Sophisticated successful investors will tell you that the first million is the hardest to make. Thereafter, the money multiplies at a remarkable rate as your level of knowledge and sophistication increase commensurate to your success. However, if you're not careful, those millions can go right down the drain - you've got to maintain the system or the money goes away. Finding and keeping your abs follows an amazingly similar sequence.
This odd comparison, though, is wrought with one of life's little jests; money can't get you abs, but abs can get you money; just ask the Calvin Klein guy. However, building abs is indeed similar to building a fortune, and to many folks, coveted just the same. How does one build a fortune? Although thousands of books have been written, and numerous courses, seminars and infomercial products sold on the subject, building a fortune is, in reality, quite simple. If you ever played Monopoly, you already know how - buy four green houses and trade them in for one red hotel. If you were to saw Trump Plaza in half you'd find the Donald exercising that simple formula.
How do you attain killer abs? Again, although thousands of books have been written, and numerous courses, seminars and infomercial products sold on the subject, building a killer six pack is really quite simple; train your abs to failure with multiple sets of increasing resistance and diet off the fat. Anyone sporting killer abs is hip to that simple formula. Unfortunately, just like building that first million, unveiling your abs for the first time ain't' easy. In fact, it's harder than making the money! That's right. In this country 90% of the wealth is controlled by just 10% of the people, while 1% of the population has 100% of the abs. This is testament to the intrinsic difficulty that can't be overlooked as you set out to etch your midsection. It must be reckoned with. This is something the purveyors of all the ab crap leave out of the sales pitch. Just like the first million, your first abs are the toughest because you're learning and accepting what it takes to do it, but only if you have the discipline to stick to the system and see results. Not trusting the system is a sure fire way not to attain your goal.
Now, let's say you did trust the system, and you stuck it out - you trained so hard you nearly puked, you stayed on your diet, you did your cardio and you didn't cheat (that is what it takes). After you look in the mirror with satisfaction at your results, the next thing out of your mouth will be: damn, that was hard. And, you'll realize that knowing it and doing it are two entirely different things. Welcome to a very elite group. Well, the job's not over. Nope. In fact, it's just beginning because keeping your abs etched and lean is a total commitment, one that must be followed for however long you want them. Here's the cold truth - ignore your abs and they'll go away. while it could take you weeks, if not months, to paste those ripples on your midsection, you could lose them in a couple of weeks. That's right, all the work you did could be obliterated in just days of wanton grazing and inactivity. The upshot is that you could probably squander the mill in a couple of hours at any black jack table on the Vegas strip. In either case, main lining Prozac isn't going to make it okay.
I never lost quite a million bucks, but I have lost my abs. While it may be true that it is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all, having had abs and losing them really sucks. I curled up and wanted to die rather than face my wretched, self nullifying image in the mirror having lost what I worked so hard to achieve. It's a sensation no pros could approximate. I lost a ton of money last year, and I lost my abs. Losing the money sucks, but not as bad as losing my abs. Luckily I'll have my abs back before the money. Way before the money. And that's just fine with me, I wouldn't want it any other way.
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