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Colada
A drink of Knowledge Wisdom and Change
"Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune."
Appius Caecus.
MONEY
You may not know this, but MONEY or what to do with MONEY is the NUMBER ONE cause of most arguments in a relationship. It is the also the cause of most broken marries, family argument (over who get what when so and so dies) and in many case the cause of bad health and DEATH from STRESS.
In most schools you may be taught how to make it, NOT WHAT TO DO WITH IT AFTER YOU HAVE MADE IT. Most do not even teach you how to write a check or balance a check book. The most advice you will get about it from other people is (get a good education to get a good job and pay you bills on time.) Most people do not want to talk to anyone about MONEY. They may talk to other people about their sex life, the new car, boat, but not about MONEY or what they do with their MONEY. And they would never never talk about MONEY with their kids.
Some people even believe that MONEY is the ROOT of all EVIL. That MONEY will not buy Happiness, and that people with MONEY got it by stealing it from other people, or worse of all THAT MONEY IS NOT IMPORTANT.
You may not know this but some of the heroes of the Bible were RICH in fact a few were the RICHES person in the world at that time. The Bible says that "THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL." Yes MONEY will not buy Happiness, but nor will poverty. And Abraham Lincoln said it best "people are about happy as they CHOICE to be." As for people stealing MONEY from other people. How much MONEY has been stolen from you? Being that they stole your MONEY and you got nothing in return.
Now as for the people who say that MONEY IS NOT IMPORTANT: if they lie about this they will lie about other things. Unless you live where there is enough fish and fruit so that you never have to worry about food, and the weather is great all the time and you will never get sick or have to pay a place to live, then not only is MONEY IMPORTANT, but you need it almost as much as you need air.
I would also dare to say that this person who said MONEY WAS NOT IMPORTANT, would not turn down a raise or leave a five dollar bill laying on the side walk
I also know that you have hear it said that, "YOU NEED TWO PEOPLE TO HAVE AN ARGUMENT". I am here to tell you, NOT when it comes to MONEY. You see from the time you are old enough to start wanting more then food, being changed or held, you wanted toys, that food/drink and other things that you saw on TV. Now you find yourself in a argument with yourself over what to do with your MONEY, do you buy this or that (for the most part the argument is one sided in that it's only over what to buy and not what to save.
Then as you get older you want the IN THINGS so that you will fit in with your friends. Then you need to buy this or that because it make you feel good or it the fastest/biggest. Before you know it, you are in the RAT RACE of buying to feel good or to have the newest/best this or that or to keep up with the JONES. You find that your life is go to work...make MONEY...SPEND MONEY....go to work make more MONEY....SPEND MORE MONEY for the rest of your life.
This keeping up with the Jones' is nothing more the buying things that YOU DO NOT NEED, with MONEY you DO NOT HAVE to IMPRESS PEOPLE THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE.
The adverting people, the stores, the credit card company's and banks are taking your hard earned MONEY. But they are not STEALING IT.YOU ARE GIVEN IT TO THEM. All ads are made to get you to buy this or that or to replace what you have with the newest/ bigger/improved this or that.
Now since you do not have the MONEY to buy this item NOW, the stores, credit card company and bank will be more then glad to let you have credit so you can enjoy what they are selling now.
This is how you are given them your MONEY. If you have only $2.000.00 on your credit card and you make the minimum payment every month, it would only take you 18 years and more then $4,600.00 to pay off your card.
By not balancing your check book playing by the rule of the bank this is what happens: you have $500.00 in the bank and after a few item clear the bank you now have $250.00 and the car needs tires so you write a check for $262.50 and at the same time you also got gas for $35.00 and something to eat for $22.50 and you had to buy that new CD for $12.00. Now all the item come to the bank the day before you pay check go to the bank.
The bank rules are this: the biggest item ($262.50 is 1st followed by $35.00,$22.50 and $12.00 and since you did not have enough MONEY for the $262.50 it bounce followed by the other 3 all bouncing and you now have 4 over draft fees of $35.00 or $140.00. Now you know why they love you.
I would like you to take some time to think about how much MONEY you have made and what you have done with it. Think about how many times you have said "If I only made a little more MONEY....I could do this or that" and yet here you are still living pay check to pay check.
Going forward is it still going to be: I OWE, I OWE...SO OFF TO WORK I GO! I hope not. The next few COLADA'S are going to give some you some ideas that if you CHOICE to USE THEM, will move you from pay check to pay check living to a life of financial freedom.
I am telling you this. It is not what you make...but what you keep that will move you out of the pay check to pay check living into having a life of financial freedom with your MONEY is working for you not you working for MONEY.
Dr, John Demartini said: "If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, no wealth will arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition."
WHAT ARE YOUR VALES ABOUT MONEY?
Jack Boston
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