.
This is a difficult subject to deal with, and it is unfortunately the reality for many people. The basic education system is intended to help those of us who might later in life wish to become general education instructors.
YOU HAVEN’T MADE A POINT YET, BRANDON
Yes, I know, and I am getting to it. I just wanted to start a new section.
All right, so the point here is that we must consider the natural talents of a child with ADHD. If you receive an official diagnosis for him or her, your job might be to adapt to the environment and concentrate on what skills they are exploring. If they develop an interest in, say, coin collecting, learn about specific coins and where you can obtain them, and teach them the differences between certain coins. Learn about precious metals, like silver and gold. Coins used to be made of precious metals, after all!
For another example, I expressed a strong affinity for learning about science and the planets as a child. I gained tons of insight just from reading books (elementary school textbooks proved to be surprisingly effective at getting the basic point across as an entry level to self-directed expansion of understanding). As such, there might be ways to ensure that we can develop their interests when traditional classroom education might fail to help with these skills.
I know a little about a lot of things, and each of these unrelated subjects can often lead to fresh, new ideas. My frustration is that realizing them is difficult because it almost literally takes someone to show me a particular method in order for me to learn. That’s just how I operate, and understanding this is a vital piece of knowledge.
It proves to be somewhat challenging to explain this because my focus for learning is always shifting, to the inclusion of writing this out and actually finishing posting these posts (I have given up on at least 15 blog posts because I lost interest in finishing them, and they would have made for excellent reading to a non-ADHDer).
COME ON! YOU’RE LITERALLY RAMBLING
Yes, I am. I cannot help that.
The ideas presented to me in the form of abstract images and words and even sounds might seem like hallucinations based on the way I am describing them, but this is how my brain processes everything. Right now, for example, I am listening to Fleshgod Apocalypse in my head while typing this out and becoming inspired to play similar music while fighting the urge to laugh at..
You know what? That’s going nowhere still.
Our disorganized thoughts need a form of organization in order to function properly in the social world, and with the least possible discomfort. That said, when we laser focus on something, we tend to absorb information at lightning speed because we want to know everything RIGHT NOW. Given enough time to organize ideas, we then tend to develop our own systems of learning and structure. If we focused on organizational skills long enough, we would become master schedulers, and masters of our own routines.
The best way to learn about organizing things is to practice those skills. This is true for anyone and everyone.
This is why I have recently become more in tune to financial knowledge and literacy.
I read books all the time, and never finish them. Overloading information about a single income stream without connecting the dots to real-life examples tends to frustrate us, but once we make ONE transaction, more successful transactions tend to snowball. I have now become a household economist in the sense that I appropriate funds to work around our budget and debt relief.
So, how does that bring us to this post? Have I finally made a point?
NO, YOU HAVEN’T
All right! Stop yelling at me!
Figuring out systems which work is a challenge. As we discussed (as I wrote) earlier, developing systems comes after time, but only after practice. As soon as one can break down a successful set of rules, time limits, and meeting actual goals one can generate a system on their own to habitually increase the quality of their lives.
This brings me to the point, finally.
I understand that having a credit score is something that people are most familiar with when it comes to making purchases, and I think I have just made a solid idea as to how to utilize credit score improvement. I will, of course, put this into practice once I have reduced our debts to $0 (with the exception of the house, obviously), or I will actually utilize this idea in the middle of it. I haven’t quite decided.
See, the problem with me doing this is that it might actually be WAY too good to be true. This might not work at all, but at the same time, it combines two things: debt and investing.
Real estate is something I have been reading about, and I have made zero action on it. However, as Robert Kiyosaki has mentioned in books and videos, the idea is to use debt as a means to bring about wealth. On a small scale, this can work into much larger transactions.
One can use money to make money grow in the form of net worth, using things that are specifically NOT real estate. As a future owner of rental properties, one thing I can be sure of right now is that I have to USE the free information out there, and it can be found and turned into a gold mine. In a few short years, I can be OUT of debt and growing my wealth exponentially, and not a single second of college would have helped me out to any degree– and most certainly, none of the information I learned in elementary school would have been responsible for this.
I learned basic mathematics, but using mathematics in real life (quadratic formula and square roots and other stuff like that) always made absolutely no sense to me, even through college.
But!
Using calculators as a means by which to figure out how to determine the speed of a train leaving two points at the same time on two islands in Hawaii is not practical for me to know.
THE NEXT MORNING
I started typing this out yesterday and was sidetracked by the fact that we needed to go somewhere. Happy birthday to me!
For and ADHDer, time management presents itself as a bit of a problem. If we take too much time to perform a task on a daily basis for weeks on end, we burn out. This, I believe, explains our short-lived attention to a hobby— at least, that is, in my experience. This is how we forget appointments, and sometimes we have a tendency to be late because we are trying to finish another hobby-related task before going out to do the adulting thing. It is almost as if we have a force guiding us to do something against the very grain of our daily lives, sometimes to the exclusion of other peoples’ needs. If you have ever been in the presence of an ADHDer, and they seem to lose track of time, understand that this is a daily struggle. Their (our) minds wander over and over again.
I have just somehow remembered the basic element of this thing that I am typing, and have lost track again, all in the course of three seconds.
Look, as difficult as it is to complete this, I feel it necessary to tell you these things because there are a lot of people out there doing the exact same thing that I am doing, on a daily basis, who have to struggle to stay on topic. Some people have a much milder version of ADHD than I do, and some who might have more profound symptoms and behavioral traits.
YAWN, MAN. YAWN.
Okay, I wrote it down.
Robert Kiyosaki knows how to invest. He has an exorbitant net worth because he knows how to use his money in the sense that he has it working for him. The basic method he teaches is to not spend on liabilities, but on assets. When you purchase assets, you begin from that very day to earn money on nearly autopilot. Granted, the cash on cash return is somewhat low, with some returns as low as 3% and some as high as 12%, or better. But the point here is to express that if you invest, you will, over the course of time (the long term), have passive income in the form of dividends.
Now we are back on track.
He also teaches that people who become millionaires almost always have real estate in their portfolios, and the reasons why are actually fairly astonishing to someone who has never even dabbled in a book on real estate. Lots of people in real estate deal with one type of real estate, particularly due to the fact that they like to invest into what works for them based on their familiarity.
Some others advance from residential to commercial real estate and raw land.
But almost every single real estate investor has tax-free cash flow. With enough properties under your belt, your cash flow can surpass the basic monthly expenditures for your own home, vehicle payments, and utilities. For example, if your monthly expenditures are $3,000 for gas, food, utilities, mortgage, insurance, and debt payments, then your monthly cash flow from properties to the tune of $3,001 per month will allow you to become financially free. At this point, you can double up on your real estate holdings to $6,000 tax free income, then $12,000, and so on and so forth.
I have yet to develop a system to get started.
In order to invest in real estate, you always have the option for creative financing. In order to take advantage of that, consider how much you might need to leverage. If you have, say, $50,000 to invest, that will allow you to make a single purchase for a $200,000 property.
You can take out a loan (which isn’t your money) to finance the property, and then immediately rent it out. Property management is always available to help screen applicants.
You can also find another investor and split the cash flow 50% (half to you for finding the property, and half to the investor who funded the property acquisition).
I would be MORE than willing to have someone take me by the hand and show me the ropes to real estate investing, and fork out half the profits to someone else because they helped me out.
But! What if you want to take smaller risks?
Well, this is also an option, but this is only a system I have devised. In order to test to see if it would work, I would have to perform the same actions, but for smaller investments.
Once I can see how it pans out, I can then capitalize on that idea. Taking on consumer debt is always a bad idea, but taking on good debt for leverage is where the real money is.
The entire point of this post has finally come to fruition. That took me a while.
You might wish to consider reading more about Robert Kiyosaki, and I will post affiliate links (yes, I would earn a small percentage of your purchase at no extra cost to you).
I am verily still in the learning stage of this new lifestyle, and my goal is to fight my way to the top without having to require someone else’s permission.
I know this blog post is hard to read, but it was difficult to get to this point. Interrupted thoughts do not even have to occur from outside stimuli— they come from within more often than not. We ADHDers pay attention to the noise in our heads, but when we can clear that noise, we can learn anything and everything we wish to. I am putting focus on financial freedom.
Thanks for reading. Sorry for it being all over the place.
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