How to Invest in Gold?

How to Invest in Gold?

Investing can be risky but you can learn how to manage risk. Investing in precious metal like gold and silver can increase your portfolio. Gold is protection, insurance against inflation, currency debasement, and global economy ups and downs.

In any investment you must determine you investing goal and establish you strategy for investing. You can buy physical gold coin and gold bullion or you can invest through ETF (exchange-traded fund) and the stock market. Purchasing bullion or gold coins is the most direct way to the physical asset for investors. ETF is shares that traded on the major stock market exchanges. SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and iShares Comex Gold Trust (IAU) are two ETF.

The Power of Positive Thinking

The Power of Positive Thinking

 

Are you tired of the same old results? Do you want to achieve more and accomplish more? Changes start first inwardly and then are manifest outwardly. The power of positive thinking is to encourage you to transform your life by thinking positive and to help you get more out of life.

What is positive thinking?  

Leading Personality defines it as “Positive thinking is a mental attitude in which you expect good and favorable results. In other words, positive thinking is the process of creating thoughts that create and transform energy into reality. A positive mind waits for happiness, health and a happy ending in any situation.”

You are what you think.

Like an athlete condition his body you have to condition your mind to achieve high levels of success. One biblical text references point Proverbs 23:7 states “as a man thinks in his heart so is he. You are a sum total of your thoughts and the battle is in the mind. If don’t control your thoughts of negativity you will be defeat and you will attract perpetual situations and circumstances to validate your thoughts. You can think positive thought and attract positive situation and people. By changing the way you think will change your life. Nothing change to you change and it start inwardly.

Step to help you think positive.

1.      Words. Uses words to change your way of thinking. Words are container and the carry energy. Words creates picture and words repeated over begin to sink in the subconscious mind. Replace negative words with positive words.

2.      Visualization. Visualization is forming a mental picture in your mind. Paint a picture in your mind of the things you want to accomplish.

3.      Affirmation. Repeating positive phrases to reprogram subconscious mind.

 

Your thoughts, words, and action must be in congruent with your goals and desire. If want a better life change the way you think.  Your words impact your life and use visualization to paint a picture in your mind of what you want to achieve. Use positive affirmation to reprogram your mindset.

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Why You Should Build Your Dreams?

Why You Should Build Your Dreams?

 You was created for a purpose and that longing inside you is your physiological as  Abraham Maslow describes as “Self-actualization (creative, skills, achieving) The motivation to realize one’s own maximum potential and possibilities is considered to be the master motive or the only real motive, all other motives being its various forms.” Self-actualization is become aware of your purpose and the desire to fulfill it. It’s you reaching for your full potential and become the best you. It’s also your spiritual need. Your dream and purpose is the very reason for your existence. It’s the reason why you were created.

Dreams Give You Direction.

Dreams are blue prints for your life. It gives direction for what you can accomplish.  It’s a vision. It provides meaning.  If you don’t have directions for life you can spend years wandering around in a circle and living a mean less life and never achieving and reach your full potential.

·       Direction saves time.

·       Direction saves money.

·       Direction saves energy and effort.

Dreams Attract Provision.

As you start following after your dream you will start to attract all that is needed to fulfill that dream. Dreams provide provision. Within that dreams is the seed to all the provision you need. It would cause abundance supply overtake you. Every million dollar business or invention started out as a dream or ideal. As they continue to follow their dreams the provision where provide as well.

Dreams Changes Lives.

One man dreams impact the lives of millions. He made the sacrifices to bring equality to America. In His name was Martin L. King. Andrew Carnegie changed the world with the use of steel. Carnegie Steel Corporation produce steel that build railroads, sky-scrapers and bridges revolutionizing American steel industry. Rosa Parks helped bring change in America by being the first female civil rights leader. The power of a dream brings change.

Why you should follow your dreams? Without a dream you can spend year wander and living an unfulfilled life.  Dreams bring all that is needed to fulfill its purpose. The power of a dream effect is unlimited. Dreams bring change. You can be the next one that brings change to the world as you follow after your dream.

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The Power of Purpose

The Power of Purpose

Are you tied of the same old routines day in and day out? Are you tied of being on the trend-mill of life but deep inside you wanted to do something significant with your life?

Without purpose life seem to have no meaning and you just go with the flow. You are not directing your life but your life is driven by circumstances and situation.

Know your Purpose

Purpose gives directions for life. Purpose gives fulfillment in life. Purpose leads you to your destiny. Psychologically you crave for purpose and without purpose you leave a void empty feeling. Purpose brings focus and raises self-esteem. You are driven, motivated and striving because of purpose.

How to find your Purpose

One way to know what your purpose is by the deep passion you have on the inside.  That one thing you love to do but feared of trying kept you away from you purpose. Next are the dreams you have of what you want to do. You think about your dream everyday but fail to take action.

Take Action

Today is the day to take action. Start today and do something which will lead you to your purpose. If you desire to go to college order a catalog.  Take action without action there can be no results.

The Psychology of Success

The Psychology of Success

What gives a poor kid named John D. Rockefeller the drive to become one of the wealthy men in America? What causes Jay Z become so ambition to rises above the street of New York to build an empire in the music genre? Success is a mindset and the psychology of success shows how people with surmountable odds were able to acquire massive success.

Success is a mindset. If you have a mind of lack you will produce lack. If have a mind of success you will produce success. The mind is the garden where thoughts are planted and it produces a harvest after it seeds whether the seed is success or lack.

Success people follow after their dreams and passion. They are not tossed back and forth live a

wave in the sea. They are drive by their passion.

Success people work habits are different. Most success people work between 14 to 18 hours a day most middle class work 8. There spend habits are different success people spend money on assets that will increase in value. Middle class spend money on liability that depreciates in value. They work to accumulate wealth middle class work for a paycheck.

If you want to live a life of abundance it starts with a mindset of success. Learn how success people think. If you think thoughts of success, speak success, and do what successful people do you can produce the same results.

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Subconscious verses Conscious Mind

Subconscious verses Conscious Mind

One reason people fail to get results is because the fail to be at peace. Peace is unity one’s self.  They are out of harmony within. First let’s define peace then go deeper into the subconscious and conscious mind. Peace is defined as freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility. Peace comes from within. Peace is being able to focus on peaceful thought within regardless what surrounds you. Trouble may be around you but it doesn’t have to in you. The conscious mind is aware of the circumstances but you can choose do it become a part of your subconscious mind.

M.Farouk Radwan, MSc writes “The conscious mind is the part of your mind that is responsible for logic and reasoning.” M.Farouk Radwan also states “The conscious mind also controls all the actions that you do on intention while being conscious. For example, when you decide to make any voluntary action like moving your hand or leg it is done by the conscious mind.

So whenever you are aware of the thing you're doing you can be confident that you are doing it by your conscious mind. If currently there is a cup of coffee beside you and you decided to take a sip then all of this process will be done by your conscious mind because you were 100% conscious while doing it.

The conscious mind is also known to be the gate keeper for the mind. If someone tried to present you with a belief that doesn't match your belief system then your conscious mind will filter that belief. The same will happen when someone criticizes you or call you names.”

The subconscious mind state M.Farouk Radwan “is the part of your mind responsible for all of your involuntary actions. Your breathing rate and heart beats are controlled by your subconscious mind.

If you started to control your breath on intention then know that your conscious mind took charge while if you were breathing without being conscious of the breathing process then know that your subconscious mind is in charge.

Your emotions are also controlled by your subconscious mind. That's why you sometimes might feel afraid, anxious or down without wanting to experience such a feeling.

Your subconscious mind is also the place where your beliefs and memories are stored. That's why affirmations make no sense and can never improve your beliefs. Affirmations are done on a conscious level and are always filtered by the subconscious mind because they usually don't match your belief system.

The right way to change a limiting belief is to convince the conscious mind logically to accept it so that it can pass to the subconscious mind and reside there. (See How to change limiting beliefs)”

You can reprogram you subconscious mind to success and remove the limiting belief systems. By changing the way you think and changing your mindset you can create wealth, great relationships and great health.

You subconscious mind have already determine how you will handle situation. It has been program before crisis raises how to handle them. Subconscious you been program to used addiction behavior to solve problem or you been program to face them and to resolve them in a health way.

Everything begins with in the mind. Here are some tips on how to develop new thoughts and reprogram your mind. I was listening to the story of Albert Einstein. He thought in pictures, he would see it in his imagination. John Hoskison a famous golf player while he was in prison everyday would get an image in his mind of a great golf game he used the power of his imagination to see the game and how he could develop a better game. After being released he became one of the greatest golf players ever.

Everyday take time to mediate on what you want to do with your life and speak it out loud what you want to do. Stevie Harvey said as a child he would say every day I want to be on TV and now he come on three to four time a day. You got to see it in your mind and then speak it out loud. That image got to be so fix in your mind to nothing can erase it or stop you from pursuing it. It becomes you and you go after it with everything you got. Do Not Focuses on how you going to do it or where the money will come from, because it you focus on lack you will create more lack? Your mind is a

tool to create the life you want.

Read books about other people who are doing what you want to do. You have to read to increase your knowledge. Read, read, read and then read some more. I’m not just taking about spiritual books but other people life history. Example I read Donald Trump’s books to learn how to make deals and real estate. I read Warren Buffett book to learn how to invest.  You have to read.

Overcoming Addiction and Staying Free

Overcoming Addiction and Staying Free

Addiction is a habit that has been embedded in your mind and in your thinking. Now it has become part of you and controls the psychical. You have craving, urges and strong desire for the device of your choice. The habit is controlling you and you have design your life around satisfying the impulsive behavior. The time to break free is now.

To break an addictive behavior you have to deal with emotional, mental and psychical part of the addiction. It all starts in the mind and changing the way you think. Thoughts control your emotions which will affect the psychical. Most addiction starts because of the emotions not able to deal with some devastating life event or as recreational have fun and hanging out. All addiction is a seed that has been planted in the mind until the body becomes chemically depended on it.

Make a decision today that you want to be free. Once that decision is made don’t waver back and forth take stand. The temptation to give in may be great but don’t lose ground. Next, change the way you think and control your thoughts. Do the people you association with and environment reinforce you staying clean or reinforce the addiction? Seek help and guidance. You can break the addiction and stay clean.

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Want to Be Great? Do What the Greats Do.

 

You can live a life above average or not just settling. How do super achievers become successful?  Success in not just for a few selected but it is available to everyone. Everyone was born with seeds of greatness. Success leaves clues and by studying the lives of high achievers you too can accomplish great success.

In Tony Robbins’ book Awake the Giant Within he talks about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) modeling success people study their life story. Learn what steps they took to become success and model that. Learn from their mistakes as well from their achievements.

The first step on the road to success is to decide what you want. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped– Tony Robbins. Decision gives you the power to focus and focus energy attracts everything need to bring your desire to past.

Second study and increase skills set. You have to keep striving to better yourself. Never settle and reach to be the best. You have to perfect your craft. Practice, practice, practice is the key to excellent.

Third take action. Start where you are and take action. Do something today that is in line with your goals and dreams. If you dream of going back to college get a catalog just do something. Small step are still steps. Slow progress is still progress.

Steps to Building Wealth

You can have financial freedom and financial security. Money blueprint is the mental wiring of how you relate to money. How are you programmed to be a compulsive spender or a compulsive saver? In the Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D. and William D. Danko Ph.D.  states “ Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning and , most of all, self-discipline.” Webster’s dictionary “Frugal is defined as “behavior characterized by our reflecting economy in the use of resources.” The opposite of frugal is wasteful. To reach your goal of being financial freedom through saving and investing takes discipline and you have to increase your financial IQ. Learn how to read financial pages and learn how to minimize and manage the risk in investing.

 

Building Wealth – The Stock Market

Investing in the stock market can be risky but you have to learn how to manage the risk. Learn the different between New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and the NASDAQ.  The Chicago Mercantile and Chicago Board of Trade which both are option and commodity exchanges. The Minneapolis Grain Exchanges Trade exchanges in grain. Global trade markets (TSE) Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Learn how they function.

Choose an investment style whether it be technical analysis and fundamental analysis or supply and demand.  A technical analysis looks at the price movement of a security and uses this data to predict its future price movements. Fundamental analysis, on the other hand, looks at economic factors, known as fundamentals. The law of supply and demand defines the effect that the availability of a particular product and the desire (or demand) for that product has on price.  As you choose your style of investing become proficient by taking classes, courses, online classes, read books and study to increase your knowledge.

Choose your investment vehicle stocks, bonds, mutual funds or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day. Hedge funds a hedge fund is an investment vehicle and a business structure that pools capital from a number of investors and invests in securities and other instruments.

Portfolio

A portfolio is a collection of mutual funds, stock, bond, and other investment you own. As you learn how to manage risk you can build wealth through investing. It take time and knowledge to become an expert investing. You have to increase you financial IQ.

Resources

     Books

       The Millionaire Next Door by Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D. and William D. Danko Ph.D. 

      Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter

      The Business School by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter

      The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom

      The Warren Buffet Portfolio by Robert G. Hagstrom

      Buffettology by Mary Buffett and David Clark

Tools

Texas Instrument Ba II plus Professional calculator

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Simple Wealth Building – Strategies

 

Building wealth is a simple consisted system that leads to your financial freedom. It’s a system which designed for debt-reduction and increases your saving ability. The steps to building wealth begins with a clear definite, intentional, and on purposes to attain it. It’s a deliberate process in which you continue to do to reach your goal. You can continue on your current path of debt and barely enough just to get by, and hoping one day your ship gone come in and then one day retire and collect Social Security. Or you can make a decision you are going to take charge of your finances. You can take action and develop a new mindset and habits to help you build wealth. You can develop the skills you need to become financially independent.

Habits of the Wealthy

Wealth starts with great savings habits and managing money. Money management skills are essential to building wealth. Develop healthy money habits and eliminate debt. Debt is a habit that must be broken it is consuming your wealth. It is taken money out your account and building someone else account. Break spending habit, when you have a desire to spend money on items which do not increase in value put it in a saving account. Accumulate wealth by saving 10% of all the income you acquire.

 

 

Make a budget and Set a Monthly Saving Goals

Pay yourself first and put it in a saving account or some type of saving vehicle like; money market account, money market funds, certificates of deposit (CDs) or a no load mutual fund, tax free municipal bonds and T-bills. I advise to seek a financial planner to help you develop a financial plan for you if you lack the financial understanding of some these saving vehicles. Collect all your bills and create a budget. Start by increasing the amount you pay on your smallest bill and pay it off. Then take the money you were paying on that bill and apply it to the next bill. Then take the money from that bill and apply it to the next bill until all your bills are pay off. Once you are out of debt increase your saving.

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Author of From Pain to Passion: Living Life with a Purpose coming Spring 2015

Live the Life of Your Dreams!

You can live the life of your dreams by visualizing the life you want. Dictionary. Com defines visualize as:

1.      to recall or form mental images or pictures

2.      to make visual or visible

3.      to form a mental image of

4.      to make perceptible to the mind or imagination

Genesis 11:6 nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Amplified version, nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible.

ASV version, now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

CEV version, soon they will be able to do anything they want.

CJV version, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them!  

If you can form a mental picture in your mind of what you want to achieve and believe you can accomplish it. You can have it. A mental picture is an image or concept of what is not actually present or visual to the physical senses. It is seeing in the unseen world and bring it to the physical realm. It is seeing with the eyes of the mind all that is possible to achieve. Your dreams are your blueprint of your life. It is the very substance of what you were created for. Dreams are the goal posts. They are the road map to your destiny.

In an article by Berkeley University of California, titled Goal-Setting: Developing a Vision & Goals for Your Career Plan states “Having a clear vision of the end state we are trying to achieve before we take action to reach our goals is the key factor in accomplishing any goals that we set. Do you have a clear mental image of who you will be in the future? Your vision is a “picture” of what you aspire to – and what inspires you – in your work life. Articulating your vision statement for your career is the first step in helping you eventually reach your career goals.”

You can accomplish and achieve any goal. You can live the life of your dreams it all starts by seeing it in your mind and then creating a plan of action. Take action and steps towards your dreams.

1.      Visualize it

2.      Create a plan

3.      Take action
 

Career and Goals Setting

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” - Tony Robins

As you start off 2015 setting goals and thinking about your career be encouraged and reach for the impossible. Donald Trump said “You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" Goal setting is a very imperative and needed skill to be successful in life and career. When you don’t have goals you are just wondering through life settling for whatever life may throw at you. When you are goal oriented you live life with a purpose reaching and aiming for a target.

Goals

Setting goals helps you decide where you want to go in life and what you want to achieve. You know where you have to focus your energy, efforts and time. You'll be able to notice distractions that are hindering you in your process of obtaining your goal. Successful businessman, top-level athletes, and high achievers in all fields all set goals. One great all time basketball player Larry Bird who played for the Boston Celtics, winning three NBA championships and two NBA Finals MVP awards.
Larry Bird was a 12-time NBA All-Star and was named the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) three consecutive times (1984–1986). He would practice his set- shot hours after practice his goal would make a 100 shots after practice. Goals is what helps builds self-confidence. Goals gives you directions in life and a way to measure your progress.

Cultivate a mind of success
Cultivating a mind of success is a life of continuing learning and developing new skills. You have to read books surround yourself with successful people. Successful people all have one thing in common and that is the attitude of continuing to learn by reading books, magazines, taking classes, going to seminars, conferences, and training. They never become satisfied with their personal growth. They are willing to learn more. You have to invest in yourself. The greatest collection a person can have is his own personal library.

Careers

Decide what career you want in life and go for it. You are never too old to go after your dreams. You have to remove that fear that it is too late or you have wasted too much time. If you already have a career decide what level of success you want to reach and develop a plan to reach that level. Decide your educational path: what classes you need to take, what school you want to attend, and what skills are needed to help you reach your goal.

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