The husband shared this really good article with me last night, and I finally read it this afternoon. It was written by a Canadian-American financial writer called, Robert G. Allen *google that*

It was a rather long read — almost 5,000 words — that took me 15 minutes *digest digest*

In a nutshell, Allen advocates on money matters and how to ditch the rat race. What struck me most was his capricious example of us being monkeys. And it makes perfect sense *chuckles*

A native takes a coconut and cuts off one end to make a small hole just the size to allow a monkeys fist to enter. To the other end of the coconut they attach a long cord.

They place a few peanuts inside the coconut, place the coconut in the middle of a clearing and hide behind a tree to wait for the monkeys to come.

The monkeys come and smell the peanuts inside the coconut shell. One monkey reaches inside the shell to grab the peanuts, but with the peanuts inside, his fist is too large to escape the hole in the coconut.

And then the native yanks on the cord and hauls that silly monkey to captivity because the monkey will not let go of those peanuts to save his skin.

You’ll have to read the entire article to benefit from that. Most of us — exemplified by Allen, and I agree — are just like the monkey in the story. We hold on to what little fortune we have, and refuses to let go thinking of it as security. Ergo many of us are stuck in a linear income. Unless perhaps born with a silver spoon, or have an uncanny ball for risk taking.

Do you want to escape the race and bag some residual income?

This could be it.

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