Make the Most of Your Money

Written by Lorraine Pirihi


I'm always amazed that so many people spend most of their life at work and totally neglect their personal affairs.

Many ofrepparttar business people I work with want their professional lives to be in order, and admit that their personal affairs are in chaos.

They have no systems for handling this most important area. The household paperwork is disorganised…piled up in a corner ofrepparttar 103985 house…somewhere. They have no idea where they spend their money and often have no plan for their financial future.

If you do not organise your personal life, you won't have much of a future to look forward to.

Avoidrepparttar 103986 excuses that you are too tired, don't haverepparttar 103987 time, and don't know how.

Here are several tips to get you started:

Set up a filing system to store your paperwork.

File your papers in categories: Bank, Car, Children, Home, Medical, Insurance, Investment, Tax, Utilities etc.

Organise direct debits for regular bills.

Read, sort and action your snail and e-mail daily. This will avoid a big build-up.

Make a note in your diary when you need to remember to do things.

Check your bank accounts weekly via phone orrepparttar 103988 Internet to keep tabs on your money.

Allocate a particular day and time each week to review your personal affairs.

Get educated - attend seminars, read books and listen to information on wealth creation. (Our fortnightly Event Update often advertises worthwhile events that will help you). Having knowledge will make it easier to make decisions and take action.

Are You Worth Investing In?

Written by Lorraine Pirihi


Do you realise that if you're green you're growing and if you're ripe you're rotten? So says Winston Marsh, Business Marketing Guru in his recent newsletter.

Here's and excerpt from it ...

"Overrepparttar last week or so I have been presenting a series of seminars for MYOB throughout New Zealand and I have made an amazing discovery.

Most people would rather service their car than service their brain!

Now what do I mean by this? Well, quite simply, nobody gives a second thought to putting their car in for service or to get it fixed. They might moan and groan aboutrepparttar 103984 cost but they'll still do it.

Why?

Because they need their car to get around! They rely on it and have become dependent on it. So, no matter whatrepparttar 103985 cost, they getrepparttar 103986 car serviced or fixed or whatever. They might have to beg, borrow or steal to pay for it but they front up withrepparttar 103987 money and get it done.

But, it's a whole different scene and set of feelings when it comes to an investment inrepparttar 103988 most important piece of machinery--- that money making, good time creating piece of machinery called themselves.

So many people have truckloads of reasons and excuses as to why they can't spend some time or money to get better at what they do... and some ofrepparttar 103989 reasons are pathetic."That'srepparttar 103990 night that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is on" or "I'm too tired after work" or "I went to something like that once and I didn't like it" or "I can't afford it" or whatever arerepparttar 103991 reasons that they don't invest in their brain.

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