This is a great video as to why it is important to invest in your financial education and become financially savvy; as well as not to take everything you hear on mainstream news as gospel….

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Judging from the pomp and old skool glory of the Royal Wedding last Friday one would deem that Britain was still ‘great’ as in ‘the sun never sets on the empire’ great! When in actuality it is broke! It is no longer ‘Great Britain’ but ‘Austerity Britain’.

With the cost of security for the Royal Wedding added to the country’s already severe budget deficit, a number of articles estimate that the cost to the taxpayer will be in its millions. How that will affect the already economically squeezed Briton, what with ‘Tax’ and ‘Inflation’ sitting on either side of them, is simple a question of time.

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Not so long ago I wrote a blog piece on young people and the education system entitled ‘It’s Not So NEET To Be A NEET!’, and I thought I would address the subject again but from the point of view of young graduates rather than NEETS. I do this because today my younger sister graduates from university, who as you can imagine I am very proud of!

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Let me ask you, when you think about becoming debt free and financially independent what do think about and what do you tell yourself? Do you tell yourself that it will never happen for you, or that it is too hard to do; or that it doesn’t happen to people like YOU? Or do you tell yourself that you deserve to be rich because you will add value to other people’s lives; or that someone like you can be rich; or that you can be rich doing what you love? What is your attitude to wealth?  And what negative or positive connotations do you associate with it?

T. Harv Eker, author of the New York bestselling ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth’ says –

“There is a secret psychology to money. Most people don’t know about it, that’s why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem, it is merely a symptom of what’s going on inside you…”

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Do you have an entrepreneurial state of mind or an employee state of mind?

This is a very important question because depending on your answer it will define how you will survive the next coming years of global economic turmoil. And it is coming!  If you don’t see it, it is simply because you do not wish to see it.

We are presently in a time of change, on a global scale where there will be a transfer of power and wealth; just as there has been, numerous times, in World history. Think about it, wasn’t Rome and Greece once powerful and rich empires? As was Spain, China, Africa, and Turkey (The Ottoman Empire)? Change, even if we do not want it, desire it or like it, comes to ALL of us! It is a part of life! See the video below for a perfect example of this, and yes it is based on the USA but we all know that when America sneezes the rest of the World catches their cold!

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Debt, that stranglehold around our finances as well as the cause of sleepless nights and daily worries for many of us, doesn’t look as if it will be going away anytime, soon, for us or the global economy!

So what should we do about it? We should get financially educated, because financial education is the only way to combat the debilitating state ’debt’ creates for many of us. We need to increase our knowledge of debt in order to overcome our fear of it.

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It is the dawning of a new day, and the new World Cup winner has been exalted to the world: Espana! Congratulations to them, for not only are they World champions but European champions; quite an accomplishment by any means!

I mention this because many times when we watch athletes and performers we forget about the ‘business’ aspect of their field. FIFA is the governing body of football but it is also a business; the same as the Olympics, which is why countries clamour to be representatives of these types of Games.  They generate business for the host country, via tourism, construction marketing, and other industries.  Without the element of ‘business’ there is no real income, no revenue, no money, just ‘show’ and to ‘show’ cost money.

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NEET - Not in Employment, Education or Training

I recently watched programme on BBC IPlayer called The Return of the Real Apprentices, produced by documentary makers Panorama.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5xsn

It was based on a case study on four NEETs in Swindon, UK before the recession and after the recession.  NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), is term attached to unemployed individuals under the age of 25 here in the UK.  An age group the government desperately wants to get back into employment, as ultimately they are the future of the British workforce, thus the economy.

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If you weren’t at O2 Indigo this weekend (24^th – 25^th April) you missed out! Whether you are in Network Marketing, Direct Sales, Business to Business sales, a leader of some sort, a leader in waiting but don’t know it yet, this event was for YOU!!!

Dani told it like it is! “I am not a hoar so if you are here to be entertained then you’re in the wrong place! I am here to teach you tangible skills which you can go out with today…TODAY….and use in the market place to yield results.’  And skills aplenty she let forth, left, right and centre!

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I have been awake since the early hours of this morning itching to get on my laptop and write about what an awesome day yesterday was.  I attended an event called Success Summit at which Dani Johnson was appearing.  If you don’t know who Dani Johnson then you need to get to know her!  Check out my post on her here!!

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