Can you take it when the pressure is on?  How about when the pressure is financial? Let's talk about coping with money problems.

If you're interested in becoming successful in a material sense, you must be able to handle financial pressure. By that I mean knowing how to give, receive, earn, spend, and save. Being broke is one kind of financial pressure, but if you think it ends when the money starts coming in, you are wrong. In fact, the more you earn, the more the pressure builds, and you need to be able to handle it. 

One of the favorite books on my shelf is by George S. Clason called, "The Richest Man in Babylon" and it is all about how to handle and accumulate wealth. One of the things it teaches is to take 10 percent of all you earn up front and give it away. Then, take another 10 percent to reduce your debts, and a third 10 percent to build up capital to invest. That's right, what's left is 70%, and while many of you may say you couldn't live on that, most of you would be wrong. Furthermore, if you don't make this type of change, you will find yourself on the same financial treadmill years from now, going nowhere. 

Think of it this way: If you do as well in the next ten years as you have in the last ten, where will you be? Does something need to change? If so, what? 

Why not pick up a copy of "The Richest Man in Babylon" - try a used bookstore - and see how you feel after reading it. If nothing else, it will get your wheels turning.