What does TEOTWAWKI mean?

Coined by survivalist, Mike Medintzin, in the mid-1990s, “TEOTWAWKI,” stands for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

I have been wanting to deepen my financial education and learn about investing for some time now, but like most of us I was having a tough enough time focusing on my main business.

A couple of weeks ago my brother told me about a Kiyosaki seminar being presented nearby our house in La Jolla, CA. One benefit of living in San Diego is that there is always educational events going on. Although this can be a distraction at times as well.

If you don’t already know, Kiyosaki is one of the top investors in the world, if not the number one in the world.

Skipping ahead a little, my bro and I attended the paradigm shifting event and walked away with a whole new set of goals. These these newly formed goals are a result of getting involved in developing my financial education.

You see, it is the end of the world as we know it.

We are currently, as a world, finishing our transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. Technically the Industrial Age began roughly around 1500 and came to an end near 2000. As for the Information Age, the birth of the World Wide Web in 1989 marked the beginning of the info era.

“Unfortunately, like a monkey with its this continent tree, millions of workers claim to Industrial Age ideas such as going to school, job security, steady paychecks, medical benefits, early retirement, and government support for life.”

–Robert T. Kiyosaki

The biggest Golden Nugget I took away from the event was learning the difference between training and education. From now to 2020 and beyond the biggest losers in the game of life are going to be the financially trained masses. The very few that get serious about their financial education will experience some of the best years between this time frame.

While the majority of the population clings to out dated information, the financially educated will have a massive unfair advantage when it comes to creating wealth and living lifestyles most can only dream about.

For those of you that are saying to yourselves, ” I’m to far behind to catch up,” or, “I have invested to much time into what I am already doing,” I have been there. I am not talking about years ago, I mean I was saying these things to myself just two weeks ago.

The only thing that I had to understand was that unless I began my financial education today I was going to continue to be at an enormous disadvantage when it comes to building the lifestyle I choose.

If you do not know where to start your financial education I highly recommend getting familiar with Kiyosaki’s teachings. His latest book, UNFAIR ADVANTAGE: THE POWER OF FINANCIAL EDUCATION, is a great place to begin learning about what schools will never teach you about money.

P. S. The Kiyosaki event I attended last week was geared towards enrolling people in a future three day training coming up at the beginning of March. I will make sure to share all the golden nuggets I discover in upcoming blog post.

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