The Amazing 11 BEST Money Ideas Of All Time (Part 2/3)
Amazing Tip #4
Ben Franklin said it long ago: “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Yes, it’s still true, and still one of the most powerful money-making tips in all history.
Implied within Franklin’s famous statement is the difficulty of saving. It’s tough to save and easy to spend! You know that! That’s why every penny saved truly is earned – because it takes so much effort to hold on to that cash! But if you can do it, it will work magic in your life. Having a savings account will de-stress your life. Imagine being ahead of your
bills, rather than behind. When you are ahead of your bills, you entire life comes under your control. You sleep better at night. Your mind is freer to come up with new ways to make more money and save more. Saving is contagious – once you let it get started!
Here are some tips to help you save:
- Don’t settle for interest checking. Have a separate savings account that can’t be as easily accessed as a checking account.
- Keep your savings in another bank – one that’s off your regular route, or perhaps even in another town. That way you won’t be tempted to dip into it every time you visit the bank to make a checking deposit.
- Buy short-term savings bonds, which have 6-month to one-year maturity dates. That way you will get a higher rate, while at the same time keeping your money close in case of real emergencies.
- If you can, open the account under two names and require that both signatures be required to make a withdrawal. Two people can debate each withdrawal and keep each other in line.
Amazing Tip #5
Visualize wealth and abundance everyday. What we are actually suggesting is that you practice some sort of airy-fairy mysticism that will make you into a “money magnet”?
Maybe yes, maybe no. Call it what you will – a mind game, mysticism, New Age ga-ga — but the solid fact is that behind every wealthy man and woman is a positive attitude toward money. Here’s a quick demonstration:
(1) Person One with a negative money attitude has daily thoughts which go this way:
“Jeez! $20 bucks is hard to come by! I seem to work so hard and get so little for it. Money just slips through my fingers. It’s amazing how much money you have to earn to just get by these days. I’m never going to be able to afford that new car on my limited salary, but this job is still the best thing going for me right now. It’s easy for some people to make a lot of money, but I’m not one of those people …” and on and on.
(2) Person Two with a positive money attitude has daily thoughts which go this way:
“You know, I bet if I work my butt off I can get a raise next month, and then I’ll take half of the extra money I make and toss it in a savings account. There must be a 100 other ways I can bring in some extra cash. Money is not all that hard to earn if you work hard, watch your spending and save a little at a time. There’s enough wealth for everybody in this
country, and I can easily get my share, and more …” and on and on.
Okay. Which person do you think will have a better chance of success? You don’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to see how Person One is dragging himself down with his thoughts, and how Person Two is giving himself a fighting chance.
Look at it this way: It costs nothing one way or the other to have either negative or positive thoughts. So why not have
positive thoughts?
There has been many studies done on the thought patterns and the frames of mind of some of the richest most successful people in the world. The one thing they all had in common was a positive attitude toward money and their ability to earn it.
So we strongly recommend you begin shaping your thoughts TODAY toward positive thoughts about money. Then step back and watch the money miracle happen.
Amazing Tip #6
Do what you love and the money will follow. I think there’s a book by that title. At any rate, it’s true. One of the primary reasons that many people live paycheck to paycheck and are broke despite working very hard at their jobs is the fact that they hate what they do.
If you hate your job, you will not have a positive attitude toward money. You will associate money with that dreadful sound of the alarm clock every morning. Once you tie up your source of wealth and income with slavery, that’s truly what you will become: a slave.
Starting today, you should begin planning your escape. The first thing you should ask yourself is: “If money were no object, what would I be doing? What do I like to do most for fun, and is it possible that I could get paid for it?
Sound ludicrous? It’s not. In fact, if your work is not also your play, you are fighting against yourself. You will eventually burn out and hate the world. On the other hand, if you get up every day being exciting, positive and looking forward to what you are going to be doing – and making money at it – you will automatically move toward doing more and more of what you love, and making more and more money at it.
Amazing Tip #7
You must get organized. Being a tidy, efficient person has more influence on how much money you make more than you can ever imagine. A lot of us are accustomed to associate a messy desk with genius because we have seen so
many photos of great scientists sitting behind stacks and stacks of junk. But guess what? Great scientists don’t get paid squat! They are not worried about making money. Their university or the government takes care of them.
You, however, want to have a lot of money, so you can’t afford to be a slob. Think about it. Let’s say you are at your desk trying to get some work done. You need to find the stapler, but because your office is such a pit, you spend 15 minutes looking for it. You’ve just spent 15 unproductive minutes. Next you may need to locate a file, and that takes
you 20 minutes of sifting through paper. Another 20 minutes down the tube. By the end of the day, you may easily burn up two or three hours doing something as trivial as looking for things. The same goes for any kind of job you might have. If you are an auto mechanic, how much time do you spend trying to find a nine-sixteenth wrench, when you could have it at your fingertips.
It’s disorganized people who are always saying at the end of the day: “I seem to work so hard but get very little done!” Of course! You spent the entire day looking for the Scotch tape! The fact is, time is money. The more time you spend unproductively, the less time you are earning money. Clean up your office. Organize your tool shed. Get your bookwork organized. Think of every minute saved as a buck in your pocket.


















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