Wednesday, August 6, 2008

PRIORITIES DETERMINE ACHIEVEMENT LADDER SUCCESS

Have you ever considered what really is important and should take precedence in your life? Many persons seek fame, fortune, and favor by being other than themselves in order to have it all and "to keep up with the Jones, Smythes, Browns, Rockerfellas, etc." You probably get the picture. How many foreclosures could have been avoided in the housing market if the mortgage company, the bank, and the potential owners would have seriously considered the long-term effect of their financial decisions? Yes, the dream of every American is to have their own home and to be a homeowner. Yet, how many individuals ventured into excessive debt in order to gain the fame, the fortune, and the favor of others who could care less about your future outcomes. The investment in real estate is still a wonderful investment with effective research and setting the financial priorities that really make a dream come true.

With so many individuals heading for serious credit crunch because of faulty advice and inadequate research in the market value of the real estate that they were purchasing, there is room to make adjustments and to live within your financial means. Having trust in financial markets also requires in having to consider the risks that are involved in the short term and in the long term. Risks are what makes insurance companies thrive and succeed in their business. Risk takers in the entrepreneurial market place make possible new and exciting new technologies and careers that will survive in the long run. On the other hand, with limited research and inadequate preparations for the risks in the short run and the long run, many entrepreneurs cease to exist after ten years or even after three years. The fatality rate is very high for those investors who disregarded any sound advice that they received from the experts and the trend makers.

Another important question for all of those wonderful risk takers is WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY IN LIFE? Where does your heart lie? What really matters about improving your conditions in life and succeeding in your upper climb on the Ladder of Achievement to meet your realistic life goals and ambitions?
"What would it profit a person to gain the whole world and then lose their soul?"

Each person needs to determine their own priority listing. What may be a priority for one person will be just the opposite of another person. Consumerism can overcome individuals when their priorities are unplanned and unstructured.
As one effective person would do well to ponder the following verse entitited,
"ONLY ONE LIFE."

"It only takes ONE SMILE to offer welcome and blessed be the person who will SHARE it."

"It only takes ONE MOMENT to be helpful and blessed be the person who will SPARE it."

"It only takes ONE WORD to lend real comfort and blessed be the person who will SPEAK it."

"It only takes ONE TRUTH to light the darkness and blessed be the person who will SEEK it."

"It only takes ONE JOY to lift a spirit and blessed be the person who will GIVE it."

"It only takes ONE LIFE to make a difference and blessed be the person who will LIVE it."

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