I grew up the daughter of a Stanley Home Products branch manager. That meant not
a lot of income, but oh the amazing life I led. Day trips to the beach, traveling
in the station wagon and staying with friends, roadside rest with picnic lunches
and lots of lots of singing filled my childhood years. We had a closeness and made
memories there is simply not enough money in the world to pay for. These were what
I'd called bazillion dollar memories. What you're giving up while you're waiting
to make enough money is costing you far more than the money you think you don't
have. It's costing you moments you'll never get back with those you love and the
relationships you're not building because of it. It's costing you memories and it's
costing you happiness. Regardless of the amount of money you make, please don't
allow that to cost you more than money.
Are you spending on every weight loss and fitness gimmick that comes along? Have
you purchased each new fad and still found no result happening? We live in an era
where people seem to want to be healthy, but you need to ask yourself if it's health
you're looking for or simply a quick way to watch the numbers go downward on the
scale. The latter is not wise spending. Putting money into what may very well be
the 53rd thing you've tried for losing weight or getting fit is more than likely
making only your pocket book lighter. Spending on gimmicks and fads means losing
everything except weight. I can tell you without a doubt these things make your
metabolism slower and wreak havoc on your internal organs too. The result of spending
unwisely on short-term result weight loss and fitness costs far, far more than money.
Investing in lasting health solutions however create a vastly different result.
More like the bazillion dollar effect I spoke of earlier. When you invest in your
health, rather than spend on quick weight loss fixes you win big! Invest in the
wise way to health and fitness. Join a facility where you can get the support and
knowledge you need. Put people around you that are like-minded in wanting to build
their health. Learn how to make healthier choices with eating and even how to cook
with substitutes that taste fantastic yet result in a healthy body. Purchase supplements
that add to the quality and quantity of your life. Invest in life coaching and/or
direct personal development material. The money you invest wisely in you will come
back with a reward far, far more than the money you'll get back. And you will get
your money back. When you feel better, you do better. Not investing will cost you
far more than money.
Are you investing in your dreams, your education, your personal development, your
ideas? Or are you getting a day older and one day farther from that goal? If you're
not placing some sort of investment to take the risk for the business you've always
wanted to start, build the knowledge for writing the book, screenplay or song you've
always wanted to write or become the person you've always wanted to become, I assure
you it will cost you far more than money. It will cost you your time here on earth.
Most of us go to our grave with our gift still in us. This is the most costly of
all mistakes. Equal to not enjoying whatever amount of money you make costing far
more than the money itself is the fact that not investing in ourselves costs us
not becoming all we were created to become. If we don't invest in our dreams, so
to build the goal into reality the result is disastrous. We become unhappy, unfulfilled
and sad. Being incomplete kills the spirit and then the person. This cost, again
related to money, is again, far more than money
Working hard is admirable, working smart if brilliant. Don't forsake saving, no
matter how well things are going. My mom was widowed at 28 with three children under
8 and no income. I've been a place where I had to fund my businesses because the
money was GONE. Vic Johnson was succeeding immensely in the Quick Lube business
and found himself with nothing and everything he owned being repossessed. Not saving
money simply steals years from your life due to the years the stress causes us to
lose. Jim Rohn teaches the 70-10-10-10 guideline. Live on 70 percent, give ten,
invest 10 in your own personal growth and save ten. If we go through life with no
financial cushion the result isn't just no money. It's no discipline and that's
costly because we need that character trait in so many other areas of our life.
In life when there is no financial safety net or no plan the result is that we can't
breathe. Being frozen with fear simply because we didn't save results in MEGA HIGH
STRESS. You got it my friend--- the cost is far more than money.
What you do with yours will determine immeasurably fantastic or utterly dreadful,
health results. What is the way you're handling your money costing you?