DGrant Gibson

“David Cameron today announced the most ambitious change to the welfare system since it began, promising to re-introduce a culture of responsibility that he said had been lost.

The Welfare Reform Bill will replace the complex array of benefits with a single Universal Credit, strip benefits from those who repeatedly turn down job offers and introduce new health check-ups for those who claim a disability stops them working.

Speaking in east London alongside the architect of the reforms, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, the Prime Minister said: ‘Never again will work be the wrong financial choice. Never again will we waste opportunity. “

This is an excerpt from an article written in the Daily Mail about the massive changes taking place in the UK. This new normal I believe will become the economic standard round the world to aid in the correction of countries stretched to the breaking point in their local economies.

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.

A recent article I read extracted from The Associated Press could easily have gotten overlooked as it was buried in a small local newspaper magazine on business and entrepreneurship toward the middle section. A small headline on the front page that was difficult to read and misleading could have been the point at which I may not have been triggered to pursue to find the article. Once I started reading it my eyes were opened. Opened to the plight of India. India in a new world. The new world of economy, growth, and wealth. Public companies such as

Mark Cuban just wrote a blog on his website August 13th that probably rates a 9 out of 10 in importance for this country and it’s current needs. Profits are not a zero sum game. Prosperity is not a zero sum field of energy. Not only do you benefit your family, you benefit your community, you benefit your country. The financial and influential impact you create will be like a wave in a small pond making it’s way into the ocean

So many things have changed in today’s high tech environments that allow, encourage, foster and grow, virtual altered versions of the self that may or may not reflect the real person. Most humans do not want to feel ‘left behind’ to anything new, especially on the web…

‘It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and either should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because…All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.’
Who said this? The multi-billionaire Mark Cuban. This was at the end of a blog Mark Cuban wrote about his attaining ultimate success- when he hit the MARK! (okay, I promise no more puns!) He stated that no one ever asked anything about his previous many

Remember the story of the chicken and egg? Which came first? The logic is you cannot have a chicken without an egg nor can you have an egg without a chicken! When you think of the connecting link between these two apparently different things, would the same reasoning not be held for two critical desires we all want in our life– a high degree of WEALTH and the HEALTH to go and enjoy it all? Can these two actually be the same, have equal value, and it doesn’t matter?…

I recently read two books that I believe, together, are catalyst to transforming the fundamentals of attaining, keeping, and growing wealth. The first is ‘Why We Want You To Be Rich’ by Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki. The second is ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind’ by T. Harv Eker. So why would I make such a claim…

This weeks lotto 649 at $40,000,000 which was won by 2 people is a fascinating example of a person expecting the best yet living with with something much less. I don’t think millionaires, multi-millionaires and billionaires buy lottery tickets to ‘live the best life possible’. They go out everyday doing what they each do best-there own special thing, business, art, etc. They do not stand back and watch the wheels go around to offer them, on a silver platter, their ‘favorite numbers’…