DGrant Gibson

Articles and web video’s on financial frugal management I seem to come across lately have a stream of commonalities. The economy and it’s inherent problems effecting each one of us draw to the surface how a certain sect of people are tackling their personal finances head on. Mark Cuban, billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks recently wrote an article about his view on the smartest way to get rich in today’s world. His answer is to get rid of every expense you can by lowering every conceivable cost you can. Rip up your credit cards, manage every penny, etc. Instead of living the illusion believing we can and will ‘find the next big thing’ ‘out there’ which will let us show the world how great we really are, the thing we CAN do is be responsible to ourselves and tackle tangible things we can, one of these being our finances. Some people are downsizing the homes they choose to live in, one women from a 1500 Sq.Ft. home to a less than 100 Sq.Ft. home with no mortgage, micro monthly utility bills, drives an eco-friendly car and has a part time job with positive cash flow every month! Some are selling furniture and unnecessary belongings that have taken up space but never used. On the other side of the equation is the people who must have no less than 3 HD TV’s in their home, new gadgets every year and an endless in-stream of consumer stuff to keep them with the illusion of happiness, with the blessing of their credit card limits (debt cards!). Do we honestly believe we are helping the economy by spending ourselves into craziness? Since when is ‘helping’ the economy more important than you, when it does not help you, furthering your route to the deep irreversible quicksand of choking debt, making you the servant to money, not the master of wealth!
One thing to understand about money is that it is not emotional. We are! Money does not care if you have it or not, it is not dysfunctional, whether it sits in a vault at the bank, under a bed, in a cash register, lays on the ground, gets stolen, burnt, or ripped up. It is our relationship to money that makes money so confusing. We operate of the deep wells of emotion every time we think money. We are the ones chasing money everywhere we believe it can be found! And even though their are trillions of dollars in millions of locations around the world at any moment in time there never seems to be enough of it.
I am doing a talk show on BlogTalkRadio this Sunday at 10:00AM PDT and we will be chatting about a 90DayTidy2Success on this exact subject. Why not tune in, turn it up and join in the conversation about living smart with money, success, wealth and health?
Until then, GG