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

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Sea78 wrote: »

Wow, Firewalker!!!

What a thread - just read the first few pages then skipped to the last. You write amazingly - would love to read a book written by you!

Your questions made me think - and this sounds so awful -I don't think I can even come up with 5 things for each question Needs some work on me I guess.

Anyway, glad today went well

Sea xxx

Ditto, just come accross your diary Firewalker. Its absolutely superb and I wish you well. Have noted the book, "Millionaire Woman, Millionaire You". Heres another one I find ongoingly helpful, The Seven Strategies of Happiness by Jim Rohn. Well done so far.

PandF

Sea78

Thank FW

I'll have a go - will need to ask some people what they think I'm good at as I either cannot remember or I've immediately ignored anything anyone tells me I'm good at as I discount it as silliness.

Hope you've had a great day xxx

Firewalker

I have some news to share tonight. DS1 has a job – yes it is not a job that will stretch him, it is temporary (till Christmas which is about 6 weeks) but it is a job. He feels on top of the World and there will be other jobs to follow – this is re-entry into the labout market that he needed badly. Naturally I am very pleased for him.

On a different matter, out kitchen is finished and OH is moving stuff in it (and cursing) as we speak. One of the bathrooms is also finished. By Friday lunch time I expect all to be done – what will be left is loads of work for us; putting lights and little bits and pieces. And masses of cleaning of course.

Several days ago, I mentioned that making money appears to be a by product of talent, passion and rationality. And I suggested an exercise to identify one’s talent. Tonight I will try to think about passion – because talent can wither away if one does not find one’s passion.

This one I am finding rather hard and will probably need some help with. But it seems to me that the things we feel passionate about can be identified by answering the following questions:

1) What are the five things that make you feel alive?
2) What are the five things that give you satisfaction above all else?
3) What are the five things that you have defended most determinedly?
4) What would you do if you did not have to earn a living?

This might not work but I’ll try it anyway.

Now have to go and help with the kitchen – OH sounds really cross.

And the thought for today is:

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.” - Rita Mae Brown

Firewalker

Sea78

oooh - very interesting fw!! I look forward to working on this one - and strangely - this one seems easier to me than the last one!

xxx

Firewalker

There are no more strange men in my house doing noisy and messy things. The decorator finished this afternoon, at 16.48. After two months of disruption we have bathrooms that don’t leak (one of which is really stunning), a kitchen ceiling without holes in it, and all is decorated. What is left is to put the small things on and to buy and put up cabinets – this is a bit tricky because we have not seen anything we like. We shall keep looking.

Also, today was a waste of time work wise – felt so completely washed out that nothing much was done; which means that I will have to work doubly hard tomorrow to catch up.

Better go to bed and rest. But before that, the thought for today is:

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” - Henry David Thoreau

Firewalker

Marru

I hope you don't mind me to come here to play

5 things I find easy

- Computers
- Planning
- Caring of animals
- Working independently (solitary)
- Research (any kind)

5 things I will forget time doing them

- Computer games
- Sudoku etc puzzles
- Reading
- Being out walking with dogs
- Browsing internet

5 things I am told I am good at

- Ummm - pass (or tbc)

5 things that make me feel alive

- Reading self help books
- Making a plan of getting organised (shame about the lack of implementation)
- Running
- Being on top of things – in control (why I am so hell bent not to do this then )
- Getting a connection with an animal

5 things that give satisfaction above all else

- Running
- Reading
- Being organised (rare occasion)
- Matched betting
- Computers

5 things I defend most determinedly

- Animals
- For being un-judgemental
- Having quiet time for myself
- Use of common sense
- Intellectuality

What would I do if I didn’t have to earn a living?

- I would spend my time in animal rescues learning about behaviour and doing rehabilitation, energy healing and animal communication

So my thinking is that first I need to sell all the unnecessary stuff to raise funds for matched betting. But eventually I would like to find a way to have a passive income (even if it involves spending time initially when setting it up) but what that is I really don't know. Or it could be that my present work will provide all the income I need in the future and hopefully they will find me so valuable that I am able to at some point go to 4 day week to have that 1 day for volunteering stuff.

Firewalker

Marru, I am very, very happy that you came to play (and I secretly wish more people do it). There is a pattern in your answers but it seems to me that you should complete the question you 'passed'. Do you think you can ask around? Other people, particualrly very close friends, know very wekk what your talens are - they just never get around to mentioning it (as I discovered last summer).

I am still thinking about the second set of questions and you might not believe it but I do find the exercise I set very hard.

Now back to work for me.

Firewalker

knitwit67

Hi Firewalker, love your questions but I still can't see the answer Honest feedback from all are welcome .

5 things that make me feel alive

people
powerfull colours ( flowers, material, landscape)
creating something (either physically or helping someone to change their life)
dancing
my faith

5 things that gives me satisfaction above all else

creating something
making plans for the future
tidy home
problem solving
being prooved right :rotfl:

5 things I would defend most

protecting others
my faith beliefs
my independence
my home
my cats

5 what would I do if I did not need to earn a living

make clothes with wonderfull fabric
start fresh re decorating the home, new furniture, make curtains
redo the garden fill it with roses
read
volunteer in a charity clothes shop, love chatting to customers

I'm a people, home and cats first person. Not looking good on the money making side is it!

Firewalker

Knitwit, well done on these questions - but there are three other questions that come before (I think they are on the previous page). Do them and then we can jump in and start brainstorming. In fact we could move it to the Matrix Forum at some point.

Firewalker

knitwit67

Ok I'm back, sorry these are not more exciting , did I mention I do things my way, first 3 questions next

Things I have always found easy

Reading
finding solutions
organizing
dancing
eating :rotfl:

Forgetting about time when

giving hypnotherapy
reading
on the computer
learning something new
talking to friends

Things I have been told I'm good at

giving hypnosis
cooking
drawing (when i was young)
x-stitch
solving problems

I love doing hypnotherapy but part of me feels it could be a cage if I get busy, trapped in an office allday. I think I need 2 jobs or expand the hypno to bring in something different. What do you think?