Friday, July 29, 2011

Trying to make you feel excited with some love quotes!!!

Kahlil Gibran Love Saying:

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Love Quote from an Unknown Author:


Live well, laugh often, and love with all of your heart
St. Paul Quotation on Love:

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered,
it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. 

Sam Keen Love Quote:

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Expect More of great doings

Monday, July 4, 2011

Hmm I want to become wealthy...

How to Become Wealthy
Nine Truths That Can Set You on the Path to Financial Freedom
#1: Change the Way You Think About Money
The general population has a love / hate relationship with wealth.  They hate people who have it, but spend their entire lives trying to get it for themselves.  The reason a vast majority of people never accumulate a substantial nest egg is because they don't understand the nature of money or how it works.

Cash, like a person, is a living thing.  When you wake up in the morning and go to work, you are selling a product - yourself [or more specifically, your labor].  When you realize that every morning your assets wake up and have the same potential to work as you do, you unlock a powerful key in your life.  Each dollar you save is like an employee.  Over the course of time, the goal is to make your employees work hard, and eventually, they will make enough money to hire more workers [cash].  When you have become truly successful, you no longer have to sell your own labor, but can live off of the labor of your assets.
#2: Develop an Understanding of the Power of Small Amounts
The biggest mistake most people make is that they think they have to start with an entire Napoleon-like army.  They suffer from the "not enough" mentality; namely that if they aren't making $1,000 or $5,000 investments at a time, they will never become rich.  What these people don't realize is that entire armies were built one soldier at a time, and so will their financial arsenal. 
A friend of mine once knew a woman who worked as a dishwasher and made her purses out of old liquid detergent bottles.  This woman invested and saved everything she had - a few dollars at a time.  Now, she has a portfolio worth millions upon millions of dollars, all of which was built upon small investments.  I am not suggesting you become this frugal, but make a point to put two or three dollars a day into an investment account.  Before you know it, you are savings just shy of $1,000 a year.  Do not despise the day of small beginnings!
#3: With Each Dollar You Save, You Are Buying Yourself Freedom
When you put it in these terms, you see how spending $20 here and $40 there can make a huge difference in the long run.  Since money has the ability to work in your place, the more of it you employ, the faster and larger it will grow. Along with more money comes more freedom - the freedom to stay home with your kids, the freedom to retire and travel around the world, or the freedom to quit your job.  If you have any source of income, it is possible for you to start building wealth today.  It may only be $5 or $10 at a time, but each of those investments is a stone in the foundation of your financial freedom.
#4: You Are Responsible for Where You Are in Your Life
Years ago, a friend told me she didn't want to invest in stocks because she "didn't want to wait ten years to be rich..." she would rather enjoy her money now.  The folly with this school of thinking is that the odds are, you are going to be alive in ten years.  The question is whether or not you will be better off when you arrive there.  Where you are right now is the sum total of the decisions you have made in the past.  Why not set the stage for your life in the future right now?  How do you do that?...
#5: Instead of Buying the Product... Buy the Stock!
Someone once asked me why they weren't wealthy.  They always felt like they were putting money aside, yet never seemed to get any further ahead.  The answer is simple... I told them to stop buying the products companies sell and start buying the company itself! According to a survey of America's affluent (those who make over $225,000 a year or own $3,000,000 in assets) showed that 27-30% of all the income the wealthy earned went into investments and savings.  That isn't a result of being rich... that is why they are rich, and some of you reading this right now are not.  When the pain of getting out of the bondage of financial slavery is greater than the pain of changing your spending habits, you will become rich.  Either change, or be content to live like you are. 

#6: Study and Admire Success and Those Who Have Achieved It... Then Emulate It
A very wise investor once said to pick the traits you admire and dislike the most about your heroes, then do everything in your power to develop the traits you like and reject the ones you don't. Mold yourself into who you want to become.  You'll find that by opening yourself up and investing in yourself first, you will begin to provide ways for money to flow into your life.  Success and wealth beget success and wealth.  You have to purchase your way into that cycle, and you do so by building your army one soldier at a time and putting your money to work for you.
#7: Realize that More Money is Not the Answer
More money is not going to solve your problem.  Money is a magnifying glass - it will accelerate and bring to light your true habits.  If you are not capable of handling a job paying $18,000 a year, the worst possible thing that could happen to you is for you to earn six figures.  It would destroy you.  I have met too many people earning $100,000 a year who are living from paycheck to paycheck and don't understand why it is happening.  The problem isn't the size of their checkbook - it is the way in which they were taught to use money. 
#8: Unless Your Parents were Wealthy, Don't do what They Did
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  If your parents were not living the life you want to live - then don't do what they did. You have to break away from the way the past generations managed their finances if you want to have a different lifestyle than they had.

To achieve the financial freedom and success that your family may or may not have had, you have to do two things. First, you have to pay off all your debt. Make a decision that you will not allow yourself to be in debt any longer, and then when you have, do everything in your power to get out of debt. Put as much money as you can toward your payments, and before long, you will be able to 2.) start investing in stocks and / or mutual funds.
Purchasing equity is vital to your financial success as an individual. Not only does it provide extra income in some cases [through means of a dividend], but also provides the opportunity for your fortune to grow in synch with that of a company. Nowhere else can your money do as much for you as when you use it to invest in a business that has wonderful long-term prospects.
#9: Stop Worrying
The miracle of life is that it doesn't matter so much where you are - it matters where you are going. Once you have made the choice to take control back of your life by building up your net worth, don't give a second thought to the "what ifs" of finance. Every moment that goes by, you are growing and getting closer and closer to your ultimate goal - control and freedom.
Rest assured, it will happen. If you are diligent and work at it, the day will come when you make your last payment on your car, your house, or whatever else it is you owe. Once that happens, do everything you can to avoid going into debt again. When you see it for what it really is - slavery - you won't have a problem rejecting it.
Copyright © 2001 Joshua Kennon