The Book I Couldn't Put Down for 72 Hours

I don't know what it was....

- the simple compelling language
- the promising topic of a best-selling title
- the deep thinking it made me do

But I just couldn't stop reading "The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind", by Harv T. Ecker.

Have you read it?

No, no....

Have you DONE it?

It made me look back at my upbringing and ask myself: "What did my family teach me about money?"

We definitely couldn't afford a lot of things, and even if we could, we'd have to be on a mission to FIND it (former USSR in the 80's is where I spent my childhood).

But then I remembered something else...

My dad has a business on the side...quite illegal in those days, but he was simply responding to consumer demand.

It was impossible to find any European or American music in stores. You had to go to the "black market" to meet with other "moonlighters" and either buy it or trade it there. Then my dad would resell that music to others for a higher price.

He also would create a custom recording from different albums by request, for a special price.

So he was always on the lookout for business opportunities... Unfortunately, that's as far as his entrepreneurship took him in the socialistic Russia in the 80's. I wonder what he'd be doing if he lived here in his younger years.

Perhaps that's where my entrepreneurial "gene" came from...

One of the things that especially hit the nerve from the book was the fact that, just because you're rich, you shouldn't feel guilty or bad about people who don't have as much as you do. After all, your being poor doesn't make them any richer.

On the other hand, if you're rich, you CAN help them by doing charity, pro-bono work, fundraisers, etc.

Now back to the book!