Make 2011 ...The Year it happens ..!!
The farmer must plow and till the soil before planting his crops; so to the mind must be plowed and tilled in preparation for successful ideas and thoughts to be sown in it. Plowing and tilling must then be followed by mental gymnastics and pruning. In other words, the mind must be tuned and ready.
Earlier in the evening, I found myself having a philosophical thought about the wealth that is possessed by the wealthy and how they got it. None of the folks we refer to as wealthy, don't print money; (well there are a few exceptions). I'm talking about folks like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Ophra, Donald Trump and the folks sailing around on mega yachts here in Caribbean waters. Somewhat like a magnet, they attracted their wealth to them. The magnifying element in their formula was (is) not necessarily education. We all know of wealthy folks who don?t hold degrees or special letters behind their names. For the most part, they had goals and dreams that they planned and executed.
I know and acknowledge that the expensive homes and buildings sitting on hillsides did not just happen, nor do the expensive Lair Jets sitting in hangars at airports just appear out of thin air. The ingredients that combined and led to the appearance of these material things are intangible such as Desire, Imagination, Belief in oneself (and perhaps a higher power) Dreams, Goals, and Expectation. President Obama likes to add in Sacrifice and Hard Work. Perhaps !!
There is also the healthy respect one needs to have for money (the management of it; the power it can display, if managed correctly and quite the opposite, the destructive consequences it can display, if mismanaged).
Due to unforeseen expenses I have had during the past few months, I fell a bit short on cash and thought of calling up a friend to negotiate a small loan. (perhaps I am not alone, considering the economic conditions of the past year). When I called my friend and expressed pleasantries and my need, his response was that he was not sure if or what he could do because of immediate expenses he needed to take care of. He further stated that he doesn't usually keep available money around that isn't tied down.
The expression about money that isn't tied down immediately caught my
attention and further reinforced the favorable opinion I have of my
friend as a person who manages money well. My own mother, now at 88
years (young January 13) is a person with incredible money management
skill. Her life story by itself is incredible, considering that she has
been a single parent since (all four of us) were in our teens. She did
teach for a little while which earned her a few pennies; later on she
worked as a maid in a hotel. Yet my mother manage to rare us to
adulthood, bought land, built a home and is able to maintain herself
from her various monthly earnings). In December the last time I saw
mom, during a conversation we were having, she told me about a CD she
has with a bank that has a greater balance that I have ever managed to
stash away. I felt it hard to believe even though she had shared with
me at an earlier time, a secret about how she learned how to manage
money; and it goes like this: a guest vacationing at the hotel seeing
how hard she was working, told her during a conversation that ?she had
learned how to spend a dollar twice and still get back change?. The
moral of the story is of course, about being shrewd with money; getting
as much value as possible for money. My mother immediately picked up on
the straight forwardness of the statement and has been practicing
money-management ever since .
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