Financial-Freedom-Fortune for Families
A lot of families are not doing well financially these days.
How is your family doing financially?
How do you feel about your family's finances?
How do you feel about having financial-freedom-fortune?
Read what these families have been going through . . .
and how some of them turned around their families finances, lack of freedom and fortune into Financial-Freedom-Fortune.
Loosing everything at once! - Jim’s story
Last year, my relationship ended.I lost my family.
It’s not really over yet, but let me say that we separated.
We decided that our son would live with her and I moved out.
I thought it was the best decision to separate and allow our son to continue his life as undisturbed as possible, but boy did it hurt to actually be on my own and not having to live with my family anymore!
A couple of months later, I lost my job.
There was no way I could be transferred to another division, the company was going down hill and had to lay off a lot of people.
Maybe I wasn’t really performing as my boss wanted me because of the divorce.
To make a long story short, I lost my income and immediately had problems making my child support payments.
This meant war with my ex-wife.
I felt so frustrated, angry with her and with myself and with everything and everybody!
I felt like a hopeless case, like a loser big time, damned for all times.
Am I going to get out of this situation at all?
Single Mom making ends meet - Linda’s story
I am a single parent having to raise a family of 4 kids.
Monica, my eldest daughter is 22 years old and in college where she stays in on campus.
Monica works part time and has a scholarship to help her make it through school.
I am very proud of her!
My son Sylvian is 20 and living with us.
He on and off has a job. I don’t think he is entirely happy with his work at this point.
The two youngest Carlyne and Caron are twin sisters of 15.
Sylvian takes care of the twin most of the time.
This is crucial because I am not at home a lot working in sales and giving a lot of on-site sales presentations to clients.
But the economy has been going down for some time now and sales are also plunging.
I pray to God that things will be picking up again and that I will be able to keep making ends meet.
I mostly worry about getting the twin through school.
I don’t allow myself to think about what happens when I get fired.
I know I should plan for this scenario also, but so far my prayers seem to work.
When Caron was 4 years old, she had a very high fever for about 2 days and I was very worried about her.
My ex-husband and I were just done with the divorce and I was heavily in debt with attorney bills and the cost of moving to a new and cheaper house. I was hesitant calling the doctor because I simply could not afford it.
I stayed at he sides that night and pray and pray and pray the whole time.
I strongly believed God would hear my prayers and help us.
At the end of the night Caron and I both fell asleep into a very deep sleep.
The next day Caron’s fever was gone and she felt better.
Within two days her strength was back as if nothing had happened.
So when things get crazy, I trust in God.
Does this sound naive?
Maybe so, but who are you going to turn to and rely on when all so called securities collapse?!
My sister feels all alone, poor and powerless….- Stefano’s story about his sister Lydia
I live with my wife Sharon and our two kids.
We are pretty conventional, mainstream, like a lot of middle class families and traditional.
Both Sharon and I work but I am the family's breadwinner.
My sister Lydia has always been eccentric when we were growing up.
She has no job, didn’t finish her high school and has a sexual preference for women
. She lives alone with her animals in a little village a 2 hours drive away from us. She has well fare.
This winter she has been sick with bronchitis.
I called her regularly but after awhile she didn’t answer her phone.
We decided that we were going to go visit her and see how she was doing.
When we saw her I was shocked and appalled by the state she was in.
She looked emaciated, her house and animals dirty and in a mess.
Sharon and the kids started clearing out some mess. I wanted the kids to be out of the bedroom to reduce the risk of getting sick as well.
I stayed with Lydia and she levelled with me. I have never seen her this open and honest.
She said her life was a total failure and she deserved to die.
She hasn’t felt happy for a long time. She has built up a credit card debt of 25.000 and is still failing to clear this up.
Her lover (an Italian lady, I believe) left her years ago and she felt so lonely ever since.
Lydia worried about her animals and what would happen if she wouldn’t be able to take care of them anymore (financially and health wise, I assume).
But under no circumstances would she want me to help her in any way. She felt it is her destiny to be in a state she was in and she was merely following her destiny.
We all were silent when we drove back home. Lydia’s state, the total chaos and mess she was in, made a big impression on the kids. Finally my youngest son broke the silence and asked:
“Is auntie Lydia really going to die Daddy?”
I believed Lydia was depressed and made a Greek drama out of her misfortunes.
But still she needed something very powerful, a heavenly sent miracle and fortune to turn her around in her darkest night of her soul.
Which strong financial impact force is hurting your family ?
These forces with strong financial impact may hurt your family:
• Loss of income
• Out of control medical expenses
• Out of control use of credit line(s)
• Divorce, Separation
• Unexpected expenses
• Rejected credit application(s)
• Failure to sell off business, house or other assets
• Unexpected loss of investments when stock markets crash
• Out of control habits (gambling, shopping, substance abuse)
How to mitigate these forces?
First of all, do not panic. Panic will reduce your ability to think clearly and thus the quality of your solutions and proper actions.
Next, take responsibility ! You may say that it is not your ‘fault’ loosing your job, loosing your marriage, loosing money in the stock market or what it may be.
Blaming however, being in the sate of mind of a victim and feeling self pity will not get you to a real working solution.So take responsibility.
Somehow you were part of the financial loss, disaster or bankruptcy.
See it as it is. Accept the facts and you will be able to move on. Next decide you want to move on!
When times get really rough, keep your family together. Keep your marriage or relationship with your life partner strong.
Keep love and affection strong.
Keep communicating openly and honestly about how you feel. Carry the burden together, like a true family.
Again, don’t blame anybody or anything.
Just keep and uplift your family values and morale the best you can.
Don’t fall prey to negativity even if the whole town, all the media and economy is being negative and down.
Show and truly experience some real inner strength during tough times.
All these things like keeping the family connection, communication, feeling togetherness does not cost you anything. The impact however, goes a long way and means all the difference!
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When in a financial crisis, do not feed your problems with your precious energy.
After taking responsibility and accepting the hard facts, resist giving your attention to the problems and misery all the time.
Instead focus your attention and precious energy to what it is that you do want.
Take responsibility for your inner states and keep your inner states uplifted and full of optimism.
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Start praying to your God, Source, Divinity or what ever name you give it.
Start believing that your Source is always with you and hears your requests for help, inspiration and strength.Pray every day.
Strengthen your belief. Be open to receive the Divine gifts.
• Financial-Freedom-Fortune Crisis Management: Step by Step
• Start looking at your situation, really see it as it is
• Take responsibility for the loss or disaster or bankruptcy
• Acknowledge your pain, losses and the state you are in
• Find out what you believe about yourself
• Take responsibility for your inner states and beliefs
• Decide that you are ready to move on
• Change the way you feel about yourself
• Believe you can change and move into a better financial state
• Pray
• Learn about Financial-freedom-Fortune
• Believe you will have Financial-freedom-Fortune soon !
The critical question – Summer’s story
When I was at my lowest low when I was around 30, a couple of years ago, I met with Bill at a friend’s party.
We were introduced to each other and engaged in some small talk.
Bill was working as a life coach and helping people with their life issues.
Later that evening Bill and I were somehow getting drinks at the same time and started talking again.
I tried to keep up a cheerful conversation but soon I found myself confessing to Bill how miserable my life was.
I was poor and did not seem to be able to find a decent job.
At a certain point Bill interjected my sob story with a question.
A very sharp and profound question. He asked me how worthy I actually felt about myself.
This question startled me. I realized I felt pretty worthless!
Bill then asked me if it would make sense that my life then turned out pretty worthless if that is what I believed to be true about myself.
This hit home so hard like you wouldn’t believe it!!!
If I could just think a little more worthy about myself, my life would change.
It did and now I stand on my own two feet financially having my own small business and thriving well.
The economic situation does not scare me a bit, since I know who is in charge of my life!
How I overcame losses and depression – Alastair’s story
In 2000, I lost my millions in the stock market crash.
I was 48 years old, married and was taking care of my family.
In 1999 I quit my job as a consultant for a large company, because on paper I had made it.
My early retirement was wiped out in a couple of days or weeks.
I remember not being able to sleep or eat.
When I started eating again I still lost weight.
My body was burning like crazy but I felt like a depressed mad man! Life didn’t make any sense to me anymore.
My wife and 3 daughters saw me change into a being a shadow of my old self.
Looking back I realised I was in denial for months.
By the time I faced reality it hurt like nothing else I have experienced before.
I had lost my fortune and with the money my face and prestige.
It all felt like being beyond repair.
With the help of a coach, my wife and my family and my best friend, I started seeing my self sabotage patterns and how I believed that I didn’t deserve happiness, riches and this fortune.
This also pained me deeply.
It took awhile to take responsibility for all this negative programming and to change it into something positive.
The hard way, I learnt new attitudes, new skills, and changed my life style.
A couple of years later I worked a new day time job while setting up a new business during the evening hours and weekends.
Nothing to do with IT anymore as my business is in real estate.
Now I am well under way in seeing my financial-freedom-fortune grow to a similar level.
I have freed myself and my family from fake securities, fear of poverty and self sabotage.
The economy being what it is now, I still strongly believe nothing can shake my inner strength.
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