Moving from financial collapse to financial security
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 Time: 8:38 PM
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We are living in a time when many people are experiencing the collapse of their financial world. Often it is because they have lost their job but it could be because their business has failed. They then find that the competition out there is really tough as there are so many in a similar position. It can even be tough finding voluntary or unpaid work as there are so many prospective volunteers to choose from.
You could stay down on the floor and let the world go on around you. Alternatively you could start the process of clearing the debris and start rebuilding. What the author of Bridge2Riches found is that she (yes this is a money book written by a woman for a change) could start building but because her foundations were insecure it did not take long for it to collapse again. The answer to that problem was to strengthen the foundations and make sure that they were secure so that it was safe to rebuild again.
What do you mean by strengthening foundations? The most important aspect of growing a strong financial structure in your life is character development. It is our character that underpins all our activities. It is our character that helps us find and keep a job. It is our character that helps us find business ideas and develop them. It is often the forgotten factor in developing financial structures in our lives.
Susan's increasing understanding that handling and making money is a reflection of our character development was fueled by the research and reading that she was doing and influenced by her own experience. To start with she discovered a lot of materials that help people reduce their expenditure. One problem she found was that taking that route she became determined to spend as little as possible to the point of causing herself real pain. Her attitude towards spending money was similar to the attitude that someone struggling with anorexia nervosa has towards eating food. Obviously just making choices about how to spend money was not the entire story.
She also faced choices about how to make money. There are a lot of materials that help people build a new future by making good choices when it comes to creating wealth. Again these are not the whole story. This is an area that has a poor reputation as many people see the hordes of get rich quick schemes and think that is all there is in that arena. Even 3000 years ago Solomon knew the fallacy of this idea. In Proverbs 13:11 it talks about the idea that those who gain money fast struggle to keep hold of it but it goes on to say that those who gather money bit by bit will increase their wealth.
There are ways of building a better financial future from making good choices in the present. But it is very difficult to make good choices if you have "issues" that influence the way that you think about what you spend and what you do to bring money into your life.
One of the aims of Susan's upcoming book Bridge2Riches is to discuss various aspects of this wrong thinking. You can add your name to the list of people we will keep in touch about how this project is developing by going to http://www.bridge2riches.co.uk
This is one of the projects that Susan is developing under the auspices of Lily the Pink Ministries CIC. One of this organisation's aims is to help people in mental distress. For more information go to http://www.lilythepinkministries.com CIC stands for community interest company which is a legal structure which is a hybrid between a business and a charity. The idea is to create products that will generate a profit that then can be used to pay for the practical projects that are needed to help people in mental distress.
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This is one of the projects that Susan is developing under the auspices of Lily the Pink Ministries CIC. One of this organisation's aims is to help people in mental distress. For more information go to http://www.lilythepinkministries.com CIC stands for community interest company which is a legal structure which is a hybrid between a business and a charity. The idea is to create products that will generate a profit that then can be used to pay for the practical projects that are needed to help people in mental distress.
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