You have ten thousand separate opportunities to shine. If you watch more than an occasional sports game, you are urinating on life.
If you are engaged in ANY activity related to watching other people earn even more each day than you do in a year, there is truth;
then there's no visible viable possibility of your achieving success in life until you live more of your life for you and your passion.
Suicide may begin to sound like a good idea... unless you choose to get up off your keister and get busy, every day of your life.
One of the nice features of your ten thousand opportunities is that, whatever you do with them, they occur again next week.
Doing this each day may not be you. If that's not you; fine. What about a thousand minutes per week, a month, or a year?
The only secret is in treating every one of those thousand minutes as if the world is watching you give your best effort.
You get to choose to engage in those thousand minutes of excellence in a day, a week, a month, a year, or more.
You don't need to know anything else to get ridiculously rich, again, by any definition of "rich" you invoke.
For some reason, no one ever told you that, if you're "lucky," you'll earn 2,000 paychecks in your life.
For some reason, no one's explained to you that every dollar you spend at Starbucks is a hundred.
In many cases, far more than a hundred future dollars you literally steal from yourself, daily.
The Tao of Better Shortcuts does not advocate living a life of utter denial; far from it.
The Tao of Better Shortcuts advocates multiplying your dollars into hundreds.
It's the only mathematical formula that a tragically retarded person needs.
Every buck you invest in yourself rather than spend on yourself multiplies.
It does not merely grow.  That dollar multiplies, so now you have a choice.
Spend money on yourself or invest your money into yourself, your future.
Every one of those extra hundreds tastes far more delicious than coffee.