7/29/08

Once I reveal the best investment on the planet earth, which gives you complete control of the direction, assets, finances, board members, employees, background information (even the hidden stuff), I guarantee that you will want to invest your time, money, energy, heart and soul because YOU CONTROL THE OUTCOME OF YOUR INVESTMENT COMPLETELY!

Ready? The best investment on the planet Earth is…

YOURSELF!

That’s right - IT'S YOU! What other investment do you have a holding in where you know every bit of past history and have complete control over future actions?

Try looking at yourself as a company where you are the boss. What are the things that an effect business-owner would do? They would assess the things that are working and emphasize and expand upon those aspects of the business. They would also identify the liabilities or negatives in the “business” and address them head-on.

Some area to revue:

YOUR HEALTH
You can’t make much money or do the things you want to do in life if you are sick all the time. How is your diet? Are you getting enough exercise? Are you going for regular checkups? If you are not sure, consult a doctor, dietician, physical trainer. You’re never so healthy that you can’t make additional improvements. People are attracted to other people who exude an air of “having it together.” Would you have confidence in a person’s ability to manage in a business or personal relationship with you if it is apparent they cannot even manage their own well-being? Of course not! Then don’t expect people to do things you yourself would not. Just get healthy and be healthy and get help if you need it. You’d be amazed at how many other things will just fall into place once you look good and feel good.

REVENUES
Do you spend too much? Do you waste money on frivolous things? Where can you cut costs? Do you just not make enough to do the things you like to do? Why? Do you need a better education? Find and make time to educate yourself even if you only have a few hours a week. If you have some actions in your life that generate money, try to replicate those in new and creative ways. If you are spending time doing things that aren’t profitable and are distracting you from being able to provide for yourself and your family, make a firm decision to pay less attention to those things and more attention to getting yourself into a better situation.

STATE OF MIND
All the money in the world won’t mean a thing if you are not happy. Me personally, I like money. But it is not everything to me and I am not monetarily wealthy, but I do the things that I want to do and manage to make a living doing it. I personally feel as though I am much wealthier than a person with a six-figure salary who works themselves to death doing something they don’t enjoy because somewhere somebody told them that this was what life was all about and these things meant happiness.

With that said, I would love to be earning six figures, but I want to earn it doing things I like doing. Who wouldn’t? If you’re not doing the things in life you want to do, it’s time to make a decision and take steps towards changing your situation.

I was working corporate jobs that I hated working for miserable self-hating people who loved to spread their misery, but at night and in all my spare time, I worked tirelessly to build up a business where I could make money in a variety of enjoyable ways. Fortunately I had been learning the ropes and building this business slowly for a couple of years when I was laid off from my job and was able to focus strictly upon my business full-time while collecting unemployment and after 6 months of pure focus, I had things built up enough to where I was able to forego an extension of unemployment benefits and sustain myself as a business owner which absolutely makes me happy. It’s not easy and I sometimes work night and day to obtain enough business to make my bills, but it sure beats working in a situation that made me dread waking up in the morning. Now I have expanded to writing articles like this in hopes of helping others and learning from others and of course making some ad revenue at the same time.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Success in life does not necessarily mean money. You can’t take money and toys with you when you go. You need to be honest with yourself and really ask yourself “What would I like to accomplish with my time here on Earth?” For Mother Theresa it was feeding a million hungry people. For Donald Trump, it’s being insanely rich and powerful and crushing your competitors like tiny ants.

Your goals may be more humble, but that doesn’t make them less valid. Perhaps your life’s goal is to raise a family, send your kids to college, or even go somewhere where you can just live off the land and be a part of nature shrieking naked from atop a mountain. It’s all good! Just do a bit of soul-searching and determine what it is that you truly wish to do (as long as it isn’t mass-murder or de-skinning live cats or anything) and set about putting a series of small goals in place to advance yourself towards your ultimate success. Be diligent, keep learning, stay on course, roll with the punches (enough bad cliches yet?) and before you know it, you will be a successful entrepreneur holding a priceless controlling share of stock in the best investment of all - YOUR OWN LIFE!

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