John-Paul's Blog

I just met an AWESOME mortgage broker at a Rich Dad Seminar. His name is Mr. David Murphy. He has built-up several multi-million dollar businesses in his lifetime (he’s still really young!) and he understands the real estate industry from the ground floor up. Life as an investor is much easier if your mortgage broker talks the language of a business owner and investor, because they can get you the correct mortgage for your situation. If you do not have a banker/mortgage lender, title company, hard money lender, small land development person, or wholesaler on your team, I strongly recommend that you contact him at david@allegiance-mortgage.com, or call him at 469.574.1118 X 105. He can get pretty busy, but tell him, I told you to call.

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Being poor can simply be a lack of knowledge. When being poor is due simply to a lack of education than poverty can be overcome. But when being poor is a refusal to think or do anything different, than the poverty of the pocketbook is linked to a poverty of character.  I do not believe we need to be ashamed of what we do not know. We just need to acknowledge what we don’t know and begin to take steps toward understanding. The great thing about being a little person is that you don’t have to know, you just have to want to learn and try.

I am a person of Christian faith. And I remember distinctly at the age of five personally giving to Jesus the whole of my life. It was then at age seven that I ‘mistakenly’ picked up my first book on finance.  As I grow in my understandings of myself, my life and the world we live in, I gain a greater appreciation for my faith.

One of my favorite stories of faith is found in the parables. The Prodigal Son had left claiming, “Give me.” He returned begging, “Make me”.  I see in the story of the prodigal son a warning regarding an attitude of entitlement that bankrupts our financial and spiritual lives. The heart of entitlement is, “You owe me”; a bankrupted belief in our self and our capabilities and a judgment on the value and purpose of our relationships. Financial trials or life circumstances tempt toward an attitude of entitlement. Why should bad things happen to good people, God or even life “owes” us?  The prodigal son left the Father saying, “Give me.” He returned begging, “Make me”.

I wonder from faith’s perspective what God will “make” of my life. Do you wonder?