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Does Your Career Affect Your Lifestyle or Vice Versa?

Written on November 2, 2009 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Money

linked Here’s a story we’ve been told our whole life:

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You choose a career.
You get a job.
It pays the bills.
Life is good.
You live happily ever after.
If you’re lucky. Because …

If you’re lucky, you love your job.
If you’re lucky, your work is stimulating.
If you’re lucky, there is room for growth in your chosen career.
If you’re lucky, you earn enough from your job to support your desired lifestyle.
If you’re lucky, your job also affords you time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
If you’re lucky, you realize that luck is only a small part of all of these things.

As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be lucky than smart.”

Lifestyle costs affect career decisions
However, smart decisions often increase your chances of getting lucky. And who doesn’t like to get lucky?

You get a job to support your lifestyle. But how does your lifestyle affect your career?

If the costs of your lifestyle put too much of a demand on how much you have to make, you may have to take a job that you don’t love just to pay for your lifestyle.

If your lifestyle consumes every penny you make, you may have to jump at the first offer that comes along instead of being able to select the job that fits you best.

You may have to take a job that takes up all of your time. You have no time to do anything else including things you love to do or spending time with people you love.

Find harmony between the two
The two are completely interdependent. Your career choices affect your lifestyle. That’s certainly true. But the piece that’s missing is that your lifestyle also affects your career decisions.

In other words, how you spend your money may determine how you earn money.

Bigg success is life on your own terms. The five elements of bigg success are money, time, growth, work and play. The bigg idea behind bigg success is that there is synergy between these five elements.

You are the entrepreneur of your life. It’s implicit in our definition of bigg success. You and you alone are in charge. Successful entrepreneurs understand that their business finances and their personal finances are linked.

Their business has to make enough money support them. But that’s only half the story. They also have to be careful that they don’t put too much of a burden on the business with their personal financial decisions.

Even if you aren’t an entrepreneur in the traditional sense, it’s helpful if you see yourself in business for yourself. You may have just one customer – your employer. Your lifestyle affects your career and your career affects your lifestyle. Find the harmony between them and you’ll find bigg success!

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The Trap That Keeps You from being Financially Free

Written on September 15, 2009 by admin in Financial Freedom

money_trap You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.”

Bigg success is life on your own terms. The terms we use to define our bigg success are incredibly important.

When we get what we wished for, it better be what we really wanted!

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For example, we may seek financial security. How do you define financial security? Is that what you really want? Or is there a better term for what you seek? Are your actions consistent with your definition?

These are a few of the questions you might ask about a term which is a goal.

Financial security

Financial security means safety. You have a refuge from any storm. This is the reason a lot of people like having a regular job. They feel like it gives them some sense of security.

We often confuse financial security with financial stability. One of the reasons we like that job is it provides a steady income. That’s not security; it’s stability.

This highlights the importance of understanding what a term really means to you.

Does a job or a career offer you financial security? We think it doesn’t.

You have to create financial security for yourself. But that’s just the first level. You may really want more than just safety.

Financial independence

You may seek financial independence. You want to be self-reliant. You don’t want to depend on anyone or anything to meet your financial needs.

You’re able to live a comfortable life. You may have a job but you also have investments or other sources of income in case something happens with your career.

Financial freedom

The next step up is financial freedom. You’re free to live the life you really want to live. Your income exceeds your lifestyle costs by a significant margin.

The trap that keeps people from financial freedom

Randy Jones, author of a book we highly recommend to you, The Richest Man in Town, wrote about the trap that keeps many people from reaching financial freedom on his blog a while back. He said:

“A stable salary can be addictive: like a drug, it feels good, helps you cope with the ups and downs of life, and it is very hard to give up. But dependence on a salary is a major impediment to becoming the richest person in town. The regular fix of a paycheck from the other guy makes you risk-averse, and the ability to take risks is one of the qualities that defines an RMIT.”

So if you want to be free from money worries, you have to take risks. Risk is the opposite of security. But you have to take those risks to reach the level of financial freedom.

And by our definitions, a person who reaches the level of financial freedom is also financially secure … and then some.

No job can make you financially secure. No business can do it. No investment can do it. You have to do it by putting all the pieces together.

It starts by defining bigg success and then going for it!

You’ve heard our terms for money. What are your terms?

Share that by leaving a comment below, e-mailing us at bigginfo@biggsuccess.com or calling us at 888.455.BIGG (2444).

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