Woman Saves $12,000 by Collecting Fives
July 23, 2008
A sum like $12,000 doesn’t usually make the news, but one Boston Globe reporter has managed to trick herself into saving that amount by adopting a creative way to save. With two daughters in college and a mortgage to pay, Marie Franklin and her husband didn’t have any extra money to put into savings. While perusing online, she came across a saving trick that suggested saving every five she acquired and depositing them into a separate savings account.
Once she’s collected ten fives in her wallet, Marie deposits the $50 into her designated savings account, and once that account has $2,000 she purchases a CD to earn higher interest. After three years of saving all of her fives, she has accumulated $12,000 in savings. Marie acknowledges that this method of saving requires discipline, but her unconventional habit has obviously worked for her.
7 Easy Ways to Make More Money, Working Less
April 20, 2008
Are you living the Internet marketing lifestyle? You know, laying on the beach sipping Mai Tais, occasionally tapping away on your laptop. (Just to see how much money you’ve made this hour.) Or do you feel like you’re chained to your computer? Are you working longer hours than ever before… and not getting any closer to the dream lifestyle?
Either way, it’s your fault.
Your daily actions are either moving you towards the lifestyle you want, or dragging you further away. There’s no in between.
Look, it’s easy to fall into the “busy being busy” trap. That’s why it’s so important to design the lifestyle you want. Don’t let life just happen to you. Choose how you want to live it and make it happen.
Here are 7 easy ways to make more money working less and get you closer to living the lifestyle you want…
1. Work Less
Parkinson’s law says work expands to fill the time allocated to it. If you choose to work 7 days, you’ll magically find 7 days worth of work to do. The flip side is that work must also contract in a similar fashion. If you choose to work 5 days you’ll make sure you get all your work done in 5 days.
So the quickest and easiest way to make more money is simply to work less!
However many days you work now, choose to work one less. You’ll find it amazing how much you get done when you cut out all the busy work.
2. Outsource
Our school system teaches us a dangerous lesson: you must be good at a wide range of subjects. The only place this applies is in school! In the real world specialists get paid more than generalists.
Focus on your strengths and outsource everything else.
Don’t waste time working on your weaknesses when you can outsource those things to someone else that specializes in them. (Often for pennies on the dollar!)
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Double Your Pay
February 22, 2008
I have taught time management strategies to more than 100,000 people over the last few years and the successes these people have had have often been amazing. Many of them have doubled their output in as little as one or two days. One businessman in Philadelphia tripled his income and doubled the amount of time he spent with his family within twelve months. Another businessman from Montreal increased his income by 700% over a period of two years by disciplining himself to practice these principles every hour of every day.
Small Effects Yield Large Results
The good news is that even a small effort on your part to implement the very best of time management principles into your life will yield a tremendous return in increased productivity, performance and output. It is like stepping on the accelerator of your own life and moving yourself onto the fast track in your career.
Efficiency Starts At School
We usually learn how to work efficiently and effectively in our teenage years by doing our schoolwork and our homework in an excellent way and handing it in on time. If a young person does not learn how to work during their school years, he or she will have a tough time working when they actually take a paying job.
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10 Ways to Develop a Prosperity Consciousness
January 22, 2008
Prosperity consciousness is based on the idea that our thoughts create the reality we see and experience on a daily basis. By using a specific set of tools, we can root out the negative thinking which is causing us to experience lack and transform our lives on all levels and attract a bounty of abundance.
Steps toward a Prosperity Consciousness
1. Set aside at least twenty minutes a day to study and visualize your new life.
2. Buy a loose leaf binder and label it “Dreams Unlimited.” This is where you will workshop the life you are creating for yourself and get clear on what you really want. This will be the place where you write your affirmations, make notes about the process, collect uplifting quotes, make collages of the things you are manifesting, and keep track of the things you accomplish.
3. Develop an affirmation for yourself based on what you are attempting to attract into your life. It should be present tense and contain only positive statements. An example would be “I am rich beyond my wildest dreams.”
4. Write out your affirmation at least ten times a day and put it in your notebook. When you are tempted to dwell on the negative, repeat it silently over and over in your head while you take deep breaths.
5. Ignore the naysayers, dream killers, and negative people who tell you that it can’t be done. If someone else has ever done it before, then you can too.
6. Spend a few quiet minutes every day breathing deeply and visualizing your goal as already completed. Picture exactly how you want it to be, but be willing to accept something better. Don’t limit yourself.
7. Read books on creative visualization, prosperity consciousness, and positive thinking.
8. Live “as if.” If a circumstance in your life is not how you want it, withdraw your attention from it. Whatever you focus on expands. Live as if all of your dreams are a reality now.
9. “Follow your bliss.” Experience the joy life offers at every turn if you know how to look for it. Share your love where ever you can. Wear comfortable clothes in colors that you love. Drink a wonderful cup of tea and watch a sunset. Do only that which brings you joy.
10. Let it go. Trust that the Universe has heard your request and is doing everything It can to bring it about. Forget about it. Don’t worry or fret. Live in the moment and watch how all of your needs are met. When you lose faith, call on your childlike resources and pretend.
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