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

elantan

Firewalker wrote: »

Thanks, El - nice to hear because for now I have had several meaningful posts at the begining and after that posts from bots sent for links.

And what is the van gogh experiment?

Firewalker

i havnt posted yet on your blog FW ... i am bad for posting tbh... but i really do look forward to your next blog and actively look for it every day on emails ....

i read the van gogh and rarely post on that ... but i love it very much

the van gogh experiment is the brain child of the wonderful see ... she had been to the van gogh museum and had noticed that his masterpieces were done in the last ten years of his life ... this caused see to think about what could we achieve with ten years of our lives ...

it is turning into a wonderful place full of people from here and also non mser's ( which is a wonderful mix)

misselvis

a very interesting and insightful forum, I can see your dedication to your goals including reducing your debt. am not very good with my own diary but am committed to following yours and applying some of the theories to other parts of my life. Many thanks

Firewalker

elantan wrote: »

i havnt posted yet on your blog FW ... i am bad for posting tbh... but i really do look forward to your next blog and actively look for it every day on emails ....

i read the van gogh and rarely post on that ... but i love it very much

the van gogh experiment is the brain child of the wonderful see ... she had been to the van gogh museum and had noticed that his masterpieces were done in the last ten years of his life ... this caused see to think about what could we achieve with ten years of our lives ...

it is turning into a wonderful place full of people from here and also non mser's ( which is a wonderful mix)

Link please, El?

FW

Firewalker

williamD1964 wrote: »

Still confused about the frogs...

Read a book called Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. The main point is that we should do the thing that is most impostant and most scares us first and keep at it till done (this thing is the Frog).

Firewalker

MrsMoo2U

Firewalker wrote: »

Link please, El?

FW

I think that it is invitation from SE999 for that blog firewalker, I may be wrong though.
I think that she is away now until early April but you could try PM!

Firewalker

What a wonderful day we had! We are still in the Cotswolds at our friends’ and last night OH and Little Boy arrived. This morning we got eggs and coloured them according the Christian Orthodox tradition – yep, this year the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Easter, and Passover fall at the same time. So, we have some lovely coloured eggs and we have some even lovelier chocolate eggs; and tomorrow will be a celebration. Some of the day – early afternoon we will be going back to Manchester but may see a Berkley castle on the way.

Today we went to Slimbridge. Absolutely fantastic! Looking at and feeding all the birds, enjoying the calmness of nature. In fact, I managed to be still for about ten minutes which impressed my friend greatly. Wonderful time was had by all and LB really enjoyed the canoe trip and splashing his Dad. Only downside was the heath and the unforgiving sun. Now we are all red as tomatoes.

Hope you are all having good time my friends and that tomorrow will be truly a day of renewal and regeneration.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Bulgarians say 'Christos voskrese' (answer 'Voistina voskrese'); the Greeks say 'Christo aneste' and it all means 'Christ has risen' (answer 'Indeed he has risen').

In brief Happy Easter! Have a good day, relax and enjoy life and renewal. I also will take the oportunity to reflect on things and get myself ready for the interesting and exciting time ahead.

Firewalker

Firewalker

I am not a big one for religion and I have never made a secret of that. But I still believe that this year’s coincidence of Easter (Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox) and Passover is a sign. A sign that the world can be a much better place if we forget our differences and stop being so concerned with divisions but emphasise our similarities. Even understanding differences is much easier if we remember the similarities.

How the Firewalker unit did spent Easter day? Some of it the time we played Monopoly with my friend and the rest of the day we travelled back home. Sometime ago I did decide that I’ll put some effort into playing more board games with LB. He keeps saying that I always work and never have time to play with him; which is a bit of exaggeration but not that much of one. Today we played and it was a wonderful game. The most fascinating thing was though that having just developed a typology of different relationships with money I could place immediately each of the four players. My friend and LB both have a relationship of possessive love; they like fingering their money, they count it often and the main thing – their need for security stopped them from spending any so they didn’t buy many properties. OH was comfortable with him money, he caressed it and money loved him in return; he bought properties, the properties paid back, he has a plan but the plan worked with his money and his properties rather than against it. And there is always me – taking money for granted, buying properties without clear plan how they are going to pay back, knowing only that I want this or that street, trying to get it ‘right’ but stumbling. Guess who won? OH, of course...

I wonder whether he could do it in real life. If martial arts masters are to be believed there is no substantial difference between monopoly and real property empire building (well there are small differences in rules). However, when we play monopoly we know that winning is OK but we learn more through losing. In real life we are so scared of losing because we see it as the end instead of part of learning.

Today I would like to share something that Paolo Coelho said. He said that because he doesn’t know whether he’ll still be alive tomorrow he doesn’t leave the best for later.’ Probably it is time for all to remember this.

Firewalker

NorthernLas

FW - Completely off topic question ... is there any market for mink coats in Bulgaria / eastern Europe??? A lovely one came into the charity shop and we don't have a market for it in New Mills!!!

Ta NL x

MrsMoo2U

NL - every time you say New Mills it makes me smile. I spent the first three years of my life there and my family (Uncles and Aunts - Mum, Nana and Grandad all gone now) talk about it with such fondness. My Nana had a mink coat but none of us wanted it when she went. Thing is they are now very popular (sorry as I am about that) so you might find that your charity shop could sell it in one of their other branches (London?) if they have one.

ETA - forgot what I popped on for. FW - I was just watching a Michael Buble interview and he came up with a bit of wisdom from YODA - made me think of you and your thread a few months ago. I have not incorporated it into my signature as a reminder.
There is no try, just do or do not If it is good enough for Michael it is good enough for me.