camski
Contributor
I am very tired ::sleep:
1. The Rat Race
2. Living from paycheck to paycheck
3. Being a slave to a meager salary
4. Never seeming to get ahead
5. Scams on the internet promising you financial success
Anybody else feel this way?
I am desperately trying to build a better life for not only myself, but my family as well!
Working on a very limited income, I somehow managed to send some hard-earned peanuts to programs that I thought would work only to later find out that they were just SCAMS!:cuss:
Please believe me, I am a very dedicated, extremely hard-working, entrepreneurial person who just simply can't find the proper vehicle that will secure myself and my family's future.
I'm wondering if there is even anything out there!
Is there?
Mentors, this is where you step up.
All advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all who respond!:thankyousign:
Okay I will take some time and get you started but it might not be what you are expecting. The first thing you need to do is some soul searching. Find your why. Why do you want to leave the rat race? Why do you want to own your own business? Figure out what you really want to accomplish and dont say nonspecific stuff like "to be rich". Dont just define what you want, define what it is you NEED! Figure out what you NEED for you to accomplish for you to feel successful. That is your OBJECTIVE! Then set the goals that can make that possible.
when it comes to goalsUse the SMART acronym for your goalsetting. If you dont know what that means here you go:
S - your goal must be specific ( i want to make $1M)
M- your goal must be measurable ( you would measure that in dollars)
A- your goal must be attainable (basically this means it must be possible)
R- your goal must be realistic ( if you are unemployed with no skills it wouldnt be realistic
T- you must set a time limit for your goal to be met ( by 1/31/2010)
Once your goals have been set you then need to take action. DO SOMETHING!!!!! No matter how small and be PERSISTENT in these actions. In fact DO SOMETHING EVEN IF IT IS WRONG!!!! Failure will help you, trust me on this one I can write a laundry list of mine. The smallest action will be like a snowball rolling down the mountain, it will increase in speed and volume. Make sure that every day you do something towards your goals. The bottom line on persistence is this, if you cannot be persistent about your objective it is probably not as much of a need as you think it is. If you really, really, REALLLLLY NEED something, being persistent about achieving it isnt as difficult as you might think.
The problem most people have is that they never define what they really need, they adopt what they THINK everyone wants. Everybody wants to be rich, but very few really feel the NEED. The people who frequent this site NEED wealth. Not for the money but for what it does for them inside.It is the accomplishment of wealth that completes them.
Periodically you need to check your course. Like a captain sailing a ship there are times when you drift off course and need to do a course correction. you might need to alter what you are doing to reach you goals. You might find that your original destination isnt where you want to go, or that your objective has changed. That happens. Then all you do is plot a new course and start again. Remember this is your life and like a large ship it will not turn on a dime, it takes time and effort to turn it completely around. There are no quick or easy fixes.
So to summarize this.
1. Find your NEED and make that your OJECTIVE
2. make GOALS that will help you achieve that OBJECTIVE
3. Be PERSISTENT working towards those GOALS
Now this is not the be all end all of finding your success this is only a place to get started. Oh yeah and I foprgot one thing. VISIT THIS FORUM EVERYDAY!!!! There are people on here a lot smarter and a lot more successful than me and you can learn a lot from them.
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