March 26, 2007

Consistency, Don’t Stop The Flow

Consistency is a must! There is no way that you could truly be successful at anything without being consistent in taking the action. Whenever you start something, finish it! Don’t slack off, not once, no matter the condition. Doing so, tells yourself unconsciously that it is ok to slack off. Then next thing you know you are slacking off on everything. You don’t want that. You want to tell yourself that consistency is a must, and it is apart of you.

Think about this. You have a goal to knock down a very large tree. It is you, and an ax. You are excited at first about knocking down this tree. However, after a while, you become tired and you see that the tree hasn’t fail yet according to your expectations. So you give up, and your left by yourself with an ax and a tree that is still standing. Common sense would tell you that you would need to keep hitting the tree in order for it to fall. The truth is, eventually it will fall, but if you quit and give up then it won’t. It really doesn’t take a big person to get the job done. You don’t have to be the strongest person either. You just need the right tools, and consistency in using those tools over and over again. As you do it over and over again, bit by bit of the tree will be cut, and eventually it will have no choice but to fall.

Now the example above clearly demonstrates the way success is at anything. Apply consistency with the right tools and you will accomplish what ever you wish. The right tools in this case would be having the right mindset, and believing in yourself that anything is possible. You also need to become conscious of the thing you are trying to do. These are the tools, but without action they are useless. It’s like a hammer and a bunch of nails, just sitting around without being used. Once you have the tools you have to take the action and be consistent. With genuine faith added, you will accomplish anything it is you desire. Regardless of what others may think.

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March 17, 2007

The Secret To Rebuilding Your Credit

The truth is that there is no secret, but responsibility. You have to have self control and discipline to manage your money efficiently. If you want to build credit or rebuild your bad credit, don’t keep misusing the cards. Although the big companies want you to, (that’s how they make money) it doesn’t mean anything. Pay your bills off on time, DO NOT keep paying the minimum balance just to hang in there, because in the end you will still be there, in debt.

Reduce the amount of credit cards you have, there should be no more than two open. This is something I advise to anyone, especially those who are looking to buy a house sometime soon.

Here are some of the many tips to rebuilding your credit.

1. The first step is the most important step. This step alone could lead you in the right direction to your financial freedom. Begin by making a promise to yourself that you are going to pay your credit cards off in an organized and timely manner. It would also be wise to promise others who are of value to you the same promise. By promising that you will do it, you will see much better results than if you had made it a regular goal. Our minds take promises more serious.

2. Keep track of everything that you are spending. Split them up individually from bills, personal, credit cards, etc.

3. With that list figure out what is necessary and what is not. Get rid of anything that is unnecessary, too much of it is probably why most are in debt.

4. Start paying more than the lowest balance on your credit cards. You should work to pay them off rather than just “hanging in there”.

5. Check your credit report every once in a while to make sure that there aren’t any mistakes made. If so, contact whoever is in authority and get those mistakes taken care of, now.

6. Start by paying the most to the cards with the highest interest rate so that they can be the first to go.

7. Don’t buy anything you absolutely don’t need, especially nothing that would put you further in debt. If you see something that looks tempting, remind yourself of your promise not to spend unwisely. Stick to your promise and make it happen.

8. Keep in mind that no matter how much you owe if you want it paid off it will get paid off, only to the extent if you actually want it done. Responsibility starts in the mind. Take control of yourself, and then you will see a difference everywhere esle, including your finances.

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March 15, 2007

Debt Free vs Financially Free

There is a large percentage of people in debt these days. It seems as if their main goal is to get out of debt. This is where their mind is the entire time, getting out of debt. When you ask them what do they want, they say “to get out of debt”. Many successful and wealthy people will tell you that they definitely did not get to where they were by having a “get out of debt” mindset.

There is only one way out of debt, and you cant possibly keep thinking about it and expect it to go away. This is where the majority of people make the mistake when attempting to get out of debt. They say thy don’t want to be in debt so much, that it is all they think about. If we know that thoughts become things, real things, then what could you possibly expect to happen to someone who consistently thinks about the same thing? Being in debt vs getting out of debt at the end of the day you are thinking about “debt”. What you focus your attention on grows stronger in your life. You don’t get out of something by thinking about being in it. Expand your limits in your mind and step out to a new level of faith.

When you think debt, regardless of how you word it in your mind, your subconscious looks for the keyword. It picks up on that keyword that you are always thinking and acts on giving you what you think about, or ask for. The key to really getting out of debt is to place all of your focus and attention (-love) on being financially free. Don’t just try not to think small, just think big. Remember losers play not to lose, winners play to win, whats your motive? You get what you think about mostly, how about getting something you actually want?

Some make good suggestions to set up an automatic debt repayment program. The way it works is you set up an automated way of paying your debt and then forget about it. When you do this, you are paying your debt off through an automated program that you set, and you begin to start focusing on financial freedom.

As you begin to focus on financial freedom, then you are programming a financial free mindset. This way all you are thinking about is financial freedom, which also means you will most certainly get what you ask for. With this mindset, a similar lifestyle will have no choice but to follow. You choose the mindset, you might as well choose freely, financial freely that is ;)

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