Cash MONEY! and self CONTROL!

Ok! This week I learned so much about cashflow. I knew about it and I knew you want assets and income. The richgrad video's illustration really helped it click in my mind. To be honest, that guy really annoys me when he's doing those videos but the way he visually explained the different cashflow scenarios or the poor, the middle-class, and the rich. It really made sense to me.
It looked a little something like this!


Practice is what the journey is about. 
Also, with the So You Want to be an Entrepreneur? book did help me recognize some myths of entrepreneurship that I personally had. Including that you have to be rich, smart, and young to start out or that you have to have the latest greatest invention to be successful. Oh and that you don't just flippantly go around taking risks that put your whole self in jeopardy all the time, but you make educated and calculated risks often.

I hope this is okay for the blog; I figure that it is since it's supposed to be a place we record things we want to know where to find in the future. But I wanted to paste my entry for the LDS perspectives discussion this week because it was a really important one for me:

"This is a great talk for me. I was just thinking yesterday that I need to engage my self control/ self mastery more. I know that's it there because I've used it a lot before. But I really loved how Elder Tanner talked about his 100 percenter grandson and how he was consistant and made choices and sacrifices to be 100% in his church attendance. This taught him to have great self mastery and it's an amazing example of diligence and devotion to the calls of the Lord. So how do we do that too? I think one of the biggest things is to recognize where you are not in control of yourself, or rather, you're letting your natural man walk all over you. Once you've recognized where the problem is, then you can start to remedy it by doing all you can and petitioning the Lord for help. I've got some things to work on.

Elder Tanner quoted some philosophers and artist and that part really stuck out to me,

"Plato said: “The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”

And da Vinci once said: “You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.” Then he goes on to say that “the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. … And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

It just really struck me that if we cannot master ourselves or exercise dominion over ourselves how are we ever supposed to run a kingdom and have dominion over anything thing or anyone else? Even on a smaller scale, how will I be a good wife or mother if I cannot control myself?"

It just really hit me at the right time. I need to use my self-mastery in all aspects of my life.