That Thing You Always Dreamed Of: Money

That thing you always dreamed of: money.

The desire to obtain it is so great that it often leaves behind even the pleasure, or the morality, of deserving it.

Now think: if I gave you these fifty million, what could you accept in return?

Giving less time to those you love, for instance?

A life in which your safety is at risk?

Carrying the responsibility of hundreds of people?

The risk of losing all you gained with a single mistake?

Working at least ten hours every day out of obligation?

Checking the value of the dollar, gold, the lira and the euro even during your rest, like a paranoid, because you have a large sum that grows or shrinks while you stand still?

Every luxury and beauty you dreamed of and enjoyed becoming ordinary to you? No luxury giving you pleasure any more?

The risk of chasing new tastes in life to the point of experimenting with substances?

Most importantly:

No longer believing in the sincerity, the affection or the respect of anyone around you?

Having to live with them without ever knowing whether they love you honestly for your character and your being, rather than for your money?

Losing every genuine feeling and knowing that everything and everyone beside you is there for a demand?

If you can truly accept all of this, then let me tell you the mindset that will let you earn this money:

If you live as though you had fifty million even while you have none, and accept the things I listed above, this money will surely come to you.

Apply every item. Think about what work you would do if you had fifty million. Calculate the first version of that work, its smallest piece. Begin it.

Give little time to those you love, and work for yourself at least ten hours a day as though the responsibility of hundreds rested on you. Think of no luxury; make them ordinary in your mind and prevent them from becoming a weakness.

Follow the value of the dollar, the euro and gold every hour as though you had fifty million.

Work, work and work.

If you are lucky it is yours in three years; if not, and if you do not give up, in fifteen.