The Smart Money Guide v1 | Page 12

The Power of the Budget Andrew Carnegies bio on You Tube saved my financial rear end. I learned how to budget from him and how to make better financial decisions from Bob Proctor, Jim Rohn, T. Harv Eker and many others. Have a financial mentor that can teach you how to succeed financially. Some people chronically overspend while others budget their resources to achieve something important. There are those who see failures as challenges and opportunities and there are those that take failures personally and find something else to do that is easier. The lesson to be learned won’t go away, it will hang around you until you can man or woman up and face that lesson head-on. Wisdom is learned from mistakes made and not repeated. I was a little slow on this one until I got fed up with the same wrong results. The type of results I wanted determined what my actions would be. George Odiorne said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. Every one of the financial results you seek are measurable. If you don’t like the results – improve your actions and re-measure.