Why do we need to make money? That is obvious. We need to have money to fulfill our basic survival needs and maintain our present lifestyle, or our desired life style. We need to have money so that we can save for the financial unexpectation and invest for future prosperity.

Regardless of whether you are an employee or a business owner, you ought to learn more ways to attract money!

I am not talking about taking up more part time jobs here. Neither am I talking about finding more products or services to sell in your business. I am referring to innovative ways that will directly or indirectly help to increase your income or business revenue.

You can always find some ways to do things better if you spend enough time thinking about it. But you have to think in ways that will help you get new ideas. You have to look at the most tried-and-tested methods as if you could rearrange them and make them work better for you.

You can borrow a lot of ideas from other people and other businesses especially from other industries other than your own.

Good ideas are always worth the time it takes to think of them. And they are always worth the money they may cost to put into operation. “R & D,” they call it, research and development. You should have it too. You should always be looking at new things to try and new ways to test the value of what you are already doing. That way you will be constantly looking to improve the most important product that you sell – which is you.

The trick is always to look for new ways to do old things. The unexpected can be the most effective.

Whatever you come up with, the important thing is not to be put off by the guys who tell you that you can’t do it because it has never been done before.

This may be the stupidest attitude in the world: that something can’t be done because it hasn’t been done before. If that was true, there would never be anything new in the world. None of the inventions, none of the great new ideas, would exist. And the same is true for how you attract money.

You plant the seeds and you have to water them, and then you have to do other things while you are waiting for them to sprout. But they will sprout if you have executed the first step properly. You can bet on that, because if you made the effort and have the patience, you have stacked the deck in your favour, and you can’t lose in the long run.

Patience is not an easy thing when you don’t have unlimited time or money. But without it you may never get the fat payoff that you have started in motion.

But patience alone, just standing by the door, will not tilt the odds your way. You have to make your own odds by spending time and money to develop your own methods to bring in the customers and the money.

Making more money is always the focus. However, a person's financial wealth is not just measured by how much he makes, but also how much he spends! See Spend$ for details.