Rich and Successful Today, Tomorrow.

Everyone wishes to be rich in their lives, looking for different ways to become successful before leaving this world.  Daily we go to bed with a dream in our eyes, a dream where we have all that we wished for in our lives, living like a king, powerful, rich and successful. We wake up the next day hoping to find a path that could lead us to our dreamland.  Each one of us wants to know what billionaires like Warren Buffett followed. We look forward to his bits of advice, his methods to become a billionaire. According to Wikipedia, the net worth of Warren Buffet  is around  US$88.9 billion. Sometimes, we humans tend to make simple things over complicated. We overlook the most obvious answers in our lives. We miss what lies in front of us and start to look elsewhere which leads away from our destination, from our goal.  It is like a foggy winter, fog making us hard to see what lies in front of u...

The Story It was not long ago, I and my friend got together over lunch and started talking about each other's lives. The conversation went from how well you are doing in life to an envious comparison of life our life vs how millionaire lives a lavish life. In the middle of the discussion, he told me an intriguing rather shocking story of one of the most successful Hollywood star, Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage been part of several famous movies including ‘Gone in 60 seconds”,"Ghost Rider" and “National Treasure”. At the top of his profession, he was approximately making around $20 million apiece for his appearance. He is estimated to have earned around $150 million in peak days of his career. According to CNBC , the famous star owned supercars, a private jet, exotic real estate including an island. While all these seem like a dream come true, his spending habits dug him huge a pit of financial troubles. While he got out of trouble with his hard work yet he was for...

An ordinary human chasing money to get rich. "Dad, what is the secret formula to get rich?" He raised his eyebrows as he was sipping his hot tea. "Why do you want to get rich my son?" he asked. "I want to buy a brand new car. I don't have enough money for it. Every friend of mine has bought one.". He continued sipping his evening tea until it finished. "Let's go to the nearest showroom", he said. The nearest car showroom was half an hour away from our home. As we were walking, I could see, people coming back from there workplaces after working hard in their jobs, with their shirts crushed and popping out of trousers, holding their briefcases, looking tired and cheerless, as if the life itself has been sucked out of them.  "I think I too should work hard like them to become rich and successful", I said to my dad. He paused for a moment and taught me one of the most valuable lessons in my life. "You are...