Posts Tagged ‘Paycheck’

Negative Side Effects of Debt

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

For any person, debt is like this illness that never goes away, it persists and persists, never truly getting better until action is taken. The comparison works because like an illness, debt can cause a great deal of suffering and pain to those who have trouble paying their bills each more, or at all. Immunity against debt is non-existent, everyone is susceptible. Debt can go beyond simply the inability to pay bills on time, it can literally cause both physical and mental health problems.

Otherwise, honest people who are in debt have resorted to stealing, cheating, and lying in efforts to hide or eliminate their debt. The feelings it causes, it is enough to drive anyone insane. Those suffering from debit will likely feel a combination of shame, depression, embarrassment, anger, and anxiety. While physical and emotional problems occur out of massive debt, other negative side effects occur as well.

What are the other negative side effects? They include:

Bankruptcy

Although unfortunate, thousands of people daily need to file bankruptcy, seeking protection under the law. There are three types of bankruptcy, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and chapter 13. Though it can be a long, drawn-out, and trying process, sometimes bankruptcy can actually help someone in debt get the relief and start they need to come out of debt once and for all.

Eviction

A person in debt may face eviction from their home because they have the inability to pay rent on time each month. Renters who do not pay rent each month will likely find themselves in a situation in which the property owner needs to evict them.

Wage Garnishment

To add to the lack of available money each month, creditors may sue and seek a judgment to have your wages garnished. Essentially, the judge has given your employer an order to make the payment directly out of your paycheck to the creditor you owe. This is money you will never even see, because it comes out instantly.

Foreclosure

Just as if you had trouble paying rent, if you have trouble paying the mortgage, foreclosure is a real possibility. The trouble with foreclosure is that you lose your home. This is one of the most common problems faced for those with bad debt.

Emotional Troubles

Even the happiest of people can find the pressure and embarrassment of debt too much to handle. The press is relentless, it starts with mail and telephone calls from creditors at all hours of the day or night, then it can lead to losing their possessions, such as their car, apartments, or homes.

Suicidal Tendencies

It is a very sad fact that sometimes those suffering from intense debt commit suicide because debt has caused this so many troubles in their lives. Their inability to eliminate their debt drives them to thinking suicide is the only way out.

As you can see, debt can have a real impact on a person’s life. The negative effects doesn’t stop there either, debt will remain on the credit rating of the person for at least seven years. Debt comes at an extremely high emotional and financial cost.

Online personal loans starts out as a good thing, allowing us to live the life we may not otherwise be able to live. However, in some cases, it has the ability to take control and negatively influence your life.

By: Debbie Dragon

Build Wealth While Trading Your Way Out Of Debt

Monday, July 12th, 2010



Has your plan to build wealth been hindered because of your debt? Would reducing your debt help you to better focus on building and maintaining your wealth? Most people focus on reducing debt and then building wealth. I will show you how to do both at the same time. Debt reduction is never easy. If it were, everyone would be debt-free. Debt reduction gives you time and money freedom. As a favor to your family, friends and your future, resolve to become debt-free once and for all.

Start with writing down the goal of being free from debt. This critical component often gets overlooked because of its simplicity. Until you write down your goal it is just a dream. The moment you write down your goal it comes alive. Just like a baby you have to feed this goal. The feeding begins with believing that your goal of debt freedom will be reached. I make it a point to verbally state my goals twice a day, in the morning and just before going to bed. This helps fuel my belief system.

While I am sleep I often dream of ways to reach my goals easier than I ever thought before. I awake the next morning rushing to write down what I have just dreamt so I can take full advantage of the situation.

Most people get caught up in not having a plan to reduce their debt. If you do not know how to go about reducing your debt, do not worry about that right now, just decide that you will do what is necessary to get your debt down. Keep this goal in front of you and you will start to attract the people, ideas and resources needed to reach your goal. When I teach people to build wealth through commodity trading; one of the first ideas I introduce them to, is having a goal of making enough profits to pay at least one bill each month. Imagine if you made enough supplemental money to pay one of your bills each month. This frees of money from your paycheck to begin paying down your debt.

Once you have paid off one bill use that same money and apply it towards paying off another bill. While you are paying off your bills increase your goals in your commodity trading by using strategies to pay two, three or four bills each month with your profits.

Now you are paying down debt while increasing your profits through commodity trading. This is where it really gets fun because as you pay down your debt using profits from trading; you can use money from your paycheck that you no longer have to use for bills, to take a vacation or whatever else you want as long as you do not finance it. Make sure you can pay cash for it. This gets you in the habit of paying cash for what you desire. Believe me this will feel so good!

Experts tell us that many diseases in the body come from financial stress! Imagine if your money worries were laid to rest. You would get sick less because the stress and discomfort of money woes would not be around any longer. Decide now to trade your way out of debt.

In previous articles I discussed a specific wealth building strategy to earn over $5,000. The strategy earned $6,400 to be exact if you followed my recommendation to the letter. I said to invest in Gold on its way to 850.

I said to use profits to pick up a second contract at 834. The use of this multiplying technique is how fortunes are made very quickly. This provides for debt reduction as well. If you recall I said to exit Gold completely once it reached 849 because many people would be trying to exit once it reached 850. To date Gold has not yet reached 850 and taken out the all-time high. Gold went from 800 to 849.50 per ounce.

By: David D. Wells

Financial Freedom Is Not Just About Being Debt Free

Sunday, April 11th, 2010



Financial freedom is a bit of a misnomer. Having financial freedom is defined as being in a place in your life where you no longer have to work to pay for your living expenses. To me, having financial freedom is more about time than money. What could be better than having the time to do what you want without having to work?

That said, many people seem to confuse being financially free with being debt free. Debt has very little to do with financial freedom. If your income is enough to cover it without you having to work, you are financially free. Even if you have $5,000 a month in credit card payments, if you have the money to pay them and you don’t have to work for it, you have financial freedom.

Of course, being debt free can be an integral step in achieving financial freedom since the less debt you have, the less your living expenses are from month to month and the less you income you will to achieve financial freedom. It is definitely recommended that you attempt to pay off all your debts. But paying it off is just one of the first steps in a journey towards financial freedom.

Saving money is also a big part of financial freedom. I recommend having a savings account that is for emergencies only and is easy accessible in case you need to withdraw money. Start with a small amount, maybe $500 or $1000, just in case your car breaks down or, like me, your stove decides to catch fire and explode one day. Don’t worry too much about the interest rate on this account since its purpose is not to make you money.

Next you should have a savings account that is hard to withdraw from, like an automatic deposit savings account that gets a predetermined amount from your paycheck every payday and is invested in a mutual fund or other low-risk investment. The annual gain can be pretty good with this type of investment and it is more difficult to withdraw money from them than your local bank savings account.

Once your savings accounts are set up, and you are focusing on paying as much debt off each month as possible, you need to begin thinking about increasing your income. This is the step that most people overlook in their quest for debt and financial freedom, but it is the most important.

In order to stop working and still earn enough money to pay your living expenses, you need to find a way to get income without working. The two main ways of doing this is through investments and through passive income. There’s also inheritance and winning the lottery, but I wouldn’t stake my financial future on either of those.

Investing is tricky when talking about getting enough of a return to live on. Real estate can be a good investment, especially with rental income, for producing cash flow but as with all forms of investments it is at the whim of the market. Plus, despite what all those ‘no money down real estate deals’ books tell you, you need good credit or a lot of money (or both) to seriously invest in real estate.

Creating a passive income is a more likely way to become financially free than investing, at least for the short term. Internet niche marketing is currently the easiest and most profitable way online to make a passive income without having to invest a whole lot of money. In fact, it is possible to make money through niche marketing without spending any money at all through sites like Squidoo and Hubpages but it is easier and more profitable to build individual niche sites with a targeted domain name.

Don’t be fooled though, although it is easy enough to learn, Internet marketing takes hard work and a lot of time invested into it. Building a website that will bring in targeted readers who are willing to spend their money is quite a task and building trust takes time. You will not get rich overnight but, if you put in the time and effort, you will be able to achieve financial freedom from niche marketing in the future.

By: Jennifer Carpenter