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I Won’t Wipe Your Ass for You, and Other Sound Financial Advice
I frequently get messages from people on Facebook Messenger, and through other channels, asking me to give them stuff. Sometimes it’s a house, and sometimes it’s a few hundred grand; what’s a few hundred grand between Facebook friends anyway? One guy insisted that I give him five million dollars, and he wouldn’t take no for an answer. He kept tweeting at me: “Can I have five million dollars now?” Sometimes being on the internet feels like living inside a psychiatric ward.
I think that people do this to me in particular because I wrote an article called, Multi-millionaire at 27. What I learned. That article went pseudo-viral, having now been read (not just viewed) about 24K times, and republished by CNBC and translated into Russian. Soon after I released that article, I started getting requests for financial mentoring from people who also wanted to become wildly wealthy.
This led to me realizing, during meditation, that I needed to come clean and reveal that, actually, I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned. Well, that article also went pseudo-viral, racking up around 22K reads at the time of this writing. Surprisingly, after publishing that article, I received even more requests for mentoring.
“Did you read that I spent all of my millions?” I would ask, and they would…
