Several years ago, I was reading Robert Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad Poor Dad and listening to a 12 disc CD set of his. One of the ideas that stood out was to "work hard once." He gave the example that he worked hard once writing that book. Now, he has the book to sell for the rest of his life.
One of my good friends, Andrew Turner, just exemplified this idea over the past 6 months. He created a custom piece of software for college planners. He picked up some books on programming, put the ideas from his head in motion, and now he has a product to sell. College Planner 2007 is available for $597. Andrew said he loves checking his email because every few days a new order pops in his inbox.
Some people may say to themselves, "Well I could never do that." That's ridiculous! You could just as easy have come up with the idea and hired a virtual assistant in India to do all the programming for you.
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About Me
- Patrick Riddle
- Charleston, SC, United States
- I am an entrepreneur at heart. I started my first business at the age of 22 while a student at Clemson University and have been a full time real estate investor for 5 years. I love the challenge of building a business. I am an avid reader having read over 200 books over the past few years in areas such as management, marketing, real estate investing, psychology, sales, entrepreneurship, etc. I just moved into a house on the water in Charleston, SC and would say that I am living the dream.
