Do you hate Monday? Do you count the hours to the end of the work day? If yes, most probably your job is boring. Why do you stay there? Is it really worth to hate what you are doing most of the time just to have some luxury? Wait, I know the answer. You have a family to feed, mortgage and bills to pay, car to fuel and so on.

Ok, it this case you can’t just quit your boring job today or tomorrow. Actually you can do it and try to make living by blogging. For this to happen you need to be remarkable, talented, very hard working, just lucky or plain unscrupulous. If you are not, don’t try to make living blogging.

People happily borrow to buy a car, house, new TV or to go on vacation. At the same time most of us feel unsure to borrow money for investing or building a business because it’s so much riskier. At least that’s what we usually think.

But how exactly do you secure your money when buying a car? Sure, the car may improve your lifestyle, but it is not an asset. You don’t make money from it. Instead, it costs you extra money for support and fuel.

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How often the lack of money stops you from doing things you love or dream? My bet is, for most people this will happen for at least 50% of the times when they don’t follow their dreams. There are many ways to solve this problem and raise money for your dreams or just for investing.

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Saving may sound boring but most secure things do sound that. Saving is a straight, fool proof and efficient method to raise money for investing.

Usually the investors do not feel very attracted to saving, because of the following reasons:

Few links that deserve your attention from the past month. In December I ignored the recession, but in January there were some really good ones:

Jim at Blueprint For Financial Prosperity suggests that you should not worry for the stock market, but invest in family. And yourself, I would add.

Patrick at Cash Money Life gives one simple to follow and efficient advice – save money and the nature with reusable shopping bags. We usually do it.

Jeremy at Generation X Finance explores an interesting angle of the recession – more people learn how to cook.