Today is Monday February 01, 2012

Thought For The Day

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
-W.J. Slim

I Have Been Thinking

One of my favorite television shows is NCIS. In one of the episodes Ziva meets Jack (Gibb’s father). There is a $20.00 bill on the ground. Ziva bends to pick it up and Jack says, “A $20.00 bill in your pocket means very little until, it falls to the ground, then all of a sudden it takes on new meaning.” What is the significance of money in your life? I have heard there are more divorces over money or the lack of it than any other single factor. I am not an accountant and I certainly wont pretend to give legal advice when it comes to money and finance, but I have had a lot of experience with book-keeping, record keeping and of course organization.

Let’s first talk about what money is, and what it isn’t. Money is a means of exchange, nothing more nothing less. It represents time, value, and requirements. Each of us has needs, wants and desires. Each of us know if we are to meet those needs then we have to exchange something for those things we need and want. You can have anything you want so long as you are willing to provide the exchange that is required. The amount of money you have to work with depends on you, your education and your willingness to do whatever it takes. Please don’t get me wrong with that statement. Whatever it takes in my book does not include lying, cheating or stealing to get what you want.

What is A Need?

We all have needs. They include a place to live, food, water, clothing, and basic necessities like soap and toothpaste. These are the things that money can buy that make our life livable. It means we survive.

What Is A Want?

Wants are those things that not only make life livable, but tend to make life more comfortable. I am not talking about luxuries, but furniture, appliances, a car to get around. They don’t have to be the best, nor the fanciest, they just have to be. When wants are met, most will feel a degree of success depending on their own definition of success.

What is Desire?

A desire on the other hand might be material things, but they certainly are those things that will make us sign deeply, or cause us to get very creative in order to have those things that are our heart’s desire.

Desires might not be material things, they might include what we want to do with our life, how we want to live our life. Even who we want to live our life with.

Financing projects

Every project needs to be financed in some way. There are raw materials to buy, there is equipment or tools that are necessary to complete the project. We do look at what we need to do, how we can go about getting it done, then the final cost. Beyond that, we look at where the money or exchange will come from. Over the next days and weeks, we will look at sources of income, book-keeping, what records should be kept, simple and easily doable records both so you know what your business is doing and having the records you need to easily file taxes with accurate records.

Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Your Success is my Greatest Interest
CWinslow

Ice Breakers

Breakfast

At the diner, my breakfast arrived with only three sausages
instead of the usual four. The waitress explained that the
cook had dropped one and was making another.

Soon the cook dashed out of the kitchen.
“Here you are,” he announced. “It’s the missing link!”

Grandma Wisdom

 

 

There was a demonstration I saw many years ago that was one of those things that made a lasting impression. The prof. said to hold up a penny at arms length the move toward the sun. Even as great as the sun is, we can block it out from view simply by putting that penny between us and the sun. What are you blocking from view? Are you putting so much significance on money that you have made it a scarcity? You know that you don’t have to.

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