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April-30-10

Debt

posted by ryan

Debt is a liability and a obligation to pay for something.

It is created by allowing an individual to use repayment with the intention of using future purchasing finances for a purchase.

It gives both individuals and businesses a alternative and convenience to get they want creating mutual beneficial situations.

The client gets his/her hand on items they want to owe with the use of financing of installment options, allowing clients to buy more with a single source of income spread over the number of months as per stated by the installment agreement.

The banks/businesses will be happy too as they have more sales and profits form the service charged billed to the business operators.

Should the client sign up more installments, the business will be happier, but if it exceeds the client’s threshold/financial capability of repaying, it will turn into debts. Banks will than set into the picture and charge clients an interest for debts incurred on compiling basis monthly.

Having the banks calling up the clients who are now debtors to the bank owing them money is not a pleasant experience nor would anybody want to be in that shoes.

To avoid such situations, it is best to avoid paying in installments, as accidents can happen (touch-wood). When it do happens, sudden lost of income will mean the lost of use of all un-paid items, in the event of inability to repay the banks, items will be auction to recover the repayments of debts.

Failure to repay all liabilities or debts will result in bankruptcy.

It is best to enjoy shopping paying using cash or using debit card or spending with monthly budget so to prevent any unwanted negative debts.

To properly manage debts, one has to know the difference between good and bad debts.

Good debts are mostly used and embraced by the rich individuals or business owners. It happens when they pay for items on installments similar like the majority of clients but with a twist. The only twist is that the rich has another stream of income to supplement, off-set this installment payment and even calculated to profit from the installment as a positive Return On Investment (ROI).

Bad debts are widely used and practiced by individuals and such problems always surface among the poor. They only pay and opt for installment options without additional external sources to offset the repayment scheme and yet keep on increasing their burden of repayment by buying more items on credit without working within their budget or considering if they can afford to pay off the bill thus problems are created in the process.

For better money management and free advice, doing it yourself is the best way possible. Simply using simple add, subtract, multiply and divide to calculate the working budget/income.

Identify all input of money (income, contributions from family/relatives); payments such as insurance, medical policies, monthly expenses for food, transportation and entertainment. Inclusive of amount of money meant for savings and investment and label them as expenses.

So that when you have a clear picture of how much money you have after deducting the necessary expenses and investments and savings which you will not touch, than you will have your working capital or the remaining as your budget to spend on. This way, you will not overspend your money and incur unnecessary debts for nothing.

Spend and plan your money wisely.

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March-9-10

Money

posted by ryan

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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February-14-10

Balance

posted by ryan

Balance is about equilibrium with equal distribution of weight distributor to achieve balance.

Everything must be balanced, and there must not be bias on any side but in reality, it isn’t possible to strike a balance unless we control our own source of income, wealth and time by working for ourselves and not for our boss.

At work, government across and all over the globe always talk about having a balance working life, which is nonsense, if they want to get paid via tax thus they have money, they have to think of ways to allow business to have more employees thus more tax will be received from everybody making them richer but not wealthier since government are not experts at wealth and financial management.

The true experts of wealth and financial management are the billionaires and multi-millionaires. Millionaires are not included in my theory because millionaires can be done alone with hard work while multi-millionaires cannot.

News reports of financial crisis, great depression, stock crisis, commodity shortage thus causing sky rocketed cost of food and basic ingredients such as sugar, salt, and oil at times are the solid proof that government leaders are just ordinary people like you and me in the streets. They know nothing about real wealth management. They can make mistakes and push the blame to somebody else by military or keep it within the walls of each respective country as top secrets etc, and the best part, they don’t get fired because they need to retain ‘talents’ who are just sadly ill-trained professionals who knows only theory but not practical experience whatsoever.

Such people in the government do not and will not know how to balance the equilibrium and will continue to make mistakes than push it to others, got let somebody be the scapegoat taking the blame while opening a back-door to the person who help them take the rap.

The Lehman Brothers is a typical example of ill trained professionals who cause the world economy to share the rap and consequences of their actions, sparking a crisis with more problems in western countries than Asian countries.

With US government using tax-payers money to bail out the companies that didn’t do a proper job to save employments, when this happens, it is debt sharing, and passing the debt to the majority of the people. Take the total sum of money USA used and divide among the US population, and you know on average how much a US citizen helps the government to pay off the debts, which is why the US presidential election is all about, getting the consent of every citizen for approval by votes.

In Asian countries, it is run with a slightly different practice, because of the lack of politicians, and leaders, whatever mistakes they made, it will be compromised because there are no successors to take over thus they can continue making mistakes and nobody can do anything because they lack the higher appointment to veto the politician out immediately. Business and politics will never be able to work together due to a conflict of interest and why Warren Buffett initially decline President Obama request to lead the US in terms of investment options.

At work, health and family, it is all about striking a balance but it is not possible to do it because not possible to do so as business is all about profits and family work balance must be compromised in order to meet quota set by the company and the management else face the risk of being fired.

The only possible way to attain work life and family plus health balance is to work for ourselves, and find alternative income source to have flexible work time, have a business system to have it running on automatic basis so to allow equal balance.

The alternative is via internet marketing, and multi-level marketing (MLM) which requires no boss, no fixed timing, efforts and pay are justified by the amount of commitment they put in which is why news articles in Singapore have mention successes in blogging stay home young mothers who are IT savvy. MLM however has created tremendous success that can’t be overlooked but it is treated with negativity thus people are not receptive to it.

Education is all about helping ourselves to earn more money, but why and how did people think that it’s only right to help boss earn money and not help themselves? Are you slapping yourself in the face? Wake up to the reality and face it. If you at any one time want to deny facts, you will be a loser and loser will only suffer in misery and nothing else.

Do you want to seek balance in live which will encourage good health or do you want to continue to work your guts out risking your health helping your boss get rich, and not helping yourself?

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February-4-10

Skill

posted by ryan

Skill is a art, a knowledge that an individual excels in as being the master of the knowledge with the ability to apply a skill that he/she picked up and apply it to any business, environment or even in daily lives and activities. Skill is a expertise in a certain knowledge with the ability to apply it anywhere, everywhere, wherever and whatever the situation is regardless where, who, what, and how an individual is in.

Knowledge is just know-how. Knowing how to solve certain problems with steps and procedures to go about it, knowledge by itself is useless without the flexibility to remodel it and apply it into different forms and variations.

Everyone can pick up knowledge but not everyone can pick up a skill which requires time, effort, commitment, determination and passion to master and try perfection the knowledge into a skill they can use and apply in whatever circumstances.

Examples:

Look at a professor teaching in a university. What is he doing? He’s teaching students and passing them the knowledge which he got from his teachers and professors when he was still a student and the cycle repeats. A professor can only teach academically in exchange for an income to meet day’s needs.

A professor isn’t skilled to use and apply whatever knowledge he/she has to monetize it and profit from the knowledge which he/she the professor has and an abundance of it actually.   No matter how much money he/she earns, the professor is and will only be confined to his area of knowledge without any chances of venturing into other areas which he has no knowledge of.

A professor is a smart individual without any skills nor is the professor able to guide us their students how to profit and make real money. Do you want to continue pursuing academic education and stay in the rat race getting yourself only deeper and deeper into the banks’ favorite list of debtors making them rich and causing yourself to be debt-ridden and suffer more as your study?

An entrepreneur might not be as academically smart like a professor but an entrepreneur is definitely smarter in application processes and knowing how to maximize the skills into perfection to create a business, profit from it which is why entrepreneurs will always be more respected than bosses who just take over the company from their rich parents.

Entrepreneurs are skilled in whatever they choose to be in and are experts in whichever and whatever they do, able to apply the skill to any businesses even if it’s not what he is good at, but with a specific skill set that he/she has perfected, it’s like a blue-print, a skeleton key that can open any doors regardless of what types of locks are being used to safeguard a home.

The next time you pay money for education, make sure you’re picking up a skill, and not just learning new knowledge.

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