Over the years, a lot has been written about profit and the role it plays in our lives. After all, if a business doesn’t make a profit, it eventually will go out of business and that can affect an awful lot of people including you if you happen to be an employee. Even the biggest names in the business world have seen that happen over the years, like Woolworth and Montgomery Ward, just to name two. Many others are facing the same fate right this minute. Historic names like Sears, J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus, and PetSmart are all teetering on the edge of extinction.
But business isn’t the only entity that must be “profitable” in order to survive. Realistically speaking, individuals like you and me must be profitable too in order to function properly and have a lifestyle that makes us content and successful. So, why do we think of profit as a dirty word?
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HoneyMoney is a relatively new way
Many years ago, when I was a young man working as an assistant buyer at Macy’s, I learned about making a good plan and how to evaluate and then re-evaluate how that plan was doing. The most important part of that concept isn’t a requirement to make changes after evaluating, but rather it’s the actual necessity to take a close look. Even if you don’t make a change in a plan, looking and doing nothing is actually doing something! Not looking is doing nothing and that can hurt your financial plans.
