Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Background Check

I never really had the entrepreneurial mindset. Even when my husband encouraged me to go at it and even taught me what he had learned from his books and his personal experience as an entrepreneur, it just never appealed to me.

Then my husband, frustrated of my lack of interest, would tell me that I have to find my "emotional why" so that I will be able to feel the hunger, the need for acquiring great wealth.

He would always instill in me that "the purpose of creating wealth is to help others" and somehow that lesson stuck in my heart.

I do have my set of emotional whys but I still lack the hunger and the thirst. Several times, I have asked myself why, I have even tried reflecting about it. Then I realized that the reason why I lack the thirst and the hunger to start using my emotional whys is that my personality didn't allow me to use it. Or rather, I chose to elude stuff that conotes problems, stress and pain, lots and lots of pain.

Honestly, I am fond of escaping. Whenever problems arise, instead of dealing with it head on, I go straight to the other direction and prefer to deal with it as if it is non-existent.

I guess that is why my emotional whys never really pushed me towards finding solutions for them. Because whenever I think about them, instinct ruled over and I become numb towards them.

Fortunately for me, my husband has been so patient in encouraging me, in pushing me and in showing me the real picture. He was able to drag me out of my comfort zone, pulled me out of my safe bubble that has been long created to protect myself from pain.

Now I can say, I am learning a little on how to have the entrepreneurial mindset without my husband pressuring me to do so.

This is a great beginning towards my journey to the path of wealth.

Millionaires' Wives Club

The Millionaires' Wives Club

I am not a wife of a millionaire. At least not yet.

You see, my husband belonged to a group that they call The Mastermind Group. This group was formed by a businessman so passionate about shepherding young individuals about entrepreneurship and the like. The Mastermind Group comprises of young men, all professionals except the son of their mentor, who is a college drop-out because at 19 years old, he was already earning a four digit income through his internet marketing business. Amazing right?

What amazes me even more is that although the group is comprised of young men, their mentor encourages them to bring with them their wives and their girlfriends. I guess this what sets them apart from other business oriented groups. Usually, when you say business meetings, it should only be attended by its members only. But apparently, that is not the case with The Mastermind Group.

At first, I really have no clue why we, the partners, have to be there but as their meetings frequented, I have come to appreciate their existence and have found the purpose and the intention of the set-up.

To quote an old saying, "Behind every man's success is a woman.", with this saying alone, one can understand why we, as partners to our husbands or boyfriends has to be there in their meeting regardless if we can grasp their topics or not. The purpose is for us to show support to them, for us to somehow understand a little what they are trying to achieve and for those who are not inclined to do business will somehow be encouraged to try.

This is my blog on my husband's journey towards getting his millions and my journey in getting mine.

Welcome to the Millionaires' Wives Club.