| Saving money and investing it is not a sprint, it is | | | | when others are still sleeping, refuse to eat like |
| a marathon. If you want your family to be in | | | | them. Shed excessive weight or have you ever |
| peace tomorrow, develop a marathon mentality | | | | seen a fat marathon world champion? No way. |
| for investment today. | | | | Discipline is the mother of distinction. |
| 1. Go at Your Own Speed: You may not be the | | | | 4. Run through Pain: Marathon involves pain, it |
| number one, but you are not likely going to be | | | | involves suffering, someone once told me that |
| the last, some will definitely pull out along the way. | | | | "pain lasts but for a moment", while glory is for a |
| Do not buy what others are buying because they | | | | life time! This is perfectly true. In one Olympic |
| are buying it and never buy to impress because | | | | game, a Tanzanian representative fell and badly |
| the people you want to impress are not really | | | | injured himself, he got up and continued the race |
| impressed. | | | | in an obvious pain while other runners passed by, |
| 2. Avoid Glamour and Glory: Spending money is | | | | but he refused to stop, he finished the race way |
| like a sprint, it brings you premature glamour and | | | | behind, but he finished. When he was interviewed |
| glory. It makes you to be noticed, but if you | | | | after the race, he said "My country sent me here |
| must build a wealthy family, you must avoid this. | | | | to finish the race. I was not sent here to start it |
| Using big car may bring you a glamour, wearing | | | | alone" funny enough, he was interview just as |
| the best clothes may give you glory, but always | | | | they did to the winner, he did not win the race |
| remember that it is for a moment. People that | | | | but he won the mind. Saving and investing money |
| hailed you for your new car now will not hail you | | | | involves pains, but always end in gains, if you fail |
| when they see it the second time. | | | | to stop, you can not fail to make it. |
| 3. Discipline Yourself: One thing a marathon runner | | | | 5. You need gut and graft: You need gut, you |
| needs more than anything else is discipline, when | | | | need determination, you need to close your eyes |
| preparing for a marathon race; you are expected | | | | to present accolade and look up to the future |
| to run in the toughest path, climb difficult | | | | ovation, move forward at a time and win the |
| mountains, run faster than expected. Wake up | | | | race for your family. |