Huh!???  Surely money is worth whatever is printed on it…………isn’t it?  Nope, not even close!  Money has no inherent value at all.  Sure, your society will accept it while it’s backed by a government (if the government in question is stable) but if money had a FIXED value, then why does the price of things vary so much from month to month or year to year? (Like Oil and gasoline for example).

Well, to answer this, you can read a series of articles I wrote here “Why Does The Cost Of Living Keep Rising?”

However, this isn’t the point I’m trying to make.  There are LOTS of reasons why the SAME thing will cost different amounts depending on WHERE you are in the world and WHEN you are.  So who determines the value of money?  Think about it for just a second, check out this great video, then read on.

Okay, so it’s not so great…………..BUT (and it’s a big but, riddles with cellulite and struggling to defy gravity) the lyrics talk only about money as an abstract.  “I WANT MONEY”.  ‘Money’ being what? Well, it’s never specified in the song is it.  So, WHO puts the value on money?

Yes, you’ve guessed it, it’s ……………………….YOU!

Nobody else CAN put value on money. Advertisers try to, Preachers try to, manufacturers try to……..but in the end ONLY YOU can determine what money is worth.

How? Well, if you think about it, some people would pay over $300,000 for a wristwatch, which does nothing more than a $40 wristwatch (and sometimes the one costing 300k doesn’t do as good a job as the $40 one!).  So, YOU and only you can decide what the money that you have made is worth.

Most people in the U.S. earn between $20,000 and $100,000 per year.  This immediately shows that things priced in the $1 - $50 range would be considered inexpensive…………unless the $50 item was a loaf of BREAD!!  In Germany just before the rise of the Nazi regime, a loaf of bread would be on the market for the equivalent of thousands of dollars.

When I was in Poland many years ago, I was worth over 2 million Zloty!  But that was about $120!  The Polish government has since “re-evaluated” the currency, so this ridiculous situation has changed now.

So, the society you live in and the current year determine a great deal about the value of money, but ultimately it’s you who have to decide what something is worth.  If gasoline was $5 a gallon, is that expensive?  Well, what a gallon of beer cost you?

Money earned is ALWAYS worth MORE than money won (or stolen).

Earn your money by providing value to others!  It’ll make you feel GREAT.

Here’s a good place to start learning.  It shows how people also value WORDS and how you can make money from this fact.

How To Create WorldCloud Websites To Make Money

Luke

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” - Edith Wharton

“Make money online fast!”, “Make a million dollars this year!”, “Easy money, no outlay!”, “We’ll make you rich!”.

I think you’ve read all of these headlines and probably hundreds more just like them.  However, the reality is MOST people offering internet business opportunities want nothing more than to make themselves rich.  Why is this?  (you know the answer already)…………because people are SELFISH!  NO, not YOU, heaven forbid.  All the OTHERS out there of course.

Okay, a little sarcasm was required there I think.  We are ALL interested in ourselves FAR more than we are in others.  The one time that MAY not be true is when we’re head-over-heels in love with somebody, and that is normally a very fleeting feeling (and is also rationally explained by self-interest…………..it FEELS GOOD!).

So, back to my point.  There are LOTS (thousands) of scams out there on the world wide web, and you need to protect yourself from the predators; those who want something from you by offering you something in return.  Here’s how to protect yourself:

The old adage “If it’s too good to be true, it probably is” applies online as well as off.  If you come upon a website that offers to set up a business for you, find customers for you, sell to them and do all the normal business things like credit-checking, credit-card processing and tax reporting etc. and all you have to do is pay them some money, you KNOW that this is nothing more than a scam.  These scams are often monthly subscriptions (not all are scams, some are EXCELLENT) and all they want is to bill your credit card each month for several months before they go out of business and shut their website down.  These sites come and go all the time because they are run by the same groups of people, over and over again.

If a site has really poor spelling or grammer………..oops, I meant grammAR, then it’s another little clue that you should avoid giving your credit card details.

Regarding credit cards, if the site refuses to accept PayPal or PayDot.com (or similar) and only wants your credit-card details………BEWARE.  This is a bad sign indeed, because most legitimate online companies will gladly accept paypal and the like these days.

Sites that ask for ANY personal details like your social security number must be avoided like Yersinia pestis (look it up!).

Sites that ask for Donations AFTER they have let you download the product are legitimate for the most part, but again, don’t give out your credit-card or any other details!  Sometimes these outfits offer some poor quality or out-of-date product so that you will feel obliged to give them your credit-card info, but don’t. NEVER give out ALL of your social security number……….EVER!  It’s bad enough what your government does with it, without you adding to the list of parasites.

With your social security number (which they’ll say they need for “security purposes”) they can wipe you out! They can access all kinds of accounts with this information alone.

If the site makes you think that they are about to “run out” of a down-loadable product, this is either a call for immediate action (a legitimate but sleazy way of marketing) or a scam.  How can you run-out of a file that can be replicated a BILLION times or more?

A great site to investigate is ScamBusters.  Check it out! There’s also another great site call Hoax Slayer.  Definitely worth checking on before you buy something online.

Be safe out there!!!

Luke.

Just in case you HAVEN’T yet heard of it, a really great book called The Science Of Getting Rich is available for download and it’s totally FREE.

It was written in 1910 by Wallace Wattles and ranks alongside Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think and Grow Rich’.

In it, Wattles discuss topics such as your RIGHT to be rich (something that people don’t always think they have) and how to think in a certain way to gain the things you most desire, be it money, or what money can buy.

He also explains exactly how “riches” come to you, which isn’t at all what you might expect.

If you think something written in 1910 can’t be relevant today, think again.  Technology has changed (which is why you can make money online, selling to a WORLDWIDE audience), but the techniques have not.  What was true then is still true today.

True, you can always put a new spin on an old idea; marketers (both online and off) have been doing this for years (because it works), but the basics remain the same.  Making money starts in your HEAD as desires.  Desires turn to ideas to make money, which in turn become plans.  It’s then a matter of putting these plans into action.  Like Nike commercial used to say; “just do it!”

You all know how much I like free stuff, so why don’t you grab your copy here:

THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH………………………oh, and READ IT!!!

The links that I’ve provided here take you to a pdf file of this great little book, however, this version does contain a completely unnecessary introduction, written in 1999.  Ignore it, or read it for a laugh; the lady in question seems to have a bit of a chip on her shoulder about being female, so she’s re-worded some of it to make it less offensive! (I really can’t imagine any women in this day and age being offended, or even far back in history…………….like 1999.  Go figure.

Luke

As you know my wife and I have just finished our trip across country to Arizona.  While we were unpacking our kitchenware, my wife said something to me that struck a chord: “Would you believe it, I’ve opened every box but one and all I’ve found is the stuff that we never use!”.  While this upset her somewhat, I thought about it a while and then realized why this sort of thing happens.

My wife was convinced it was nothing more than “bad luck” (though what’s bad about it I really don’t know….finding you’ve just had your identity stolen MIGHT be thought of as “bad luck” but not opening the box with the dishes we use frequently is hardly life-threatening…………is it!?  But I digress……….

Luck is NOTHING MORE than a wish for the future (”good luck to you!”) or an excuse for the past (”that was bad luck”).  That’s ALL that luck is.

So what had REALLY happened?  Though it certainly wasn’t bad luck it WAS something that Casino owners know a lot about.  ODDS.  You see, most of our crockery is NEVER used; we use the same few plates and pans every night, but most of it (probably 9 pieces out of 10) are either for show, or are family heirlooms which are always stored out of site (mainly because they’re so damned UGLY).

So that leaves about 1 box in 10 that had the items that we frequently use in it.  So, what are the ODDS that the very first box that she opened would be the one with the items in that she wanted that night?  One in ten! Very poor odds indeed by most gamblers standards.

The second box she opened?  The odds would improve of course to one in nine.  Still not good odds.  After that the odds continue to improve, one in eight, one in seven and so on all the way down to 1 in 1 which is “a sure thing”.

She finally opened the box and it WAS the last box.  Unlucky? Nope, it was the FIRST box that was packed, BECAUSE these items were at the FRONT of our cabinets.  Being the first box packed, it was also the first onto the moving van………………and therefore the LAST one off.  When the movers took the first one off, they put it into the kitchen on the floor FIRST and then stacked the other boxes on top of IT, making it, very logically, the last one that we would open.  Ta DAAAAAA!

Whenever you see a sign or ad on TV from a Casino telling you how much they paid out that month, just think about how much they TOOK IN, if they could afford to pay out so much.  If they are telling you that they paid out 4,000,000 then they certainly took in more than that, otherwise they’d go out of business.  Gambling is NOT about luck, it’s about entertainment……………..very EXPENSIVE entertainment I might add.

Okay, what’s my point in all this?  Simple.  STACK THE ODDS IN YOUR FAVOR!!!  Don’t rely on luck because there is NO SUCH THING!  Don’t do the lottery………………..gambling is for LOSERS not winners.  Spend your resources (your time, your money and your thinking) profitably.

How do you do this?  You study, then you take ACTION.  Here’s one of the best places to start I’ve seen:

Affiliate Millions.

Treat yourself to an early Christmas present!  Give yourself the gift of the ability to make money online whenever YOU choose to.

Luke.