Success

Obtaining Life’s Other Riches: Why You Must Never Look Down on Money

September 26, 2018 by Ray L. 2 Comments

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In a previous article, I mentioned how there are many kinds of wealth in life aside from just money. There are thing like health, wisdom, relationships, your contributions to society, and several others that are all important. There are many things more important than money, however you must never use that as an excuse to stop trying to improve your financial life.

While treating money as something more important than things like self-respect or the rule of law leads to trouble, it’s not something we can just dismiss either. After all, money is a very useful tool, like cars, airplanes, computers, and many others. Here are a few examples of life’s other treasures that having financial wealth can help you achieve:

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Lesson from a Christmas Song: “Count Your Blessings”

September 18, 2018 by Ray L. 2 Comments

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If there’s one lesson about goal setting and visualization that I keep forgetting, it’s remembering to do them at night before going to bed. I just recently found out that there was an old song about it called “Count your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)” by Irving Berlin (also sung by Jose Mari Chan) and that it’s traditionally played during Christmas season. It was quite a coincidence that I heard it playing at a coffee shop last Sunday (Sep. 24*), and thanks to that I managed to think up this lesson for you today.

*That’s because Christmas season in the Philippines starts in September.

Read the lyrics for the song and the rest of the lesson here:

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Maximizing Our Wealth : Earning Riches Other than Money

September 11, 2018 by Ray L. 3 Comments

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We can’t find treasure if we don’t know that it exists. Think about all those personal finance gurus and investing seminars everywhere. Most people know the importance of money and wealth and there are entire industries dedicated to helping people earn wealth and achieve lives of abundance and financial success.

We mustn’t forget, however, that while money can indeed buy things like health, free time, personal enrichment, and more, there are still other kinds of “wealth” aside from a fat bank account or investment portfolio and that money is just one tool we can use to attain success in other areas of our lives.

Keep reading to learn some more examples about those other forms of wealth that we all must work on.

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Reality Check: Are We REALLY Working Hard?

March 27, 2018 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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Every weekday we spend an hour or more getting ready for work, an hour or so on the commute, eight hours in the office plus overtime, an hour or more again commuting home, and finally we’re too tired to do anything else aside from eating dinner, watching TV, and browsing Facebook (or social media). We all work hard at our jobs and businesses, so success should be almost guaranteed, right?

Well, not exactly.

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What’s YourWealthyMind’s Vision and Mission?

March 20, 2018 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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It’s been almost three years since YourWealthyMind.com started so posting something like this seems a bit late. When you start a company, you will want to have a clear goal, a clear vision for its future, right from the start. Most of the time, however, although you know what you want to accomplish you can sometimes forget to actually write it down. This might be true for most small startups who are just starting out.

So what’s the vision and mission behind YourWealthyMind? Read up a bit as this might help you with how YOU plan your own company’s vision and mission.

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