We all want more than we have, but oddly, it is us who stops us getting more of what we want. Even worse is that most of the time most of us doing it don't realise it is us stopping us from getting what we want. I used to do it alot when I was younger, now things are different, I am forever popping £2 coins into my special 'website pocket', loose change into my 'online bucket' and stopping myself spending money on things I don't really need so I can use it on things that I really do want.
Over the years I have done many festivals, some overseas, I have visited Thailand, and Australia amongst many European countries and have just recently returned back from a chilled trip to Ibiza. I didn't make it to Cafe Del Mar to see the sun set over the sea but we did manage to see it set to a soundtrack of laidback blissfull chillout beats over the San Antonio bay in a really cool Dutch bar called 'De Tulp'
It was magical. i couldn't wait to tell friends about this bar so should they go to Ibiza they would hopefully experience it too, but nothing winds me up more than speaking to people who say things like "wish I could afford a holiday," or " I have always wanted to go to... but never had the money" I can't help but ask why not? the answers I usually get are, "well it's this goverment, all those bloody taxes" or " the cost of living is high and we have no spare cash" etc etc etc. I do sympathise with these folks but... It is the same for us all.I am not yet a multi millionaire and do not have oodles of spare cash myself, but when you delve deeper and ask more questions the answers that come back to you get even more frustrating...Recently one guy told me he has always wanted to go downunder to Australia since he was about 16, he is now 35. How has he not been able to afford to go to Australia in 19 years? If he saved only £2 a week for the last 19 years he would have enough for his flights and accomodation. No, but he has found the money to go drinking regularly and smoke 10-20 fags a day. Lets not forget the kebab or pizza on the way home from his nights out in the local. He must be spending an average of £30 a week on the same old thing, to be fair as I think about it more, the cost of beer, fags and pizza is possibly £30 a night or more. I dread to think what he does spend a week. I am not saying that you cannot enjoy life or that you must save stupidly and not enjoy the money you do earn but please wake up and realise that you can do more of the things you really want if you cut out some of the things you regularly do but not need to do. One nightout less, or 20 fags a week less, maybe 5 beers less a week and he could be on his way to swelling out a holiday fund. Depends on wher you drink or what yu drink but 5 beers at average cost of £2 each is £1o a week, 52 weeks a year thats £520! 19 years and never been to Australia... I could have done it in 2maybe less!
Times are hard but I want to set up online businesses that will hopefully earn me money in the long run, I do not have a large lump of money spare so I save £2 coins when I recieve them in my change and cut out on things now and again to fund web hostings and domain name registration etc. I also put in an extra hour or two a day if I can or if not at least a week working/reading or learning on how to generate extra income. It really is not that difficult when you consider what crap there is on TV these evenings in the UK. Eastenders, Coronation St, Emmerdale, BigBrother, The Apprentice...Loads of spare time!! How many of you have met people who have not only moaned that they have no money, no spare time and then lit up a fag for the umpteenth time that hour only to say that there was crap on the telly when they got home from work?!?!? I do my t shirt wrapping or screen making for my tee shirt printing business when the crap is on. Gives me a spare hour in the day before or after I print to focus on my internet stuff when I am alone at home.
So imagine what you could achieve if you cut down a bit on certain things and spent an hour or two on maybe setting up an Ebay shop, doing a carboot or something. You will be suprised at what happens. It would help if you wrote down on paper what it is you want and how much it will cost, then try and figure out how to do it. That is as they say half the battle won. since I wrote down what I wanted my mind has become more focused. I know I will get what I want. Because I will make it happen.
Thanks for reading and until next time, Keep smiling.