Because Ideas Change Lives
“No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.” – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Last Sunday I went to the SM Aura, Market Market, and Bonifacio High Street area to buy a ceramic non-stick frying pan for my family. While shopping, I thought of the things I wanted to buy for myself. That was when I learned the lesson here.
“Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class – think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.” – David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
A couple of weeks ago my friend invited me to Ninja Academy in Las Pinas to practice parkour. If you don’t know what that is yet, imagine how people run through obstacles in action movies. Just play this video a bit to see what it’s like:
More than just some cool new tricks, you can learn a lot more from parkour (and other sports) if you pay close attention. These are the some of the lessons you can learn from a few hours of training:
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” – Josh Billings
One step forward, two steps back. You might think that borrowing money and maxing out your credit cards is fine, but it’s not. It seems harmless at first, until you borrow again, and again, and again, and suddenly you’ve accumulated a mountain of debt. Whenever you’re tempted to overspend and borrow money, just remember these three reasons on why you should just skip unnecessary purchases and avoid bad debts.
I remember joining a forex trading seminar several years ago, and the instructors taught the basics of how trading currencies work. Among the lessons we learned were how the markets work, how news and economies affect exchange rates, and other lessons such as the difference between the buy and sell price of currency pairs (it’s called the “spread”), how to use the MT4 program, and more. The event lasted well into the evening due to the amount of information that was taught. It was even more educational because of what I learned from the people I talked to afterwards.
Stress from work, bills to pay, and all sorts of problems popping up every day. All of them can make life seem hopeless sometimes and you probably think that what you have now, a life living paycheck to paycheck, is all that you’re ever going to get. You could even think that mediocrity, failure, and even poverty are all normal.
Well, they’re not.
What you SHOULD have and what you’re DESTINED to have is wealth and success. It’s your right to be rich, and no matter how much you think otherwise, you are deserving of it as you work to earn it. Remember these quotes if you ever start to doubt that.
