Over the last few days I’ve been seeing a lot of people state that Jay Z doesn’t need anymore money, so why did he do the deal with the NFL. So based off the assumption that he doesn’t “need” anymore money, they conclude that he’s wrong for making the move that he made.
But let’s examine this from an entrepreneurs perspective, and juxtapose it with having a career.
If you have a good high paying job and your boss gave you a raise, would you turn it down, would you think to yourself I don’t need a raise?
Regardless of the answer that you give right there, the reaction would be the exact same, you’d accept the raise, if you “needed” it or not! You’re not going to say, “that’s aight boss, give that money to someone else”, it’s just not going to happen!
Well the thing is, Jay Z is an entrepreneur, we are people that work for ourselves, we don’t work for other people, we don’t have bosses giving us raises, so we give ourselves RAISES! And the only way to do that is to make business transactions that up our net profits and net worth! This is how you create a legacy!
The work that we do is for our families, to build our legacies! We want to secure generational wealth so our children’s, children’s, children’s can still eat and build off our legacies.
Isn’t this the same for you? Do you not want to “secure the bag” to, at the very least, make sure that your children don’t grow up in the same conditions that you did. You want better for them, and you hope that they’ll make things better for their kids!
I’ve seen post after post of people with full time jobs, working a side hustle to live a certain lifestyle, and y’all say that it’s being done for your seeds! The difference is that Jay is trying to leave a legacy and most of y’all are trying to leave an insurance policy as an inheritance, if that!
You have to switch your mindset to legacy building, and I guarantee that you’ll understand 100% where Jay is coming from, and why he made the move that he made!
Look at a lot of these major corporations, a whole lot of them were started over 100 years ago, that’s creating generational wealth!
Take the Walton’s for example, the owners of Walmart and Sam’s Club, are worth close to $200 billion combined, off their fathers legacy!
That’s what Jay is doing! The same thing that the corporations that you work for are doing!
Instead of working for corporations and helping to build someone else’s legacy, I SAY TRY TO BUILD YOUR OWN, so your kids and kids, kids, kids can be taken care of in the future!
I know this isn’t for everybody, but if it’s in you, let’s bring it out. We need people like you if we’re ever going to change our circumstances here!
I’ve taken a 10 year journey with my wife and family, now it’s time to take a journey with anyone that’s willing to take it with me!
Operation Maywood Building Blocks is coming 10-1-2019!
I’ll be adding people from The Woods that I’ve talked to about entrepreneurship over the years to the MBB group in the next few weeks. So if you want to shift your mindset from employee to employer, or if you’re already in that mindset, let’s build a legacy, I’ll help you do that!
BORN – LEGACY