JUMP, You Idiot!
The building is engulfed in flames. The heat is so intense that people can’t get close. On the fourth floor, a woman stands in a window, her long hair floating in the wind, the searing flames licking at her nightdress, black smoke nearly choking her. Below, strong firefighters hold the safety net, waiting for her to decide to jump. Any second, she can be overcome by the smoke and fall backwards into the furnace, but she hesitates. She waits. Until, finally, one distraught fireman yells, “JUMP, you idiot!”
Many people see their lives deteriorating around them. The entropy is obvious to all. They’re in a downward spiral, slipping ever faster and deeper into debt and despondency. The flames of bankruptcy and hopelessness are singeing their eyebrows and the pungent smoke is suffocating them. They’re getting older, poorer and weaker, and we’re shouting, “Here! We have the solution for you! Join DollarMakers! Learn how to get rich! Attend a Bootcamp! Here’s hope! We’re waiting for you! JUMP!” But they’re thinking about it and whining that they can’t afford a $500 Bootcamp while they waste $600 every month on their cigarettes and booze.
Sometimes, by the time you come to your senses, the opportunity has moved on. The kind firemen have folded their safety net and gone home, and when you finally decide to jump you’re so desperate that you leap into the arms of some con artist that will steal your money in some offshore scam or have you lose your savings in another ridiculous scheme that nobody in their right mind would even consider. Too late. So before that happens, I have a simple and important message for you: JUMP, you idiot!
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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