08.07.08
The Great Escape
I have watched this excellent and inspiring 1963 movie many times, and the analogies for creating financial freedom are amazing. These prisoners of war want to escape en masse and they decide to tunnel under the fence to do so. Their goal is to emerge in the forest and have 250 men freed from the Nazis.
The first analogy is that these experienced escapers dig three tunnels (named Tom, Dick, and Harry), not one. If you wish to escape financial slavery, you need to create multiple income streams, numerous options, instead of only one. When the first tunnel was discovered, the escapers focused on their second tunnel. If your financial security and future is tied up in one business venture, product, service, or geographical area, a job, or a single system, like property or investments, you are at risk. Change is the only constant, and you need to be prepared for that. This is the real world, not a lecture room.
The second analogy concerns commitment and hard work. There was no shortage of hard work, disappointments, risk, planning, the need for flexibility and strong leadership, focus, and innovation in this project. The men were extremely serious and uncompromising, and their very lives were at risk. They didn’t sit around playing The Escape Game on a board, then meekly return to their cells with a sense of false achievement when the game was over. You can play the Cash Flow Game all day, but unless you implement what you learn in the real world, you’re just another weak poser.
The third analogy is scary: the tunnel emerged in the open, twenty feet from the forest where they intended to surface, and in full view of the guards! They would have been safe emerging in the forest, but after 72 men got out, the guards were alerted, and the rest were caught. Many “Business Opportunities” and “investment opportunities” don’t reveal the full story until after you’ve lost your hard-earned money, and you end up twenty feet from the forest with your ass fully exposed to the machine guns of the real world. That’s why 87% of new business startups fail within the first five years (and 87% of the remaining 13% fail in the next five years). DollarMakers offers you a system that removes that risk for a fraction of the price.
The fourth analogy is that once they had escaped the camp, the hard work only began – they had to make it in German occupied territory and get to Switzerland. Once you learn to be a Joint Venture Broker, you have to work to implement the systems and create that freedom – you don’t attend a seminar, read a book, and magically become financially free. It’s like having a baby – you still have to raise the child!
Finally, the good news about Joint Ventures is that you don’t lose money or much time when an escape venture fails – you certainly don’t die. In fact, you just do it better next time! DollarMakers reaches you how to get wealthy with no cost or risk, and little time, although initially you have to invest time and energy to hone your skills and practice until you’re good at it. Read more about this great movie here.
If you’re interested in making your own Great Escape from financial mediocrity and time scarcity to real freedom, DollarMakers has the solution for you.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
