Comments on: “The Dollar”

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:42:10 +0000

This is a good reminder for me that when I allow myself to get consumed at work and spend too much time there, I am not the only one who suffers. I’ve got a family waiting for me when I get home and they deserve to have more quality time with me than I make for them. And it benefits me as well. I am happy when I am with my family instead of at work.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:36:46 +0000

Well, just for grins, had 6 children. Had a ball with them. Let’s see, I helped build the special floor for gymnastics, coached baseball and softball, helped with soccer and football, started a hockey league, helped with little theater. Had the kids in everything we could find. Also home schooled the whole crew. Was on TV a couple of times for that, home school I mean.
Ah, don’t forget boy scouts and 4H and ballet and figure skating……well, I watched and paid for those although I did help with Boy Scouts.
And know what? Wish I’d have spent even more time with them
But we are having a ball with the grandchildren now. Just bought the 4 year old some golf clubs. She showed some interest……:-)
No, I don’t have a ton of money, just the kids were the most important thing in the world to us. We always figured out a way.

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:59:04 +0000

I am fortunate enough to have been able to stay home with my children as they are growing up. I have the flexibility to manage their hockey teams, participate in extra-curricular activities with them, and generally spend all of my time and focus on them. It always seems, though, that there are never enough hours in a day to “get things done”, as time flies so fast while my kids have grown up. I love the Dollar song. It really hits home. Wow–one day into the 10-day turnaround, and it’s more like a life turn-around.
Thanks!

By: Jeanie Adkins

Jeanie Adkins — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:02:35 +0000

Success…Being RICH has more than one meaning as does success. Right now my family is living pay check to pay check just like so many people are today. We don’t have a lot, we own our lower middle class house, huge credit card debt, have two autos, 2 kids, a dog and some hermit crabs. The kids have more than I did when I was growing up. And alway want more. I don’t think they are ever happy until they get the next great new gadget, game or whatever is out there at the moment.

Sometimes my kids ask me if we are rich. I tell them yes we are much richer than so many people, but we are not wealthy. Success has more than one meaning as well. It depends on the eye of the beholder. To me, I feel like success is when you put your head on your pillow each night and can say I made a positive difference in someone’s life today, then I was a success that day. Yes I would like not to have the huge debt we have and am struggling on finding ways to get out of it even as I type this response. I hope I will learn the trade I am attempting to pursue to accomplish that. Then I would be a financial success.

I really do love the quotes I have read today. Because it puts things into perspective. You can be filthy rich but be miserable. You can be dirt poor but be extremely happy. How you live your life with what ever means are available to you and you do it in a possitive and constructive way is my idea of success.

I am looking forward to learning as much as I can to help me make this new business I have started get off the ground. I do need some direction in where to go next. I am struggling as to figure out what step to take next. There are so many options! I have so many emails I dont know which one to do next.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:00:50 +0000

I think that the lyrics are saying is that we must not get so wrapped up in the “things” part that we lose sight of what is important, It should be God first, family second and then everything else after that. When we lose focus and start to put other things above those, such as work, friends, etc. we struggle. We all need finances to keep going but sitting in an office eight hours a day is what I have been doing and I feel robbed of the time I have lost in doing things that are important to me, and yet one has so little time for them. As we have started the 10 day turnaround let it be a fresh start for many of us and let it be the start to get us where we want to be, and we will then have that extra time to do those things which we are missing out on, and also touch some other lives out there in someway, which we have not done because we have “just been too busy” or do not have the finances to do so.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:02:53 +0000

I married believing living with my mother in law would allow us more time, and create a deeper quality of life for all three of us, but instead she has expensive demands and neither of us has time for our relationship anymore. It seems like her presence has raised our expectations without actually making our quality of life more pleasurable. I have held on to beliefs which are not and have not been fulfilled in this relationship. I am worried that as a woman, going it alone at 60 will be harder than if I had done it earlier when I had more energy. But my body and my mind seem to be begging for something which has more friends and more conversations and less TV and less pandering or waiting for someone to die!! Waiting for permission from those living in the past is not going to happen.

I feel I’ve gotten a crystal chandelier but the diamonds’ shadows on the wall are colored red from the lost blood of our relationship. I expect this 10 day challenge will upset a lot of my habitual ways and relationships. During this global scale financial crisis, I wonder where the point of luck from my personal potential is waiting? How do I find the $1 million question?How will I persuade people with wealth to collect unique designs?How do I retrain my inner vocabulary? I seem too tired to stick to my plans due to this long term waiting. I look forward to further steps.

By: Renee Alexopoulos

Renee Alexopoulos — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:52:40 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing, I have not heard this song. This song informs me that I have thought properly since very young. I always knew there was much more to life than school, work, retire. That is the short story. I would also like to second what Jose Damaso Ramon wrote as it is said well.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:21:42 +0000

I realize that I am completely accountable for my life as it is. If I want true wealth with my family it is up to me to create that reality. Every day I make choices now that take me forward both financially and in true wealth but not always at the speed I would like. Perhaps your course will get me asking the right questions to achieving the balance we all need in achieving true wealth as well as financial greatness!

By: Martyne

Martyne — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:45:27 +0000

I had the luxury to stay home full time for 10 years because I was married to someone who made good money. When the 3rd of my kinds started shcool, I went into a brick and mortar business for myself. Because I have always known that life is about balance (Thank goodness for my grandmother) I made it a point, even if I had to work 60 to 72 hour weeks, to be home for dinner. Even growing a business and spending a LOT of time at the office and with clients, I would sit at the kitchen table every day at 5:30 pm and return to the office around 8:00 pm, after baths and homework. My kids thought I was weird at the time but my now 20 year old daughter (she was 10 when I started the business) thanks me every day because she says : ”I was lucky anough to have a weird but balanced mother so I had the stuff AND the attention”. No matter what the situation, you can never loose if you find the balance your life needs. If you can’t see how, try changing your perspective.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:22:38 +0000

I am a proud father of three girls.

For myself, the thoughts that are implied by these lyrics are week, although touching. If one wants to spend time with their family, then all that has to be done is to create an enviroment which yields to time. The question that has to be asked is, “Do I truly desire time with my children?” The answer to this question will direct you to create the proper enviroment for you to follow. Emplement these thoughts into your daily life and the results will enable your desire. This reigns true with all of your tasks.

To each a fulfilled life!