Making Money Fast

Many people are under a lot of financial pressure. Some are so desperate that they are looking for ways of making money fast. Needs that keep a man on his feet are good, this is because they make him utilize his most potent resource; his mind. It is a known fact that desperation can push a man towards the other extreme of losing his power of concentration which is an essential prerequisite to think well and solve problems. This could make him rather frenetic thereby compounding his problems.

There are two important questions that a person in a dire financial circumstance should ask themselves. The answers to these questions should determine the next step to take. The first question is 'how did I get here?' In other words 'why am I in this desperate financial situation?'A person may be in a financial dilemma because they lack financial discipline and are always spending more than they earn. It could be as a result of debt whose interest rate is too high thereby making it difficult to repay and squeezing out scarce funds from the individual's pocket. It could also be as a result of lack of a job and the consequent lack of a source of income.

The second question is 'what should I do to be out of this situation?' 'What am I to do to get money?' This is where the amazing power of the mind is brought to bear in solving a man's problems. Knowing the reason for financial crisis would help to find a solution to it. Using the law of causes and effects, when the cause of a problem is identified, dealt with and eliminated, there is no reason why the effect should not be eliminated as well. Having known the reasons or causes of the financial crisis the next thing is to eliminate those causes and this requires thinking along this line, 'What are the things that I should do to start making money fast?' Take time to think. Get a pen and paper and start listing the things that you can do to make money quickly? Think about this deeply until you've written down at least 20 solutions that could help you make money quickly.

For the unemployed who wants to get a job, it is worthy to note that most times, getting an employment ordinarily does not depend on the employee, it may not be a solution to make money quickly. But there are jobs that are considered stop-gaps that an individual could get quickly and use the money earned from it to reduce the pressure that lack of money puts on them. You shouldn't say 'I won't be caught dead washing plates' because it is a temporary job that could help you put food on the table until you get the type you deserve. When your solutions are all written down, start taking actions on them and you'll start seeing results that show you that making money fast is possible.

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The Wisdom of Andrew Carnegie As Told to Napoleon Hill by Napoleon Hill

Synopsis of Content:

In 1908 a young reporter named Napoleon Hill obtained an interview with recently retired steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie had just sold his steel mills to a trust which would become US Steel. He was busy spending the last half of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated during the first half. He was the richest man in the world and the most successful.

Carnegie turned the original hour interview into a couple days where he lectured Hill about the principles of success he had learned and applied in business to become so successful. He liked what he saw in Hill and commissioned him, should he accept, with the task of interviewing most of the successful men of the time and writing a science of success, based at first on Carnegie's thoughts and then on what he would learn from the men of industry. Carnegie would pay Hill nothing - but would write him letters of introduction which would allow him to mine wisdom about success from nearly every man of success during the first quarter of the 20th century.

In this book Hill purports to recount the wisdom given him by Carnegie. While there is no reason to doubt that many of the gems in the book may have come from Carnegie, among others, there is good reason to doubt it all did. First because it is written in Hill's verbal and rhetorical style, including the quotes he attributes to Carnegie, and second because he makes generous reference to events that came long after Carnegie's death. Also, he adds in things like the supremacy of a positive mental attitude which came not from Carnegie but from Hill's later collaborator, W. Clement Stone. In fact this book was originally written under the title Think Your Way to Wealth and in 1953 published as How to Raise Your Salary. Later it was re-released as The Wisdom of Andrew Carnegie as told to Napoleon Hill.

The basic content in the final version is the 17 Principles of Success that Hill first wrote in his Science of Success series and repeated in various formulations in later works.

Like everything by Hill however there is a great deal of useful material here. The reader may well wish to skip over some parts that may not seem helpful but the greatest part of it is among the best of Hill's writings. The success principles and disciplines he writes about are the root of much of the success literature of the past 50 years and many of the speakers, leaders and authors in the success and self improvement field have been deeply influenced by this work.

Readability/Writing Quality:

This book is very readable. Like much of Hill's work it is easy to get through and well organized. Unlike some of his earliest work it is concise. Beginning with Think and Grow Rich Hill had learned to write with economy - a method much more accessible for the average reader.

Notes on Author:

Napoleon Hill dedicated his life to fulfilling the challenge he claimed that Andrew Carnegie had given him. I have yet to discover any independent record of this. I checked with the most recent biographer of Carnegie and he found no reference in any of Carnegie's papers or other biographies about him concerning this conversation or acquaintance with Hill. Yet, Hill spent a life time insisting upon its truth and no one to my knowledge from the Carnegie family ever challenged it.

In the 1930s, after many disappointments and failures, Hill gained national fame as a bestselling author with Think and Grow Rich, based in large part upon his studies under Carnegie and inspired by him.

Three Great Ideas You Can Use:

1. Before Hill met W. Clement Stone and agreed with him that a positive mental attitude was the most important quality for success Hill insisted that Carnegie and the man other successful men whom he had interviewed and learned from had discovered that having a definite major purpose in life and focusing all one's energy toward it was the first key to success. Whether you agree with Carnegie that this is the most important requisite for success or whether you concur with Stone that a positive mental attitude is most important may not matter - both attributes are vital to success in every area of life.

2. Use of the Master mind principle is the second great lesson taught by Carnegie. Carnegie and Hill both learned early in life that no one attains great success alone. To assemble a group of like minded people who will work together in harmony for a joint objective is the most powerful force in human endeavor and a key to success.

3. The exercise of self discipline is also a necessary and fundamental requirement for success. Those who have mastered this skill succeed - those who have not most often do not.

Publication Information:

The Wisdom of Andrew Carnegie as told to Napoleon Hill, by Napoleon Hill.

?1953, 1981 and revised in 2004. Published by the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Wise, Virginia.

Over all rating for this book: Very Good.

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Success Blueprint: The Four Hour Work Week

If you have read "The Four Hour Work Week", you already know Timothy Ferriss. I love Tim's whole theory on life. In his book, he touches on so many critical aspects of creating and living a life that you own, that it is hard to summarize the book in one article. So I simply want to touch on one point he talks about: the reality of retirement.

In his book, Timothy explains how retirement as most people know it is unfulfilling and empty, and that instead of working hard for forty years to do nothing in the end, he lives a life full of 'mini-retirements', because he has created an income source that he is passionate about and that allows him to travel, have fun, and live with purpose. His book is a resource for outsourcing your life and will make you think deeply about what is truly important to you. It will open your mind to options.

Like a bear in a zoo, most people live their lives in a 'cage', and feel uncomfortable when the bars are removed because they don't know what is beyond them. They are comfortable and happy being fed and taken care of by someone else. The thought of escaping is normally not in their comfort zone. The years you spend working for someone else, 'trains' you to live within certain boundaries, and not to expect that anything else is possible. The ultimate goal of living in this state is normally retirement...being able to do nothing. Or being able to do anything you want.

However, after forty years in a 'cage', the wilderness is not so exciting. In fact, it's scary. After years of routine, you suddenly find yourself free of the bars, and are lost for what to do. There is no purpose in doing nothing so many people simply wait for the next stage which is old age, and finally death.

By simply reading books like The Four Hour Work Week, you may get some ideas about how to softly remove a few bars from your life. And who knows... maybe even all of them so that you too, can live a life of mini-retirements like Timothy, and eventually fire your boss.

Tim lives a fulfilling mobile lifestyle which I envy. He had solved the problem of how to live so that your life is not all about work and teaches his ideas in a very easy to understand way. Basically, if you want to live life on your own terms, The Four Hour Work Week could give you some guidance and ideas.

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