This is Karen Hunter a three-part series in examining the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, not his whole life.

We were just talking about his money

and how the wealthiest man in the world

at the time that he died in 1887 left all his money

to his children who then squandered it.

So it is a lesson, a cautionary tale

about how we should be treating money and dealing with money.

But more importantly, these last three lessons that I'm putting out are really about the focus that our focus

should not be on money in the pursuit of money but on happiness in the pursuit of self and becoming the best people that we can be.

So in this lesson we're going to talk about striving, not arriving.

Many people think the path to wealth, I want to be a millionaire,

is the destination is the goal.

The destination is not the goal.

The process is the goal.

Learning is the goal.

Getting there is almost anticlimatic and I know because recently I had an anticlimatic

moment that I'm going to share with you. I've talked about in the past the importance of

writing things down.

I use the scripture, Habak, make it plain on tablets.

And that being a very spiritual thing for me.

Back in the early 2000s, I started,

well the Daily News would hand out daily planners at-a-glance

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