Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 35

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 35

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.
Would you like to be in control of your future or have someone else do it for you?

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Are not counting your blessings.
Why should you be entrusted with more if you are not grateful for what you have?

2.    Are full of financial lies in your life.
Truth creates wealth; lies destroy it.

3.    Are not dealing with your financial reality.
We must let go of the past if we are to create a better future.

4.  Are not taking risks by investing in your future.
The only way to predict the future is to create it.
Money always follows excellence!

5.    Are mortgaging your future to enjoy the present.
Our financial life is a reflection of the value of services we provide for others so they can live better lives. Those that put service above self become a gift to the world.

6.    Are not sick and tired of your present circumstances.
The road to financial wealth is paved with the right financial decisions based on sound financial principles.

7.    Are comparing your financial success with that of others.
You are the only one who can change your financial future.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 34

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 34

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.
Would you like to be in control of your future or have someone else do it for you?

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Have the wrong financial assumptions.
Separate information and facts from noise and fiction; get the right information from the right sources.

2.    Think diversification is the key to financial success.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance; become financially literate.

3.    Have backward thinking.
Thinking someone else will take care of your needs when you are old; think again.

4.    Are playing safe.
Playing safe leads to a mediocre life; take some risks.

5.  Have a retirement plan full of liabilities.
The best retirement plan is full of assets that produce positive cash flow.
The best assets to own in the information age are the invisible assets; the thinking, the ideas, and the solutions coming out of our brains.

6.    Cannot control your emotions.
Those that cannot control their emotions cannot control their money; keep control of your money.

7.    Cannot control your excuses.
Excuses come from loser’s insecurities; responsibilities come from a winner’s attitude.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 33

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 33

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.
Would you like to be in control of your future or have someone else do it for you?

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Are not a goal setter.
We can never hit a goal we have not set.
Who is setting your goals?

2.    Are not learning and growing.
We are either moving forward or backwards.
Who is controlling your speed of growth?

3.    Are not disciplined with your time.
Time is our most valuable asset; use it productively.
Who is controlling your calendar?

4.    Are living by obligations and not priorities.
Setting and living by priorities allows us to achieve anything we set our minds to.
Who is setting your priorities?

5.    Are not leveraging something besides yourself.
Hard work is not enough; leverage must be part of the equation.
Who is leveraging you?

6.    Are keeping company with you have little to learn from.
We become the average of the people we associate with; choose your company wisely.
Who is determining your closest friendships?

7.    Are not generous and persistent.
Generosity precedes freedom; be a giver of your most precious assets if you want to have more of those assets.
Who is determining your level of giving?

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Monday, May 4, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 32

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 32

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Think life is not fair.
Undesired things happen to everyone; what matters is what we do with what happens to us.

2.    Think money is not fair.
Money comes and sticks to those who understand and respect it.

3.    Think compensation is not fair.
The highest compensation goes to those who produce the greatest results, not the most educated.

4.    Think wealth is not fair.
True wealth is created by each generation; we only value what we truly earn.

5.    Think wealth is inherited.
What separates the wealthy from the poor is not education, but application of the knowledge known to mankind for thousands of years.

6.    Think hard work is enough to become financially free.
The wealthy either leverage a system or money to create their wealth.

7.    Think one must have luck to become wealthy.
LUCK = Laboring Under Correct Knowledge.
POOR = People Overlooking Opportunities Repeatedly.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Sunday, May 3, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 31

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 31

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Are always looking for shortcuts.
Shortcuts only come after we do the hard work.

2.    Are minding someone else’s finances.
Most people will gladly work towards someone else’s dreams than on their own.

3.    Are not taking control of your cash flow.
We must stop the bleeding before giving medication.

4.    Think having a mortgage is a good financial decision.
For most people a home is a liability, not an asset.

5.    Lack financial literary and financial intelligence.
Learn how to walk then how to run in the right direction.

6.    Don’t know how to get out of the rat race.
First we must recognize the race we are in then figure out how to run out of it.

7.    Cannot find the opportunity hidden inside a problem.
Every problem carries an opportunity inside it; learn how to solve the problem and the opportunity is yours.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Saturday, May 2, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 30

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 30

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Cannot separate facts from opinions.
Seek the advice from people with results; they are the ones with the facts.

2.    Don’t know why you are struggling financially.
Only what we measure and focus on grows; take full control of your finances.

3.    Are stuck with your money habits.
Poor habits are easy to make and hard to break, like eating out too often.

4.    Think owning a business is risky.
What used to be risky is now the safe route to financial freedom. What used to be safe in the industrial age is now the new risky; depending on someone else to provide for you.

5.    Are not building a systematic business attached to your passion.
Create a business that can provide the lifestyle you want. The information age made technology accessible to the common man.

6.    Are more concerned about doing than being.
The key question to ask is, who do I need to become to deserve the lifestyle I want?

7.    Feel the educated should make the big bucks.
The world is fast becoming saturated with highly educated people who are at the mercy of the uneducated wealthy to provide opportunity for them. That extra credential or diploma may actually hurt instead of help you. The world needs skilled people at solving problems, not highly educated people that cannot even define what the real problem is.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Friday, May 1, 2015

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 29

The Financial Matrix – Daily Dose 29

Are you trapped in the Financial Matrix?
The Financial Matrix is how the Aristocracy controls the masses by controlling capital.
The financial illiterate slave is in bondage to the financial savvy aristocrat.

You are in the Financial Matrix if you …
1.    Don’t have a mentor.
A great mentors pumps truth into our lives that when applied change our results.

2.    Are not turning your failures into strengths.
Our failures are ours to learn the lessons so we can deserve to live the life we dream to live.

3.    Are not leveraging the power of faith.
It takes a healthy dose of faith to go into places others don’t dare to go.

4.    Are not willing to change who you are.
We can never take our grubby old self into a bright new future, change is required.

5.    Are only seeing money with your eyes.
We must see with our mind first so the mind can tell the eyes what to see.

6.    Chose a profession before choosing your lifestyle.
Always attach a business to a purpose, a lifestyle, instead of attaching a purpose to a business.

7.    Are not swimming against the current.
We must swim against the current until the current turns in our favor.

Solution: Get financially fit and prosper.
Get out of the Financial Matrix by investing in your financial education!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Author of the book Priceless
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead
"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."