Don’t Just Live to Work for Money

Posted on August 14, 2008
Filed Under Category00: Mindsets of Getting Rich, Category60: Time Management |

It is a convenient reason and excuse to say. You needed a job because we all do, in order to live. Then, slowly, before you know it, you are holding down a job that’s taking up too much of your time and energy that you no longer have time left to even think about what you could be doing differently – that is how to work “smarter” in order to make more money faster and with less effort.

So many of us are guilty of letting our financial affairs slip past us because we always feel there are better things to do with our precious free time than to come to grips with our finances or plan a long-overdue life or career change.

Sometimes we are too busy doing our job that we forget the end goal – i.e., making some real money and constantly letting it grow to a point where our income exceeds our expenses. Instead, many prefer to stick to the 9-to-5 routine.

Lots of people work to live – and frankly speaking, without these people, the rich could not get richer. This does not mean that the workers are being exploited; it just means that since they choose to invest their time and energy in 9-to-5 jobs to work for wages, then there will always be other smarter people who see the opportunity and become prosperous – simply because they have their heads up and could see farther.

If you have to have a job and to go to work from 9 till 5 each day, it makes sense that you work to earn as much money as you can and want.

If you love your job but it cannot make you rich even if you stick to that job until your retirement, then you need to create a strategy for wealth creation that doesn’t rely on that ‘day job’ income.

Although you love your job and love what you do, if you want wealth, you need to be sure that you are not just doing the job you love and neglect to work out how you are going to get wealthy doing it, or consider other actions or strategies you need to implement to get a second income or alternative revenue generator.

If you are unhappy with your pay and/or hate your job, then you have to ask yourself why you are still doing it. The worst scenario is that you are not happy with your job and you are still busy doing it, causing you to reason out that you don’t have time to create a plan that will bring you to a life of greater prosperity and happiness. While you’ve got your head down earning a living, many opportunities may pass over your head which you’ll never get to see. Imagine waking up one day in ten years’ time and realizing that many opportunities have already passed you by. As a popular quote goes, “People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

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