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		<title>Financial Planning: Is it a Way to Get Financially Free?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achieving financial freedom is not at all easier than most of us may think. Like me if you are also not born in a wealthy family, then we just have approximately 46 to 50 years earning years to achieve this financial freedom. In all these years you should at least complete minimum education or training, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mymoneyadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/financial-planning1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-353" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="financial planning" src="http://www.mymoneyadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/financial-planning1.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a>Achieving financial freedom is not at all easier than most of us may think. Like me if you are also not born in a wealthy family, then we just have approximately 46 to 50 years earning years to achieve this financial freedom. In all these years you should at least complete minimum education or training, get a job or open a business along with fulfilling the basic demands of proper food and shelter, clothes and transportation, child rearing expenses, insurance premiums, college tuition, Christmas presents, and more. Financial planning comes in handy if you want to keep a check on your expenses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you plan your expenses correctly then you can spend money to enjoy life, vacation, buy or lease new cars and can also utilize that money to get rid of debt, that many times get piled up because of a poor financial estimation.<span id="more-129"></span>Financial planning has made life of many people happy as it taught them to live within their means along with saving as much money as possible. Proper financial planning teaches people to get insured against the potential risks that could ruin their financial position. People following financial planning do not use debts to fill the house with new things instead they pay cash and buy the desired thing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Financial planning changes their lifestyle and investments use and thus they lead a much happier life than people who do not plan their financials. Do not wait just start saving and planning your financial for a better future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A $3.00 saving a day in starting at the age 22 means you can amass over $850,000 in an IRA, which is not a less amount. The difference between a financially planner and most of the people who do not save is that, a financial independent develops the art of saving money which otherwise would have been rather than spend it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Have you ever heard many people complaining that they do not have enough money left at the end of the month to pay checks? I am sure you must have. The reason for it in almost every case is poor financial planning. Make a goal to cut short your expenses by keeping a check on your lifestyle and you would surely get well on the road to financial freedom.</p>
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		<title>7 Golden Rules to Financial Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not Enough Money?
I believe that most people haven't got enough money for everything they wish to have - the more you have the bigger your plans, and you have a feeling that you have less and less money.
Whether you have lots of money or just so-so, you need to economize and take proper care of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mymoneyadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/financial-prosperity.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-303" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="financial prosperity" src="http://www.mymoneyadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/financial-prosperity.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="258" /></a>Not Enough Money?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I believe that most people haven't got enough money for everything they wish to have - the more you have the bigger your plans, and you have a feeling that you have less and less money.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whether you have lots of money or just so-so, you need to economize and take proper care of your money ie your income, expenditures, savings and investments.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Below I give you 7 Golden Rules to a Financial Prosperity:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Always have several streams of income: never rely on one income from one source only.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) As soon as you start to earn, start to put aside a certain amount to create an automatic money source: I remember I have always had my own portfolio since I was a child, and can tell you that I needed it several times. Even if you have property, you may find yourself in a situation when you need fast cash. In such a situation, you will not sell your property, but you can sell part or even the whole of your portfolio.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You don't need to start your portfolio with thousands of dollars, you can develop it.<span id="more-26"></span>You only need to set a rule that you won't touch it when you don't need it, and keep it for vital urgencies. To buy a better car or a bigger house is not urgency.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Always take care of your money personally: it's not necessary to do everything personally as soon as you can afford it but never allow any other person to have a right to handle your money without your knowing, or your express approval. If you think that you don't have time to supervise this or that it's not important, you will have to find it later for much more unpleasant things when you lose your money.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many of you will 'hate' me for what I'm going to say now and I will receive lots of disapproving messages but I have to say it: don't even allow your spouse to do this - love and money is not the right association, and I know what I am talking about. Keep these apart.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Don't supervise your investments and expenditures only - Always strictly collect your money. Never allow people to owe you - again: with no regard to how much money you have, always demand every dollar you earn to be paid to you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Strictly distinguish between expenditures and investments: it's very easy to put everything as cost or overhead: don't do this. Apply an easy rule: expenditure or cost is money thrown out of the window - you can't expect any return money on it, while investment is desirable (of course, not every investment is desirable): this should bring you more money, more property able to make you more money - the only questions you should carefully consider are whether you can/should afford such an investment at the moment, how much you're going to get back, how fast and whether it is acceptable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Keep your expenditures at the minimum with no regard to how much money you have: expenditures are killing for everyone. It's useless to tell you stories about big fortunes lost by unwise costs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Avoid loans, don't borrow if you don't know for sure you can repay. Never purchase anything on future incomes or promises.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Just a little example: if I have a notice that a payment is on its way to my account and I need the money today for some reason (however, I can't see any reason like that <img src='http://www.mymoneyadvantage.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  - never mind), I can borrow. But, if I think I will sell 1,000 books next week, I mustn't borrow.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7) You must always earn more than you spend. In case you don't earn more than you spend, then you must spend less. In other words, you must always be in green.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you think that you must swap your car every six months even if you should borrow, then it may easily happen that you won't drive anything in a very short time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don't want to waste hours of your precious time by long essays on savings and wise advice. Just adopt one principle and whenever you want to do something with your money (- whether it's thousands or millions or just a couple of bucks), just think about it: take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.</p>
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		<title>Balance sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The balance sheet is an important thing for business operations in general. If properly interpreted, it provides a wealth of information about a company's financial position. A balance sheet is a quick picture of the financial condition of a business at a specific period in time. The activities of a business fall into two separate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-202" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="balance sheet" src="http://www.fundkinetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/balance-sheet.jpg" alt="balance sheet" width="200" height="144" />The balance sheet is an important thing for business operations in general. If properly interpreted, it provides a wealth of information about a company's financial position. A balance sheet is a quick picture of the financial condition of a business at a specific period in time. The activities of a business fall into two separate groups that are reported by an accountant. They are profit-making activities, which includes sales and expenses. This can also be referred to as operating activities. There are also financing and investing activities that include securing money from debt and equity sources of capital, returning capital to these sources, making distributions from profit to the owners, making investments in assets and eventually disposing of the assets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Business performance hinges on your ability to understand your financial statements. Profit making activities are reported in the income statement; financing and investing activities are found in the statement of cash flows. In other words, two different financial statements are prepared for the two different types of transactions. The statement of cash flows also reports the cash increase or decrease from profit during the year as opposed to the amount of profit that is reported in the income statement.<span id="more-85"></span>Every business will have a balance sheet, as a standard financial reporting tool. The balance sheet is one of the major financial documents that every public company is required to publish. The balance sheet is different from the income and cash flow statements which report, as it says, income of cash and outgoing cash. The balance sheet represents the balances, or amounts, or a company's assets, liabilities and owners' equity at an instant in time. The word balance has different meanings at different times. As it's used in the term balance sheet, it refers to the balance of the two opposite sides of a business, total assets on one side and total liabilities on the other. It's always prepared at the close of business on the last day of the profit period.</p>
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		<title>Stop Worrying, Take Action, and Start Making Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is plagued by problems of all sorts. During your lifetime, chances are that you will go through periods of inflation, deflation, unemployment, rising share prices and stock market crashes. Newspapers report these problems with regularity and it seems that some of them will remain unresolved in the foreseeable future.
At the end of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The world is plagued by problems of all sorts. During your lifetime, chances are that you will go through periods of inflation, deflation, unemployment, rising share prices and stock market crashes. Newspapers report these problems with regularity and it seems that some of them will remain unresolved in the foreseeable future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, most economists agree that increased consumer prices are coming, although nobody can tell precisely when this will happen. If you live on a fixed income, as it is the case of most pensioners, you should view inflation as a cause of a serious concern.<span id="more-58"></span>When the media mention that a loss of purchasing power might take place within months, danger is already looming in the horizon. If you do nothing, inflation will catch you unprepared. If you take appropriate measures, that will not be the end of the story either. As soon as inflation is under control, the next problem will come to haunt us, possibly another stock market crash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Even if you occupy a position of influence, your possibilities of changing society remain minuscule for the simple reason that millions of people out there don't care about what you think and never will. Major changes in History ultimately result from ideas held in high regard, rightly or wrongly, by significant segments of the population. Those beliefs evolve through generations and change very slowly, even in the era of the internet and the global economy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As an investor, you will be much better off if you realize your impotence to bring fundamental changes to society and stop worrying about it. An effective strategy to help other people, which are by all means a laudable intent, is to focus your efforts on a restricted field where your contribution can really make a difference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Adopting a rational investment philosophy involves giving up unrealistic expectations and concentrating on what is feasible. You cannot prevent inflation or deflation from taking place, but if you play your cards well, you can make money from them. Instead of worrying about the disadvantages of rising or falling prices, why don't you figure out how to use each financial phenomenon for your personal profit?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Achieving a positive result in your bank account will allow you to devote your gains to helping others, if that is your wish. For each disruptive event, there is an investment strategy that can help you make a profit. Rising share prices represent the easiest situation to deal with because most people can figure out that there is plenty of money to be made if you borrow at 6% interest and invest at 12% return.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What makes rational investment difficult is our psychological resistance to letting go of worry, recognizing past mistakes, and taking practical action. In addition, a wise man must accept that an investment method that proves successful in one environment frequently becomes unsuitable when the context changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Real estate and gold coins may be great investments during inflationary periods, but tend to be lousy places for your money when the curve turns and prices begin to fall. You certainly don't want to be caught with a huge mortgage at a fixed rate of 8% when the price of residential properties has fallen by 20% and you can borrow money at 3%.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is up to you in each case to take sensible measures to profit from the situation or, at least, to minimize its negative consequences. As individuals, our best strategy consists of letting go of anxiety and viewing inflation, deflation, or unemployment just as problems to be handled.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From this perspective, those phenomena are similar to the influenza virus that marks the arrival of winter every year. Exaggerated concern seldom improves anything. Instead, individuals should identify the path that minimizes trouble and, if possible, allows to profit from it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whenever you hear that inflation or deflation is coming, ask yourself how you can structure your finances in order to benefit from the situation. Can you link your income to a product whose price is likely to increase or decrease at the same pace as the overall economy? Can you reduce the amount of cash that you require to live and invest the remainder in assets that will profit from upcoming economic changes?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Economists speculate all the time about next year's rates of unemployment, inflation or deflation. For your personal investment decisions, you don't need to wait until the exact figure is known. On most occasions, knowing the general trend is enough to make rational investment choices.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If newspapers are discussing whether next year's inflation is going to be 6% or 7%, that tells you as much as you need to know. Take swift action and reflect about how to structure your finances to deal with such price increases. Worrying is essentially a waste of time. Although you cannot reshape the world according to your taste, nothing prevents you from taking measures to minimize trouble.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Discard anxiety, learn to face problems in the best possible way, and become a rational investor. Your financial and philosophical sharpness will grow together. Your personal effectiveness will increase and you will become more tolerant and self-reliant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Stop worrying, take action, and start making money. Never place all your savings on a single investment. If you acquire the habit of diversifying your investments amongst different types of assets, chances are that you will be much less troubled. If you purchase shares of solid companies around the world, your portfolio will tend to be less affected by problems in specific countries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Learning to deal with the world's problems is a better approach than being paralysed by them. Wisdom is the process of learning what a man can achieve and what he should rather let go of. Becoming a rational investor will make you a better human being and help you overcome whatever financial fears the day may bring.</p>
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