Posts Tagged ‘money’

The Ups and Downs of Investing

Friday, August 12th, 2011

As I watch my financial portfolio teeter up and down I’m reminded of one of my favorite childhood memories; playing on the teeter-totter with my friend Rhonda. We would talk for hours as we glided up and down effortlessly. There was just one rule: never jump off because if you did that would cause a disastrous result!

It’s the same rule today as you ‘play’ the game of investing. Know the rules. Do your due diligence, hire the best advisors and don’t jump out of the game. Keep studying and investing. Don’t jump off. Trust that your due diligence and commitment to staying in the game will pay off; and it will.

Try to keep your sense of humor about your finances. When you trust God and His economy, you know you are always Divinely guided and can rest in that truth and hopefully even have a laugh about it all. Here’s a start to that effort, sent to me by my 20 year old son in college:

Advice from a College Student: If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today! If you purchased $1,000 shares in AIG, you would have $33.00. If you purchased $1,000 shares in Lehman Brothers, you would have $0.00 today. But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer, drank all the beer, turned in the aluminum cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. Therefore the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg Plan.

Stay on the teeter totter of investing. Don’t hoard your money. Have the mind-set that you’ll just start making more of it RIGHT NOW, because YOU CAN… and you’ll continue to invest, staying in the game with even more discernment, wisdom and commitment to due diligence than ever before. We WILL make it through this with greater profits and as greater people.

Now, how can you make more money TODAY?

See you soon,

LISA

5 Steps to Break Through Resistance

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Dear Friend;

Where are you “making it hard” to create success? Can you identify the struggle? What are your beliefs about work?
We have sayings like, “She works like a dog.” “He’s a workhorse.” “They work like a machine”…

We watch someone rush into the coffee shop holding a briefcase, talking on their cell phone and barking their order to the Barista and we think that’s success.

Ha! We have it all wrong!

We have conversations about the joy of retirement and design our entire career around “the day I retire”. Hmmmmm….

What I notice is the most fulfilled, enlivened and interesting people are the very people who love to work, enjoy growing their business and love making a difference for others!

I just watched an interview with Clint Eastwood who is 80 years old and doing his 4th movie this year! Warren Buffet is nearing 80 and he goes to work every day!

Work is engaging, fulfilling and fun. Finding work that you love and you believe in is a GIFT!

Even in Genesis, we see God putting Adam to work when he tells him his first job is to name all the animals. God values work.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all about creating wealth and financial freedom so you can do what you want when you want to do it. But, what I know to be true is the most fulfilled people are the ones who enjoy meaningful WORK!

I’ve noticed with most of my client’s success, there are 5 core ingredients that make growing a successful business FUN, FULFILLING and relatively STRESS-FREE.

If you want to break through the connotations you have to growing your successful business, consider taking on this 5 Step Formula and give yourself permission to ENJOY building your business.

First, here are the most common reasons people create drama and struggle in building their business:

1. Lack of Direction
2. Lack of Belief
3. Lack of Commitment
4. Lack of a System (accountability)
5. Lack of ENERGY(Fuel)

Wow! That’s a lot of LACK! So, let’s take these 5 and reposition them to be “A Formula for Creating Success”:

Step 1. Know what you want. If you’ve been receiving my Ezines for a while, then you know that’s what I’ve been teaching the past 21 years of my Speaking Career! Do you have clarity around what you want? What are your money goals? Sales goals? What are your desires? Know what your “Ideal Life” looks like.

Step 2. Build Belief: This is a life-long habit. You need to really OWN your success. Believe that this is the time. You are the one. “You have been called for just a time as this.” And the Universe WANTS you to achieve your goals… even needs you to achieve your goals. Your success makes a profound difference on the planet.

Step 3. The BELIEF creates commitment. Your COMMITMENT creates Belief. Constantly “recommit” to your desires.

Step 4. Create your personal formula for success. One of my clients teaches her team, “Two a day, ten in play.” One of my formulas is to write a Success article every week and give them away for free. It always creates results. What is your formula that will always get you results? Create it and FOLLOW it.

Step 5. Energy. Create a short BURST of EFFORT right NOW! Move into a BURST of Action right now! It takes 80% of a rockets fuel to LAUNCH a spaceship and 20% of the rockets fuel to get to the moon and return!

This 5 Step Process will empower you to ENJOY working and giving your energy to meaningful work that makes a difference. And that is what building a successful business is all about!

I have over 10,000 people who receive this Ezine. And you are amazing to me. I get inspired when I read your emails sharing with me how you’re applying my messages.

Thank you for that. Thank you for playing FULL OUT in creating your Ideal Life! It makes a difference for everyone on the planet.

Please pass this Rx Success Report on to your list and invite them to sign up to receive my free teachings.

To your success,

LISA
Lisa Jimenez M.Ed.
www.Rx-Success.com

What Is Your Money Blueprint? Take the Quiz!

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Dear Friend;

Most people, when they want to increase their wealth, will look only at strategy, opportunity, improve their skills…

While this is important, it is only 20% of what it takes to grow your wealth. The other 80% is improving your Money Blueprint!

My mentor T. Harv Eker says, “The ROOTS Create your FRUITS!”

I teach my clients about the Law of Nature: “What is under the ground creates what is above the ground.”

So, let’s talk about your BLUEPRINT…

How would you describe your Money Blueprint?

Whatever your Money Blueprint is, I want you to realize it was TAUGHT to you! You learned it. The good news is anything that is learned can be UNLEARNED!

Your Money Blueprint was created through REPEATED thoughts + feelings + actions around money.

That formula creates your RELATIONSHIP with money. Most people have a limiting or even negative Money Blueprint. That’s just what’s so. But again, the good news is YOU GET TO RECREATE your Money Blueprint!

I’ve seen incredible transformations with my Coaching Clients and their relationship with money. You can create the same success…

The first step to your transformation is: AWARENESS

Exercise #1: What is your money blueprint today? And, What would you say your ‘thermostat’ is “set” at? Poverty? Struggle? Making It? Little more than I need? More than enough?

Get present to your Money Blueprint.

The next step is: UNDERSTANDING

Do you have systems in place that have your money make you money? People make you money? Systems make you money? And, most importantly, Do you believe money comes relatively easy or do you believe you have to work hard for it?

Exercise #2: Identify your most toxic weeds! There’s usually only 2 or 3! Identify them and pull them out! Smooth out the rich soil where the toxic weed was and plant a new seed. Name that seed. Water it every day. Give it light. Believe it is growing. Within seconds of uprooting that toxic weed and planting the new seed, you will see a result! Within weeks/months you will see a whole new plant!

“Your income can grow only to the extent that you do!”

Take time today to bring AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING to the game of Money. Get comfortable with playing this game and PLAY TO WIN!

Recreate Your Money Blueprint. Plant seeds of Truth in your mind. Cultivate these seeds and watch them grow ROOTS that harvest Healthy Beliefs, Feelings, Thoughts and ACTIONS about Money.

No matter what mistakes you’ve made with money, you can clean it up, pull out the weeds, plant new seeds, cultivate and give energy to these new healthy roots and ENJOY a Wealthy Harvest. YOU can.

Wealth is a result.

What will you do TODAY to begin this process?

If you’d like my Free Special Report on the 12 Seeds to Harvest Wealthy Fruits, email “SEND ME THE 12 SEEDS” to: Lisa@Rx-Success.com and we’ll send it to you.

My desire is for you to create a HEALTHY relationship with money. I want you to become a Master over your money (not the other way around)!

To you Success,

LISA

Lisa Jimenez M.Ed.

PS If you are ready to TRANSFORM your Money Beliefs and begin CREATING at levels that will inspire you, check out one of my Mastermind Retreats!

You’ll spend 6 incredible days in Bali, Indonesia with me and other like-minded entrepreneurs with one goal in mind: “Radically Improve our Prosperity Mind-Set and Live at a Whole New Level of Life!”

Go to: www.Rx-Success.com today!

Value for Value

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

We live in a value for value world…

That means you will get paid what you are worth; if you allow it!
Too many people are afraid to charge for their talent, expertise and gifts. Don’t let that be you.

Charge a fair price… but charge! We live in a value for value world. It does not benefit anyone to give your expertise away for free.

Today, I spent the day in Piazza Spagna. It is a beautiful area with the most amazing hotel called the Hassler Roma. Just down the street from this hotel is an adorable boutique and spa called Femme Sistina. The owner, Lisette Lenzi is an amazing entrepreneur who opened this shop in 1959! That’s older than me!

Lisette comes into work every day and enjoys meeting all the people (even several celebrities like Jane Fonda and political figures worldwide.)

Today, we met…

Now, you may be wondering what does this story have to do with value for value… Well, Lisette needs a Facebook Fan page. And since we enjoyed each other so much, she invited me to have a drink with her tomorrow night here in Rome… and I offered to set up her Facebook fan page.

It’s always value for value.

Please consider the value you bring into other people’s lives. Value with your smile, your intriguing conversation, your talent, your expertise… all of these things are gifts only YOU can bring to others.

Honor these gifts and share them wildly this week! And just watch how the energies in the Universe (and especially the Law of Value for Value) take care of you!

Have a wonderful day sharing YOURSELF!

I’ll check in tomorrow with another exciting story from Roma. (I know it will be exciting because after I spend a few hours writing, I will be racing around Roma on a motorcycle!)

LISA