Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

savingwannabe

Stay strong Firewalker. You are doing it!

Firewalker

Immense amount of work was done today and a lot was achieved. Today, it seems, was my day for finishing things and getting them to colleagues around Europe. Do you think that getting things done, and not agonizing over whether what has been done will change the world or not, might be the way to combat the excessive worrying? Interesting idea although probably not a very novel or original one! But sometimes, only sometimes, we need to discover some truths for ourselves – this is how we end up discovering banality.

Tonight, I decided to do the washing so that all is clean when we get back. Got everything in the washing machine, pressed the button and …nothing happened. Pressed it again – nothing. OH has been looking at it and it is most definitely broken. We have checked and to call an engineer will cost £80 plus parts; given that it is dead it is likely we need a serious part. This makes it not worth repairing. What kind of world are we living in, where appliances are not worth repairing? Well, it seems that today is my day for banality as well! But the long and the short of it is – we need another washing machine. Gets me down this – there is always something that needs paying.

I wish I could say that we are ready and packed for tomorrow but it is simply not true. Only our skiing stuff is on a bed ready to be put in a suitcase. The rest will have to be done tomorrow. I am hoping for a smooth travelling day tomorrow – Lufthansa, here we come; Sofia here we come!

Speak soon.

Firewalker

williamD1964

Enjoy your skiing, and your break, but most of all, enjoy being alive, in your home country, surrounded by the people you love and love you. All the rest is unimportant.

Firewalker

We have arrived, we are here. Sitting in our nice apartment in Sofia, very late (here) and tyring to unwind. It was a long day but otherwise the journey was un-eventful - particualrly compared with my trips before Christmas. The last leg - lugging large suitcases up five flights of stairs and no lift - was probably the ahrdest one.

But then, on top of the stairs was my sister to meet us, and it felt nice...Little Boy was very, very happy to see his aunty.

Today something occured to me. I think that the new budgeting system we introduced around Christmas is not working for me. And it is not working not because 'it is not working' - in other words we don't spend more than before; if anything it seems that we are spending less. But not writing everything that we buy somehow make me feel out of control, it makes me feel fearful. Probably should go beck to writing everything down; alternatively will have to work out some compromise.

Will have to rest now - tomorrow I will have to finish something, work I am afraid. But it has to be done if I want to be able to relax and ski next week.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Hi guys, this was on PC's blog anf I thought it interesting. Enjoy!

Firewalker
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Every day Nasrudin went to beg for alms in the market, and people used to make fun of him by playing the following trick: they would show him two coins, one worth ten times more than the other, and Nasrudin would always choose the smaller coin.
The story went round the whole province.
Day after day, groups of men and women would show him the two coins, and Nasrudin would always choose the smaller one.
Then one day, a generous man, tired of seeing Nasrudin ridiculed in this fashion, beckoned him over to a corner of the square and said:
‘When they offer you two coins, you should choose the larger one. That way you would earn more money and people wouldn’t consider you an idiot.’
‘That sounds like good advice,’ replied Nasrudin, ‘but if I chose the larger coin, people would stop offering me money, because they like to believe that I am even more stupid than they are. You’ve no idea how much money I’ve earned using this trick.
“There’s nothing wrong with looking like a fool if, in fact, you’re being really clever.’

Aesop

Firewalker wrote: »

Hi guys, this was on PC's blog anf I thought it interesting. Enjoy!

Firewalker
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Every day Nasrudin went to beg for alms in the market, and people used to make fun of him by playing the following trick: they would show him two coins, one worth ten times more than the other, and Nasrudin would always choose the smaller coin.
The story went round the whole province.
Day after day, groups of men and women would show him the two coins, and Nasrudin would always choose the smaller one.
Then one day, a generous man, tired of seeing Nasrudin ridiculed in this fashion, beckoned him over to a corner of the square and said:
‘When they offer you two coins, you should choose the larger one. That way you would earn more money and people wouldn’t consider you an idiot.’
‘That sounds like good advice,’ replied Nasrudin, ‘but if I chose the larger coin, people would stop offering me money, because they like to believe that I am even more stupid than they are. You’ve no idea how much money I’ve earned using this trick.
“There’s nothing wrong with looking like a fool if, in fact, you’re being really clever.’

I enjoyed reading this. Logged onto my facebook account, and someone I used to work with has just posted this... how apt.

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke.All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time.He cracked the same joke again & again, When there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said"When u can't laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again...

Firewalker

Last night was a lost one, no, I did not lose it properly in the casino or something but not much sleep was had. I worked most of the night and went to bed at 4 am local time; then I read and went to sleep at…I don’t know when. As you can imagine getting up was difficult as was most of today. Till I had a run in early afternoon and felt a bit more human. But the good news is that I am already finished with this piece of work and I have decided that if I work an hour a day while in the mountains it shall be fine.

We have a car and the plan is that tomorrow we will be off to the skiing resort. Will be off at about lunch time and will be there by 15.00. Then the only matter to consider will be whether to ski or to have a go at snow-boarding – I am tempted but my poor behind…so shall see.

Today, I started thinking about our sense of value. Have you noticed that we live in relatively strict hierarchies – we know who is above and we know who is below us in the order of things. People feel intimidated by the ones above and, sometimes unwillingly, intimidate the people below. But how does this order emerge? Assuming that we perceive our own value like we do the value of things – as a result of comparison – how do we decide what the important characteristics to compare are? What intimidates you?

What intimidates me? Slim people, beautiful people, practical people, elegant people…how to take this a bit more systematically? I believe it is important because figuring out what intimidates you is a good indication of what you consider important and what you see as a deficiency of yours.

More thinking is needed on this one.

I will write during the next week but not very sure whether I’ll be able to post. There is no connection where we are going; in fact this is part of it – to have some time off.

Keep well, people.

Firewalker

savingwannabe

Firewalker William D needs help please can you contact him.

williamD1964

williamD1964 is breathing, and fine. Though he does have a few problems. SW, many thanks for your thoughts and help, but FW is on holiday!

Amyway I suggest you read my diary for its latest entry

savingwannabe

ok will do.