Archive for the ‘Wealth’ Category

How much are you worth?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

This is a very important question because if you don’t know the answer you may be in trouble! This is also an important question because it reveals the divide between the wealthy and the middle-class. Most people ask, “how much do you make?” Wealthy people ask, “how much are you worth?”

This small mental break speaks volumes. One way of thinking has you chasing your payments and the other asks how many payments will it take to catch you!

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How Vitago Works

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Vitago is my scratch pad for lessons learned through real life experience or reading from books and websites. I’m a strong believer in inspection. If you don’t inspect your work and patterns of behavior you are doomed to not only repeat your mistakes but to apply those mistakes in other areas of your life.

Inspection isn’t just looking at the bad. Inspection is also looking at the good and getting pleasure of a job well done. It’s also finding ways to apply the wins to new situations.

Either way, if you learn from your wins and losses your wins will become greater in number and your confidence will increase so that those wins also get better in value.

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The Beginning

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Welcome to Vitago, the Wealth Apprentice. This site is dedicated to learning about anything that will make your rich life wealthy.

I am a very rich person. I have fantastic friends, a strong community and a loving family.

When it comes to wealth I just haven’t figured it out yet. And that is what Vitago is about - figuring out how to make more money than you spend. And figuring out how to make your money work for you. I’m coming at this from a businessman’s perspective. I have started several businesses watched them build up and then run over me.

I’ve had a lot of fun with this process. And I’ve learned a lot. But my situation has changed. I can’t keep imploding the way I have because now I have a family and their well-being is my top concern.

So much for fun… maybe.

(Probably not.)

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