Nearly all of us are involved in the rat race, wherein we compete with each other to get just a bit ahead financially. The irony is that at the end all of us learn the lesson of the life, wherein we understand that the rat race is not exactly a solution to create wealth. If anything rat race is a no brainer pointless pursuit. Sometimes it takes others to awaken us from slumber. Motivated by his colleague, Christian starts creating wealth in the best possible way. He starts investing in his local Spring Hill real estate.
In spite of sitting in a centralized AC environment, Christian was nearly sweating in his cabin. He was supposed to receive an email from the HR letting him know about his promotion. At any point of time, the company email will announce him as one of the VPs of the company. He was about to achieve his career goal, which he was sighted for a few years. He soon started remembering the kind of superhuman slogging he has done for the past 2 years for this promotion. He has ignored his health and family in order to achieve his corporate targets. He could hardly remember a weekend in the last two years when he has not done any kind of office work. Sometimes he would be out of the station to for official work and on other weekends he would be in the office attending a crucial client meeting. Even on weekdays slogging for 15- 16 hours was a norm.
The aftermath was catastrophic on Christian. Within two years he went from fab to fat. Ignoring his health and fitness schedule made him gain plenty of body fat. He no longer looked like a runway model, but it seemed like he also aged beyond his years. He now looked like a middle age executive. He was always stressed due to loads of work and the urge to supersede others at work. It started changing his nature. From a fun loving guy, he turned into a no nonsensical type of person. It finally soured his relationship with his wife. She filed for divorce and took their only daughter with her too.
Christian started feeling depressed thinking of the sacrifices he had made in order to achieve this position. Well, the bad luck didn’t intend to leave Christian alone. Soon he indeed received an email from the HR notifying that one of his colleagues have been promoted instead. That was too much for Christian to bear. He fainted with a shock.
Christian could barely open his eyes in the hospital. He saw the CEO of the company standing by his bed. She informed him that the entire staff was concerned for her. Christian could barely suppress his anger now. He told her bluntly that he is considering resigning from his position. The CEO informed him that though the management agreed to promote him, it was stalled at the last moment by the HR team. She also stated his subordinates actually complained about his strict and impatient behavior to the HR team.
The calm behavior of the CEO helped Christian to cool off and get a hold of himself. As they conversed further, the CEO asked Christian about his plans after resignation. Christian opened up and frankly told her that he didn’t think about it seriously. Maybe he would join another company. The CEO told him that of course, he would have her recommendation then. She scratched further and asked about his retirement plans. Christian was dumbfounded, he had no idea what the CEO was talking.
The CEO then informed him that she has already made several investments in the Spring Hill real estate. She passed the number of Jeffrey Merkley of MPS Home Solutions to him. After speaking with Jeffrey Christian got excited and was looking forward to his firs Spring Hill real estate investment. Thus, finally Christian understood how to really get financially ahead of his peers.