Everyday I get up at 5:00 am, and yes it is 3:42 am right now. Even though the economy is hard and people are doing everything they can do to get work. I still get up and do my part. I also try to get others work or use my site to get other products out. Making money is not easy when things are tight and everybody is holding onto theirs..lol...I would do the same thing if I was in their position.

I have seen the world twice and have met some of the most awesome people in the world.,  from exotic Thailand to the East Coast of The USA. I have been inspired by these events and incorporate them into my work ethics. I do my best and set realistic goals to achieve and then move on and make a new list. Every list I have ever lined out I have done and accomplished them. I once heard it is better to set small goals and achieve them than big goals and not achieve them. I also learned when i was 16 years old to look ten to fifteen years into the future and try to see where you would like your self to be.

Almost everybody has heard that, but are you doing it? I have and I can say even during the bumps and all I have made a good living, I have made the right amount of money to support my life style. I never have lived outside my means and I am content with what I have. The reason for this is during one of my many trips around the world, I landed in the Philippines. Once there I ventured out and quickly gained a knowledge of how things worked. At the time the money exchange rate was 35 pesos to our 1 dollar, so I was considered a very rich man when I got there.

Things worked off a barter/ haggle system over there and the year was 1996, you had to haggle prices to get them lower no matter what. I even had to get the cost of the taxi cab drive down. To put it into perspective the trip I was going to take what would be from downtown San Diego to Oceanside. OK! a taxi ride would most likely cost in 1996 about 57$ maybe more to travel that distance. Ok so here I am getting the taxi or JEEPNEE and starting to haggle the prices. The driver budged a little, so I tried it again to get it down one more time. I did not want to get ripped off or pay to much for it. I even said to the guy in my best Tagalog, that I would get another cab driver and not take his. So he took my last offer and I paid the gentlemen.

As I was in the JEEPNEE riding along the country side and enjoying the life and seeing how beautiful this country is. I kind of lets say started to run the numbers in my head on how much the cab ride cost. To my amazement or I should say to my shame, I couldn't believe what I just did. OK you have to remember the trip distance and the price in the US would have been 57$  or so. Well his ride when I was done paying was about 4$ or 100 pesos to him, what I did was haggle the guy down from 7$ to the 4$...I haggle the guy for 3$. I could of easily of paid it, what was 7$ to me at the time. So when I got off the taxi I gave him a tip of 3$ to pay for the original cost of the ride.

The next thing I know every day the same place I would get my taxi the guy was there, he never took a ride until i showed up at about 8:30 am every day, after the third time of him doing it, I dumped him a bunch of money to basically be my tour guide and where ever I wanted to go he did, he would wait when I ate, he would wait when I went shopping. It was the coolest thing on earth. What I did not realize is that the amount of money I gave him, would have taken about 3 months to make. I gave it to him in the 2 weeks I was there.

So believe it or not, this guy showed me what hard work really is and how to make your money and appreciate how you get it. So now I look at our economy now and I think about this guy I met way back in 1996  now some 14 years later and wonder how he is doing? what work is he doing? and all it does is motivate me into working as hard as I can and doing what ever I can to make my living.

So in the end look ten years into the future, remember examples in your life of people you have met or know who have shown a good example of hard work. Incorporate that into you life and good things will com from it. By the way I still have money from that trip in Pesos to remind me of that day. Have a great day now!