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Publicly stating, reviewing, and assessing financial goals to lead by example for the Zapata Project.

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

@empato 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 lucky ‘scholarship’ recipient is the wonderful @preciousdominic who will receive up to $250 per month in Blurt up-votes.

Our hope is this provides her some additional freedom so she can 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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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 make on the world, it became my mission to launch a New Chain (about this time last year) which inspired this particular aggressive financial goal and subsequent daily affirmations, albeit not everyday, per the required formula, but about 60% of the time.

In reality, the achievement of this particular financial goal could have been accomplished in many different ways this year; nevertheless, I spent most of my time and energy into launching my own blockchain. It has indeed been a wild year, a crazy ride all together, and an even better story.

On the other hand, I always kept a smaller, more achievable financial goal in mind throughout the year, and accomplished this goal with more vigor, determination, and regular persistence; largely, I believe, because that particular goal was mostly within my own control, while the execution of launching a production blockchain required coordination between different people resulting in some important things being outside of my control.

Regarding 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 with $X.XX of 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 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.

@birdinc