Money May Matter
We, middle classmen, tried many times in our life to live frugal, prudent, and live within means. Living within means, I say, is spending our money not more than what we earn. We take money as a whole pie and then chunk it out into smaller part so everything we buy and expend is not more than the pie. We budget within the pie. That is living within means.
But what if the chunk we are gnawing now isn't enough for us to live the lifestyle we choose. The number of our family bubbles, everyone grows and need seems expanding and the means now shrinking. These lead many of us to think to expand the means--leave the Philippines.
Leaving the Philippines Can Be the Right Thing To Do
Julius, worked in our Bounty Agroventure Head Office; Mike, husband of Leslie our IT coordinator, left the Philippines to expand their own means. Julius felt moribund in the company. Pressured by the opportunity and need to expand the income, he took a job in middle east. Mike is in middle east too with hefty amount of means he can never earn in his enterppise and teaching career. Mike's wife and kid (Justin) are here in the Philippines, not anxious in their cashflow, not trying to survive but living a life.
How Else to live a life?
Dr. Rober Kiyosaki and Donald Trump on their book Why We Want You to Be Rich (www.whywewantyoutoberich.com/) teach us to invest then live the life we want accordingly. I do not know how many of us, middle classmen, thinks about investing. But I'm sure happy to hear some of my friend bought a paper asset like educational plan or insurance after her spouse have been more than six months somewhere outside the Philippines. Paper assets could be mean but what important is blue printing the mind to risk, invest, and assess profit and return. The two, Kiyosaki and Trump, cite investing, risking, winning, and fun in expanding means.
Fear of the unknown
Right now I have a path to expanding means that is a lot different from Julius and Mike. I desire more on the design of Kiyosaki and Trump teach about expanding means. Julius, Mike and I are on the quandrant one (1) according to Cashflow Quadrant. Many other middle classmen are on the 9-5 type of cashflow. We work everyday for others so that others get reach and us living a very miser life.
At first I might also be considering going out of the Philippines. Sometimes I do like, sometimes I don't, it sounds like unsettled. Until now I can't imagine leaving the Philippines and living somewhere else around the globe. It's not that having a life out from here will be harder (yeah, staying in a country foreign to me could be not easy) but my mind can't forsee the future may bring forth. Residing on a place where no one knows you that's gonna be a stranger--hopefully a bit. Fear of the unknown--which is normal to an alien--is most likely I feel.
Lanie in Japan
I met Lanie, one of our business partners back 2002, and we talked about her non-productive life in Japan. Well, like anyone else expecting a big leap in expanding his or her means, she went to Japan to get her share too. Sadly, she ends up putting off fire (literally) in a car junk yard to which reconditioned cars are delivered to one auction (like in Subic). She had to find better pay in other location and by living within means she had to walk more than hour from her boxed (trailer house) place to work place. While she enjoyed her short period of high pay authority found her and others in TNT.
She has to wait for another luck. She applied in one of the meat processing in CANADA and that's one year now.