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Take control of your financial future - II




You and I know, intellectually, that money is merely a medium of exchange. It allows us to simplify the process of creating, transferring and sharing value within a society. It's a convenience that together we've created in order to allow ourselves the freedom to specialize in our life's work without having to be concerned as to whether others will find our work worthy of barter.

 We have learned to associate some of our most debilitating emotions to a scarcity of this commodity : anxiety, frustration, fear, insecurity, worry, anger, humiliation, and being overwhelmed, to name but a few.

 As we are now witnessing in Eastern Europe, political systems have been toppled by the pressure associated to financial deprivation. 

 Can you think of any country, any corporation, or anyone's personal life that has not been touched by the experience of financial stress?

 Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. 

 Nothing could  be further from the truth.Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people.It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer you greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

 Conclusion: So why do so many people fail to achieve financial abundance in a nation where economic opportunity surrounds us? We live in a country where people can create net worths in the hundreds of millions starting with a little idea for a computer that they first built in their garage.All around us there are role models of unbelievable possibility, people who know how to create wealth and maintain it.

 http://www.ixigo.com/html/affiliates/affiliatesHome.ixi What is it that keeps us from getting wealth in the first place? How can it be, living in a capitalist country where our forefathers died for our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that 95 percent of the American population by age sixty-five, after a lifetime of work, cannot support themselves  without help from government or family?






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