Paycheck

The weekly paycheck, the ongoing cycle.

Tuesday: Pay day! Okay save $50, because that's what everyone tells me is the right thing to do. Time to go to the mall to reward myself for all those long hours of hard work!

Friday: Don't have any more money, oh my savings account, ill use that.

Monday: Late for work, well it's OK, you know what they say, "minimum wage, minimum effort"

Tuesday: Ahh just made it, now i feel better again because i have my new paycheck, time to go buy a TV and reward myself by sitting down for hours watching other peoples lives!

Friday. At work, five hours to go and ill be at 40 hours for this week. Just need to type more reports, stack more shelves, make milkshakes, assemble burgers.

Saturday: Box of beer with my friends and football on my new TV, this is the life!

Tuesday: O.m.g. my pay is in. I felt so depressed without money for two days, so ill play the casino slots and drink a latte at the cafe, because that's what rich people do. I should bring my new apple laptop that i cant afford so i look important, because it takes money to make money!

This is the ongoing cycle which some call "The Rat race, Life, Reality" etc.

Is this suffering really getting us anywhere? Did we decide for ourselves that saving money is good, working a job is normal and anything else is crazy? When someone challenges your position do you sometimes listen to your defense and ask "is that me speaking, or my mom or dad?". Did we really decide as an original thought to buy sliced pork ourselves, or was it the TV or announcement at the supermarket that told us pork is on special, 99 cents for 100 grams.

I am here to tell you that working in a job (Just Above Broke) is only one of many ways of making income, and that there are other sources of income out there in the world. All it takes is a little emotional control, and financial intelligence to learn to break the addiction of working for a paycheck. We have been conditioned to be like cattle, following the leader, and most schools are the factory to mold us into the perfect employee. (Do you learn about financial subjects in middle school?)

Lets empower ourselves and learn about the financial world, because we all need money as a means of trade in modern society. Instead of working hard, we should work smart. We should make the effort to read books about the subjects, learn the definitions of financial words we don't understand, and gain insight to the real world of affluent people. It is also time to disconnect our emotions from money, rich people can survive with or without money. Henry ford was asked by an interviewer how long would it take to make back his money if he lost it all....he said Five years! At the time of that interview in history he was VERY rich, so it shows that being rich is not about having a lot of money/ currency.
-It all comes down to the the Mind Set involved, how they see the world, their 'reality'-

More on these subjects later..

-Nick D