My alma mater called and requested that I give an inspirational speech during the graduation rites of its Grade School Department. Odd. A week before, I made a self-assessment and determined I wanted more training / experience in public speaking.  Hmmm…  What can I say?  The universe will conspire to get you what you [...]

Sometimes, we need a guidepost, a road map to where we want to be. Most of the time, our goals involve wealth, or ways to wealth. Here are some methods that are tried and tested

1. Make a financial assessment.

A woman should know how much she has before she can decide what to do with how much she has. For many, this starts a series of wake-up calls, not to mention panic attacks. But wake up calls are good, and panic attacks are good because they set off something in the brain that makes it go to preservation mode.

Here is where the expensive coffee and clothes and bags and eating out and traveling have to go. Or at least cut by as much as seventy five percent.

Because to be wealthy is to carve out and use that seventy five percent for something that can bring in more income (read: investment).

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2. Invest.

For the conservative investor, there is the mutual funds that can give a steady yield year by year provided it is not taken out for at least 7 years. Other investments that are considered conservative include government bonds, time deposits, certificate of deposits and treasury bills. Boring, yes, but generally safe.

For the aggressive investor, there is the stock market. It is not for the faint of heart, it should be observed, it should be timed because it is affected by the waxing and waning of the world economies.

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I read it from The Secret but it was Johannes “Meister” Eckhart who allegedly originally said this.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you…

I do not know who Eckhart is, except that he was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic born during the 12th century who wrote such controversial articles that he was tried as a heretic by the then-pope.

But this is not about Meister Eckhart or the Secret. This article is about certain prayers and thank you.

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After 99 posts, 453 comments (54 of which are spam which I have not deleted nor approved) and 699 tags, I come to this, my 100th post.

To think that YouWantToBeRich started as just a requirement to get a certificate in MavenSecrets, a professional blogging and internet marketing education seminar that I attended in 2009.

I did not know that it would change my life and give it colors that I never knew existed, or give me opportunities for self-expression and advocacy in a niche that I was just getting really interested in at that time.

At first, I thought I would go into food and travel because like Anton’s OurAwesomePlanet, it was my passion. I even asked hubby to buy me a camera to herald my entry into the blogosphere via a food and travel blog.

But I am glad I went down the path of learning about money and people and their money idiosyncracies (especially my own and my family’s). It felt good to chronicle this journey and to look back and learn from it again.

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According to The Secret, when you give thanks, the universe jumps up in joy at having done what is right and it could not wait to give you more people and more things to be thankful for. It is true – what you give out, you will get back in return multiplied by the echoes of eternity.

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