Introduction

If you inherited a large trust fund, which mailed you a check for $10,000 every month for the rest of your life, what would you do?
Think about it; you will be around for 70 years. You can have most anything you want. You are a middle class guy (or girl) aged 18. Your future is open to all possibilities.
After a new sports car, some trips to the shore with your friends, a bunch of clothes, the initial excitement slows. You are going to be around for a long time. At some point you will realize you have a unique opportunity that most people never have---you must start thinking about what kind of world you want to create for yourself.
Many rich fellows in the past have bought a beach house and had 40 years of surf, sun and babes.
But if you have anything on the ball at all, a day will come when you realize you want your life to have some meaning. You see that you can:
a. Elevate yourself.
b. Help mankind.
And here is where your true nature comes forward and
directs you to make choices that you want to be right.
Where other men are so busy in a whirl of work and bills, you have a need to find the best way you can go. This is exactly the mindset that all people should get into no matter how ordinary their finances are. We have to look at who we are and where we would like our lives to go. What would you really like to be?
Looking forward, you will want to arrange it so your life will be interesting and exciting. And this is all possible (especially if you live in the United States). There are many wonderful events and activities to experience.
But to have the maximum number of stimulating adventures, you will have to do some planning. And to decide which goals to pursue, you will need a great amount of knowledge of the world to see what is available and how to obtain it.
This book contains a lot of common sense. But for some reason many people do not plan. Their lives go by. They are not happy. Often they are victimized. This is an attempt to lay out some concepts to think about. Hopefully, you will be able to get a handle on how you can make the best of this nice life you have been given.