Financial Success Stories: Unusual Suspects

Whenever you’ve read financial success stories, there’s always something unique or fortunate about the story or person.  A theme that is usually accentuated is that of hard work.

Bonnie Price from Silver Vixens and blogger for Women Entrepreneur has taken it upon herself to make sure those entrepreneurs and professionals over 55 are recognized for their innovation and hard work.

As Price strives to help others reinvent themselves, some themes were prominent in her writings.

1.    If you want change you’re going to have to be vocal - change does not happen of its own accord.  There must be someone behind the desire to propel a movement of some sort.  Timidly hoping for change will not create the financial success you are looking for.

2.    Baby steps - if you only see and fixate on the big picture, it may seem impossible to make a dent in the work to be done.  Price suggests that focusing on one task at a time will make it easier to be productive and you won’t feel so overwhelmed.

3.    It takes elbow grease - if it wasn’t obvious yet, the main quality that sets those financial success stories apart from the failures is hard work.  Good intentions are great, but following through on those intentions – laboriously ticking things off that list and making change happen takes a lot of effort.

Becoming financially successful doesn’t always work according to a formula - and it isn’t confined to a specific industry - but it does call for unusual behavior.  And answering to a higher calling can be very prosperous.