Magnus' journal

[Shannon]

Nice advice Shannon. One of the hardest things is though to figure out what that "major goal" is. That's asking yourself "What do you want to be when you grow up." But some of us still have no idea me included. What is your "major goal" and how long did it take you to make a firm decision that it would be your "major goal"?

My major goal is to be so successful that my actions and existence have long term and far reaching positive effects on the whole world, in multiple directions. Some of my sub-goals include:

• Demonstrating the power, success and value of doing business in an old fashined customer focused way, instead of blindly and childishly focusing everything on immediate results and money above all else. (The "bottom line" isn't money. Why did grandpa understand that, but nobody in business seems to these days?)
  
• Being able to "sponsor" entire orphanages in several countries, so that the children who I can help grow up getting fed well, educated well about things that will make a positive difference in their future success, growing into self reliant, strong, confident healthy, productive adults, etc.
  
• Making major progress in developing the knowledge and technology in this field, and making the subject more widely knowl, understood and accepted as valid.
  
• Genuinely improving the quality of life for as many people as possible through the research I do and programs I create, over the long term.
  

I have always known at some level that that would be my major goal... I didn't know how to get there until around August 2nd, 2005.

It's not a matter of how long. It's a matter of what. I was looking in all sorts of directions that were apparently not right. I was looking for jobs like military, police, fire fighter... all great, respectable jobs, which is why I wanted them.

But my strengths were forcibly shown to me by cancer, which took those options away from me (if they were ever there to begin with, considering the stress induced asthma I had even before the chemo). I was left with... what can I do while I am sitting at the computer to make myself successful? It took me a while to figure it out, but then again... I didn't even know I was figuring it out at that time. Back then, I was focused on "How do I manage to get mom to stop harping at me all the time for things that are out of my control?" Like, for instance, getting fired because the guy stealing all my sales was sleeping with the Boss's Boss... or having the qualifications to do a training job... actually doing that training job in addition to my own full time job at the same place... and being told I was doing a better job of it, in spite of all that, than the people who trained me... while consistently being one of the top three performers in my original job out of 200+ people. And then I am told I cannot have the trainer job because I am not qualified... because the floor manager was afraid I would end up in her position, so she invented new qualifications for the trainer job that nobody had ever had while holding it before... or having a floor manager at a different place decide I was fired because I could not afford to buy new shoes when I was not making enough money there to pay my bills... and my shoes she was insisting I replace didn't look any different than anyone else's shoes....

So basically it was consistently being shit on by whomever I tried to work for, while never being able to pay my bills no matter how much, how hard, or how well I worked or did my job... regardless of the job... that pushed me into working for myself, and when I realized that I could actually become independently wealthy doing this, and possibly achieve my "Gosh, I wish I could do this someday" goals as well.