Want to Get Rich? Be Obsessed

How sad!  Here in America we have a love affair with rich people.  The bigger their house, yacht, pool or bank account is...the better.

Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world.  His ex-wife (what?  Being rich couldn't keep him happily married?) has given her comments on what it takes to get rich.

There is no shortage of hypesters and hucksters offering the “secret” to getting rich. The reality is that all kinds of people get rich in all kinds of ways, most of them involving being the right person in the right place at the right time.

Sure, working hard, being smart, overcoming failure and breaking convention can all play a role. But lots of people do those things and never get rich.

Yet billionaires often share common attributes. And one of those traits is eloquently explained by Justine Musk, the ex-wife of billionaire inventor Elon Musk.

In a piece in Quora, Justine Musk said that “extreme success results from an extreme personality,” and that billionaires like Elon Musk or Bill Gates “tend to be freaks and misfits” who developed extreme strategies for survival as kids and later applied those strategies to business.

But their chief characteristic can be summed up in two words: “Be obsessed.”

“If you’re not obsessed, then stop what you’re doing and find whatever does obsess you,” she said. “It helps to have an ego, but you must be in service to something bigger if you are to inspire the people you need to help you (and make no mistake, you will need them).”

She said that people who are obsessed with a problem or issue can work through all the distractions and barriers that life puts in their way. And that obsession needs to be your own, to the point where it borders on insanity.

“Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else, probably won’t work for you,” she wrote.

Musk, of course, witnessed extreme success first-hand. And her comments are echoed by other billionaires. In an interview last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn said the key to being super successful was to be “obsessive.”

“I’ve always gotten into things and don’t give up on them,” he said. “Maybe too obsessed. What I’ve seen is a common denominator for successful people. The common denominator is an obsession.”

Here;  http://thetrustadvisor.com/headlines/ex-wife-on-secret?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokv6rLZKXonjHpfsX%2B7ugoUbHr08Yy0EZ5VunJEUWy24AIRNQ%2FcOedCQkZHblFnVQITq2tV7QNrKMF

Hmmmmmm......I wonder what the article means by "successful people"?  Clearly if you are divorced three times, your kids are drug addicts and your family hates you, you can still be called a successful person if your bank account is big enough!!  Wow!!

Do you think people who are obsessed with building wealth are also obsessed about their personal relationship with Christ?

Which master do you suppose they are spending more time with?

Which Master offers them eternal life?

Which master offers them pleasure today in exchange for eternity in hell?

Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

You show me someone who is obsessed about their balance sheet, their material goods and the accumulation of wealth and you likely find a person who is 'too busy' to have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Sad.  Tragic.  Scary.

Luke 16
The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

"But Dennis, I don't believe in hell or Hades....so if I don't believe in it, then nobody is really going to be there.  A loving god would never send someone to a miserable place."

Really?  So by believing that statement, you are calling Jesus a liar.  Because He is the one who told the story of the rich man and Lazarus and He spoke more about hell than he did about heaven.