Help me to Retire

Well a lot of people start out waiting tables to earn a bit of extra cash during school or university and of course some people do very well out it as a career. But what exactly can being a waiter teach us about when in comes to business, entrepreneurship and money?

Well how about these six things:

1. People Skills - These Will Separate You from the Pack
2. Initiative -  Can Make You a Lot of Money
3. Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Overloaded
4. If You Make a Mistake… Fix it and Get Over it
5. Learn the Art of the Up sell
6. You’re in a Service Business, Period

Check out the full article here.  Some food for thought waiter…

Fancy some free guidance from our friends over at Invest4profit? Then it’s your lucky day.

In this free report the crew at Invest4profit give us some of their expected future directions and important price points on:

• The Australian Dollar
• Gold
• BHP Billiton
• Boom
• Fairfax
• Lihir Gold
• Oxiana
• Westpac

The info provided is good for longer term and short term investors, so head on over there now and check it out.

Well by the title of this post you may be a bit excited that you are about to play around and look at all the recommendations for free in the members area of the Invest4profit site…..  Well sorry, not quite.  But, what is provided for you is a 20 minute video  with Paul Nojin going through the members area bit by bit and showing you what you can find in there. And yes he does give you some  insights and views  on certain stocks and sectors.
Companies mentioned are: CBA, NAB, CSL, Oxiana, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Equinox, Albidon, AMP, Asciano and Woodside.
If you are at all considering joining Invest4profit.com.au or are just interested to hear Paul’s comments on some of these stocks then head on over here and check out the video.

Our good friends over at International Living have provided us with a free e-book titled “To Have or To Lease: A Global Guide to Property Ownership Rules and Restrictions”.

This book gives you all the info you need on over 25 different countries.  Questions like: Should buy there? Can you buy there? What regulations are there? How do I buy? What entity’s can buy there? Am I better off to lease there?

All those questions and more are answered in this handy report.

Why not build a global property empire, you can get in on all the property waves and hedge your local risk.

Check it out here (PDF)

Micheal Yardney’s latest webcast on how to develop the mindset of a super successful investor is now available here (10MB mp3 file).
On this call, Micheal discusses what differentiates the average investor from the super successfull investor. And that thing? Most of the time is mindset. There might be something in your subconscious stopping you from achieving your potential that you don’t even know about. It is deffinetly a worthy place to dedicate some of your time to so check out the call now.

Micheal is also giving you a free copy of his ebook How to develop the Mindset of a Successful Property Investor.

Click here to get your copy (pdf)

Steve McKnight and the friendly crew over at propertyinvesting.com have set up a new free tool for us to use. It’s called Wealth Score and is basically for you to see how well you are doing financially. You input your current income, your personal assets, your investment assets and your debts and it will calculate a score for you. The score you get is the amount of days you could survive on your assets alone. Also given with your results are averages from others that have used this tool.

Wealth Score is a handy tool to help track your financial progress. I suggest you go back to it every 6 months to a year to make sure you are heading in the right direction for financial freedom.

Try it out now!

Someone / some entity has recently bet a large amount of money that global markets will fall between 30% and 50% before the 21st of September 2007.

Do these people know something we don’t know, or are they just covering their tails with the recent market volatility.

Have a read of the full article here.

Don’t get too caught up with the American fear tactics. Markets go up and down and over the long term always recover.

Happy Investing.

What do I mean by this?

A study recently completed proved that the smarter ones amongst us (IQ wise) where generally the same as the more average ones in the areas of net worth and financial distress. Interesting isn’t it? You don’t need to be super intelligent to get your self wealthy, you just need to start investing.
Investing really is a simple sport so being dumb is no excuse what so ever. And being too smart for you own good could hold you back over analysing. Learn what you can and give it a go. You’ll find it’s very forgiving over time and very rewarding.

To read the IQ article check it out here.

Theres not too many of us out there that can afford to pay cash for a property outright (even if we could, that’s not a good strategy but thats another story) so we all use finance (leverage) to help us on the way. So the fact we use finance and need finance makes it a very important part of our property investing. You need to know some of the main points on what to do to maximise your returns and this article from the Reno Kings identifies 3 main financial strategies that will help you maintain and reach your investing goals sooner.

They are:

1. Borrow to the Max
2. Pay Interest Only
3. Make Smaller Home Loan Repayments

To read the full article click here.

Just a quick one for everyone who downloaded the first call. The 2nd one is now available for download and you can get it here.

Once again some more great property investing information from Michael Yardney & Ed Chan

Check it out!