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How can Self-Motivation Help You Save Money?

angie — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:58:32 +0000

In these times of crisis, there is no better way than to use self-motivation to save some money. This is because if you were motivated enough, you would not be thinking of buying things that you really don’t need for the moment.

Experts say that now, more than ever, people should start gaining enough self-motivation to fight the urge in spending more that what they are actually earning. They all agree that if people are well motivated on the importance of saving up for the future, there are greater chances for them to succeed in life.

MOTIVATED TO SAVE

If you have self-motivation, no matter where you look at it, there will be always ways to save money. If you are one of those people who are trying to come up with ways to save money in this unstable economy, developing a simple lifestyle is the best motivation that you could have. When you have mustered enough motivation to save money, the rest will then follow.

Self-motivation can indeed be enough for a person to save money, here are some of some simple ways to get started:

1. Try cutting down on grocery or shopping sprees. Buying groceries is a necessity. But, this doesn’t mean that there’s no opportunity for you to save. For a person to save money, before going to a supermarket he or she must conduct an inventory on your supplies. This will help the person determine how much more they have ion the house and can help them estimate the period of time that these supplies will last.

After knowing what are the things needed, make a list to prioritize the items that are of utmost importance. The same formula can be used when shopping for clothes and other accessories. To save money, the key is to limit expenses on the items that you really need and keep whatever cash one has at hand.

2. Collect as many coupons as you can. It takes great motivation for one to keep things that may seem cheap to other people such as coupons. But if one is really motivated to save money, he or she wouldn’t care because these days, coupons are not only applicable to just groceries only. In fact, major establishments such as restaurants, cinemas and even boutiques accept and give out coupons to its customers to offer a discount. If one keeps these coupons, they can get a little discount on establishments that they usually go to and would actually save money in the long run.

3. Whenever possible, commute. Using a car these days is not really advisable because of the gas price hike. One can save lots of money if he or she would take advantage of public transportation or even carpools. Aside from saving some money on gas, they can also save some more since they don’t have to pay for the car’s maintenance and parking.

4. Less energy means more money. Experts say that if only many people will use self-motivation to save money, then there would be lesser problems in terms of energy usage. Today, the fact remains that many people do not realize it but one of the best ways to save money is to save energy.

So, for people to be motivated to save money and energy through electricity, they should make it a habit to unplug cables from their outlets when they don’t use them.

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How Is Positive Thinking Powerful?

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:33:55 +0000

Positive thinking is, obviously, something that can have a great impact on a person. What is hard to understand is why positive thinking is so powerful. That involves taking a good look at how positive thinking works.

Positive thinking works in three different ways. First, it works on you and your general attitude. Second, it works on those around you. Lastly, it has a way of influencing your environment. How exactly positive thinking works on these things is, open for debate, though.

Some people believe that positive thinking is related to karma. That whatever you put out there comes back to you. Others believe that positive thinking is a mental thing that triggers positive things. Whatever your beliefs, it is hard to doubt the power of positive thinking.

You will feel how powerful positive thinking is. Once you start to implement positive thinking in your life, you will start to see it work for you. Positive thinking has a way of changing your whole view on life. You will start to find the good in things and that will make you happy. You will be less likely to feel down and instead you will allow positive thinking to guide you to happy thoughts.

You will start to do everything in a more positive way, including how you treat others. This will not go unnoticed. Your interaction with others plays a large part in your life.

Other people are going to be greatly influenced by your positive thinking. You will start to see this because they are going to start treating you differently. Others will sense your positive attitude and they will treat you in a positive way. Someone who is often rude or just inattentive to you will likely start to treat you in a nice way or pay more attention to you.

You will start to find that people are more likely to offer you help when you need it. They will likely do nice things, such as hold doors open or just give you a smile. Your positive attitude may even be contagious. You may start to see people you spend a lot of time with exhibiting your positive attitude and positive thinking.

Positive thinking has a way of even influencing your environment, but it may not be in the way you think. Just because you think positive does not mean that everything will automatically go your way.

However, when you think positively you will be less likely to see the negative in things and therefore your environment will appear to change. You will probably start to notice the little things more than ever before and that will have a nice effect on you.

Positive thinking will allow you to believe in yourself. It will allow you to believe that you can accomplish something if you put your mind to it. You will be able to set goals and reach them because you will believe that you can do it. You will not have negative thoughts to hold you back.

Positive thinking is very influential. It is going to start to shape everyone and everything around you. You are going to see the great power it has almost immediately. The power of positive thinking is not subtle.

You have to make an effort to let positive thinking start turning all your thoughts and ideas into positive thoughts and ideas. It is up to you to start pushing the negativity out of your head and let positive thoughts guide you.

When you start to find your thoughts, drifting to the negative it is your responsibility to make an effort to make them positive instead. Go ahead and train yourself to always find the positive in anything. One you do this it will go a long way towards changing your attitude.

The power of positive thinking is that it will shape your life. Positivist is so contagious that it will affect the world around you. You will start to see positive thinking everywhere you go.

Positive thinking has a power that is undeniable. It is something that will not be subtle. It will have such a great impact on you and your life that you will wonder how you ever lived before putting it to work in your life.

The true power of positive thinking is that it allows you to live life to its fullest potential and for all that, it has to offer without letting negativity bring you down.

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Positive Thinking and Looking at it From a Child’s View

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:44:51 +0000

Perhaps the greatest teacher of positive thinking is a child. Children are the ultimate positive thinkers. They have not learned that life throws curves and that challenges are around every corner. They look at life as a big adventure. Maybe you should adopt that way of thinking.

Think about a child in your life. They seem to have no fear of new things. They will try anything once. They love life and are optimistic and happy. Children love to explore the world and what life has to offer. They are willing to put themselves out there just to learn.

Children have to have this amazement for life. This is how they learn and how they develop their identity. It allows them to live in a positive manner.

Children do not jump to the negative because they believe there is good out there. They do not know about all the bad that the world holds because you shelter them from that.

Let yourself develop that child-like faith. Stop yourself from dwelling on the bad in life and start looking for the positive instead.

Think about that saying ‘stop and smell the roses’. A child would do that, but would you? Chances are it is not likely you would. So, change that about yourself.

Slow down and take time to enjoy life. Stop filling everyday with to do’s. Enjoy life and you will soon find it is easy to embrace the positive.

Here are some things that children do that you can bring into your life. These things will help you to be able to look at the positive instead of the negative.

Explore new things. Instead of walking away from the unknown, walk towards it. Children are always exploring. This is how they learn. Let yourself start exploring again.
Do not walk away from a challenge. When children are challenged, they get excited and look at it as a game. Let yourself accept challenges instead of walking away.
Make a mess. Children are messy. They love to make messes, but most of the time it is not just to make you mad. Children make messes because they are learning and they simply do not care if they get a little messy in the process. Happiness can be messy and unrestricted.
Ignore the rules. Children ignore the rules all the time. Often it gets them into trouble, but many times, they end up having a fun time simply because they are doing something they were specifically told not to do. Defying authority can be an adrenaline rush. Break a few rules now and then and let yourself feel like a kid again.
Pretend. Make believe is a big part of being a child. Almost everything you do revolve around pretending. The imagination is a wonderful thing. Allow yourself to go to some make believe place. Get away for your normal life and pretend you are someone else. Have fun and you are sure to smile.

There are plenty more ways you can use the influence of a child to drive your progress towards a positive attitude. You should watch children play. Just see what they do and take notes on how different their lives are from yours. How do they get through the day without stressing about every little thing?

Do not let yourself get hung up on the fact that they do not have responsibility. Responsibility should in no way hold you back from being positive. It is just an excuse and excuses kill the positive attitude you are working so hard to build.

Just focus on being child-like. Let yourself be free and just love life.

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Achievement Without Honor Means Nothing

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:56:14 +0000

Winning is cool if it is….

EARNED!

I had a recent incident that kinda blew me out of the water and to you it may sound petty but to me I really did not like what I learned. But before I get to the moral of the story, I need to give you the background.

…and yes this did really happen to me a couple of hours ago.

I’ve been playing my boss in racquetball every couple of days. We recently got into it a couple of weeks ago. The funny thing is that I have been kicking his arse all over the court. It’s been fun and I am getting a great workout. Needless to say, I haven’t been beating him by a few points. When I beat him I really beat him, usually I win 21 to 5 or 21 to 4.

Anyway tonight we had reserved the court from 5 to 6 and then he had another employee that had the court booked from 6 to 7. But by the time we made it out of work it was already 5:30. The first game went as usual. Another butt kicking delivered to my boss.

Well I decided to do something different for the second game. I let him win about 10 points then I started getting serious. To make a long story short. I caught up to him. Well let’s just say I got within a few points. He tried to call the game. Stating that he won and I needed to let the other player play. My response is that the game is within several points and we should finish up. He reluctantly agreed.

We continued on. Here’s where it gets funny, and I am going to want your opinion.

So I was on a run and I brought the game within one point. The score was 18 to 17 – him. He called the game and said he won. I was shocked! I thought since we were so close to 21 that we should just finish. So, I was more disappointed than anything. He was like "of well." And he called the other person in. She said…"WOW, I didn’t realize that you were this competitive." And then she said "if he is going to get this mad maybe you guys should just finish." My boss didn’t want anything to do with it.

I cleared out and grabbed my stuff. I was pissed. Now listen, I know how to lose, I’ve lost a many a times. But to be so close to having a decisive winner and not finish, makes me wonder about my boss.

Listen, I know this is petty but seems to me that he shouldn’t have declared himself as the winner, when we were so close to the final point. Seems to me that both of them don’t understand that winning without honor is not winning at all.

Now I want your opinion. Do you think I am being petty or do you think I am onto something? I believe that winning is achieved by working smart and sometimes hard and often achievement taste the best when it is earned.

Do you agree with me or not?

Please let me know and leave a comment.

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Their IRS Problem is Your Gain

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:07:57 +0000

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