He had 90 days, day 75

On 13 August I negotiated the first right of refusal for 90 days on a Gold mine. No literally a Gold mine - with shafts, headgear and miners. So if I can raise $6m by November 13th, we're in business. This blog is inspired by the Robert Allen book the One Minute Millionaire where the character, Michelle has to earn $1m in cash within 90 days to redeem her children, otherwise lose them forever.

The book goes on to explain that acquiring enlightened wealth (there is a difference between plain wealth and enlightened wealth - which I'm happy to explain during the course of my 90 days) or other achievements requires a compelling 'why?' rather than a 'how?'. The hypothesis is that if we have passed high school (also questionable), we have enough knowledge to create the 'how?', but without the compelling why, many of us start the journey but do not finish. The rejection becomes too much, or what people (could be well meaning friends and family) say dissuades us. Or even the effort required becomes too much.

A quote goes "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow", and the point is - find out what motivates you and use it to develop that fire in the belly.

I'm happy to share my 'why?' on this forum. Why do I want GBP1m? Because I can, as a first response, and also I think it's alot of fun trying. I have travelled to Mozambique twice, Johannesburg 6 times, Capetown twice, Durban twice, Houston, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, New York, London 3 times, Manchester twice, Zimbabwe in the last 8 months.

But even deeper, I want to provide for my family the things which they want as well as need. Great education, phenomenal vacations, and a dream home as well as transport (I have always had a thing about a red Shelby Mustang with white racing stripes).

Even deeper still I have a desire to give back, to have the satisfaction of taking someone with potential and mentoring them to achieve success. But I have to do it first of course - and that seems to be a trick.

Why a trick? - because I have known hard work, and hard work alone is not the key. Smart work and hard work combined I hear you say, but I think I have known smart work too. There needs to be conguence between Belief, Desire and Self Esteem. If deep down one believes money is bad and that rich people are skelms (South African word for 'bad people'), there is internal conflict between desire and belief which may sabotage one's efforts no matter now hard one works or how smart one is. This and other aha's will be shared during my 90 journey on this blog.

I begin by admitting that I can at times be a complex beast, with my wife often perplexed as to what to think about my antics. But one thing she can never claim is that our life is boring.

Oh 75 days left - not a moment to lose.