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Do You Want The Status Or Stuff?
Empowered Greet- ings. Will you honestly answer this question? Do you want the true status of being
financially wealthy or the stuff that you think repre- sents financial success?
There’s a look that most non-wealthy people seem to conceive in their imagination of wealthy people. A person of wealth is thought to drive the most current model of some sort of luxury vehicle. They are presumed to live in the most affluent neighbor- hoods.
Certainly, they dress in the most popular name brand attire; have expensive things surrounding them and attend the best private schools.
While this is true for some it’s not true for all.
There are those that have the look of being wealthy but they really don’t have the sta- tus. They just have the stuff. In other words, they have a lot of stuff but a little bit of money. This includes celebri- ties, entertainers and other top public figures.
Too often, people get caught up trying to get the
stuff and have no real desire to obtain the status. This is why people will sell drugs, rob banks, steal, scheme, plot and plan to get money just to buy stuff from people that re- ally don’t value them as a person.
Our prisons are full of people that wanted the stuff and not the status. The peo- ple that have the status are the ones that will profit off of the poor decision of the junkies of the stuff. (i.e. pri- vate and public prisons for profits).
There are people working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. jobs, barely surviving, but yet spending their hard earned money on stuff that makes them look successful. When the reality is, they are living paycheck to paycheck and if they miss a check their life and style would be in shambles.
Again I ask, do you want the status or the stuff.
If you seriously want to be financially wealthy, you must go beyond striving for the look by obtaining stuff and take the necessary steps to achieve the status.
Noonecandoitforyou
but you. Don’t wait for any hand-outs, hand-ups or per- mission to move into your wealthy place.
It’s not about having the right job, coming from the right family or receiving the best education even though you do need the right educa- tion.
Note: I’m not talking about school, but informa- tion. It is about having the mindset and taking the right actions, while being disci- pline enough to control your- self and your money.
Status seekers, here are 3 quick tips to observe on your success journey:
Spend less than you make.
Invest 15% or more of your earnings.
Minimize your expenses. Here’s the deal.
When you are comfort-
able and confident with who you are, you won’t need the stuff to prove to anybody that you have the status. You can be what you don’t look like, even though you have the fi- nancial means to look like what you are.
I pray this column has Empowered, Educated and Elevated you to achieve you next level of success. For more info on this topic call 813-603-0088. Let’s stay connected. Follow me on so- cial media.
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Leave Daylight Savings Time Alone!
ometimes, we truly wonder how certain legislators
make the decisions they come up with when there are certainly more important issues confronting this state and nation.
Take for instance, Sen. Greg Steube (R-Sarasota) and his idea to introduce legislation that would elimi- nate Daylight Savings Time.
That’s right.
As though there had been massive telephone calls or buckets of letters requesting that Florida (of all states, the sunshine state) eliminate the annual change to ‘Daylight Savings Time, a tradition for the past 100 years or more, Steube champions the change.
The advantages of Daylight Savings Time are numer- ous . . . additional hours to walk or ride safely in our neighborhoods; to perform outside chores in light and safety; to send our children safely off to school in sun- light; to go to work an hour early or work an hour later while it’s daylight, or to play a game of golf or tennis while the sun is up.
Moreover, Daylight Savings Time provides addi- tional time for sunshine therapy “that may help a num- ber of mental health issues, such as depression, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, traumatic brain in- jury recovery, infections and skin cancers,
Furthermore, Daylight Savings Time reduces the need for artificial light, thereby saving energy; allowing more time for shopping and eating out, and reducing the incidence of robberies and pedestrian fatalities.
So, Sen. Steube’s Amendment SB858 needs to be sent back into the dark early hours of Standard Time.
Else, we may find ourselves asking a question simi- lar to what a Sunday preacher once presented to his congregation. But in this case, he would’ve asked, “For a state that has so much light, why is it that we seem to prefer darkness?” Amen?
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