| Are you ready for my VERY OWN "Economic | | | | anything you can't afford to pay cash with in your |
| Stimulus Plan?" I thought you would appreciate | | | | business AND personal life. It took me a second |
| this. Ready? | | | | time to realize this until I TRULY got it. I got a |
| 1 - Find what you love doing AND find a way to | | | | $10,000 loan a few years ago that I'm a few |
| do it. No one needs more "jobs." What we ALL | | | | months away from paying off ONLY because a |
| need are more people doing what they LOVE and | | | | big network was "interested" in licensing my music. |
| helping others on how to do that. I mean if you | | | | I didn't know it would take a few years to get a |
| think about it, would you be more productive at a | | | | contract through them AND only receive money |
| job you "love" or one you "dread?" Is it possible | | | | on the "back end" (when the music is actually |
| that companies are failing because people don't | | | | played on tv). I was in LOVE with what COULD |
| LOVE working there? Does ANYONE LOVE | | | | be instead of what is. The truth is, I really didn't |
| working for minimum wage or "the man?" | | | | need to spend any money until I knew I would |
| 2 - We need you to BE you. I took the teaching | | | | make that back. Why pay to produce 1,000 |
| certification to be a substitute "teacher" 3 times. I | | | | ________ if you don't have 1,000 people |
| couldn't pass the grammar section to save my | | | | banging down your door to purchase it? This is |
| life! That STILL doesn't mean I'm not a "teacher" | | | | the reason the Toyota's Prius was so successful |
| in the figurative sense or a "writer" and shouldn't | | | | when it first came out (they didn't make them |
| publish a book that helps individuals like you | | | | until someone ordered it). |
| despite being rejected by close to 100 agents | | | | 5 - Live a balanced life. I've done this exercise |
| publisher (furthermore, in high school I had a 750 | | | | tons of times. Draw a circle and divide it up |
| combined SAT score - which I'm told is pretty | | | | evenly like a pizza pie into 7 slices; spiritual, |
| bad). Are you changing who you TRULY are and | | | | financial, physical, social, career, family, personal |
| what you TRULY want to do just because you | | | | development. Then shade in each section |
| aren't "successful" YET, don't have a "degree" or | | | | depending on how successful you are in each |
| "time" or "good enough grades" to do it? Need | | | | section. Meaning if you are low in the "physical |
| help? Answer "what would I be doing if this was | | | | section" then you will have a really small section |
| my last day on the planet?" Isn't that what you | | | | colored in versus the "social" slice that MAY be |
| should be doing? | | | | colored in the most. Once that is done, take a |
| 3 - Think differently, instead of throwing money | | | | look at how uneven your circle is. If you cut out |
| at a problem. How? Find someone you admire or | | | | this circle and put it on the wheel of a car would it |
| is "successful" in their particular field and ask, "How | | | | go anywhere or be a pretty bumpy ride? If so, |
| would _________ go about solving this | | | | spend more time working on those "bumpy" |
| problem?" Remember the quote in my book that | | | | areas. You can also take it a step further and |
| said, "The quality of your life will NEVER exceed | | | | ask, "How can I apply the same principles I used |
| the quality of your questions?" You can turn, | | | | for a successful life in the _______ section of |
| "why me" into "how can I do what I love doing | | | | my life, to now use in the _________ section |
| and have fun in the process?" Remember, if you | | | | of my life?" If you have any success in one |
| keep asking yourself, "why me" won't you get an | | | | particular area, it usually just requires you to think |
| answer? What IF you kept asking yourself, "how | | | | about how you did that and use those same |
| can I do what I LOVE doing and have fun in the | | | | principles in the area that needs work. This alone |
| process" instead? Won't you ALSO get an | | | | can save you thousands of dollars in going to |
| answer? | | | | seminars on HOW to be a "success. |
| 4 - Pay 100% cash for things and don't buy | | | | |