7 Steps To Make Your Eyes The Center Of Attention

Every woman wants to be just like the heroine in her favorite movies or television show. You know exactly the kind we are talking about. She is the one who wakes up in the morning looking fresh with no under eye dark circles in sight. The sunlight that seeps through the window only emphasizes the fact that her skin looks so smooth and dainty. Her glowing cheeks flushed from the good night’s rest. Her pouting lips look soft and ready for a kiss. Her flowing hair is tousled in such a way that she looks sexy.

In other words, she looks so perfect without any makeup. Perhaps you ask yourself, how come it does not happen to you? You ask yourself why your mornings make your eyes puffier and despite the sleep that you just had, it still looks like you spent the night turning and tossing. Perhaps it is time for you to consider an eye cream for dark circles.

There are a lot of products that cater to under eye dark circles. It is important that you find the one that works best with you. Remember to choose the one that will not cause any irritation to your skin, hypo allergenic, and gentle enough but intensely effective. I personally love Vanishée by Lora Vay.

Vanishée is an eye cream for dark circles that has been found by the AMA Laboratories to be 100 percent effective to all its test subjects. The same study shows that it can remove eye bags, puffiness, and even wrinkles in a span of four to eight weeks.

If you find that you are not ready for such product yet, then maybe you can resort to makeup for that fresh, “no makeup” look.

Step 1. Moisturize is key. Keeping your face hydrated keeps it supple and fresh. After allowing the moisturizer to be absorbed by the skin, apply a layer of primer. Primer allows foundation to be spread evenly without any glitch. Foundations make your skin appear smoother and silkier.

Step 2. Apply concealer especially on areas that needs it most. Problems such as under eye dark circles could easily be concealed and corrected on this step. Cover them up by using shades that stay close to your skin tone. Anything lighter or darker than your skin shade will emphasize the problem. Better yet, invest in an eye cream for dark circles so you will no longer have to worry about eye bags.

Step 3. Get your blush on. Flushed cheeks can be faked. Add the color on your cheekbones and witness how a bit of rosiness could change the whole demeanor of your face.

Step 4. Add some mascara. Make your eyes the center of attention by lining up your eyes with a liner and adding a few layers of mascara.

Step 5. Pretty in pink. Pink is always associated with youth. Keep it the youthful look by getting a pink lipstick shade that compliments your skin tone.

Step 6. Add a highlighter at the inner edges of your eyes. You can use light eyeliner or a real highlighter for this. It will give your face a dewy, youthful look.

Step 7. Go out in the world with full confidence and belief that you will turn heads today. And believe me, you will!

Hope these easy-to-follow tips will help you look radiant, youthful and happy, rich girls.

Author’s Bio: Prudence Sanchez

Prudence is a health, beauty, and fitness enthusiast. She works as a part-time makeup artist and joins fun runs on weekends. She is currently obsessing on the deals she gets from www.topbeautysecrets.org.

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Sitting at The Negotiating Table

Right before the winter my friend asked me if I’d be interested in helping her to hunt down a nice looking warm coat. We went to several shops and found one jacket that looked perfect on her but its belt was a bit loose, so my friend said she would like to replace it with the belt from the smaller size coat.

The sales assistant explained that it wouldn’t be possible as after that they would need to think what to do with the belt that my friend left behind. Instead the clerk offered to bring the same size coat from the storehouse and see if its belt is any better. After 30 minutes the girl came back only to say that the jacket they have on display is the only item with the size we need so there is nothing else she could do. Probably because I was too annoyed about the waiting, unexpectedly for myself, I said that this is a one of the worst customer service experiences I’ve had. I told that I am surprised that she let us wait for half an hour and now is ready to lose the sale rather than simply replace the belt.

The sales assistant then answered that she should probably speak with her manager to check if there is anything else to be done. I said it was a wonderful idea that should have popped in her head a little earlier. The girl came back in a minute saying that we are welcome to take any belt we want.

I was very proud of myself that day. Since I never ask for a discount (don’t know how to) and rarely demand a better deal, this little negotiation was a big personal win.

Professor Gavin Kennedy in his Everything is Negotiable book says there are 4 styles of negotiating behaviours: Donkeys, Sheep, Foxes and Owls.

Each animal represents the set of characteristics of the choices we make when negotiate.

We usually behave like a Donkey when we don’t know what can we possibly gain negotiating. The Donkey behaviour is often found in someone who has a predictable capacity for stubborn defiance. When what she gets (usually not a lot) is not good enough to consider the negotiation a success and when all decisions the person makes are based on her deep, often irrational “principles”.

“Where ignorance predominates, ‘stupid’ negotiation choices assert themselves.”

You are behaving like a Sheep when you think that whatever you get is acceptable (c’est la vie!) and when you easily welcome the other people choices. There is some pragmatic flexibility in you, but too often you are influenced by others and don’t know how to fight for your own interests. You prefer to agree rather than annoy or disappoint the person you speak with.

“Like the proverbial goose, a ‘boo’ sends you scampering for cover.”

Foxes truly know what is going on and deeply believe they deserve what they demand. Some Foxes only succeed because of their sharpness and even ruthless cruelty. On top of that, Foxes love to look smart and sometimes misread the game because they are too arrogant and excited about the process. There are few limits to Fox’s pragmatism and she is amazing at using soft spots of Sheep. People who make Donkey decisions are of course no problem to Foxes as well.

“Devious is as devious does.”

Owls are those who are wise enough to spot the long-term benefits of developing genuine relationships that will later on get them the results they truly deserve. As an Owl you are always aware and prepared for the opportunities and the threats from the choices you must make when negotiating. You earn respect for what you do and how you do it (you certainly don’t exploit Sheep, Donkeys and Foxes).

“All negotiators should beware: many owls are closet Foxes!”

As much as I’d like to think of myself as a natural Owl negotiator, I should confess I’m a classic Sheep sometimes.

Who are you when you are sitting at the negotiating table?

Yours truly,

Alona

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On Rediscovering Willpower and Self-Control

“The will of man is his happiness.”

Until recently my good friends knew me as an exemplary heavy smoker. My solid relationships with cigarettes continued for 15 years; for the last 8 years I smoked one pack a day on average. I’ve quit about half a year ago.

Since then I never slipped, despite the parties and get-togethers with my smoking friends. Not even when visiting my hometown earlier this month, where you can still smoke in some restaurants and nightclubs. When I say I don’t smoke anymore the first question they often ask is how did I do it. I usually say that you have to want to quit badly and you must start seeing yourself as a non-smoker. They nod and say I’m lucky to have such strong willpower.

That’s where I feel puzzled. I can’t quite comprehend how do I have strong self-discipline skills if I can’t make myself go to gym for a second week in a row? Where does my willpower hide when I’m in a desperate need of losing couple of kilos?

Well, Rich Girls, I’m happy to report that most of my willpower related questions were answered by Roy F. Baumeister – a professor of psychology who presented his new book here in London the other day*. I thought you might want to get familiar with some of his findings.

If you’d like to improve your self-control abilities and be able to achieve much more, consider the following:

Willpower is a limited resource and we use the same self-control mechanism for different activities.

Let’s say you’ve spent this afternoon visiting your favorite boutiques and trying on various gorgeous sets you would like to have in your wardrobe. It wasn’t easy, but you successfully resisted temptation to spend your rent money on a Marc Jacobs’ resort 2012 sundress. You were also heroic enough to ignore new Louboutin collection and you stepped away firmly from a magnificent shoulder bag by Alexander Wang.

Guess what will happen in a coffee shop you are about to enter? When choosing little something to accompany your latte, you will most likely take the best looking and the biggest piece of chocolate brownie they have.

That scenario is common because our willpowers deplete through the day. The self-discipline is like a muscle that gets tired when you use it too much. Good news is, just like a muscle the willpower can be trained. The more you exercise your self-control skills the better you get.

5 stunning ways to improve willpower:

1.   Pick Your Fights Wisely

When you are ready to create a new habit or willing to aim for big win, commit to your choice and put everything else aside. Decide what is one, the most important thing you want to change right now and devote all self-control you have to this precise goal. Your willpower needs as much fuel as possible to take you to the finish line, so don’t waste it on something that is not so critical.

Because the willpower is limited resource, you must begin big-league projects only when you feel you can handle them. If there are too many affairs that stress you out, it is better to postpone The New Life mission and approach it when you don’t have too many things on your plate.

Most importantly, set your goals as specific as you can possibly imagine. You have to define what it is you want to achieve very clearly.

Let’s say you would like to be slimmer than you currently are. Ask yourself, what is your dream weight, put the number on a paper.

Next, list all the reasons why the magic number will make your life better. When describing the reasons you have to be as sincere as possible. Those must be the ideas you truly believe in. Don’t borrow explanations your besty used when she spoke about her perfect weight.

Finally, describe all the actions you have to take to get closer to your goal. Again, be very concrete and specific. Write down small, easy to take daily steps that will bring you closer to tackling the weight loss issue.

2. Block the Exits

Let’s stick to the losing weight example for a bit. When you go for groceries avoid candy & sweets section. Don’t buy any desserts if you know you won’t be able to resist them while watching new episode of Gossip Girl.

Instead, come up with a substitute. Decide what will you do next time you crave for a cheesecake. Say to yourself, when I feel like eating something sweet, I take a yogurt with berries or a fruit.

If you plan to go jogging tomorrow morning, put your sportswear set on a chair next to your bed so it would be the first thing you see when you wake up. Don’t give yourself any chances to reconsider.

3. Mind Your Sugar Level

Here is why dieting is so difficult. Your willpower depends on the amount of sugar in your blood stream. Apparently, self-control and decision making ‘uses’ big amounts of glucose. And when you don’t have enough glucose in your blood your willpower goes down.

That’s why you shouldn’t go to an important interview or business meeting on an empty stomach. If you feel hungry, your decisions most likely will be poor and unreasonable.

In urgent cases when you need a rapid sugar hit, eat a chocolate bar, something that will deliver a lot of glucose into your blood right away.

As for dieting, Roy F. Baumeister recommends try losing weight by making very small changes to your diet and focus on increasing daily sport activities instead.

4. Make Progress Reports

To achieve your goal you must know what exactly you do and how you spend your time every day. Normally we are able to name the websites we visited yesterday and remember what movies we watched, but we have a very vague idea about how much time we spent on those things. The problem is that if you don’t know what are you doing precisely, you won’t know what it is you need to change to get to your aim faster.

Come up with ways to examine and measure your life. Update your food diary daily, install software that will give you online usage report, track your finances with mobile apps and so on.**

Additionally you could ask your friend to check on you weekly. You can even make a bet with someone to keep yourself accountable. Posting progress updates on your blog or Facebook profile might also be a good idea.

5. Embrace To-Do Lists

Lots of studies say that unfinished tasks annoy and distract us big time. Brain hates half-baked projects and it will keep on trying to remind you about them.

Because the tasks are in your head all the time, they suck up your self-control abilities bits by bits. The more uncompleted things you’ve got on your mind, the less willpower you have to confront them.

Take the jobs half-done out of your head and put them on paper. Classic to-do lists do wonders. Only remember to make the list very specific. Clearly define the next action you must take. Instead of writing “Prepare for a home party” say “Make a guest list”, “Buy 100 Party Balloons” etc.

The best way to handle your to-dos is by working on the most demanding item first thing in the morning, while your willpower is strong and eager to act. Brian Tracy, a well-known motivational speaker, has a great “Eat That Frog” book*** that explains the toughest-thing-first method in details. I promise to tell you more about his technique next time.

That’s it for today Rich Girls! I wish you the very best luck with developing your willpower. Remember, self-disciplined people are like this only because of the way they approach their day-to-day lives. It’s not the superpowers.  It’s all about creating and maintaining positive habits. The more lasting habits you have the less willpower you use to make right decisions.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Come brag about the tasks you tackled and share your tricks that help you to improve your self-control skills!

Yours truly,

Alona

*Must Read Book by Roy F. Baumeister: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

**Apps and Websites that help to measure and examine your day-to-day life:

• A web tool that allows you to easily understand and optimize how you spend your time and attention: RescueTime
• Google Chrome Extension that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend browsing time-wasting websites: StayFocusd
• Online Food Diary: MyFitnessPall
• Finance Tracking Iphone App: iXpenseIt

***Must Read Book by Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog

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New Year Goals and Resolutions: Ways to Persevere

I am really proud and happy to share a great article written by a dear friend of mine, Alona! The author shares valuable information and tips on how to set your goals correctly and follow them through. Something which I definitely need to improve and work on. The article is extremely well written and I am sure you will be delighted to read it through and it will encourage you to implement these ideas into your life. I really hope that there will be more articles by this author on Rich Girls Club in the nearest future. Fingers crossed! Enjoy! Yours, Rich Girl.

Hello Dear Rich Girls! I just realized it is almost the end of January 2012. Have you noticed, that smart researchers from all over the world started to warn us that we enter the critical timeline when most people will forget dieting and workouts, resume smoking, give up on reading at least 30 minutes a day and neglect ‘Goals to achieve’ notebook completely. Where do you stand on your New Year Resolutions?

I intend to persevere this time, no matter how tempting it might seem to pull back. Following through on the resolutions is actually part of my Great 2012 To-Do Plan.

In order to cut off escape routes I’ve decided to find out why do we dodge the resolutions so surprisingly easy. And is there a way not to fall into the ‘Maybe Next Year’ philosophy.

I’ve started by reading Peter Bregman’s blog at Harvard Business Review. He wrote loads of articles on motivation and productivity and constantly shares practical techniques we can use to accomplish more.

Here is what Peter says about keeping your resolutions alive and kicking.

First, let’s determine why do we often fail miserably at fulfilling the dreams and aims.

Bregman noticed, that people only like to put the very big things in their resolution list. We usually say something like:

These are all grandiose intentions. And they all are extremely challenging. Such goals made it to our list because we believe these are the things that will change the quality of life dramatically.

What we don’t always realize is that ambitious desires require big advanced planning and it will be a long journey to the moment when the dreams come true.

Don’t worry though, the super achievers don’t lie when tell you something inspiring.

3 Big Obstacles On the Way to Your Goal

1. Some goals are too huge and general to comprehend. If your wish to become a millionaire by the end of this year, you have to outline the very specific and concrete sub goals first.

To get going smoothly, you should admit that it won’t be simple and pleasant all the way through, but every little step you make counts.

Describe in details all small actions you have to take in order to achieve your big goal and follow the instructions strictly.

2. This might seem strange, but we abandon bunch of goals only because we are very scared. We often are worried that whatever it is we’d like to do won’t work out the way we imagine.

If you suspect that the fear of failure is something that stops you, try to imagine the worst-case scenario. Peter Bregman offers to ‘relive’ the possible failure entirely and move on. Now you can focus on figuring out what it is you must do to come closer to your goal. And remember that in case you fail, there will be countless other opportunities.

3. The last trap to avoid is having a goal list with too many items on it. There simply can’t be too many things in your agenda. Our resources (time and energy) are limited. We must leave enough time to rest and recharge. If you are seriously interested in reaching your goals, Peter Bregman advises to have up to 5 of them per year.

Limit yourself. Think hard what it is you want the most. And stick to those 5 goals you want to accomplish.

Here is a simple and efficient system from Peter that will help you organize time and move towards your goals fast.

Daily 6-Box To-Do List

5 goals to reach this year are established. What’s next?

1. Each morning make a worksheet with 6 to-do boxes and put your 5 goals of the year in five of the boxes; leave the 6th box empty for now.

Put specific things to be done in every box. The 5 annual goals that you set are your main reference points.

Let’s say one of your goals is promotion at work. Think about all the activities, which can be done today, and which will lead you closer to getting the higher position. It might be writing a sales proposal, or presenting new marketing campaign, doing extra research on competitors, etc.

Approach other four boxes the same way. The most important thing is to remember, that these are five areas where you should spend 95% of your working time.

Everything that doesn’t get you closer to one of these aims must be taken off your daily to-do list.

What about the sixth box? You probably noticed, that the 6th area on the image below is labeled ‘The Other 5%’. This box can contain some critical activities that must be done, although they won’t help you to reach your goals. You should never spend more than 5% of your time on them.

Download Original Daily To Do List at PeterBregman.com

2. Look at your six-box to-do list and move the most important items for the day into your calendar. It’s very important to decide when and where you will execute these sub-goals. Whenever you set a specific deadline for your to-do items, the chances of getting them done grow tremendously.

Some activities, like answering on emails or making phone calls must be done every day. Dedicate a specific time of the day for such to-do things and stick to it. Set a concrete hour for checking your email box and do it only at that time.

3. Make a firm agreement with someone about how you will spend your working time. Talk with your boss or partner about your six-box to-do list and about your daily calendar. Explain them what you plan to achieve today and how it fits in with your general yearly plan. This way you create deeper level of commitment and accountability.

That’s it for today, Rich Girls! Stay strong and dedicated and come share your tips and tricks to conquer the list of New Years resolutions!

Yours truly,

Alona

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My Favorite Skincare Products This Summer

Summer is in the full swing and I am really enjoying every minute of it. I love summer because I can stay outside as much as I want, enjoy barbeques with friends, ride a bicycle, play golf and tennis and constantly swim in the Sea. Oh, I love the Sea! I feel so blessed to be able to swim in the luxurious Mediterranean Sea on a daily basis. What can be better than that?

Summer is also great, because you don’t need to wear a lot of makeup, you can almost leave your face as it is and still look tanned and beautiful. My makeup during summer stays almost untouched, all I use during day time is a lip gloss and mascara, and for my nights out I love to apply my smokey eyes kit.

Although makeup can be set aside, I don’t forget to pay extra attention to my skin as it needs extra care during summer, because of constant exposure to the sun. So, below are the products which I use and which work wonders to my skin. I am not a beauty blogger, expert or dermatologist and don’t intend to become one. I just want to share with you beauty products which work for me, which I use and love and provide you with the opportunity to share some of your favorite products with me. So girls,let’s stay rich, young and beautiful forever!

Sunscreen

1 – Face

Here in Spain the sun is very strong and as it shines every day all day through out the year, sunscreen becomes your number 1 friend. I am not going out of my house without applying sunscreen to my face. This summer my favorite is La Roche-Posay with SPF 60. I love it’s light texture and the fact that it absorbs instantly.

La Roche-Posay Anthelios 60 Ultra Light Sunscreen Fluid ( Normal/ Combination Skin )

2 – Body

For protecting my body from sun rays I use SHISEIDO Lotion with SPF 30. Before living in Spain I never used sunscreens with more than SPF 10. Now SPF 30 is a minimum I use here and I still get my tan. There was an article, unfortunately I don’t remember where exactly I read it, that the word sunscreen should be banned from creams with SPF protection less than 30.

Shiseido Extra Smooth Sun Protection Lotion N SPF 30 UVA

3 – Lips

Sometimes, when I want my lips to relax from any lip gloss or lipstick I am constantly wearing, I apply ELIZABETH ARDEN Eight Hour Lipcare. It nourishes my lips and also protects them from sun rays. I really should start using it more often. I also read somewhere that if you want your lips to be soft and beautiful, you should apply lip balm on your lips before you go to sleep. Should try it tonight.

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Lipcare Stick

Face

I know that almost every girl has her own beauty ritual, when she spends almost an hour in the morning and the same amount of time before she goes to bed, in front of the mirror applying different kind of skincare products. I am a very lazy girl, I don’t like to spend a lot of time and effort and therefore I don’t have any specific ritual. What I do is as follows:

In the morning: I wake up, go to shower and after that apply my daily moisturizer on my face, neck and decollete area. After that apply a tiny bit of magic cream on my eyes and that’s it, ready to go Yeah, if I go out I also apply my sunscreen.

In the evening: I just wash my face with one step foaming cleanser, which cleans my skin and even eye area from all the dirt and again apply my moisturizer before going to bed.

Once per week I scrub my face with and lay down for 10 minutes with Hydra+ Moisturising Anti-Fatigue Mask by ROC.

And these are my beauty tricks Oh, and I visit my dermatologist from time to time for facials and to make sure she makes everything to preserve my beauty and youth.

The products I use for my so called beauty routine are as follows:

Moisturizer

During one presentation here in Marbella I received a sample of Gelee De Rose Intensive Multi-Active Moisturizer BY TERRY and was impressed by a light texture and effect it left on my skin. So, after I finished my sample I went out and bought this cream and never been happier. I use it in the mornings and sometimes in the evenings, before going to bed. I don’t need separate night cream.

By Terry Gelee De Rose Intensive Multi-Active Moisturizer 30ml/1oz

Cleanser

I already told you about my time and effort saving Flawless Skin Oil Free Foaming One Step Cleanser by LAURA MERCIER. If you are as lazy as me and you still feel like you should use some kind of cleanser, try this one and let me know afterwards how you loved it.

Laura Mercier Flawless Skin Oil Free Foaming One Step Cleanser 200ml/6.8oz

Eyes

My precious, precious eye! When I first noticed lines under my eyes, I was depressed for a week, but then I managed to get myself together and started looking for the best miraculous solution that could stop my eyes from losing it’s natural youth. I tried numerous products, but nothing seemed to work or satisfy me. Until one day I heard my friend raving about magical and rich Valmont cream and how satisfied she was with it. I researched a little bit and decided to try their cream for eyes. I loved it! I simply loved everything about it. Now this is the only product I use for my eyes.

Valmont AWF Cyto Complex Eye – Factor I 15ml/0.5oz

So, these are the skincare products which I use on a regular basis. The other beauty products which I want to try in the nearest future are La Mer Creme de La Mer and Clarisonic waterproof sonic skin care brush. Have you ever tried these products? Are they worth the money? Please let me know.

I never realized how hard it is to write about beauty products. How can someone explain in simple words the effect these products leave on your skin, the texture, smell, everything?! Beauty bloggers – you are geniuses!

I would love to hear about your favorite skincare products and your beauty rituals. Also, if you have your favorite beauty blogger that you love to read, please share the link with me I feel like I want to know more about skincare.

Stay beautiful, my lovely Rich Girls!

Yours,

Rich Girl

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Dreams Do Come True

A couple of years ago me and my friend were dreaming of quitting our job (we were working at the same company at that time) and do something on our own. I remember how we were spending almost all our lunch brakes in the coffee shops, fantasizing about how our life will be wonderful when we will be traveling around the world, sitting in a cafes with our laptops and updating our blogs or online projects not from the boring offices, but from the places we choose to work from.

A lot of years have passed since then, we no longer keep in touch, but our dream came true. My friend is now free and is traveling around the world, she has her own company, works for herself, buys all the clothes she wants and is happy.

I on the other hand don’t own a company, but I have something more special – Rich Girls Club – my source of constant joy and pride.

You may wonder, why am I writing about it? Well, because I am now sitting in a very nice place, so close to the Mediterranean Sea that splashes of water from the waves hit my laptop (which is not good for a laptop, but feels great for me), I am absolutely free, the weather is wonderful and I write these words here on Rich Girls Club, sitting in a restaurant while sipping red wine.

I wanted to write about it, because I want to remind myself and you, my lovely Rich Girls, that dreams do come true. Always! Our dream started in a cafe next to our workplace. At that time we had no idea how it all will work out for us and change our life, all we had was clear vision of what we wanted. Now, we are both free and happy, because one of our dreams came true. I still have a lot of other amazing dreams I am just waiting to come true!

Don’t be afraid to dream! Don’t forget to dream! Dream Big and you will be surprised where it will take you! You will be amazing about how your life will change! You will be bewildered how happy and satisfied it will make you!

I believe in dreams! I believe in you!

Yours,

Rich Girl

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Really, want to be Rich?!

“Rich Life’s Tips” – the series of publications to help people understand what means “To Lead a Rich Life” and how to approach it. In “Rich Life’s Tips” you will be bale to find short, inspiring and motivating essays which would hopefully make your way to the riches easier and more fun. This section of the Rich Girl’s Club is made for those people who are only planning to become rich. Really Rich and Successful people are welcome to write their thoughts and share valuable tips and experience here!

I was surprised to find out that there are a lot of people on Earth who doesn’t want to become rich. I used to talk to some people who said, I don’t need it, I have different priorities in life and to have billions in any kind of currency on my account is not my goal. Well, it was really a surprise to me, cause since my early childhood I knew that I want to be rich, period!

So, before you start reading and partisipating in discussions here in Rich Girl’s Club, you need to understand and answer honestly to the following questions:

What does leading a Rich Life really means to you?!

What do you really want and need?! Do you need a huge 15 bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills or it will be enough to have 5 bedroom house somewhere in Florida?! Do you need people who will clean your house, opens the doors to your guests, cooks and buys food for you, takes care of your 20 cars, horses and dogs, cleans your huge pool and waters enormous garden full of exotic plants from all around the world?! Do you actually need all this stuff?

Before you take this long (or short, you never know) trip to riches, you need to know where are you heading to and where will be a milestone on this road when you will be able to say: “Yes! I made it! I am Rich and I am leading a Rich Life!”

I will leave you now to think about your goals and desires. It will be super cool if you could leave your comments or questions below, so we could discuss it.

Yours,

Rich Girl

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Millionaire

Ok, so you want to become a Millionaire one day, right? At least  you like to dream about it. I think it is already a good start. If you at least know what you want, it is most likely that you will get it.

But do you know what does the word Millionaire mean? Who are they, those Millionaires? Do you know what you will have to do and face when you will become one? You need to know it before you started your jorney towards Big Huge Money!

Let’s have a look at the Wikipedia:

The word was first used (as millionnaire, double “n”) in French in 1719 by John Law, and is first recorded in English (millionaire, as a French term) in a letter of Lord Byron of 1816, then in print in Vivian Gray, a novel of 1826 by Benjamin Disraeli. An earlier English word “millionary” was used in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson while serving as Minister to France; he wrote: “The poorest labourer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest Millionary”. The first American printed use is thought to be in an obituary of New York tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard II in 1843.

The increasing prevalence of people with more and more money has given rise to additional terms to further differentiate millionaires. A multimillionaire has a net worth of more than 2 million units of currency, a decamillionaire has a net worth of more than 10 million units of currency, and a hectomillionaire has a net worth of more than 100 million units of currency. The term centimillionaire has become synonymous with hectomillionaire in America, despite the centi- prefix meaning 1/100, not 100, in the metric system.

While statistics regarding financial assets and net worth are presented by household, the term is also often used to describe only the individual who has amassed the assets as millionaire. That is, even though the term statistically refers only to households, common usage is often in reference only to an individual.

A millionaire (originally and sometimes still millionnaire) is an individual whose net worth or wealth exceeds one million units of currency. It can also be a person who owns one million units of currency in a bank account or savings account. Depending on the currency, a certain level of prestige is associated with being a millionaire, which makes that amount of wealth a goal for some, and almost unattainable for others.

The increasing number of millionaires is partially due to prevailing economics: Increasingly, the term denotes more and more to the status of high wealth. American sociologist Leonard Beeghley classifies all households with net worth exceeding $1 million as “The Rich.” Currently, there are over 10 million residents around the globe classified as millionaires.

So, I guess you are now more aware of when people will start calling you a Millionaire, right? Now you need to make your first step toward your long and exciting journey to the Rich and Happy Life. What will be this first step? Let’s find out in the next post.

Yours,

Rich Girl

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