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Originally Posted by JP
What motivated me was the desire to get out of being poor. It sucked and was embarrassing.
Too many kids today are given too much. They don't know what it is like to not have a good life and there is no punishment.
After all, aren't all the kids today winners? That is what the schools and the parents tell them and then when they get out in the real world well that's when reality can set in and they find out they are not winners after all.
I agree with Patti too. Not everyone is above average or more. There are a lot more average people out there than most people want to admit.
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I agree, that was also my motivation in H.S. My parents taught us at a very young age to save $$ (we started at ages 8 w/putting $ from birthays,Christmas, picking berries for 5 cents a box in the summer,babysitting, shoveling driveways for the neighbors, etc,etc) My mother also taught her 12 children to read at a very young age,she always said if you know how to read you can do anthing ). At age 22 I opened my 1st business and at 21 bought my 1st house. My parents taught us the value of a dollar, and didn't have to give us any allowance $$,(btw we all had to give my parents 1/3 of our small pay checks while we were still living at home) We all worked very hard for everything we bought. It is SO different from today's values!! Alot of people thought that I was "set up" by someone when I opened my 1st business when I was 22, they couldn't believe that I did it on my own, sad.... but b/c I did motivate myself from getting set free from a poverty mentality I appreciated everything I accomplished. :-)