Financial Pipeline or Hauling Buckets?
Are you building a pipeline or hauling buckets? There is a great story in Robert Kiyosaki's "Cashflow Quadrant" (a must read book in or out of acting school or art class) that goes like this: A village in Africa needed water, so they gave 2 people, Bill and Ed, the contract to supply it, reasoning that the competition would keep prices reasonable and the service good. Bill immediately ran out, bought to buckets, and started making the trek to and from the lake, which was a mile away. He started making money immediately, which was great, especially as Ed disappeared from the village. The downside was that he had to get up before everybody else to make sure that the village had the water, and his work was very tiring, as he spent his whole day carrying buckets of water. ...
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