Reading and Day dreaming

I've not really read much lately so I thought i'd order some books, I really started to enjoy reading after I found Kurzweil Book so facinating! In fact his "Age of Spiritual Machines" was the first book that I read fully and it changed my outlook on the future and he certainly has had a massive influence on the direction of my life... Thank you! -- he was also kind enough to get three autographed books sent to me last year, how awesome is that!

So anyway I thought I'd read some other stuff than technology, the future and all that kind of thing. I bought a book called "Anyone can do it" by Duncan Bannatyne and what an amazing read so far... basically he is saying that anyone can do what he did, he earned himself 160 million in a very short space of time. He left with school with no qualifications, he was really poor, and one day he decided he would become very rich. He never invented anything, he was just careful with his money and he built up small businesses. I'm only about 1/4 way through the book and so far he has led a very interesting life. He also thinks he's going to live forever, in that video on the link above he says he will live to 500 because he loves life.

While at work I've just been thinking about all my family members that are extremely wealthy and how they made it, and its all to do with being sensible with money and working hard. They all moved to places like austrailia and spain now, except my uncle who lives a couple of minutes from me and I go see him a few times a year. My family in Austrailia have invited us over and we use one of their 3 'massive' houses for 4-6 weeks or so, but my mother never took us, even though they offered to pay for everything while we were over there. You may have heard of the Oracle? Well she (my mothers aunt) was in a very high position in this company in austrailia. And her sons own companies, one which creates all those flashing signs you see in places like vegas, new york etc... And two of my uncles own like 10's of properties and is worth millions... I just can't believe it! -- They should all be donating to the mprize! lol. I'm really suprised that people who have billions and millions have still not donated to the mprize. Yes there has been a few, but I hope there are a lot more. I think one of the problems is their public image, what if people say "why didn't you donate to something more important, like cancer, heart disease, children in africa" and so on. But the more people that donate the louder the message becomes.

Maybe this book will inspire me to make goals for myself, to somehow make myself wealthy by working hard. One way was buying property, but I the prices now are so damn high, i'm not sure if that will ever be a possibility, at least not right now. Duncan says you can go the same way as he did, maybe you can? The population is getting older now, maybe it will soon be a good idea to open up some care homes or something. I'll just carry on day dreaming at work (its boring) and think something up one day. Then when I become a multi-millionaire help all my family out and donate shit loads to the mprize.

Other than day dreaming and reading, I really have to finish this damn human physiology essay. ahhhhhh.