FALLING IN TO CASH!

I wrote about my trip to the casino last month and how I lost $50 dollars on penny slots, but this month things are really looking up.  It's only the 4th and I have all my bills paid except my phone bill, which runs around $50 per month.  I'm sitting on about a months worth of cash in my bank account and I get paid from work tomorrow.  Also picked up a contract for a carpet cleaning job that will take me about 2 hours and pays $100.  On top of that, I sold a couple of silver coins on ebay for $70 and the listing only lasted about an hour before someone took the buy it now option, so it was a quick sale with immediate payment. 


As if that weren't enough, I recently took some cash out of my money market account from stocks I'd just sold.  Just wanted to have extra on hand for maintenance work on my car.  As it turned out, I didn't need the money after all so I transferred it from checking to savings to boost my cash reserves.  In the mean time, the stocks in my regular investment account went up and are now worth more than before I took out cash.  Have you ever heard that expression, "They just fall into money?"  I'm beginning to feel like it's happening to me.  It's a nice feeling.  But the truth is, what seems like a run of extremely good fortune is really more the result of taking control of my finances, creating a plan and sticking to it. 

Sure is nice to see some progress for a change.  Especially after the last couple of years.  It's also nice to know that even though I don't feel very secure in my new job and my earned income is well below what I'm used to making, I'm still making progress towards financial freedom by actively managing my finances.  I feel much more confident that no matter what obstacles the future may hold, things will turn out all right in the end.  It really boils down to managing what you do have and not worrying about what you don't have.