Have a Daily Wealth Review - Watch For Leaks!How do you spend your money? Some people don’t even know where the money goes. A daily wealth watch may help you spot some leakage you weren’t even aware of. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Charles Dickens – David Copperfield. You’ve paid the enrolment fee, purchased your distributor kit and now you have to buy a regular amount of product to qualify for your commissions. But although the products are better and more effective they may cost a little more than the budget lines in Walmart or Poundsaver! The idea when you start an mlm business is to make more money – a supplemental income. Now, as you begin building your network marketing business you find that instead of multiple streams of income you have multiple streams of outgo!
How can you move from debt to wealth with continual outlays? If you are financially stretched how will you afford it? A daily wealth watch might help... Beware of Money BurnersA major plank in applying the Law of Attraction is to recognise that there is an abundance. We should not have a scarcity mentality.I am not contradicting that by saying we shouldn't spend any money through fear of not having any. Nor that we should not spend it on oursleves on things that enhance our day. BUT...you may be surprised how much money just gets “burned up” on things – activities or stuff – that actually adds little value or enhancement to your life. It leaves you with less wealth rather than more as you are left with nothing to show for it. Worse, it might also waste your time and drain your energy too. There is nothing wrong with a little light refreshment or a harmless pass-time - nothing in itself. But everything has what is called an “opportunity cost”, or the alternative that could also have been purchased - another choice you could have made! Try to look at it from the perspective of daily wealth - is it enhancing it or diminishing it? If you look at how much you might spend in a typical day on some of the things below, they may not add up to much. You may already be watching the pennies. You may have already forsaken the little luxuries that bring a little relief, and are unwilling to sacrifice any more. In some countries where welfare is less generous harsh choices may already have been forced upon you. In the UK (and I will try to remain apolitical) where welfare is generous there are many who plead poverty and yet will find ways to spend money on lottery tickets, magazines, junk food... they cost money to buy but are little actual value. Let’s do some math. $1.50 a day = $10.50 a week = $42 a month = $500 a year “If you do what you’ve always done you will get what you’ve always gotten”. To get something different you will have to do something different…. Some things will have to change and perhaps that means some of our little routines and habits. Here is a quick list of potential money burners: - Drink (soft or alcoholic) - Cigarettes - Lottery tickets - Newspapers - Daily Coffee - Daily chocolate/crisps - Chatting on Pay as you go phone - Daily fruit rather than weekly - Other Junk food - Bus instead of cycle or walk - Car instead of cycle or walkIt is easy to see how money can be “burned” almost surreptitiously. See how much it all adds up to when it is blended into your day by performing a daily wealth review Alcohol and cigarettes are obvious ones, anyone pleading poverty who still smokes has serious priority issues. I would say at this point that as a student I was a smoker. Money was tight, but amazingly however little money I had I always somehow had a cigarette to smoke when I wanted one. It is a matter of prioritising! But do a daily wealth review and see what you spend money on. Have you even realised you spend 50c a day on a candy bar that boosts your sugar level for a moment before actually leaving you less energy, and that daily fix of pepsi or coffee that costs $1. A brisk walk in fresh air might have the same vitalising effect. How often does a chat on a pay-as-you-go mobile phone go on a little longer that just communicating the message and eating the money – even a little! (50c – conservative guestimate) OK, so at lunch to take the healthy option and buy a banana to have with your homemade sandwiches that you brought with you to save some money. But you find that buying a single piece of fruit with your lunch actually costs you 5 times as much as would if you got a week’s supply in the supermarket and brought that with you too.(50c) And to accompany your lunch to get a newspaper to mull over while you munch (50c). Afterwards it is good for lining the rabbit hutch so that is good value – notwithstanding the freebie advertising papers that would serve the same purpose. In terms of a daily welath review that is already : $3 a day - $80 a month - $1,000 a year! that could have been spent on something else. That is without using pedal and foot power to get to the local shops which are only 2 minutes drive away – without not buying the lotto ticket – which has been called “A tax on people who are not good at math!” Too often in the Western World the plea of poverty simply masks the lack of aspiration to do anything about the situation. Build a daily wealth review into your routine. If we are more careful about our choices and priorities we can set our minds to a higher vision and give up some of the things that simple give us short-term gratification and free the resources we require to invest in ourselves to better our lives.
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