I started working in a new takeout place, which opens this Thursday. I am really good at attracting job, that is a no brainer for me. The problem is the types of jobs I seem to attract , pay little in wages. I'm now at $11 an hour, with maybe 30 hours a week. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to pay my rent, insurance, cell phone and credit card bills. I have gather two part-time cleaning jobs and a temporary painting job also. So I have to see how I'm going to use that money to pay what is due at the end of this month.
A lot of people I know are all living within their means, and some below there means for that matter. In a world that has tons of money. It is so sad that families and individuals, like me, have to struggle to make ends meet all the time. I have decided to sell my truck. I have no choice at this time. It is too expensive on fuel. When I first bought it ten years ago, the gas was affordable for me, not anymore. The oil companies are not laughing anymore, because as the prices of gas goes up, the big Tonka Ford and GMC dealers are starting to get a hint because they hare struggling to sell the gas guzzlers they keep producing. Nobody wants to pay that much in gas anymore.
My alternative is to drive a vehicle that is a lot cheaper on gas. Once I can get ahead a bit financial, my 4x4 is going up for sale. I have a saying in front of my computer that says" A part of all I earn is mine to keep" Which has been a challenging keeping. " The advertising and media industries have convinced us that we are nothing without money and material possessions. We are at the grip of a national and global obsession. We have been brain washed into believing that the material possessions are what we're suppose to want, that fulfillment comes from what we have rather than how we live, and feel. At a time when we are running out of land to build more shopping malls, televisions, and the internet have created virtual shopping malls that allows us to shop twenty-four hours a day-----all to fill a void that we deeply feel but fail to understand. Meanwhile, the billions of dollars we spend exploiting mass addiction for buying things we don't really need could be used to save the Earth as it teeters on the edge of disaster."
When are we going to wake up? When is enough going to be enough? What are the kids of the future going to do with the all the crap we have left behind? Here I am buying the bear essentials to survive while millions shop till they drop and with that more then likely getting deeper into debt. Our school system is a joke. They won't teach kids how to manage money which should be part of the daily curriculum. It's a damn shame that I was never taught how important it is to learn this survival tool.
And we wonder why so many kids these days are not doing well in there lives. It's because we equate money to our self worth. If we have no money, our belief system figures out that we are not worth much. Because our society main focus is, if you have lots of money, you are somebody. How many people do you see in the world that have hardly any money that do great things and are recognized for that? Not very many. So our belief is that the more money we have, the more we are valued in the world.
It all comes down to , do I matter and how much money do I need in order to feel that I matter?
Today I have enough money. Just for today, I have money to buy food and gas to get to work. I am grateful for the money I do have. Because today is all there is. Tomorrow, I could be a millionaire, but for today, I have enough.
And so it is.
Your Money Trailblazer
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