Blue Skies again

It was a long night. Cold and dark. But again the sun rose in the sky a few hours later.

If only everything in life was a reliable as day and night. It is very much the true constant in life second only to Life and Death.

So why are we all so miseable?



Life is far too short to be miserable. Yes the world goes on about recession. Companies are liquidating left right and centre. Prices are going up.

Here's a sobering thought....

Recession ends. Just like night becomes day so bust becomes boom again. The thing you have to do is hang on. Keep your grip! Don't look behind look forward. Don't look at what others are doing look at and concentrate on what you are doing.

Things can and will improve for us all. Some will come out of it quicker than others, some will come out of it better than others but no matter what we will come out of it.

Our parents and grandparents have all come through downturns. Fortunes have been made and lost and you can choose what yours will be.



It's about the choices you make and how you follow them through.

Look for ways to save money. The supermarkets have many specials all the time. Go for them, don't be ashamed. Those coupons you see in the magazines - 50c off - use them. Again don't be ashamed. The product people are not afraid to reduce their sale price, they need to survive too. Many marketing experts would say that reducing your price is suicide, in this recession it's not - it's cutting the margin and surving.

In business? Looking to survive? You need to make some bold moves too.



You need to invest in savings tools - see the vox phone above. It will save you money in the long run. A bold move but one that could have long term benefits.

Your fuel bills - gas, elctricity, oil and so on. You may need to spend a little save a lot. Want to save $50 or more per year on your electricity bill?


www.greenpulse.co.za

A simple tool that has proven to save home user and business users considerable sums of money.

Green Pulse is on the machine I am sat at and saving me money. Not saving me money when so much as when I am working but when I am NOT working!

Above all remember we will survive, we have to. Things won't be easy. Remember...as I always say, the recession is only there if you allow to be there!

When is too much too much?

The world is in a tough place right now and as mentioned yesterday money is changing hands.

Sometimes money changes hands simply because :

1. you have money
2. you are famous (for what is sometimes a mystery)
3. Money is there to be wasted

3 reasons that really don't make sense. The old saying that money attracts money is very true but the question is WHY?

Why for heavens sake has a magazine just spent $14 Million on some photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Baby? Isn't it disgusting. Cute baby though!

Perhaps this shows the negativity in me or some would call it jealousy. I can say now it is Not jealousy. I somehow think that with all the hungry, starving, dying people out there that $14 Million was and is a bit excessive.

I mean, who are these people and so what if they have had a baby. The celebrities cry out for privacy for heavens sake and then they moan like crazy if they are not on the front page of a magazine. I give up.

You know, I would never pay to get photos of some baby leave the poor kid alone!

So yes, money is out there. Go on buy a copy of a magazine and see the photos.





For some a recession will never come. If they lose a million here or a million there so what.

For me and for you we have to survive. Those who have been paid stupid sums of money for just "being" - I won't say living as they are not living. Life is more than money as is a recession. A recession is pretty much in your head and only exists when someone tells you it does or when you are in it. Get out of the recession, ignore the doom and gloom of the recession pedlars. Smile, hey you might just get $14 Million for it.

Today's challenge. Try being normal. Think to yourself - do I really want $14 Million. The answer will be yes you want it but it should be no, the money won't help you really. A million may help a tad but 14 of them...I can't even begin to spend it

House - $500,000
School for my kids life $200,000
Nice car $25,000

I can't even spend a Million!

Here...go to the casino and blow a bit!

when the bucks dry up

It's getting tougher for us all, we simply cannot avoid it.

But inside I am still strong. My money is not going that far and again for the first time in a while there some month left at the end of my money.

What do you do when the money just dries up?

Green Pulse - this can help you save some money - www.greenpulse.co.za

To be honest there is not a lot we can truly do. But what we can do is get creative and sit back and take stock.

Here's the thing...

Even when times are hard some people have money. The amount of money in the world does not vary very much it simply remains in some hands longer and those hands get more while other hands get less.

The game, and it is a game, is to get your hands on that money that is in the hands of those with lots of it. You see, there is a problem...

People say "you can never have enough money". This is not true. The fact is that when you have lots of money you have to spend it. It can't just sit there. It has to move. The trick is to make it move to you.



So. How do you do that?

There are books written there are course, look at Action coach above - they can take money from one hand and move it from another.

The other thing is to hang out where the money. Money makes money they say. Just being surrounded by money is encouraging and that's about it.

You have to think like a rich man (or woman - sorry ladies).

Where would I go if I had money?

What would I do if I had money?

What would I spend my money on?

What would I buy my friends to show off?

Funny questions and seeming not helpful.

5 years ago and friend and i asked ourselves these exact same questions. 3 months ago we had the answers (and they were nothing like you would think they would be) and in 1 month we should bank our first bucks.

So, here's your challenge for the day. Even if you are filthy rich. (because there is always someone better off than you). Try and answer the above questions and then put yourself on the other end of the question to the person with all the money as that is the place the money is going to!