2 Million Dollar Bills

I have finally made it to Barbados and the next stage of my game plan for making 2 million dollars is on track. My goal is to develop a variety of business interests in Barbados, which will help me to become a millionaire. I plan on achieving my goal of making 2 million dollars within 5 years, can I do it? Yes I can do it, the only person that can determine whether I will succeed or fail is, MYSELF.

Talk is cheap and anybody can say that they are going to become a millionaire and then they just sit around and wait for it to happen. In fact I use to do the same myself, how can you expect it to happen, when you a are wage slave. You will never become financially free as long as you work for the boss man and your life and finances are dictated to by someone else.

I have in the past being involved in business opportunities which basically were not worth my time and effort and were complete failures, and it took me a long time to get back on track and start working towards something more than just being a miserable wage slave, stuck in a rat race, wasting my life away, Don’t Let Past Business Failures Stop Your Dream of Running a Successful Business.

Eventually I came to the conclusion that the   the rat race was killing me and the only person that could change things was, you guessed it, ME. I was like everyone else in my work place, I would spend my time moaning about how much I hated the place, the pay was crap, I could never get my holidays when I wanted them, they were making us work harder and harder, they were really trying to get the last drop blood out of the stone.

It was I suppose fortunate that I received a nasty knee injury while I was working, which resulted in me being off work almost a year, when my work place very kindly made me an offer of just over £15,000 to leave. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I was never going to go back anyway! I eventually used my time off work wisely, I formulated my escape plan, I have Finally Escaped the Rat Race, But I Aint In Paradise Yet!

I wanted out of the UK, my wife and myself had a family house in Barbados and we both like the Island, so it was a logically move to relocate to Barbados. I then had to figure out how I was going to make money. I had to look at my previous college and work experiences and figure out if I could turn them into business ventures which would support my family and help me to achieve my goal of becoming a millionaire.

In order for me to achieve my goal of becoming a millionaire and make the 2 million dollar bills dream a reality, I needed to formulate a game plan that would allow me to work towards achieving my aims.

My main skills and what I like to do is plan and organize things, as well as the advertising and promotional aspects of a business.

I knew from personally getting married in Barbados last year and the fact that know one on the island could give my wife and myself the kind of wedding we wanted. Every wedding planner we talked to in Barbados was offering what I would call a conveyor belt wedding, they all lacked inspiration and Innovation. There was no way we could leave such an important day as our wedding day, in the hands of people that were clearly  not on the same wave length as us. 

My wife had worked as a wedding planner in London but she didn’t want to have to fully organize her own wedding because she knew the amount of time and effort that it would take up, she wanted to enjoy the lead up to the wedding and the wedding day itself without the headache of overseeing and organizing everything herself. But at the end of the day we were left with no choice but to do everything ourself’s.

My wife and myself pooled our skills and we created an amazing wedding, it involved a huge amount of thought, time and effort to create our vision of what we wanted.

My main skills were dealing with various suppliers and arranging to get them delivered to Barbados from America. I also arranged the catering team, marquee and created the outdoor ambiance at the venue. My wife dealt with and arranged all the more creative and design elements of the wedding. We pooled our skills and created one of the most amazing weddings ever in Barbados, for people that aren’t rich. Celebrations Caribee was born!

The first business venture was created and is called Celebrations Caribee, which is a wedding and event planning company. Through myself and my wife, who is my business partner, weddings and events will reach a level of creativity, innovation and quality that has been lacking in Barbados until now.

Another company that I have formed is called Awaken Paradise Property Consultants, the goal of this company is to arrange, organize and oversee the building of properties for people. I can source land, build or renovate properties to a high standard, which is done to UK standards and timescale’s, not Bajan! I can arrange top quality builder, architect, and a trustworthy lawyer.

Awaken Paradise Property Consultants came into being after seeing family members and friends of the family being ripped off by a variety unscrupulous builders. Too many people have been ripped off in Barbados by happy smiling builders that will promise you the world, take your money and end up building you a dangerous house or in some cases not building anything at all. I have seen too many returning nationals and tourists alike being cheated out of their hard earned money.

I also have a tourist related business which will offer something unique for people coming to Barbados, this will be live for the xmas season, if everything goes according to plan.

Making your business legal in Barbados is similar to setting up a company in the UK, as you are probably aware, as soon as you start using the services of a lawyer you end up spending lots of money. But it is worth it to have the start of your vision made a legal entity.

It is fantastic to see my business dreams and aspirations starting to take place and the first stages of the 2 million dollar bills game plan taking shape.

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It’s another miserable day in London, the rain is lashing down, it’s kinda depressing. I haven’t played poker for over a month. I have recently moved to London as a stopgap, before I immigrate to the Caribbean. As a result of this I haven’t had the time to play poker, when I play poker I like to be relaxed and my mind needs to be clear,  unfortunately that  hasn’t been the case since I got to London. But now is the time to get back on track with the my poker, Texas Hold em to be precise, with an occasional game of Omaha, when the mood takes me. I feel I have finally got used to the mad and hectic world, which is London, my mind has acclimatized to this crazy city.

I have decided to stick to playing Tournaments with a top prize of over £2,000, with a goal of obviously winning one in the near future. My best result so far was winning a 90-person tournament where I won around $450, but that was in the distant past. I feel I now have reached the stage where I need to aim for bigger prize money to motivate me and to make it worthwhile.

My goal is a simple one I want to make a cool million dollars from playing online poker; I know it can be done, because there are  countless young kids out there have already done it. Am I aiming too high, is my dream too much of a fantasy, is my poker playing skills at a level where I can compete with these young kids? Time will tell!

Before I begin playing poker I like to have my environment nice and tidy, this helps to unclutter my mind; I then prepare myself mentally for the battle that lies ahead. I have a nice relaxing bath, I get focussed, I remind myself to play tight and aggressive from the start, not to let myself get suckered into doing something I shouldn’t, such as trying to bluff with nothing, at the wrong time, and going all in and hoping I don’t get called, sometimes you don’t, but more often than not, you do!

I also like to have some supplies with me, to help keep me focussed, like any good poker player I stay away from alcohol; my snacks of choice are a large bag of Jelly Babies and 3 cans of Nutrament Energy & Protein Drink. It is a huge mistake to move away from the poker game, until its break time. I have done it in the past and learned from the mistake, it can mean the difference between winning some prize money and getting nothing.

I’m ready, focussed and prepared to start back on the online poker dream and I’m aiming high, a Million Dollars is in my mind.

I will be doing a follow up article later today, where I will be sharing the secrets of my poker success in the tournaments which I play in today on Tues 3rd of June.

For me poker is one of the most legitimate forms of legally making money online Is poker a Legitimate Online Business Opportunity?

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Can success in life really be as simple as my title suggests, I haven’t personally reached the stage in my life where I can lay my beach towel down on crane beach in Barbados and lie back and relax knowing that I have succeeded with my life. I’m at the stage where I’m dreaming the dream and I sure as hell believe that I’m going to succeed. I suppose at the present time, I’m stuck at the achieving part of the great plan to become successful. It has taken me decades of working in a variety of jobs, to come to the conclusion that being a slave to a wage isn’t what I want my life to be about.

Being told what I have to do, or when I can have my lunch break, or when I can or can’t have my holidays, or how much of a pay rise I deserve, is not how I want to live my life anymore. That was the reason I quit my job and decided it was time to fend for myself. The time had come for me to be in control of my own destiny.

I had been dreaming the dream for a number of years, of working for myself and quitting the rate race in the UK and heading to the sun, but I was lacking the spark or the courage to do something about it. Having a secure job with a reasonable wage, 6 weeks holidays a year and a good pension, was a big chain around my neck. As much as I hated working for the boss man, I couldn’t free myself.

But I started to open up my mind and dared to dream the dream, there were those, and still are those people, that will tell you that dreams are fantasy and will never come true. That’s why the dreams of those people can never come true, they don’t believe in the dream.

It really is as simple as the heading of this article states, but you also have to put a lot of commitment, effort and time, into making the dream become a reality. Anyone can do it, you can control your own destiny, and it’s up to ourselves which path we choose to go down.

The day I started writing this blog and received my first reader and then made my first $1 dollar from it, was pure inspiration for me, it was the start of the dream. The second part of my dream, which was quitting the rate race in the UK, is about to come true, as I head to the Caribbean. Also receiving my first client for one of the business, which I’m going to be running in Barbados was another step closer to making my 2 million dollar bills. (What I will be making from the deal was the equivalent of 4 months wages, that I use to earn in the UK),

My advise to anybody out there that hates their job, hates the  boss or has had enough of the rat race, or for whatever reason they are unhappy in life. Do something about it; don’t be  like all those whingers around you, that are happy and content to moan about how much they hate life, rather than put the same effort into doing something constructive to change things.

You have to begin by dreaming the dream.

Read my article about Escaping the Rat Race in Scotland, Just Do it!

Sometime some of us develop bad habits, which we allow to manifest within ourselves and as result of this we are literally holding ourselves back!  7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

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