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Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Written by Stephen Outram Tuesday, 03 January 2012 06:22
How many New Year’s Resolutions have you made that resulted in something actually changing?
Resolution doesn't make any sense in the context of, you, desiring to change something.
We have been trained to think that resolution means “determined” or a promise we make to ourselves but that is not correct at all. Resolution means “breaking into parts” or “to loosen.” And how much has that to-do with you changing something? Not much.
If your New Year's Resolution is to make more money in 2012, for example, then you’re asking for your money flows to loosen or break into parts. It makes no sense.
If you would like more money, rather than creating a resolution, try asking a question or making a demand of you,
“What will it take for me to have more money in 2012?”
And where did we get this idea of New Year's Resolutions from and then to just accept it as something that might work?
How many of the ideas we currently have, about making money or having money, did we pick up from a tradition or a family member and really have no-idea what we are actually saying or asking for?
Getting clear about what we say could be really useful in beginning to change the habits we use to not-get what we desire; like having greater ease with money and more money.
What would you have to loosen-up-on for that to actualise? Perhaps easing your annual grip on resolutions might be a good start.
Is it Spring for Silver?
Written by Stephen Outram Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:21
The price of silver has been consolidating for the last 3 months; is now the time to buy?
This is the chart for silver over the last 3 months. It's trading in a range $US 30-35. Technical people call this 'consolidating' or building a base; a base from which to spring to new heights. The longer silver consolidates, the less risk there is that its price will fall below the base.
You can see on the chart, in September, where the price was smashed-down due to changes in margin lending rates (this also happened in May 2011 and silver rose from $34 to $43, a few months later) and the 3 months of consolidation to December.
My question for you, is, "Is now a good time to buy silver and then hold; and can you be making money with that?"
Are Your Decisions Costing You Money?
Written by Stephen Outram Wednesday, 16 November 2011 09:05
When you make a decision or have a fixed point-of-view, then all of the information you require to justify it comes flowing into your life.
We dynamically start compiling the evidence that supports our decision. Why? So that we can prove to everyone - and everyone includes us - that we were right; even if it costs us dearly.
The result is that it cements and solidifies that decision so that we become unaware of any other possibility; it's like putting blinkers on. Decision, reduces our flexibility, nimbleness and ability to change. While the whole thing is a powerful capacity, it may cost-us.
For example, if you have decided-on a buy-and-hold strategy with stocks and shares, you may not have the nimbleness required to make money with volatility.
Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness, says that decisions, judgements, computations and conclusions are a way we eliminate possibility and choice.
With world financial markets swinging wildly, would the ability to change in a moment be useful in making money?
Fantastic Gold!
Written by Stephen Outram Sunday, 13 November 2011 08:40
Making Money with Change's weekend series presenting fantastic pictures of gold.
Are Rare Finds Really So Rare?
Written by Stephen Outram Friday, 11 November 2011 07:55
Newspapers tend to ignore the fact that rare, valuable and beautiful objects are found all the time
Media have been reporting on a 14th century brass time piece found in a Queensland farm shed.
"Mr Becker [the owner] says the quadrant was sent to his family in a box with "all sorts of things" by a deceased line of relatives from New Zealand who took it with them when they emigrated from England in the 1860s." His boys were playing in the shed and "...in this old bag of pipes, there was this perfectly shaped piece of brass which could make roads beautifully." The Courier Mail. November 10 2011
The object turns out to be one of only five known in the world and is an instrument used for providing a calendar and for telling the time. It is described as an equal hour horary quadrant and is dated 1396.
While we get caught up in the romance of chance, rare and valuable objects turn up regularly across the world. Often via people who are not aware of their value.
Have you asked all of the rare and valuable items that you hid away, in any life-time, to come back to you now... in this lifetime?
I wonder what might show up for you if you asked a question?
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