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Triggered by a recent experience, I'd like to share this old fable about "The Devil's Best Tool". The devil is going out of business and he is selling all the tools of his trade. The night of the sale, all the tools were attractively displayed luring every dark hearted fellow that passes by. On the window display are the hammer of hatred, the scythe of spite, the maul of malice, and the dagger of deceit. As one would expect, the Devil's tools are all ominous, but there's this one seemingly innocent item expensively priced among the rest. When a passer by asked why is it so expensive, the Devil slowly smiles and said, "To be totally honest, this is my most powerful weapon of all. I call it the wedge of doubt. When all my other tools fails me, I know I can always rely on doubt and discouragement to break the heart and shatter the will of man. It goes undetected and with it I can make him do what I want"

Many investors get their start with the help of a mentor, an experienced advisor who may say only a few words, but words with the power to push a novice in a new, life-changing direction. That's what happened to me 3 years ago when a wise mentor shared with me the "bucket theory" that set me on track in pursuing financial independence (I haven't arrived yet, I'm still pursuing).

The theory is this: Everyone has control over three financial "buckets." The first bucket takes care of family obligations; it's the baseline with which you take care of your home, your health, your children's education, and other day-to-day necessities and monthly expenses of life. Once that bucket is full, you can start filling the second bucket: long-term investments. That bucket isn't full until it generates enough income to take care of all the needs of bucket 1 with passive income.

First of all, I'd like to greet everyone a happy and prosperous new year.

This year I've just set a ridiculous goal for me and my family, our group calls this "Faith Goals", wherein we allow faith to God to set in to achieve it (I'll share more of this on my succeeding posts).  Since I'll be heavily investing most of my time, energy and money in studying real estate and social media tools.

Are you ready to dream big and live life to its fullest? Real learning begins only when the person is open and willing. I am a life long student and I love to share what I have learned. I devour on books and whenever I get my hands on good books, it ends up looking like a drawing and coloring book, pages are filled with pencil notes and important points highlighted with different colors. The same mess happened to the book you are seeing right now.  

This book served me well, it's my hand book for real estate investing. After reading it I was so convinced that it is very feasible for anyone to passively earn millions in real estate and I mean ANYONE.

While I was busy, on a lot of things aside working, the way how the internet and web connects people is changing. Five years ago Friendster for me is the most sociable thing that ever happened on the web. Imagine a friend can post testimonials about how cool you are and such a nice person. But thinking about it now, I know the expression I would get from you is this :| (a straight face). But you have to admit it, it's really a huge thing back then.

Love the weather, its raining hard outside. It's nice to stay at home, read books, surf the net and just fiddle around with Drupal.

By Philip Elliot, Associated Press Writer