Lesson 13...We'll do one together, and you do the rest this weekend or on your own...OK?

Let's do one path of life.

The MONEY path.

You should have goals. Let me help here, I teach people to set

SHORT RANGE
MEDIUM RANGE
LONG RANGE

Goals.

In 3 year increments. So your Short Term FINANCIAL GOAL is to increase your financial in ONE year.

Then 2 years. Then as a LONG range goal for 3 years from today.

Can you remember 3 years ago? Look on your personal pictogrigm, and you have written down your finances from 3 years ago, right?

So how are you doing?

Now look ahead 3 years, how are you doing?

HMMMM

For some of you that is a bleak forecast isn't it.

I'll use average USA figures for this exercise, you of course plug in the real ones from your own life, and that is OK if you embarrass yourself, most of us have been there...

The Average American earns 26 thousand dollars a year.

What do you make?

Put it on the teeter totter (the BUDGET) of sources.

What are your expenses, your DISTRIBUTION?

Are you in surplus or debt?

So the question from all of this data is

WHAT DO YOU WANT? How much do you want to make in the next year?

Now you can say any amount you like.

Go ahead say a million bucks if you want.

Look on the POA, your first ACTIVITY is to go to belief.

Do you believe you can make a million this year? How?

Or that 100,000?

Or an extra 12,000?

What percentage are you above where you were 3 years ago?

Did you get 10% increase per year?

So if you are at 26thousand, and have never made 50k, and you say 100k for your want...

HOW can you even go to belief on this want?

But if you said 10% that would be an additional 2600 dollars for the year, well that is believable for almost anyone.

Is a 100% increase to 52 thousand believable...

it all depends on your EXPERIENCES...

Remember the triad:

Doubt is a shadow of your fear.

Confidence is a reflection of your experience.

Action is the revelation of your faith.

Now it doesn't matter what figure you put in, leave a million in there if you want for now...

HOW are you going to do that in the next year?

We see TIME increments along the POA.

If you made 2740.00 dollars a day, you'd reach your million target, right?

Now it doesn't have to work like that, you could start by making 100 dollars a day, which means the math (see there was a purpose in all this math here) on the other side says,

you need to make 5380.00 dollars to 'balance' the scale, see?

You may get to 5000 dollar days.

Now, HOW are you going to do this?

If you do all five paths like this, and put them together, you may come back and radically change this money one.

YOU may find out the life and lifestyle you really want is far less expensive than you thought and if that is the case, you need to earn less than you thought...

OR, it could be just the opposite.

I'm going to leave you alone for the weekend on this.

USE all the tools to answer the questions.

Since we're talking about money, go back to the FINANCIAL PICTOGRIGM and look at all the SOURCES and put them on your lifeline.

There is no right or wrong answer for you.

What this part is supposed to do for you is to SHOW YOU THE WAY THINGS ARE,

AND give you hope that you can make tomorrow even better.

You will find yourself changing WANTS several times during this exercise. Even when you have a list of what you are SURE you want, you are going to surprise yourself and change it even more.

OK. I'll see you at the start of next week, have FUN and good luck.

Gordon Alexander