Self-Employment - Managing you Money: Tips for Living with a Fluctuating Income (Part One)Written by Ellen Zucker
Part Two: The way you manage your money is one of first things you'll change when you move from employment to self-employment. It's one thing to budget and manage your money on a regular income-as you do when you receive a salary. It's quite another when your income fluctuates.
| | A *VERY* Important Success LessonWritten by Jason Oman
Want to learn one of MOST important lessons I ever learned from hanging out with multi-millionaires and spending more than 11 years of my life studying success and wealth? Well, as a result of doing what I do for a living and from doing everything to create my best-selling book 'Conversations with Millionaires' I've been able to spend time with quite a few highly-successful entrepreneurs. In addition to that, I spent over 7 years of my life (prior to experiencing an real success for myself), searching for elusive 'secret' to wealth and success... But, after meeting and hanging out with these wealthy millionaires and money-making experts, and from going through more than 237 books, programs, wealth seminars, and workshops I finally discovered that true secret boils down to this... If you want to become more successful, key is NOT necessarily to have everything figured out before you start going. Success can really be a lot more like rock climbing than planning a trip sometimes. You see, when you sit down to plan a trip like a family vacation or something, you may want to spend time to plan out everything in advance. You may want to know exactly what roads to take to get wherever you're going and things like that. But, wealth and success can often be more like Rock Climbing than a family vacation. Because someone who is about to climb a rock may not even know 99% of path they'll take. They may just know that they need to head North (ie. "Up"). But, they won't know which path up rock will get them to top. So, what they do is find a hand-hold that is 'good enough' to get started with and a place to put their foot that is 'good enough' to get started with. Then, from there, they figure rest out as they go. Now that they're 'up-close and personal' with journey, it's easier to see what next step makes most sense. Of course, I'm not trying to take away from concepts like "good planning". But, what I've discovered can be just as, if not MORE important, is to just barrel down and take that first step. Just GET GOING! Because you can have a great plan and still not take any of steps. Obviously, that won't get you anywhere either. Or, you can simply take first step and figure out next step from THERE. And if you do it this way then at least you're a step further ahead than if you took no steps at all. Plus, from new perspective you have after taking that first step, it's often easier to figure out what next step is. What I'm saying is that getting on road to wealth and success is sometimes more about doing whatever you can with whatever you ALREADY have and what you ALREADY know, than it is about waiting to get started because you may not have every step figured out yet. Does that make sense? Because doing THAT is how you learn next thing you need to know most! The reality is that you know a lot more than you give yourself credit for. You already HAVE more than you realize. You're already capable of much, much, MUCH more than your current results reveal. This isn't about a PEP talk or anything, either. This is about putting your nose to grind stone and doing ONE single thing ALL successful people do! What is it? It's simply taking ACTION! Taking a step forward. Success is nothing more than consistently taking steps forward. Then, over a period of time, results from those steps build upon themselves to equal success. (And time is usually faster than you would have thought.) I know - I know. You've heard that it's all about 'taking action' 50 Gazillion times before, right? But, then why aren't you doing MORE of it? Why are you still looking for some OTHER 'secret'? Why do you spend more time looking for some magical way to get 'beamed up' to big time, than you do taking steps to GET to big time? Here's something I call... "The Fast Track To Success and Wealth". The secret is to start taking action NOW. Start taking steps forward NOW. Do something with whatever you ALREADY have, and do it NOW. Because when you do that you will turbo-charge time it takes you to become more successful.
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