Note:

These twice daily posts are intended to publicly state, review, assess, and iterate on financial goals and most importantly lead by example for the Zapata Project.

https://blurt.world/think/@birdinc/the-zapata-project

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The Zapata Project:

@empato365 is doing fantastic work running the Zapata Project with my direction and the Blurt Team has funded @gozapata with 1 million Blurt Power to support young entrepreneurs in Nigeria.

Our first ‘scholarship’ recipient is the wonderful @preciousdominic who will receive up to $250 per month in up-votes for following the Think and Grow Rich formula with the twice daily posts.

Our hope is that the ‘scholarship’ gives her some additional freedom to pursue her dreams as an entrepreneur.

Next: We will make it game to see which lucky student gets the next ‘scholarship’ slot.

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My Progress:

It’s been a strange few months, but now I’m mostly back to doing what I do best, surveying the crypto industry and talking to lots of people and projects.

About this time last year, a friend re-introduced me to Think and Grow Rich; a book which I was very familiar with, and spent a lot of time with in the past.

This re-introduction coupled with my incredible passion for Steemit, losing Steemit, and more importantly the positive impact that social blockchain can have on the world, I made it my mission to launch a New Chain, which inspired the below particularly aggressive financial goal and subsequent daily affirmations, albeit which were not praticed everyday as required but about 60% of the time according to my records.

In reality, the achievement of this particular financial goal could have happened in lots of different ways and the money could have come from many different potential sources but I spent most of my time and put most of my energy into the dream of launching my own blockchain.

2020 has been a crazy ride and an even better story; nevertheless, while extremely interesting, it did not produce the desired financial results.

However, I always kept a smaller, more achievable financial goal in mind throughout the year and accomplished that with more vigor and determination, largely, because that particular goal was mostly within my control, while the execution of launching a blockchain required coordination between different people and things that were outside of my control.

Assessing the original goal, which was set about this time last year, I am behind schedule and hoping for a miracle, but going forward in the next few months I will keep a different smaller financial goal top of mind with a deadline of the 31st of December 2020 as well.

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Daily affirmations inspired by the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

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Chapter 2: Desire

The Starting Point of All Achievement

The First Step towards Riches

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Six Ways to Turn Desires into Gold (or Bitcoin)

The method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps, viz:

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of money.” Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter.)

2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.”)

3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

5. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read… see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

It is important that you follow the instructions described in these six steps. It is especially important that you observe, and follow the instructions in the sixth paragraph. You may complain that it is impossible for you to “see yourself in possession of money” before you actually have it. Here is where a burning desire will come to your aid. If you truly desire money so keenly in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

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MY AFFIRMATION

By the 31st of December 2020, I will accumulate a Net Worth in excess of $250,000 with a monthly income of $10,000 or more and $XX,XXX in cash or cash equivalent.

In exchange for this money, which I can already see and feel in my possession, I will work BD for V Systems, find listing deals for Bitrue, help projects as a Witness, and engage in lucrative asset speculation.

My big mission in life is to gamify social blockchain and take Instagram in Nigeria, which will require the coordination of the right people in perfect harmony.

Also, I want to rename the Koessler Athletic Center the Blockchain Athletic Center with a large donation to my alma mater.

@birdinc