Being reactive is like making decisions without thinking. It can cause failure or worsen the event if the decision is not correct.

I remember the story of the father hit the hand of his five years old son with a wrench. The child was hit because his father got mad when his son wrote something on his car. His father didn’t want his sons’ finger to be broken but it’s too late. After that he saw the word “I Love You Dad” written on his car. His son asks his father gently “when will my finger grow back.”

From that story lets make it being responsive. When the father see his sons scratch his car instead of making himself angry he, try to think of a solutions to fix it relax and calm. We know that a five years old child don’t know what they did after. The boy  just wanted  to say “I love you” to his dad. The boy don’t mean bad thing at all. It happen to people who don’t know how to act responsive.

To be responsive is being on our most relaxed state of mind. To see bigger picture and take things less personally, rather than being rigid and stubborn we are flexible and calm. Seeing bigger picture of you can able you to see it more clearly. Having a clear vision can send you a relaxed state of mind, good mode and happy feelings.

The last paragraph on page 34
A responsive mind is fertile ground of success. When your mind is clear and relaxed, you pave an open channel for abundance and joy. There is a direct and clear relationship between how much time you spend in a responsive state of mind and your own level of success. The more you are able to stay out of reactivity, the more opportunities will present themselves. Beginning right now, use the power of responsiveness to create your own success.

When you pay yourself first there is nothing to worry about investing whether your strategy fails or succeed. This is what I understand inside the book. To make it more clearly about investing, risk is always there and strategy is always changing. It really means Investing is only for risk taker persons, but to be safe and not to worry about the book advice to save money or pay you first. What ever happen to the market and your investment you will glad to know that you are safe.

It was 3:30am of June 14, 2010 when I flip the page 27 and No. 11 Hire Up topic from “Don’t Worry Make Money”. I am about to sleep at the moment but I become interested what lesson I can learn from the topic.

Hiring someone to do the work for you is such a form of leverage. Smart hiring is must to avoid the reverse effect of leverage. Don’t hire a people that are not capable. I see myself as the book explain that “People who are self-employed often fall into the same trap.” I can do myself better than anyone else. I agree that it is really a foolish statement.

Sometimes I’m afraid to work with the person who I see better than me because I’m afraid that idea can be stolen. I try to look for people that I still have to train, this is good but there is always a better way. The book is right that if you are going to hire it must be better than you so that you can learn more from them and gain more time from them.

If I’m going to laundry all my clothes for a day I will miss to earn let say 100% more than I can pay for a laundry shop. I’d rather pay 10% if my income for the laundry and do my work to earn 100% of my income. If I have a salary of P1,000.00 for a day I would rather pay P100. 00 pesos for someone who can clean my laundry.

Consider the possibility that if is sound too good to be true, It might not be.

This is false expectations, when you think that it’s so easy or good the outcome probably the worst. It happens to me and this is my story.

Having a job seems easy to have when you have not yet try to apply. I thought that completing the requirements and know all the things you do about the job you applied for is what you need. But it’s not what you expect; you can fail anytime you miss some of it. I failed the requirements.

Another “Sounds Too Good To Be True Story” in my life is when I join MLM Company that promise a compensation to live a lifestyle that you want. Well again its Good and True but it not again for me. That company doesn’t exist anymore and before I make a good income it shut down and declared a bankruptcy.

When I’m in High School? It’s just too good to be true that I marched on the graduation day even though I have a tendency not to graduate.

It is us who will claim that If Is too good to be true, It must be.