I recently had a painful experience with my bank where they presented my reporting transactions in a manner that gave me a very hard time understanding.

To make things easy I called the bank to clarify the transactions I did not recognize based on what I printed from their online access.

A couple were proud to show me their new expensive celfone which they bought using all their 13th month pay and charge the rest to their credit card. It was definitely none of my business how they spend their money but knowing they are living on debt makes me think they could use their holiday bonus wiser than buying new phones especially when they are already using expensive phones that are just a year old.

Tips for using holiday money wisely

There are a lot of skills required to rise above the rest let alone survive in this competitive environment. We will always find ourselves competing with people who are better than us in some way or the other. We may also find ourselves better than our peers.

But regardless of any situation we should always try to be a step ahead of everyone else to succeed. We need not step on other’s shoes and definitely we should never do that. “Don’t be Evil” as Google pointed out but at least beat them by absorbing their powers.

How do we do that then? Simple. Remember the beautiful Rogue from X-Men who absorb the power of others by touch? How she was able to defeat the powerful villain named Magneto?

That is the skill we are trying to teach here. The skill of getting people’s intellect, experiences, techniques, styles, resources, etc.