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Charity is commonly known and associated to help the poor and the practice of benevolent giving to the needy.

But as I was approached by an representative from a local heart foundation, during the no-obligation discussion, i realized that there are so many areas that the charity foundation isn’t solving the root of the problem.

While they may seem to want to solve the problem, but they are just educating the wrong group of people. By educating the young, while it’s good to start from young, but from what I understand of the local market, it doesn’t work this way.

It is general knowledge that all kids are in their prime health and are growing, unless until the age of twenty than our lungs stop reproducing new cells, bones start to weaken at age thirty instead of the commonly known fifty years old. (Refer to today’s Mind Your Body article page 2 in The Straits Time).

So while kids are growing, their concern is only fun and education, they will not be bothered by what they learn from a talk as it will not be craved into their mind.

It is only through immediate experience of fellow family members/relatives (touch-wood) facing similar health complications than only will people learn and remember it for life.

Charity education seminar and talk is useless when shared with the wrong group of participants. As their patients are all working adults, and knows exactly the importance of having money, and how difficult it is to earn money, so it should be of a wiser, smarter choice if they target all working adults, newly graduated students walking into working society.

Only by speaking to people who have felt the pain of earning money, and the importance of having a healthy body, than will only people learn.

In short, people are cheap (majority > referring to smokers); They know it’s bad, but can’t quit smoking due to weak mental strength, but once they know that they will die the next day or in a few months time (touch-wood), they can immediately kick the habit out far into the ocean without any signs of draw-back. The same goes to wine/beer drinkers who frequently goes clubbing, pubs to relax, putting their own body at risk, liver cancer etc.

Than the other phrase commonly used is “Prevention is better than cure” makes me think about the essence of having a charity organization or foundation.

Why should we pay and contribute to some charity foundations like Heart foundation, Kidney foundation when they themselves (the patients) didn’t even bothered to take care of their own health in the first place. Only after things happen, than cry for help.

This reflects a negative side of the way charity foundations are created in the first place. To help really the needy. I think the future and the direction of most charity foundations should focus on those really poor, and did take care of their own health in the past, and not help all of the patients (whereby some of them deserved it, learn a lesson from their past actions which i think of it as consequence of their own action)

So more charity foundations should instead focus on kids born in poor families, no ability to even have basic meals everyday, or those born with chronic illness, food allergies, those are the real people whom our hard earned money should be donated to, and not those who didn’t learn to cherish what they had before a healthy body.

Having said that, there’s still so much that can be done to properly educate the masses. But i didn’t see any real person who can actually see the root of the problem, most charities are just filling out a hole on the surface, ignoring signs of leaking which leads to new holes being created.

Funds made through such non-profit organizations should be better managed by professionals and not average joe who aren’t clear on how to solve the root of the problem. There’s more rooms for improvement definitely.

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Money can be anything that is accepted as a payment for goods, services and repayment of debts. It can be in gold, silver, or other metal pieces of convenient form stamped by public authority and issued as a medium of exchange and a measure value.

It is tool, a double edge weapon, which both the rich and poor people use for different purposes.

Rich, wealthy and successful people use it to benefit more people via charity, sponsorship, and philanthropy purposes, and not forgetting by being generous, it also helps to reduce the tax payment thus businesses never fails to donate and do their part for charity. There are so much advantages to doing charity.

Poor people on the other hand use money as a weapon, to put themselves only to more harm via what everybody knows of the lack of financial knowledge and proper financial management. It is more about understanding the basics of money management, the returns on investment which differentiates the wealthy and the poor.

Wealthy invest while poor spend their money.

Invest for growth, using money as a seed, fertilizer to grow more money trees via business acquisitions etc.

Spending money only increase the debts, liabilities and more financial woes to surface with time and encouraging of bad habits.

You don’t need to pay school fees to learn how to manage money, you just need to think right and start from the basics and go in the right direction and get the right coaching from mentors who will give you more examples on how to increase your wealth.

Coaching is only applicable to successful businessmen and not financial wealth managers who are employees who are not trained to do so, even if they are trained by banks, they are just trained to use money to roll money, but they are not trained in using little or no money to grow money.

So if you want to grow your money tree to be strong and healthy, find yourself a coach and learn from them. If you are a cheapo like me previously, just stay tune to my blog or website for more examples and understand the difference in thinking which should be able to help you get a better idea of money management without paying a single cent.

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Help is the act of either giving or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or a need, to render assistance to people who need it.

It also make life less difficult and reliving them off their illness, pain and sufferings.

Help is everywhere and anywhere. Are you the person who likes to help and advise people or are you one who only likes to receive help and assistance from others and never give back any?

Help is a two way thing. The more people you help, the more people will help you succeed. The more reluctance you show in refusing to help others, the same others will show to you.

Look at businessmen. They are setting up businesses, helping many people in different areas. By employing employees, they are helping the majority of the people to get paid if they are willing to work hard for the company, and in return they get money to bring bread and butter back home to the family.

By doing business, providing service and solutions to help solve business partners’ problems, they are helping others again, and in return they get money (profits) back in return.

By lending a hand in charity with money, they help people in extreme poverty get fed with food and basic supplies, they didn’t expect anything in return, but than others see it, than again they are helping themselves.

The return favor of helping comes back to the business in the form of recognition, branding and position which is goodwill, building a reputable brand for the country, individual or business, the more low-profile you are, the more happiness you will get and more rewards will come back to you.

Not everything comes back from helping in the form of money, but the values and reward to helpful people and businesses will end up with much more than what they offered.

When individuals and business do charity, they can reduce their tax for that year too from the government and more support from the leaders governing the countries with more benefits in future. There’s nothing to lose in helping but a lot more to gain.

Exercise caution when you offer and extend a helping hand. Never ever help any individual that refuse to accept your help and stretching out their hand. If they reject you, so be it, there are others who will gladly accept and appreciate your help.

Practice selectively helping, else you will be abused too. Example: You don’t go around helping people in the brink of bankruptcy when they didn’t learn their mistakes or lessons. The more you offer help, the more you’re digging your own grave to perish together with the people facing bankruptcy at the expense of your financial help.

You will not help people who don’ t share the same vision, goals as you (only applicable to businesses only). If you’re into philanthropy, than just do it as long as it is within your means and financial ability allows. Spending and spreading wealth wisely to those deserving of a chance to succeed and grow.

Do not help people who will turn their backs on you, a real life betrayal of unconditional help will be USA. They who believe in their religion believe in helping anyone and everyone, and the help they offered get abused in this case example.

USA trained Osama Bin Laden, who in turn became a real ring leader in terrorist who betrayed USA’s kind intentions, war breaking out among Iran, Iraq, and neighbouring countries suffer in some ways.

So select carefully and help, don’t help people who act like they need help but with hidden agenda that go against your vision, principles and directions which again leads me to entrepreneurship.

Choosing the right business partners, help people who accept your help and not people who only want to make use of your help, be selective and test their intentions if needed.  Choose the right business partner and your life plus wealth will be made much easier, choose and make the wrong choice or decision, and you have hell of a time like USA still trying to capture Osama Bin Laden who may still be hiding inside the mountains underground and in the caves etc.

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