How does one truly measure success? How does one measure wealth? Is purely by their achievements in life? Does that mean that if you never reach the fame and fortune levels that you weer never truly successful? Have you ever thought about what what it really meant to be success and wealthy?

Obviously most of dream of greater things in our lives, we wish for more happiness, money, fame. More of the new and exciting aspects of life. Then there are others who simply want the simple life, no hassles, no added responsibilities and no real expectations in life.

Surely there are those in the middle who have plenty and seem content as well. Yet we still do not know which one of these social profiles are truly successful. Possibly it’s due to the reason that you have simply never thought about. I don’t spend lots of time wondering what success is in itself. I do however spend lots of time achieving greater success in my life.

I can say that because of the growth in momentum and laser focus of my connections while meeting others has become effortless. I have started increasing my own productivity levels and my intellect has increased as well. What used to be seemingly daunting interactions has become effortless.

What about you? Have you ever measured your levels of success and wealth. I want you throw everything you think you know about success and wealth out the window. We all know wealth is not merely monetary and success is not just the highest rung on the ladder. It’s the combination of many areas of life that create balance, security, comfort, and quality in our lives. This is how we measure success and wealth.

Most people know that life is hard on its own, we also know that family & friends often make the influence in peoples lives. How are your relations? Are they upbeat and positive, negative or challenging. I am finding that the more I have to work towards a goal the benefits are greater, this includes entering new circles of influence.

It’s time for self evaluation and checking to see how you measure up to wealth and success. Get out your thinking cap and soak all of these words of truth and wisdom in. Then get out your check list. Start taking an account for everything good great and positive in your life. The spend a short moment looking at your obstacles in front of you, find the brightness in every difficulty.

Then and only then will you be successful. You can not see the bottom of the abyss, so why would you worry about hitting it. Just look back up at the sky, keep your chin up and know that you are truly a great success.

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The downside of all of this is when your house cracks or starts falling apart and you’ve only been in it for a few months what is the buyer to do? I remember as a phone technician I had a clients appointment and she was livid.

Her home had plumbing issues over Thanksgiving one year, she fought with the builder who finally got around to the third repair around Christmas that year. It was so bad that she had to rent an out house for her guests to use the facilities.

The outcome was the laborers had been shoving garbage down into the plumbing as they were drinking and partying the nights away. How unthoughtful, destroying people futures without giving a care or regard for the consequences that will follow.

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I found this article on Bill Gates. It’s a bit outdated yet the numbers are alway what fascinates me. The amount of money that Bill makes is astronomical. Take a look into this amazing family fortune and learn a little about the man who created Windows and all of those annoying little PC bugs we all love to complain about.

Bill Gates Wealth Index

Bill Gates Wealth Index

Most people will have read the recent reports of how Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has had his personal net worth soar over 100 billion dollars and then drop down to 55 billion. He certainly knows how to make (and lose) money.

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Why on Earth would a real estate professional be talking about medical access? It’s very simple you see no matter who you are and your social status we all need to see a Doctor from time to time. I have found in my adult life I have been in situations where I needed advise and medicine for certain symptoms. I’m pretty sure that you would agree every once in a while you have encountered a few symptoms you needed a quick prescription for as well.

Hence the reason for me writing you today. I know this week I have been talking a lot about a company called Financial Destination Inc. if you’ve read any of my previous blog posts you would see FDI sprinkled in articles every once in a while. FDI is an amazing company, I don’t usually go off and brag up and down about a company as I represent several outstanding service and real estate based companies as well as my own lending company.

Getting back to the medical access I am speaking of people have so many choices when it comes to health care providers, that choosing can be a daunting task. Since I quit my corporate career several years ago, I have not had any coverage other than utilizing some government services which brings me directly to my next point.

You see going to the Doctors Office costs more than your perceived value of the service, especially if you use an HMO plan. Not only do you have the costs of the office visit or co-payment. You also have the time and fuel vested in traveling to and from the appointment, the costs of the time in the waiting room, waiting to see the Physician once you are admitted into a room.

I do not know about you but my time is worth money, I average $100 an hour, so for me to travel say 30 minutes to the Doctor’s office and 30 minutes back that’s $100.00. I have to wait approximately 30 to 45 minutes because the Doctor’s running late; there is another $50 dollars. The whole 5 minutes the Doctor gives me to diagnose my symptoms and another 10 minutes to write out the prescription adds another $25 to $50 dollars.

Now then I go to receive my prescription and have to pay an exorbitant amount for the medicine so let’s say that costs another $75 dollars. Wow can you see the money adding up. I have not even talked about my monthly premium which is over $300.00 month or Over $10.00 per day.

So let’s add up todays costs to see what the doctors office visit will cost. Travel $100 in Time, $10 in fuel, another $100 waiting from start to finish, $75 for the prescription and $10 per day of coverage. That equates out to $295.00 for one trip to the Doctors office. Sure your income may be less for someone who makes $10.00 and hour this equates out to $115.00 (more than you make in an 8 hour shift).

So you see the costs of coverage are expensive especially if you only go to a physician once or tice a year as I do. My coverage alone is over $3,600 per year. So back to Financial Destination Inc. for a moment, they provide you with a service called “Tela-Doc” which precisely describes what they do, they are a call center of licensed practicing Doctors and Physicians who diagnose symptoms and have the ability to prescribe medication based on your current medical history.

This service is actually in many corporate benefit plans, the fact is in these plans they cost $800.00/year for the service and $35.00/phone call. In your Financial Destination Inc. membership the cost is $39.95/ month and $0.00 per call charges.
In fact with your most expensive Financial Destination Inc. membership you receive medical, dental and vision for less than half of what I pay per month for just medical coverage. It’s truly amazing and the best part is you can earn a profit by sharing this information with others. You tell me where your company’s benefit plan or your personal benefit plan pays you for referral.? Mine never did.

Take the tie to learn the true value Financial Destination and take advantage of the fact that I can show you how to enroll in the VIP plan and start receiving immediate residual income for life without ever sharing this plan with any one. Did you hear that FREE Medical Access for life yes free!

With special incentives provided inside of Financial Destination Inc. AMD or CEO program you can immediately start saving $50.00 per month $25.00 on gasoline and $25.00 on groceries every month.

Imagine paying $39.95 per month for the start up VIP service and start receiving $50.00 in cash back on other purchases. That my friends is just the tip of the iceberg. Get started today simply watch the Financial Destination Inc video and then enroll as an AMD or a CEO.

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