The Care and Feeding of Money

If you want to know how to get more money into your life, you have to know how to grow it - plus a few other basics:

       1. Money is a fiction invented by governments.
       2. Money has to be used to be worth anything.
       3. Money is only a symbol and stands for value.

Let's take these up one at a time -

1. Money is a fiction. It isn't natural. God didn't create it on the 8th day. Man did. (Maybe that's why we put our images on it...) Money is printed up or minted by governments and it's a commodity. They keep printing and minting it and this is really what causes inflation and prices to go up. There's more money around than there used to be.

But you don't "make money" - only printing plants do. You EARN money. And this is by providing something of value to someone else. Then they can give you as much money as they think they want to.

Most of marketing is not "creating want", but actually just finding where there are unsatisfied wants and moving some product or service in front of it. You can earn all the money you want that way - but it's not mysterious. Maybe hard work, but satisfying.

2. Money has to be used. There are tales of money being found stashed away. But remember the 1st rule above? Governments keep printing more money as it's constantly getting lost. What this does is to create inflation as now there's more money around. So in order to keep making a good living, people have to raise their prices to keep up. Any greenbacks you stash only get less valuable.

And that goes for bank accounts now, as well. It used to be that you could get enough in interest to keep up with inflation. Not now. The only money that's worth anything is to buy metal coins (like gold and silver) where the value of the metal itself keeps going up. (Much harder to mine these than just running a printing press.) But where you invest your money in real estate, this also doesn't go anywhere - and there is definately a limited supply of this stuff. You can have freak occurances every few decades where prices are inflated on real estate, but that's usually on what's built on the land, not the land itself. If you're able to stick out these short periods (a year or two, mostly) then prices start coming back up again.

And if you invest your money in trustworthy people, you also get more money back. Because it's again producing more value. Sure, a small handful of people can just take your money and leave. But again, you just got an expensive lesson. Learn from these, and you'll always get value the more you invest your money.

3. Money is only stands for value. This is where we've been getting to all this time. When you put your money to work, you get more value from it. A single small denomination will constantly add value as it's kept in circulation. It's constantly improving conditions as long as it keeps getting spent. And money is easy to find or get in just that way. Simply start offering something of value. The more valuable your offering, the more people will give you money for it. They are wanting to improve their own life-quality, and so want valuable stuff in it.

This is again, the study of marketing - how to match up wants and services. Even the advertising you buy is a service - only as valuable as it really brings valuable goods to you. But you don't have to advertise to market - but you do have to promote, which is communication about your valuable stuff to people who would appreciate it.

Some people make money a spooky subject, full of mystery and unexplainable complexities. But the simplicities are these three points above. Anyone who tells you something else is really just offering you a service. It's up to you to see if what they are offering will actually improve your life or not.

Too simple.