The Stupid Tax – No Refund !!!

Excerpted from Dr Charles W Martin “The Stupid Tax”

I have paid this tax more than once in my life…many times….in cash, worry & other.

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Stupid Tax = the money, time, energy or effort you paid or lost needlessly.

The stupid tax is an error that costs you that didn’t have to.

The tax is paid when one keeps doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

The tax is levied against one when one fails to act when one knows one SHOULD.

The tax is levied against one 2 or 3 times when one fails to act when knows one MUST.

The tax is levied against one when one fails to “DO what you know”.

The tax is extracted from one’s bank account when one tries to go it alone when one is not an expert in a field when one needs an expert.  <(Think “I could hire Coach Bill”)

This “unnecessary fee” is paid when one fails to implement what works after being shown or told.

The tax comes due when one tries to go cheap when one shouldn’t.

The tax gets paid when patience is required and impatience reigns.

The tax is paid when one doesn’t nurture one’s leads and doesn’t continuously communicate with both leads and existing customers.  < (Think hire Coach Bill)
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The stupid tax is life’s painful way of teaching us lessons – hopefully just once instead of several times over.

Do you know someone who is paying one now?  Maybe someone you know intimately?  You CAN help them – even if it’s just by showing them what we have and introducing them to your coach.

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21 Best Money Tips

I’m not a fan of CNN (Constantly Negative News) nor of mainstream financial advice…“21 Best Money Tips” Having said that I found a 7 quick gems that DO apply to us…..

Barbara Corcoran Founder, the Corcoran Group, one of Manhattan’s leading real estate firms
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Best advice I can give: Bad times are the best times to move your business forward, especially if you are a small business. The big guys are back on their haunches, waiting
things out.  If you are willing to stick your neck out, this is when your energy and creativity can outmaneuver the big companies. This is your opportunity.

Best advice I ever got: When I was getting started with my business, my then boyfriend and business partner loaned me $1,000 and said, “You’ll never succeed
without me.” It made me so mad it motivated me to make it. Negative comments or situations can become your best friend.

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Joline GodfreyTeach Independence CEO of Independent Means, which teaches financial literacy to families and children

Raise your children to make a job, not just take a job. If they don’t know how to create a plan, they’ll always be beholden to someone else.
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Lynn TruongStick with Like minded People Co-founder, Wise Bread personal-finance blog

Good money management is a lifestyle. If you surround yourself with people who share the same values, you’re more likely to stay on track.
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John ChallengerGet involved and Build a NETWORK Employment expert

Become deeply engaged in civic, professional, and educational organizations that matter to you. And constantly build new relationships with people through these affiliations.
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Warren Buffett – Fear is your friend.
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Gwendolyn Sykes – Expand your skill set Chief financial officer of Morehouse College and former CFO at Yale University & NASA

When the economy does turn around, the opportunities are going to be there for people with new skills
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Meir Statman Have Faith that you’ll persevere Professor of finance at Santa Clara University and a leading expert in behavioral finance

Best advice I ever got — and can give:
You are more resilient than you imagine. And if you ever doubt that, remember the many people whose troubles were much greater than yours yet who survived.

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3 words that were never meant for humans

Some of you may know I am a lover of words and how they affect our neurology, physiology and results.

Here’s 3 words that were never meant for human consumption.  Born of, and during, our nation’s Industrial Age. 

Stress, OverLoaded and Breakdown were originally meant for and applied to discussions regarding machines.

Additionally they were created to describe a “temporary state of the machinery.” one that could and would be changed by man’s intervention.

In today’s world, as applied to humans, these words still indicate a “temporary state of being” that can be changed by man’s intervention.

Change happens in an instant.     Even after years of therapy…a person is cured the very moment either they decide they’re cured or the therapist decides that they’re cured.

What could you decide right now that would bring you closer to your goals?

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Why Multiple Streams of Income

The quote below applies to those people who are;

1.    Still working in a job they “love”, like or dislike.
2.    Seeking freedom to be do and have what they really want in/from/for life.

”  When you create multiple streams of income, you are forming a powerful tide of prosperity that can carry you along for a lifetime of fortune and freedom.”


–Robert G. Allen
– Author – Multiple Streams of Income
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…remember to ignore the obvious sales plug at the end


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TEAM

When strengths are integrated the whole of the team is always going to be greater than the sum of its parts which is the ultimate definition of synergy.  Amazing things happen when  everyone contributes.

                    –Kevin Hall, author

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

                    –Chinese proverb

Every GREAT accomplishment I’ve ever witnessed, heard or read about has a TEAM component to it.  Who’s on your Team?

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