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You had better set goals that you can achieve in small, achievable increments or else you’re doomed to failure. Let’s say for example that you set a goal of becoming a millionaire. OK. Now what? Do you put down this book, pick up the remote and channel surf, or do you pick up a pad and pen, or your lap top and start making an organized list of what it is that you need to do to accomplish this awesome task?

 

The problem with setting goals is that we often set lofty goals and then get frustrated because the goals that we set seem unachievable because they do not happen overnight. What happens is that because we can not achieve a quick result, we let these goals fade away as the volume on the television goes up. It’s easy to say “I want to be a millionaire.” It’s another thing to sit down and actually figure out how you are going to do it and then implement a plan.

 

First thing that you have to do is get your short term goals set. Depending on where you are positioned on the economic sh** slide of life will determine just exactly where you need to begin. For most of us poor slobs, it will be things like getting credit cards under control, paying off bad debt, keeping a roof over your head, or in the case of children, which I hope to god you haven’t been stupid enough to reproduce without at least managing to carve out some sort of career path for yourself, you need to provide for them.

 

The first goals that you need to accomplish are well know to yourself, and if you can’t get these under control, then you are probably not going to be able to get anything else under control. 

 

Most of us are too afraid to ask, let alone take the time to track just exactly where our money goes. For example; if you were going to run your life the same way that the major corporations which are fleecing you out of everything that you own do, you would know where every single fraction of every cent in your possession goes.

 

If you have to ask yourself this pathetic question, it shows just how far down the shit slide you actually are. Fact is that most of us do not know where our money goes. Corporations make billions assuming that you do not know where your money is, because if most of us ever figure out where our money is, then big business is doomed. In all probability, your money probably goes everywhere except where it is supposed to be going.

 

The little stuff adds up.

 

Everyday we are all faced with small little decisions about where and how we can spend our money. Usually you start off with the morning commute with a cup of coffee, a newspaper, and something to eat for breakfast. Right there before you have even started making money, you have spent close to ten or fifteen dollars on the little bullshit that you think you need to get your day started, and that does not include what it cost you to get to where it is that you have to work.

 

Now if you’re smart, then you will begin to start breaking down just exactly what it cost for you to function as a human being. You can bet your ass that the corporations know to the penny what it cost to do whatever it is that they do. Probably right down to how many sheets of toilet paper you use to wipe your ass with during the calculated time it takes for you to take a dump. That is what they do, and that is what you should be doing, taking the time to figure out how much it cost you to do what you do. 

 

There’s no complicated spreadsheet or software that you need to do this. Just take a simple notebook and start writing down just what it is that you spend. At the end of the week sit down and add it all up. It will probably amaze you as well as piss you off that you have spent so much on stuff that you really don’t need. Over time you will figure out that what we spend on the little stuff adds up to a fortune.

 

How you cut down on what it is that you spend is up to you. We all have to make choices. But the reality is that skipping a Star Bucks or two, a few times a week can really add to your bottom line. Point here, is to become more self aware of what it is that you are spending, and where it is that you are spending it and the only way to find this out is to keep track of what it is that you are spending. Once again, if you have to buy something to track where you are spending your money, then you are defeating the purpose.

 

Your cell phone is sucking the life out of you.

 

Your cell phone is draining you of precious dollars. For you to become a millionaire you must scale back the urge to purchase the fanciest phone that money can buy. If it looks cool, then you shouldn’t be using it. There is no need for a flashy cell phone. What you need is a phone that will allow you to make and receive calls. You do not need internet access and all of the other services that are being offered up by the big cell phone companies. They are useless time killers that help keep you in debt.

 

A few weeks ago I stood outside an Apple store doing a story about the people who were standing in line waiting for the opportunity to buy the new iphone. There must have been at least two hundred people lined up. I don't care who you are, you do not need a phone like this to add to the slow drain of money out of your bank account. If you’re rich, OK. But if you're a poor slob, then you should not be buying something that is going to cost you 500 dollars on top of a service plan that is going to cost you 79 dollars a month. Jesus and you sit there wondering why you are not a millionaire.

 

The big corporations have got their hooks into us so bad that we don't even know what we want any more. We have been conditioned to buy from the moment we’re born and the corporations spend billions of dollars a year to make sure that you are standing in their stores buying what you don’t really need. What we need to do is reprogram ourselves not to buy. Take a look around your house? What do you see?

Unless you need it to make your first million do not buy it. Until you get rich you can make do with a CD player or a cheap digital player. Same goes with DVDs, plasma screens and other toys. When you become a successful millionaire you can have it all without having to worry about paying the credit card bills that come with possession of these items at the end of the month.

 

Take for example, a plasma screen TV. Why in the f*** do you need a plasma screen TV when you should be spending your time creating whatever it is that you are going to make to become a millionaire instead of watching the mind sucking dribble that is being produced on television.

 

One thing that you always have to remember is that as long as we have money in our pockets, corporate America will find a way to invent something, advertise it and then get us to buy it and suck that money right out of your pocket. Point is we do not need to buy things that we don’t really need. We already have piles of things that we have already been brain washed into buying stored away in containers that we buy from “Target” to store them in. Break the cycle!