Monday, February 1, 2010

MAKE SOME MONE Y

Not having enough
money for your basic
needs isn’t the simple
life. That’s poverty, and
that complicates life.

All hard work brings a profit.
—Proverbs 14:23
You might wonder what this chapter has to do
with simplifying your life.
You see, I receive tons of letters from readers, most
of them happy, but some of them heart-rending. Just
yesterday, one letter I read was from a man who was
poor all his life. He didn’t even know how he’d get
food for his family the following week. Sure he had
a job, but it paid miserably and wasn’t even enough
to keep his kids in school. I opened another letter the
other day and read about a woman who had so many
debts, her monthly payables were double her monthly
need a minimum amount of money in order to live. It
is because of letters like these that I wish to share with
you now the six key principles of making money—
without robbing your soul.
The next six chapters of this book will be devoted
to the six steps on how you can make money. They are
as follows:
1) Purify your thinking towards money.
2) Purify your motives towards making money.
3) Take on an abundance mentality.
4) Believe in your capacity to make money.
5) Make yourself more valuable.
6) Discover something that you have that others
need.
Simplify your life.
Make some money.
Action Plan
Are you living simply and yet still can’t fit your
income to your very simple expenses? It doesn’t
have to be this way. You don’t have to accept this
“complication” in your life forever. Write down in
your journal, “I believe that I can raise my earning
potential.”
income. And according to her, she was already living
very, very, very simply! She hasn’t bought a new dress
in ages, never went to movies unless it was a freebee,
and had sold most of her belongings.
Not having enough money for your basic needs isn’t the
simple life. That’s poverty, and that complicates life.
Read carefully. Money isn’t everything and people
are totally mistaken if they think that money will solve
all their problems and make them happy. But we do

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