"Mick Jagger sang, "You CAN'T always get what you want!" He was wrong!"
(Read the rest of the story!)
Gerry Robert
Author of The Millionaire Mindset
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Insight for Today 1/8/09
"Mick Jagger sang, "You CAN'T always get what you want!" He was wrong!"
(Read the rest of the story!)
Gerry Robert
Author of The Millionaire Mindset
Daily Motivator Tip for Thursday, January 8, 2009
Economy Woes
Times are tough and stresses are high. No matter what your financial situation is, you can't ignore the one vehicle that will carry you through. Take care of your body. Health is wealth, baby.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Insight for Today 1/7/09 - This Is So True!!!!
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."
Barbara Pletcher
Author
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Rich Dad's Weekly Tuesday Round Table 7:30am Meeting
First Round Table Meeting for the year 2009
(Robert Kiyosaki was not in attendance due to he is i New York with our President Mona Gambetta promoting his latest book "Rich Brother Rich Sister" due out today)
Number of Games played:
Rich Dad's Coaching - 1,300
Rich Dad's Education - 1,062
Rich Dad's Franchising - 1,956
2008 Highlight for Coaching:
1. Numbers going up
2. Importance of the game
3. Lessons of the game
4. Teaching other people to teach people to play the game
2008 Highlight for Education:
1. Increase in the numbers for the 3-Day Event
2. Branding
3. Messaging - economic conditions, etc
2008 Highlight for Rich Dad's:
1. The "I Am The Rich Dad Company" letter written by 6th Degree Kathy Heasley (Branding Company) - "Hope gets you no where, Why Hope when you can learn and take action, Take charge of your DREAMS"
Rhonda - Marketing Director
1. Solid Marketing Team (Brett, Sara, Ryan, and Scott) - working together as a team
2. Web site numbers have increased tremendously
3. Our 3-Day Event with Robert Kiyosaki "How To Predict The Future"
4. Holiday Sales has been huge
5. Going to introduce a new book Rd's Stories
6. Online book "The Fly"
Kim Kiysaki - Robert's wife 2008 Highlights:
1. Major house cleaning of the Rich Dad's Company
2. Lawsuit - major lessons and processes we learned
3. The new book "The Fly" online book
New word for 2009:
EVOLUTION
(Looking at the whole economic crises)
Kelly - Franchising 2008 Highlights:
1. Major one is the CASHFLOW Clubs world wide - importance of the clubs
2. Pushing out to the market, talking with the customers
NOW OUT WITH 2008 AND IN WITH THE NEW 2009
Discussion Article:
"Contemplatng the Boobs We Were" it was in the New York Times newspaper 1/4/09
Contemplating the Boobs We Were
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: December 27, 2008
Yes, it’s been a miserable year.
Had Time waited a few days it might have decided to go with Bernard L. Madoff, the ultimate face of this annus horribilis, as its Person of the Year instead of Barack Obama.
But, when it comes to money, hope springs eternal. Just ask the financial magazines which are already full of advice about the better year to come. “Your Comeback Year — 2009,” announces Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. In Money it’s: “Get Your Money Back — A Six-Step Plan to Rebuild Your Savings.” BusinessWeek’s Investment Outlook promises: “Yes, Things Are Grim. But Here’s Your New Plan to Emerge Stronger.”
Maybe next year will be better. It can’t be much worse. But before we toss the latest unopened 401(k) statement into the trash, a year-end toast to us all — the boobs and easy marks who from time immemorial have mastered the art of buying high and selling low, investing in bubbles as transparent as an open window, making crashes and swindles as much a part of the human experience as love, vanity and bad breath.
“Insofar as there is a lesson in history,” said James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, “it’s that human beings are not very good with large sums of money, anything over $136.”
As we await a better 2009 we ask: Are we doomed forever to be the fleeced or is there anything we can learn form this latest round of financial catastrophe? In fact, there are plenty of lessons to be learned. So here’s a revolutionary idea: Maybe it’s time we even start thinking about ways to teach them.
All financial collapses have their own brand of pain. But this one cuts particularly deep because over the past few decades, without even quite knowing it, we went from a nation with a few financial choices to one with thousands, and we’re making decisions previous generations never faced — in I.R.A.’s, 401(k)’s, 529 plans and elsewhere. What’s the right asset allocation? Regular I.R.A. or Roth? When is it best to retire and when to begin withdrawing funds from retirement plans? Tell me again how that annuity is supposed to work? What’s the catch in that cheap adjustable-rate mortgage?
Back in 1972, Money magazine was a revolutionary idea, a money magazine for people who didn’t have much of it. Now the marketplace is full of people and publications offering advice, much of it self serving, some smart, some dumb. Were you lucky enough you might have happened upon David Lereah’s invaluable primer, “Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust — And How You Can Profit From It” or Robert Zuccaro’s prescient book, “Dow, 30,000 by 2008 — Why It’s Different This Time.” There was plenty more where those came from.
Not all that long ago financial wisdom for the masses was Louis Rukeyser on “Wall Street Week” trading puns and market insight with buttoned-down Wall Street savants in that sedate living room on PBS. Now it’s Jim Cramer shouting, sweating and making loud animal noises in his financial carnival on CNBC. We’re all part of a 24/7 financial noise machine even if most of us don’t know the first thing about it.
Surely, there are different levels of financial ignorance and folly. People who took out loans they had no ability to pay based on the quaint notion that housing prices only went up didn’t make the same mistakes as Mr. Madoff’s investors, who had at least some reason to think they were doing something prudent and wise.
But can anyone doubt that the demands on people to make reasonably intelligent choices with their money has so far exceeded their wisdom to do it, that maybe we should at least try to figure out some way to close the gap? If many presumably sophisticated Madoff investors were ruined, what chance do the rest of us have?
Frederick E. Rowe Jr., a Dallas money manager, has a framed quote attributed to financier and investor Bernard Baruch near his desk.
It reads: “If you are ready and able to give up everything else, to study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy, to glue your nose at the tape at the opening of every day of the year and never take it off till night. If you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a great gambler, the sixth sense of a kind of clairvoyant, and the courage of a lion,” then you’ve got a chance.
That level of commitment may be a bit beyond most of us. But shouldn’t we be teaching more of this in high school and college? Shouldn’t every high school graduate at least know what compound interest can do for you as a saver and what it does to you as a borrower? Any college kid at some point gets lectures and required readings on the importance of diversity, academia’s favorite subject. Shouldn’t they graduate with a modicum of financial literacy as well?
“We’re taught that money is the root of all evil and that money can’t buy you love, but the nature of compound interest, that you have to have more money coming in than going out, is almost never taught,” Mr. Rowe said. “Students have to take math and foreign language and history, but you can graduate from every good school in the country without any exposure at all to how money works.”
One lesson of this year is that these days, no one, even the most financially secure, can afford to be stupid. Another might be that investing for the long term, can mean for a very, very long term.
It’s ugly out there. Better luck next year.
As the Rich Dad's Company we are in the right place at the right time. People are now listening to us and are following us including Donald Trump!!!!!!!
Bye guys!
(Robert Kiyosaki was not in attendance due to he is i New York with our President Mona Gambetta promoting his latest book "Rich Brother Rich Sister" due out today)
Number of Games played:
Rich Dad's Coaching - 1,300
Rich Dad's Education - 1,062
Rich Dad's Franchising - 1,956
2008 Highlight for Coaching:
1. Numbers going up
2. Importance of the game
3. Lessons of the game
4. Teaching other people to teach people to play the game
2008 Highlight for Education:
1. Increase in the numbers for the 3-Day Event
2. Branding
3. Messaging - economic conditions, etc
2008 Highlight for Rich Dad's:
1. The "I Am The Rich Dad Company" letter written by 6th Degree Kathy Heasley (Branding Company) - "Hope gets you no where, Why Hope when you can learn and take action, Take charge of your DREAMS"
Rhonda - Marketing Director
1. Solid Marketing Team (Brett, Sara, Ryan, and Scott) - working together as a team
2. Web site numbers have increased tremendously
3. Our 3-Day Event with Robert Kiyosaki "How To Predict The Future"
4. Holiday Sales has been huge
5. Going to introduce a new book Rd's Stories
6. Online book "The Fly"
Kim Kiysaki - Robert's wife 2008 Highlights:
1. Major house cleaning of the Rich Dad's Company
2. Lawsuit - major lessons and processes we learned
3. The new book "The Fly" online book
New word for 2009:
EVOLUTION
(Looking at the whole economic crises)
Kelly - Franchising 2008 Highlights:
1. Major one is the CASHFLOW Clubs world wide - importance of the clubs
2. Pushing out to the market, talking with the customers
NOW OUT WITH 2008 AND IN WITH THE NEW 2009
Discussion Article:
"Contemplatng the Boobs We Were" it was in the New York Times newspaper 1/4/09
Contemplating the Boobs We Were
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: December 27, 2008
Yes, it’s been a miserable year.
Had Time waited a few days it might have decided to go with Bernard L. Madoff, the ultimate face of this annus horribilis, as its Person of the Year instead of Barack Obama.
But, when it comes to money, hope springs eternal. Just ask the financial magazines which are already full of advice about the better year to come. “Your Comeback Year — 2009,” announces Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. In Money it’s: “Get Your Money Back — A Six-Step Plan to Rebuild Your Savings.” BusinessWeek’s Investment Outlook promises: “Yes, Things Are Grim. But Here’s Your New Plan to Emerge Stronger.”
Maybe next year will be better. It can’t be much worse. But before we toss the latest unopened 401(k) statement into the trash, a year-end toast to us all — the boobs and easy marks who from time immemorial have mastered the art of buying high and selling low, investing in bubbles as transparent as an open window, making crashes and swindles as much a part of the human experience as love, vanity and bad breath.
“Insofar as there is a lesson in history,” said James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, “it’s that human beings are not very good with large sums of money, anything over $136.”
As we await a better 2009 we ask: Are we doomed forever to be the fleeced or is there anything we can learn form this latest round of financial catastrophe? In fact, there are plenty of lessons to be learned. So here’s a revolutionary idea: Maybe it’s time we even start thinking about ways to teach them.
All financial collapses have their own brand of pain. But this one cuts particularly deep because over the past few decades, without even quite knowing it, we went from a nation with a few financial choices to one with thousands, and we’re making decisions previous generations never faced — in I.R.A.’s, 401(k)’s, 529 plans and elsewhere. What’s the right asset allocation? Regular I.R.A. or Roth? When is it best to retire and when to begin withdrawing funds from retirement plans? Tell me again how that annuity is supposed to work? What’s the catch in that cheap adjustable-rate mortgage?
Back in 1972, Money magazine was a revolutionary idea, a money magazine for people who didn’t have much of it. Now the marketplace is full of people and publications offering advice, much of it self serving, some smart, some dumb. Were you lucky enough you might have happened upon David Lereah’s invaluable primer, “Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust — And How You Can Profit From It” or Robert Zuccaro’s prescient book, “Dow, 30,000 by 2008 — Why It’s Different This Time.” There was plenty more where those came from.
Not all that long ago financial wisdom for the masses was Louis Rukeyser on “Wall Street Week” trading puns and market insight with buttoned-down Wall Street savants in that sedate living room on PBS. Now it’s Jim Cramer shouting, sweating and making loud animal noises in his financial carnival on CNBC. We’re all part of a 24/7 financial noise machine even if most of us don’t know the first thing about it.
Surely, there are different levels of financial ignorance and folly. People who took out loans they had no ability to pay based on the quaint notion that housing prices only went up didn’t make the same mistakes as Mr. Madoff’s investors, who had at least some reason to think they were doing something prudent and wise.
But can anyone doubt that the demands on people to make reasonably intelligent choices with their money has so far exceeded their wisdom to do it, that maybe we should at least try to figure out some way to close the gap? If many presumably sophisticated Madoff investors were ruined, what chance do the rest of us have?
Frederick E. Rowe Jr., a Dallas money manager, has a framed quote attributed to financier and investor Bernard Baruch near his desk.
It reads: “If you are ready and able to give up everything else, to study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy, to glue your nose at the tape at the opening of every day of the year and never take it off till night. If you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a great gambler, the sixth sense of a kind of clairvoyant, and the courage of a lion,” then you’ve got a chance.
That level of commitment may be a bit beyond most of us. But shouldn’t we be teaching more of this in high school and college? Shouldn’t every high school graduate at least know what compound interest can do for you as a saver and what it does to you as a borrower? Any college kid at some point gets lectures and required readings on the importance of diversity, academia’s favorite subject. Shouldn’t they graduate with a modicum of financial literacy as well?
“We’re taught that money is the root of all evil and that money can’t buy you love, but the nature of compound interest, that you have to have more money coming in than going out, is almost never taught,” Mr. Rowe said. “Students have to take math and foreign language and history, but you can graduate from every good school in the country without any exposure at all to how money works.”
One lesson of this year is that these days, no one, even the most financially secure, can afford to be stupid. Another might be that investing for the long term, can mean for a very, very long term.
It’s ugly out there. Better luck next year.
As the Rich Dad's Company we are in the right place at the right time. People are now listening to us and are following us including Donald Trump!!!!!!!
Bye guys!
Insight for Today 1/6/09
"As you're on your journey to success, do remember to enjoy the trip. Stick your head out of the car window, just like a dog does, and let the wind blow through your hair."
Peggy McColl
New York Times Best-Selling Author.
Get her latest book: Be A Dog With A Bone
Monday, January 5, 2009
A Tip-A-Day for Monday, January 5, 2009
Push Yourself
"It's important to get your blood moving almost every day even if you are injured. I recently went through surgery on my jaw and was bed-ridden for over a week. Even though I couldn't run or go to the gym, I still made sure that I took a walk everyday."
—Haley, Philadelphia
Friday, January 2, 2009
Happy New Year 2009 Gangs!
Wow 2008 sure went by fast! It was a great year for me, I lost 115 lbs (130 lbs) and now I just need to do 2 more to get back to 128 lbs! I am surprise I did well only gaining the most 5 lbs and then losing it and gaining 3 and then back down and then 3 and then lost the 3, etc. Now 2009 I will just focus on staying between 128 - 130 lbs. Below is my Goal for 2009:
GOALS FOR 2009
1. Mail in Money Order for 65.00 to get CCW License to purchase a gun
2. Rich Dad’s Education Stock 3 – Day Training – need to attend the free 2 hour Event first
3. Rich Woman Coaching
4. HTML/Website Class and Management and Leadership Level 1 Class – starts 1/26/09 and 1/21/09
5. Launch my website live – in Under Construction status at this time
6. Join Pre-Paid Legal Network Marketing - $50.00 to join
7. Jayne Johnson and Blair Singer Goal Setting Workshop 2/7 and 2/08 of 2009
8. Continue sessions with Body Talk – 1/16/09
9. Maintain my weight loss and once a month check up visit with Dr Rob Ellsworth
10. Continue book study on Creatures From Jykell Island” book – 1/8/09
11. Purchase more books on website and personal growth books:
A. Confession of an Economic Hit Man
B. Love is Letting Go Of Fear
C. Secret of Letting Go
D. Same Soul Many Bodies
E. The Body/Mind Connection
F. Conversational Capital
12. Attend at least one Sales Dogs 2 – Day Event
13. Purchase gun and ammo
14. Stock up more on Silver/Gold, food, and cash.
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Insight for Today 1/2/09
Take a Year-End Attitude Inventory
It's a wise custom to end an old year and begin a new one with serious self-reflection. What did you learn this year that can improve your life and make you a better person?
Start by examining the way you think and feel about your job, your relationships, and yourself. After all, the single most important factor in personal happiness and your impact on others is your attitude.
In the geometry of life, the axiom is "positive attitudes produce positive results." They make success more likely, failures less harmful, pleasures more frequent, and pain more bearable. Some people tend to bring warm sunshine wherever they go; others bring cold chills. What do you bring?
To find out where you can improve, take an honest inventory of your predispositions, the attitude you're most likely to start with.
. Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic?
. Do you tend to assume the best or expect the worst of people?
. Is your first instinct to be empathetic or judgmental?
. Is your first instinct to be supportive or critical?
. Do you send the message that you enjoy life or that you're barely enduring it?
. Do you come across as the captain of your own ship or simply a passenger?
Wherever you are on the positive-attitude spectrum, think how much better things could be if you were more consistently and self-consciously optimistic, empathetic, supportive, grateful, enthusiastic, hopeful, and cheerful.
So why not resolve to think, act, and speak more positively about yourself, your family, your coworkers, and everyone else in your life?
Michael Josephsonwww.charactercounts.org
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Insight for Today 1/1/09
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Speaker and Author
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