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Are you they? January 2, 2007

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They are working hard for the wrong reasons. They work hard for other people, they help strangers make money.

Think of this senario:

  1. They wake up early in the morning.
  2. They hope to catch the earlier bus or train to work so they will not get caught in the traffic jam. (more…)

    Are you John or Benjamin? October 27, 2006

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    Hi guys, I recently have come across this story somewhere. I find it very meaningful which I will write about it here. Hope it is not very bad written.

    John and Benjamin are both villagers living in a remote village in the south of sumantra. Every morning around 4am. They will go to the well in the middle of the village to fetch water for their family. They have been doing this for years. but one day the well went dry. The only way to get water is to go down the mountain top and to the river bank. So everyday all the men of the families will carry two pails on their shoulder and make their way to the river bank. It was a very tiring process especially for the older men.

    John thought of an idea to make some money. He told the village that he will bring the water to them but the people will have to pay him for 50 cents a day for the water to be sent to their house. The villagers agreed.

    So every morning around 2.30am. He will carry two pails to the river bank and start his water delievery business. He will send two pail full of water to each house and he will make tens of trips back to the river bank. The problem is that he have to walok very slowly as the water will spilled out of the pail if he runs. But whenever he reach the village, almost a quarter of the water have already spilled out.
    Days goes by, He became very tired. Every morning he have to wake up every to fetch water. But he keep pushing himself when he think of the amount of money that he can earn a day.

    When benjamin saw this, he realise that there is a chance for him to do business.Benjamin went out of the village and into the city. He came back to the village 2 weeks later with a group of people. In these 2 weeks, John have already earn quite a lot of money in these 2 weeks when Benjamin is not around.

    The villagers are all very surprised when they saw a huge group of men came back with him. He put the men to work. They start to build pipelines from the river all the way back to the village well. Soon water started to flow into the well via the pipeline. He charge the villagers 10cents per day for the water. The villagers are very happy that they did not take up john offer of 50 cents a day anymore.

    A few months passed, Benjamin have earned enough that he left his village for the city where he started a sewage construction business. While john is still staying in the village trying ways to persuade people to buy water from him.

    You see, the difference between them is leverage. Benjamin uses leverage of other people( Men who build pipelines) to build leverage(pipelines) for himself. He did not do anything to start earning money. The well will always be kept full at all times. At the beginning, John was making money, benjamin didn’t. But in the end, Benjamin is much richer than him.

    Who are you?

    Are you John?

    • Waking up and working every day just because of the paycheck that you get every month?
    • did not know how to use leverage as a tool to be better in life?

    OR

    Are you Benjamin?

    • Finding ways to build leverage for yourself without you working at it?

    The whole thing I think is to be successful, you must be able to use leverage. Internet is a very powerful leverage tools if you know how to use!
    Maybe now you are not rich but the most important is not the beginning but the end results!