ir monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these asse

As a real estate investor, I meet a lot of people who are down and out. About half are still angry about their circumstances, half are still surprised and almost none of them seem to connect the dots until it’s too late. Some have been searching desperately for even more loans to rob Peter and pay Paul; some have shelled out hundreds of dollars to firms claiming to repair credit to no avail. Some have had dreams, bought the big home, picked out the new Mercedes, and are now slowly watching it all fade away. Their children are looking on worried. Their spouses are wondering what they are teaching their children. Will their kids be in credit card debt like this in 20 years?

Most people’s answer is, “If I just had more money, then everything would be alright.” Unfortunately, more money without an education would just be a band-aid, a temporary solution that without the proper mindset would be very temporary.

What if you used your credit like a millionaire? What if you lived like Donald Trump?

“Well if I had Donald Trump’s money, I wouldn’t need credit right? In fact, I’d never use the credit card again. Cash is king and I’d be the Lord of the Manor.”

Wrong. The difference between your “on the brink of disaster” debt and Donald Trumps’, which by the way is a staggering amount of money, is what you’re doing with it. Are you contributing to an asset or creating another liability?

The Donald and other speculative investors treat credit with the respect that it deserves; the chance to make money using other people’s money. While Average Joe is bickering over a quarter percent on the interest rate with the mortgage broker, a millionaire investor looks at, “what’s the difference if it costs an extra million or two, as long as I don’t have to use my own cash.”

The difference is very simple. Cash is not king, other people’s cash is king and the ability to use it, expand and prosper is the difference between the extremely wealthy and those struggling to make ends meet.

What can you do right now to not only repair your credit, but to flourish like the rich?

Stop and I mean right this second, stop adding to your liabilities. Instead invest in the assets you already have and use your liabilities to make you money.

For example, most of the middle class believe that their home is their “biggest asset”. This would almost be true if you followed this scenario: You paid cash for the home, never took out a line of credit, had improved the property entirely in cash, lived in an area where property values steadily increased and property taxes were only moderately increasing and you either lived in the home for 10+ years or rented it out for the same period of time. Then, your home is an asset.

Doesn’t apply to you? More likely you fit this scenario: You bought the home with a mortgage and very little or no money down, you’ve since took out a home equity loan or two or used the equity to consolidate some debt, improved the property on credit, live in an area where property values may have faltered a bit and if you bought recently, your home might actually be worth less now than what you paid for it, and best of all you will probably move in about 5 years. Your home is a liability.

If this is the case, then the most profitable strategy for you to follow is to use your liability to make you money. Invest like the Donald. Throw away the mentality of “we’ll just pay down the mortgage” and use that property like the piggy bank it has become, but instead of cashing out in order to put a swimming pool in the yard or go on another trip to Disneyworld, cash out to invest in an incredible opportunity. Put some of that equity in a business, a venture, a stock that you’ve researched and you’ll immediately have switched gears.

Now you’re using your liability like a millionaire.

You can do the same with your other debts; all the credit cards, lines of credit or cash advances. Consolidate these, pay the least amount of interest that is available to you and make the minimum payments you can.

Make a promise to yourself right now that you will no longer follow the herd and you are done with consumer debt. Does this mean you live like a monk? Or that we’re paying for everything with cash? Of course not, this means that you will no longer go into debt or add to your liabilities on things that are not creating money for you. People live in a huge house where every spare corner is filled with trivial, meaningless “stuff”, every closet is full, the basement is lined with shelves of boxes and the garage is now used for storage rather than parking and they wonder why they’re barely making their monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these asse

Manor.”

Wrong. The difference between your “on the brink of disaster” debt and Donald Trumps’, which by the way is a staggering amount of money, is what you’re doing with it. Are you contributing to an asset or creating another liability?

The Donald and other speculative investors treat credit with the respect that it deserves; the chance to make money using other people’s money. While Average Joe is bickering over a quarter percent on the interest rate with the mortgage broker, a millionaire investor looks at, “what’s the difference if it costs an extra million or two, as long as I don’t have to use my own cash.”

The difference is very simple. Cash is not king, other people’s cash is king and the ability to use it, expand and prosper is the difference between the extremely wealthy and those struggling to make ends meet.

What can you do right now to not only repair your credit, but to flourish like the rich?

Stop and I mean right this second, stop adding to your liabilities. Instead invest in the assets you already have and use your liabilities to make you money.

For example, most of the middle class believe that their home is their “biggest asset”. This would almost be true if you followed this scenario: You paid cash for the home, never took out a line of credit, had improved the property entirely in cash, lived in an area where property values steadily increased and property taxes were only moderately increasing and you either lived in the home for 10+ years or rented it out for the same period of time. Then, your home is an asset.

Doesn’t apply to you? More likely you fit this scenario: You bought the home with a mortgage and very little or no money down, you’ve since took out a home equity loan or two or used the equity to consolidate some debt, improved the property on credit, live in an area where property values may have faltered a bit and if you bought recently, your home might actually be worth less now than what you paid for it, and best of all you will probably move in about 5 years. Your home is a liability.

If this is the case, then the most profitable strategy for you to follow is to use your liability to make you money. Invest like the Donald. Throw away the mentality of “we’ll just pay down the mortgage” and use that property like the piggy bank it has become, but instead of cashing out in order to put a swimming pool in the yard or go on another trip to Disneyworld, cash out to invest in an incredible opportunity. Put some of that equity in a business, a venture, a stock that you’ve researched and you’ll immediately have switched gears.

Now you’re using your liability like a millionaire.

You can do the same with your other debts; all the credit cards, lines of credit or cash advances. Consolidate these, pay the least amount of interest that is available to you and make the minimum payments you can.

Make a promise to yourself right now that you will no longer follow the herd and you are done with consumer debt. Does this mean you live like a monk? Or that we’re paying for everything with cash? Of course not, this means that you will no longer go into debt or add to your liabilities on things that are not creating money for you. People live in a huge house where every spare corner is filled with trivial, meaningless “stuff”, every closet is full, the basement is lined with shelves of boxes and the garage is now used for storage rather than parking and they wonder why they’re barely making their monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these asse

s their “biggest asset”. This would almost be true if you followed this scenario: You paid cash for the home, never took out a line of credit, had improved the property entirely in cash, lived in an area where property values steadily increased and property taxes were only moderately increasing and you either lived in the home for 10+ years or rented it out for the same period of time. Then, your home is an asset.

Doesn’t apply to you? More likely you fit this scenario: You bought the home with a mortgage and very little or no money down, you’ve since took out a home equity loan or two or used the equity to consolidate some debt, improved the property on credit, live in an area where property values may have faltered a bit and if you bought recently, your home might actually be worth less now than what you paid for it, and best of all you will probably move in about 5 years. Your home is a liability.

If this is the case, then the most profitable strategy for you to follow is to use your liability to make you money. Invest like the Donald. Throw away the mentality of “we’ll just pay down the mortgage” and use that property like the piggy bank it has become, but instead of cashing out in order to put a swimming pool in the yard or go on another trip to Disneyworld, cash out to invest in an incredible opportunity. Put some of that equity in a business, a venture, a stock that you’ve researched and you’ll immediately have switched gears.

Now you’re using your liability like a millionaire.

You can do the same with your other debts; all the credit cards, lines of credit or cash advances. Consolidate these, pay the least amount of interest that is available to you and make the minimum payments you can.

Make a promise to yourself right now that you will no longer follow the herd and you are done with consumer debt. Does this mean you live like a monk? Or that we’re paying for everything with cash? Of course not, this means that you will no longer go into debt or add to your liabilities on things that are not creating money for you. People live in a huge house where every spare corner is filled with trivial, meaningless “stuff”, every closet is full, the basement is lined with shelves of boxes and the garage is now used for storage rather than parking and they wonder why they’re barely making their monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these asse

become, but instead of cashing out in order to put a swimming pool in the yard or go on another trip to Disneyworld, cash out to invest in an incredible opportunity. Put some of that equity in a business, a venture, a stock that you’ve researched and you’ll immediately have switched gears.

Now you’re using your liability like a millionaire.

You can do the same with your other debts; all the credit cards, lines of credit or cash advances. Consolidate these, pay the least amount of interest that is available to you and make the minimum payments you can.

Make a promise to yourself right now that you will no longer follow the herd and you are done with consumer debt. Does this mean you live like a monk? Or that we’re paying for everything with cash? Of course not, this means that you will no longer go into debt or add to your liabilities on things that are not creating money for you. People live in a huge house where every spare corner is filled with trivial, meaningless “stuff”, every closet is full, the basement is lined with shelves of boxes and the garage is now used for storage rather than parking and they wonder why they’re barely making their monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these asse

ir monthly payments. This is not the mindset of the rich.

In essence, do not use credit cards to go shopping. Use your credit cards to further your investments. Respect your credit. This doesn’t mean abuse your credit, but neither does it mean fear credit.

This middle-class thinking that has hounded you, “I’ve got to get out of debt,” has gotten you to where you are right now. Resolve one and for all to use debt like a millionaire and say, “I’ve got to use this debt to make money.”

Now that your liabilities are making you money, the final step in investing like a Donald would is to invest in the assets you already have. The other difference between Average Joe and a speculative investor is this: Everyone who has made it big, at some time has been in the red. A successful person keeps in mind, no matter how broke they are temporarily that they always have their biggest assets and are always investing in them. You always have your most valuable assets as well, no matter how deeply in debt you may be: your time, your ideas, your health and your family or loved ones. Investing in these assets brings you a life of abundance. Ignoring these assets brings you a life of mediocrity.

Resolve to invest in your assets and make your liabilities work for you and you’ll soon be looking at your financial situation in a whole new light. Credit repair and consumer debt is fine for those who are content to be payment slaves. Instead, use your credit like a millionaire and see what amazing financial opportunities come your way!