How I Went from a Mobile Home to Where Moguls Roam: A Transformative Guide to Creating a Legendary Lifestyle

By Anthony Von Mickle

Anthony Von Mickle has been the absolute envy of many of his friends and colleagues for years as he travels to exotic locations, lives in fabulous communities and enjoys the “good life” while they perpetually tell him “I’m trying to live vicariously through you”. These are by and large very capable degreed professionals with good jobs, yet they still seem to fall short of where they ultimately want to be in life.

On the surface, they easily point to a lack of money but Von argues that while limited financial resources may be only part of the problem the bigger problem is limited insight and motivation coupled with a lack of belief that something out of this world can actually happen for them.

From the mobile home to where moguls is filled with examples of how the average ordinary person with no special training or fancy job title yet who has huge dreams can get going and make tremendous progress towards some right outlandish desires.

Regardless of whether you grew up in a mobile home or you’ve had the good fortune to be raised with all your basic needs and wants, this book will make you reconsider how some things that seem far away may be a lot closer than you might otherwise think.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Aug 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781663254733

Anthony Von Mickle

Anthony Von Mickle is the founder and president of the Investment Forum and an expert on personal finance, investments, and small businesses. He earned an MBA from Keller Graduate School and is currently working toward a PhD in international business. He lives in Washington, DC, and Columbia, South Carolina.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Your mindset must change if you’re not where you want to be.

Eventually your situation will change.

Welcome to South Florida where moguls roam.

Life and death are in the tongue.

Chapter 1   Dream

What do you really want?

Where is it written? Those who write clearly think clearly.

The trouble with not accepting your dreams.

Who believes in you?

Chapter 2   Research, Execute, and Become Someone Different

The internet is your friend.

Activate Gorilla Grind Mode—let’s work!

Where you sit versus where you fit.

Amazing things happen if you don’t give up.

Chapter 3   Enjoy the Ride

About Anthony Von Mickle

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of Naomi Doh-Doh

Watkins, our aunt, sister, and family chef who loved traveling

with us. We lost her on April 12, 2023, at age sixty-four to lung

cancer. May you now take rest on this peaceful journey.

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Introduction

I went from a mobile home to where moguls roam, and you can too after you accept your wildest dreams.

Congratulations! You have won the species lottery. You have the ability to think, read, write, produce change, react to change, create jobs, and quit them. You can drive a car, ride a bus, fly at the front of the plane or the back of one. You may not only swim, but you can power a boat, rent a jet ski, or buy one. You have been given a tremendous amount of power over your life.

We are extraordinarily fortunate to have been blessed by God to have dominion over the earth. Think about that for a minute. If you compare a human to a lion, who do you think is faster? Who is stronger? Who has quicker reflexes? These questions are easy to answer, and the big cat wins every time. Even though the lion is called king of the jungle, how many times do you see a human locked in a cage at the circus? How many times do people have to stand on a small platform and wave to the crowd or get beaten with a whip? The answer is zero.

As humans, we possess the power to have dominion over the earth because we have the good fortune of having been given reason. We can think and produce, and with that we can make change. If you don’t like the current coast you live on, you can move. If you don’t like your job, you can quit and find another one (not that I recommend making changes in that order, however). If you don’t like the car you drive, you can trade it in and get another one. If you don’t like living alone, you can start a family or invite others into your life.

If you place dead last in the current polls, whether it is GPA in your class or slowest time in the two-mile run, you can make changes to improve your status. If you really like the color blue, you can keep wearing it and get all blue clothing to match. If you look good in white, you can buy more white clothes. Don’t like being fat? No problem. You can diet and exercise and completely alter your appearance. You can change so many things about your life.

From my early childhood, I didn’t like my lot in life. I often had dreams of living a richer lifestyle. I wanted more choices. I wanted to be known as smart and nice looking. I was willing to change, and therefore I made those changes. The beauty is you can too. I’m not saying you can change everything. I’m guessing it might be nice to be a little bit taller, and while I can adjust my height by wearing cowboy boots, I will not grow another inch. But isn’t it beautiful that I can influence the appearance of my height on my own just by wearing boots and a hat? I can even add a cushion in the boots for further upward adjustment. There are so many things we can change, and we should be so grateful that we are the only species that have this ability to have dominion over our lives. It is this realization that took me from my mobile home to where moguls roam. That’s what I wanted to do, and I did it.

You are good enough!

Perhaps some of you are thinking you are not sufficiently qualified to live at the levels you dream of living at. Maybe some of you, as I did, believe your race or your group of people are inferior to others you decide to be around. It took me a long time to realize that’s not the case. More than likely, you will find that most people are not that much different than you.

I took me quite a while to realize that people who got better grades than I did and who studied in disciplines that seemed to be tougher than my major were not guaranteed to be richer or more successful. Some people are just good students, and that’s about as far as it will go. Also, not everyone is into chasing dream lifestyles, and this statistically will give you an advantage of (do we mean over?) them as you pursue some of the things you will want to achieve. Fewer people heading in the direction you want to go will benefit you.

Not an honor roll student? No problem.

I was not the greatest student, and certainly I was not the worst. I did okay. People often associated me with being smart because of the way I presented myself. I knew better than to do what the academically disadvantaged people were doing. If they were not carrying books, I carried them. If the smart kids talked about what was going on in science, I might mention a word or two on the subject. I wanted to be known as smart, so I carried myself like the person I wanted to be. That made up for what I lacked in sheer academic ability.

Over the years, I heard many times that, in the working world, the A students end up working for the C students, and while I have no idea if the people who worked for me had been A students or not, I would have to presume they had done pretty well in school. I was good at getting the general concepts but never wanted the nitty-gritty details. If we were studying derivatives, I would be happy getting past the first or second ones. Beyond that, I simply didn’t want to know and probably didn’t have the understanding anyway. While I wasn’t lazy, I never pushed myself. I wasn’t going to study for two or three hours a night during high school. I considered that a chore for the nerds. I was cooler than that. By the time I got to college, I had to change that attitude dramatically. I studied a lot more but still didn’t have the desire to drill down into the depths of the subject matter.

I felt as if all that was going to do was create