Money, Yes; Hell, No!

Rick Schefren on Internet Marketers Preying on Opportunists

2007-11-06T16:37:42-08:00

Rick Schefren writes an insightful piece worth your time to read. To go to his blog, simply click on the link/title below:

I Don't Think We Can Be Friends Anymore

The Purpose of Money

2007-10-27T07:15:55-07:00

Kirk Douglas, the Academy award winning actor, says:

"After being in a midair collision between a light plane and a helicopter, getting a pacemaker, having a stroke, and undergoing a potentially fatal double-knee operation, I began to think of God and I discovered that the purpose of having money is to help those less fortunate."

Success Principles: 11 Keys

2007-10-24T22:20:41-07:00

Success is not reserved only for a chosen few. Everyone has the capacity to be successful in every area of his or her life. Success results from cultivating certain habits and sticking with them.

Consistency is a must.

A successful person thinks in a particular way, talks in a particular way and acts in a particular way.

Would you like to be a successful person too?

Here are eleven principles of success that are bound to help you:

1. Develop a clear vision of what exactly you want to achieve in your life. Carry this vision in your mind at all times. This is the starting point to success.

2. Believe without any doubt that you will achieve your dreams. Believe in a higher power that has been giving you whatever you needed so far.

3. Stay away from negative influences such as negative people, books, articles, etc. Surround yourself with things that boost the belief that you will succeed.

4. Take responsibility for your future. Do not depend on anyone else to get you there! Take responsibility for your life without doubting success.

5. Make a habit of repeating positive affirmations.

Speak out your affirmations in present tense as opposed to future tense.
Writing down affirmations is more effective as it helps your mind to stay fixed and focused on your goal.
This is also a good way to build your self-confidence and deepen your belief.

6. Make a firm commitment to action. Once you decide to take action stay committed and never give up.

7. Set a specific goals.

If you know what you really want to achieve you need to define it by making it a goal.
Your goals should be precise, measurable, realistic and timed.

8. Work out a plan of action.

Break down your plan into smaller tasks or units.
Take one step or two each day while reminding yourself that each step is taking you closer to your goal.
Your actions should be filled with faith, determination and purpose.
Consistency is vital to reach your goal.

9. Never give up until you have achieved what you desire.

Persistence is key to success. Treat every failure as a learning opportunity but push yourself towards your goal with stronger faith.

10. Maintain an attitude of gratitude, realizing that your dream is becoming a reality.

Look around you and be grateful for things that you already have such as a home, loving family, etc.

11. Be a giver!

Give your time, money and service to others.
Be kind and generous to all.

Now you know the principles of success!

Wealth Strategies by Todd Duncan

2007-10-24T09:26:24-07:00

In this book, Duncan shares his "9 1/2 steps to achieving physical, financial, and spiritual abundance."

In summary, they are:

Physical Abundance

Get Your Body's Attention
Pay Attention to Your Body
Develop Habits for Health

Financial Abundance

Take Stock of Your Net Worth
Learn from the Best
Win with Wealth

Spiritual Abundance

Breathe Life Into Your Relationships
Transform Your Spirit
Live Life Powefully

Step Nine and One-Half: Build a Plan for Excellence

John C. Maxwell on Things That Do NOT Require Talent

2007-10-24T09:14:01-07:00

John C. Maxwell is a former pastor and is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker and author.

Recently, I read an article in which he talked about things that do NOT require talent but that we need in order to succeed. I couldn't agree more.

Without needing to go into any detail, these things are:

Teachability
Initiative
Passion
Courage

He summarized his thoughts by saying, "There is no substitute for talent, but there are several supplements that can transform even modest talent into greatness!"

So go for it! Take your talent and add the supplements that can't be given to you!

Watch your success grow as you do!

Maxwell's website is: maximumimpact.com

James Arthur Ray on Success

2007-10-24T09:07:11-07:00

James Arthur Ray is a speaker, entrepreneur and a featured expert in the movie, "The Secret." He is the CEO and President of James Ray International which is a multi-million dollar corporation dedicated to teaching individuals to create wealth in all areas of their lives: financially, relationally, intellectually, physically and spiritually.

He says there are seven secrets of top performers. They are:

High achievers know exactly what they want.
Top performers visualize themselves in possession of their desired results.
The highly successful have an unbending belief in themselves and their abilities.
Achievers take action "as if" they were already in possession of the goal they desire.
Winners take full responsibility for their own destiny.
Top performers build high-leveraged partnerships.
Great achievers are great givers.

For more visit his website at: jamesray.com

Make Money - Ask for Collateral!

2007-09-27T22:43:20-07:00

MAKE MONEY - DON'T INDORSE WITHOUT SECURITY

I hold that no man ought ever to indorse a note or become security, for
any man, be it his father or brother, to a greater extent than he can
afford to lose and care nothing about, without taking good security.
Here is a man that is worth twenty thousand dollars; he is doing a
thriving manufacturing or mercantile trade; you are retired and living
on your money; he comes to you and says:

"You are aware that I am worth twenty thousand dollars, and don't owe a
dollar; if I had five thousand dollars in cash, I could purchase a
particular lot of goods and double my money in a couple of months; will
you indorse my note for that amount?"

You reflect that he is worth twenty thousand dollars, and you incur no
risk by endorsing his note; you like to accommodate him, and you lend
your name without taking the precaution of getting security. Shortly
after, he shows you the note with your endorsement canceled, and tells
you, probably truly, "that he made the profit that he expected by the
operation," you reflect that you have done a good action, and the
thought makes you feel happy. By and by, the same thing occurs again and
you do it again; you have already fixed the impression in your mind that
it is perfectly safe to indorse his notes without security.

But the trouble is, this man is getting money too easily. He has only to
take your note to the bank, get it discounted and take the cash. He gets
money for the time being without effort; without inconvenience to
himself. Now mark the result. He sees a chance for speculation outside
of his business. A temporary investment of only $10,000 is required. It
is sure to come back before a note at the bank would be due. He places a
note for that amount before you. You sign it almost mechanically. Being
firmly convinced that your friend is responsible and trustworthy; you
indorse his notes as a "matter of course."

Unfortunately the speculation does not come to a head quite so soon as
was expected, and another $10,000 note must be discounted to take up the
last one when due. Before this note matures the speculation has proved
an utter failure and all the money is lost. Does the loser tell his
friend, the endorser, that he has lost half of his fortune? Not at all.
He don't even mention that he has speculated at all. But he has got
excited; the spirit of speculation has seized him; he sees others making
large sums in this way (we seldom hear of the losers), and, like other
speculators, he "looks for his money where he loses it." He tries again.
endorsing notes has become chronic with you, and at every loss he gets
your signature for whatever amount he wants. Finally you discover your
friend has lost all of his property and all of yours. You are
overwhelmed with astonishment and grief, and you say "it is a hard
thing; my friend here has ruined me," but, you should add, "I have also
ruined him." If you had said in the first place, "I will accommodate
you, but I never indorse without taking ample security," he could not
have gone beyond the length of his tether, and he would never have been
tempted away from his legitimate business. It is a very dangerous thing,
therefore, at any time, to let people get possession of money too
easily; it tempts them to hazardous speculations, if nothing more.
Solomon truly said "he that hateth suretiship is sure."

So with the young man starting in business; let him understand the value
of money by earning it. When he does understand its value, then grease
the wheels a little in helping him to start business, but remember, men
who get money with too great facility cannot usually succeed. You must
get the first dollars by hard knocks, and at some sacrifice, in order to
appreciate the value of those dollars.

(From P. T. Barnum's, "The Golden Rules To Make Money")

Make Money - Do What You Love To Do and Are Gifted To Do!

2007-09-18T22:30:09-07:00

MAKE MONEY - DON'T MISTAKE YOUR VOCATION

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man
starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to
his tastes. Parents and guardians are often quite too negligent in
regard to this. It very common for a father to say, for example: "I have
five boys. I will make Billy a clergyman; John a lawyer; Tom a doctor,
and Dick a farmer." He then goes into town and looks about to see what
he will do with Sammy. He returns home and says "Sammy, I see watch-
making is a nice genteel business; I think I will make you a goldsmith."
He does this, regardless of Sam's natural inclinations, or genius.

We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose. There is as much
diversity in our brains as in our countenances. Some are born natural
mechanics, while some have great aversion to machinery. Let a dozen boys
of ten years get together, and you will soon observe two or three are
"whittling" out some ingenious device; working with locks or complicated
machinery. When they were but five years old, their father could find no
toy to please them like a puzzle. They are natural mechanics; but the
other eight or nine boys have different aptitudes. I belong to the
latter class; I never had the slightest love for mechanism; on the
contrary, I have a sort of abhorrence for complicated machinery. I never
had ingenuity enough to whittle a cider tap so it would not leak. I
never could make a pen that I could write with, or understand the
principle of a steam engine. If a man was to take such a boy as I was,
and attempt to make a watchmaker of him, the boy might, after an
apprenticeship of five or seven years, be able to take apart and put
together a watch; but all through life he would be working up hill and
seizing every excuse for leaving his work and idling away his time.
Watchmaking is repulsive to him.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and
best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to
believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. Yet
we see many who have mistaken their calling, from the blacksmith up (or
down) to the clergyman. You will see, for instance, that extraordinary
linguist the "learned blacksmith," who ought to have been a teacher of
languages; and you may have seen lawyers, doctors and clergymen who were
better fitted by nature for the anvil or the lapstone.

(From P. T. Barnum's "Golden Rules to Make Money")

Make Money - FOCUS!

2007-09-18T22:20:09-07:00

MAKE MONEY - DO NOT SCATTER YOUR POWERS

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until
you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it.
A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last,
so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered
on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of
value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen
different subjects at once. Many a fortune has slipped through a man's
fingers became he was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There
is good sense in the old caution against having too many irons in the
fire at once.

(From P. T. Barnum's "Golden Rules to Make Money")

Make Money - Stay Informed!

2007-09-17T11:33:50-07:00

MAKE MONEY - READ THE NEWSPAPERS

Always take a trustworthy newspaper, and thus keep thoroughly posted in
regard to the transactions of the world. He who is without a newspaper
is cut off from his species. In these days of telegraphs and steam, many
important inventions and improvements in every branch of trade are being
made, and he who don't consult the newspapers will soon find himself and
his business left out in the cold.

(From P. T. Barnum's "Golden Rules to Make Money")

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