Financial Success - How To Make Money And Achieve Financial Success Even In A "Bad" Economy

Most people seem to think that their ability to make money, increase their income, or build wealth is dependent upon the state of the economy. This couldn't be further from the truth. Truth is, the economy is largely dependent upon people's common perception or belief about money - whether to spend it, save it, or increase it. This perception or belief in turn, determines their actions.

It is this belief that you individually hold in your mind regarding money that will determine your actions, your level of income, and the decisions you make about how you will use your money, and how you handle your money. In fact, how you manage your money will determine if you are a "spender" or "saver."

If you listen to most financial experts in the news, they will give you "external" reasons why the economy is this way or that. They will give you a list of do's and don'ts on how to make money or solve your financial problems. But, they are temporary solutions to a much deeper problem.

Making money and building financial success is directly tied to your beliefs about money, which in turn, determines whether you make the right decisions that make you money, causes you to be debt-free, increase your income, or build wealth. Everything that has to do with money is a direct result of what you believe about money, and what you have been exposed to regarding money.

Your beliefs about money influence the way you handle and manage money, and whether you make decisions that will increase it or decrease it in your life. Proof of this can be seen with lottery winners. With the millions of dollars they win, most lottery winners end up at the same financial level where they were before they won - mainly broke! What you believe about money and your mindset about money will determine if you are economically healthy in a good or bad economy. You are economically healthy when you have the amount of money you need, including a surplus to do what you want, when you want.

If you want to make money, increase your income, or change your financial condition, you must change your mindset or beliefs about money. It's just that simple. If you don't, no matter how hard you try, no matter how much willpower you use, and no matter what ideas you come up with to make money, it won't happen.

You may think your idea is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if you have negative money beliefs, you will more than likely carry it out the wrong way, or it won't produce long-term success. You will eventually return to the same financial level or condition before you implemented your idea.

Another person who has a success-consciousness can come along, and take the same idea, and he will get rich, and continue to do so, for as long as he wants. That is why your finances constantly fluctuate between you having money, and not having money. That is why you often see people in the same business, in the same location, selling the same product, and one will be successful and the other won't. It all has to do with what you really believe about money.

If you don't change your mindset or beliefs about money, any success or money you have will not last long.

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Diamonique Fortune is the Marketing and Communications Director for [http://www.SuccessLearningNow.com], which sells unique success learning e-books, video learning e-books, and instant Internet businesses for entrepreneurs, you won't find anywhere else, online or off.

How to Get Out of Financial Crisis, Money Problems and Making Money When We are Broke

Making money is not a mystery at all, but money is very important in our daily life. Earl Nightingale said that the amount of service that we render for other people or our community will generate the money that we need. You have to figure it out, what your gift is, if you think of Tiger Wood, you will think of Golf, if you think of Bill Gates, you will think of computers, and if you think of Donald Trump, you will think of his Apprentice show or a real estate investor. So find out that, what kind of thing that people will think about when they think of you?

The reason why a lot of people are in the financial rut is because they are serving only 1 master who their boss and they are never taught how to manage, invest and use their money wisely. They work for only 1 company. Henry Ford became extremely wealthy because he served millions of the American people by providing them with affordable cars; therefore he worked for more than 1 master or company. He served the masses.

A computer technician was paid $100/hour to come up with a solution for a new company. You may wonder why some people can get paid $100/hour while some get paid $6/hour. The reason why the computer technician was paid $100/hour is because he has enough proper information that can be used to come up with the right solution for the company that he was working with. His solution can help the company to create millions of dollar.

Some people made it to a millionaire status, most people don't, because the people who made it to the millionaire status are willing to increase the amount of the right kind information they have in their life. You must have the proper information before you can improve your life style.

Doctors go to a medical school for 8 to 10 years plus their clinical practice before they can start practicing. Business owners have to attend many business meetings and seminars in order to create a better business.

If you want to become a millionaire, find a millionaire who is willing to teach you, find an example of the people who make it. Don't get jealous of their fortune, but learn from them. Choose to be Rich series by Robert Kiyosaki is a good way to start if you are really serious in improving your financial life.

Some of them go to investment seminars to prepare themselves, so when an opportunity comes, they can see it. Some read and spend a lot of money on books on how to become a better business owner and a better financial manager.

You must invest your time, energy and money if you want to improve your life! If your car is worth $60 of gas, your brain is worth more than $60! You must increase the amount of proper information and knowledge in your life when you want to improve your life style and increase income.

That's right, you can't be lazy. I know that we all have lost our motivation every once in a while, but you must be able to regain your motivation back. How do you do that? Read good inspiration books like the Purpose Driven Life, Bruce Wilkinson's Books, and if you are a Christian, read your bible. Listen to inspirational tapes and CDs, go to seminars, and you can even eat your favorite ice cream. Find a way to motivate yourself, if you like cars, put photos of nice cars that you really want to have in your future, if you like traveling, put photos of the places where you can to travel to and so on.

You can afford to stay down too long after getting knocked down. You must get up, stand up and get back up! You can't stay too long in the water or you will drown.

If you really too lazy or too unmotivated, try to start small, make a little step, read a small book, remember 1 page/1 day that's all. Make that a habit, and then increase the amount of the page after 7 days, and keep doing that over and over again, until you are finally able to read the whole entire book.

When you first learn how to drive a car, you always have to think about where the signal lever is, the wiper blade button and where the key goes, but after 30 days of driving the same car, everything becomes a habit. You know exactly where all things are. Discipline creates habits and your daily habits create your success!

Remember this, you can't stay down too long, get back up and stand up, find the proper information that you need to increase your income and improve your life style.

© Copyright 2006 www.Pebden.com [http://www.Pebden.com], Author: Entjik Jeffrie, CEO of Pebden.com [http://www.Pebden.com], All Rights Reserved

Making Money Myths - You Don't Really Need Financial Wealth and the Pursuit of Wealth is Evil

When life is going well, it's easy to convince yourself that you have no interest in creating financial wealth. After all, you have a job that provides enough money to cover the bills and still have a little left over to put in savings. What more do you need?

Anyway, maybe you've even been raised to believe that the pursuit of wealth is selfish. Or, if you hang around enough people who believe in God, you've likely heard someone misquote the Bible as saying, "Money is the root of all evil."

Of course, the bible doesn't really say that. It says, "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil." (1 Timothy 6:10). While this article is not intended to be a review of what religion says about making money, I have put a couple of quotes in it for those who follow the Bible or some other religious text. You can find similar quotes in almost any religious text. What this article is intended to do is to dispel these money making myths.

Love of money is evil and it can destroy marriages, ruin families, and make your life miserable. If your life becomes nothing but a focus on getting wealthy to the point you are replacing the love of people with the love of money, then money is evil. People are the ONLY good reason to have money. Not for what possessions you can buy with it.

Money in itself is just a thing, another possession. It's what you do with it, or how you treat it that determines whether it's good or bad. You must learn to be content with whatever amount of money you now have, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't work on building wealth.

In general, money will only make you more of what you already are. It's an amplifier. If you're a giving and caring person, more money will allow you to amplify your giving and caring. If you're currently greedy or selfish, having more money will just make you more greedy and selfish. If you now frivolously spend every dime you make, even if you somehow manage to become wealthy you won't keep your wealth.

If you follow the Bible, Luke 16:10 says it like this: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."

That's why it's so important to get your life in order before you become wealthy. You need to work on your financial mental programming before you work on financial gain. Your mind needs to be trained to think like wealthy people think so you'll act like wealthy people act.

You also need to learn how to share what you have with those who are in need. "For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more and running over. Whatever measure you use to give--large or small--will be used to measure what is given back to you." (Luke 6:38) That's the Bible's way of saying that if you use wealth wisely, more wealth will be provided to you. If money were evil, that wouldn't be the case would it?

But even before you work on training your mind for wealth, you have to believe that making large amounts of money can be a good thing or you won't do what's required to make it.

If you are one those who are not convinced that having wealth is a good thing, ask yourself how you would feel if a family member, maybe a parent or your child, became severely ill. Would you want to see them get the best medical care available regardless of the expense? Wouldn't you feel helpless if you didn't have the money to help them get the best medical attention?

Or what if you have aging parents who need financial assistance. So many people these days are retiring without a sufficient nest egg built up and they are forced to live in poverty on a meager income from some government assistance program. Would you want to see your parents live this way?

Or what if you had a friend or family member who was in a financial predicament? Wouldn't you feel good if you could help him or her out? Or have you ever wished you had the financial resources to help out a total stranger you've seen on the news whose house burned down and their kids needed clothes and other essential items?

Or maybe you would like to provide meals for the needy, or help less fortunate kids, or fund the development of an addition to your church.

The charitable uses for money are endless. But only those who have money can use it to benefit others. While the poor can give small amounts to charitable causes, it's wealthy people who have the greatest impact on the world.

But don't forget yourself in this picture. Even if you're happy now, you can't predict what will happen in the future to change that. Your current source of income isn't guaranteed. You could get laid off (it's happened to me several times), or you could be injured and no longer be able to work.

By taking time to focus on making money now, you're essentially taking out an insurance policy in case something happens to you later in life.

Large amounts of money take time to make. It's difficult to build wealth when you really need it. So by choosing to pursue financial wealth now, you're insuring yourself against future unknowns.

While charity or or insurance against unknowns are choices you can use wealth for, you'll also have more choices in every area of your life.

Would you be doing the work you're now doing if you were wealthy? Or would you be doing what you're passionate about. Incidentally, doing what you love to do is one of the best ways to become wealthy in the first place.

But besides picking the career of your choice, you'll be able to provide your children with the best educational opportunities, take your parents on that vacation around the world that you always dreamed of, spend more time with out of town family or friends, seize opportunities that will advance you and your families' lives, and the list goes on and on.

So even though you may be living a comfortable existence now and not feel like you really need to strive to build financial wealth, wouldn't you really rather live the life of your dreams instead? Wouldn't you like to know you have insurance against unknowns? Wouldn't you like to have the financial resources to help other people? Once you learn the right way to use it, money is definitely a good thing.

Tim Bruxvoort is an ecommerce entrepreneur who operates a full-time ecommerce business called http://www.IntercomsOnline.com He also is a partner in a small business marketing consulting business that helps small business owners improve their marketing and their profits. For more information go to http://www.fastbusinessprofits.com