Spend about 1/20th of your day fighting off invaders (bills and collectors, taxes, mental anguish, legal threats, mean people, idiots, conspiracies [real or imagined], etc.) and the rest executing a Prosperity Plan. To do this any other way is, I'm convinced, is to flirt a little too earnestly with Disaster.Two years ago I lost a job that was paying probably in the upper .5% for compensation in an area of the country not particularly known for making people affluent. The company I was working for got taken down by a lawsuit they didn't see coming that had been creeping up on them for two years prior to my even getting there. In any case, this was a bit of a wake-up call for me. How dependent I was upon others for my wherewithal!The following two years I have spent reinventing myself and as a result have cut that dependence on others and put myself and my family into a situation where we are more in charge of our own destiny than ever before. There are some loose ends to clean up and still a ways to go before we are as prosperous as we intend to be, but the point is: if you put the majority of your attention on getting there and damn the sometimes very noisy and even ugly torpedoes coming your way, you can pull out of any nose dive, even if it takes a while to do it. It is so worth doing and in this economy, more than ever!
