Yes, I earned 67,000 dollars in one night!! how did I do it? I paid a downpayment on a house for 3 thousand dollars and sold it at 110,000 dollars less the mortgage to earn 67,000 dollars!!!!!

nice right? I wish it was true though. I did make 67,000 dollars in paper money from the game called CASHFLOW. For those of you who are not familiar with the game, the objective of the game is to get out of the RAT RACE and make x amount of money (specified in the game) or get the dream you’ve always wanted (which is also specified in the game). I have heard of the game before and I have seen it in some specialty toy stores but I have never played it. I heard the price of this particular boardgame was 15,000 pesos(wow!).

so what is the RAT RACE? The Rat race is basically a mindset or the way I see it, the employee mentality. Many of the employees today live from paycheck to paycheck. They work tirelessly for the boss until they get paid and the salary that they get they blow it all away in buying new gadgets (cell phones, ipods, laptops) and other non-essential items leaving them with little or no money to save or to invest. It is the “work-salary-spend” cycle that we are trying to break away from. how do we get off the cycle? That is what the CASHFLOW game teaches its players.

I was invited to play CASHFLOW earlier tonight by a group of friends who i shared the same interest with. And that interest is on how to make money. These friends of mine are mostly in their 20’s and they’re pretty much decided on being rich. We meet regularly and talk about business ideas, possible ventures or opportunities, stock markets, and market trends. We havent made a business deal or venture as a group but the meetings I have with them is very interesting because you are able to hear different opinions and opportunities form the group. I suggest you find a group of friends who you could share this with as well because you never know what business opportunity might come out of it.

Game Proper:

there is a maximum of 6 players and each player, like in monopoly, gets a small figure that will represent himself in the board game. the game has 2 seperate paths 1. small circle is where everyone begins (RAT RACE) and 2. the outer circle is where you want to be in.

before the game starts you will pick, at random, an occupation (just like the board game LIFE). there it states your salary, your loans, expenses and monthly cashflow. you will have to record that information down on a piece of paper. throughout the game you will pass paycheck tiles and your monthly cashflow is the amount you’ll receive everytime you collect your “paycheck”.

during the game, players will be presented with opportunities, expenses, market trends, that will affect their cashflow. and the cashflow determines how successful you are in the game.

Revelation:

How you play the game is a reflection on how you deal with your cashflow in real life. the decisions that you make in the game are probably the decisions you will make if a similar situation will present itself to you in real life. the good thing about the game is you learn from it.

who won?:

Ken Tan won the game, I just came in second, the rest didnt get out of the rat race at all.

notes:

increase cashflow, lower expenses!