Phillip Tilley

Positioning

May 7, 2010 |  1 comment
Image Credit: Midjourney Phillip Tilley: Quite simply, positioning is when preparedness meets opportunity. A recent episode of CSI said that is the definition of luck, but that is incorrect and I will prove it. Let us say for example you want to buy a big screen TV. There is a problem though, the TV costs $800 and you do not have any currency. It could be said that you are not in a position to buy one. The TV is available but you lack the funds.

You are not stupid though, you know the cost of big ticket items often comes down. So you set yourself a goal that when the price comes down to $500 you will buy it. Now you just need $500, so you start saving a little here and there, $30 this payday, $20 the next. Before too long you have $500 put aside. You are now prepared. Now you wait.

Then one weekend the big screen TV you want goes on sale for $500. You are now in a position to buy and the opportunity has arisen. You get the TV.

In this example forethought had to take place and you had to plan and save in order to prepare. Webster’s dictionary defines preparedness as: the state or quality of being prepared. Webster’s dictionary defines prepare as: to make ready beforehand for some purpose. You cannot prepare beforehand unless you know what you are preparing for. You have to think first, then act on that thought.

Now let us move on to example number two. You want to buy a big screen TV that costs $800. You do not have $800 so it could be said you are not in a position to buy one.

On Friday night you play poker with some friends. Through luck you win $500. The next morning you see an advertisement that the TV you want just went on sale for $500. You rush out and but the TV because you are now through luck able to get one.

Webster’s dictionary defines luck as: to prosper or succeed through chance, to come upon something desirable by chance. The key phrase here is “by chance.” With chance there is no forethought, no planning , no preparing. Therefore, when preparedness meets opportunity, it is really “Positioning”, not luck.

Now the important part of this lesson. According to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in early April, 76% of Americans rated the economy these days as poor. Americans impressions of the economy and their own financial hardships have not changed in a long while. Add to that the National Bureau of Economic Research, a not for profit group of economists that determines when recessions start and end concluded that the jury is still out on the recession’s end. Real jobless claims are at 17% even though the official unemployment rate, (a different category) is 9.7%.

If our currency crashes in the next two years, will you be positioned for the outcome? Wake up people, the money matrix has you!

Phillip Tilley is the author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles.[!gad]Quite simply, positioning is when preparedness meets opportunity. A recent episode of CSI said that is the definition of luck, but that is incorrect and I will prove it. Let us say for example you want to buy a big screen TV. There is a problem though, the TV costs $800 and you do not have any currency. It could be said that you are not in a position to buy one. The TV is available but you lack the funds.

You are not stupid though, you know the cost of big ticket items often comes down. So you set yourself a goal that when the price comes down to $500 you will buy it. Now you just need $500, so you start saving a little here and there, $30 this payday, $20 the next. Before too long you have $500 put aside. You are now prepared. Now you wait.

Then one weekend the big screen TV you want goes on sale for $500. You are now in a position to buy and the opportunity has arisen. You get the TV.

In this example forethought had to take place and you had to plan and save in order to prepare. Webster’s dictionary defines preparedness as: the state or quality of being prepared. Webster’s dictionary defines prepare as: to make ready beforehand for some purpose. You cannot prepare beforehand unless you know what you are preparing for. You have to think first, then act on that thought.

Now let us move on to example number two. You want to buy a big screen TV that costs $800. You do not have $800 so it could be said you are not in a position to buy one.

On Friday night you play poker with some friends. Through luck you win $500. The next morning you see an advertisement that the TV you want just went on sale for $500. You rush out and but the TV because you are now through luck able to get one.

Webster’s dictionary defines luck as: to prosper or succeed through chance, to come upon something desirable by chance. The key phrase here is “by chance.” With chance there is no forethought, no planning , no preparing. Therefore, when preparedness meets opportunity, it is really “Positioning”, not luck.

Now the important part of this lesson. According to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in early April, 76% of Americans rated the economy these days as poor. Americans impressions of the economy and their own financial hardships have not changed in a long while. Add to that the National Bureau of Economic Research, a not for profit group of economists that determines when recessions start and end concluded that the jury is still out on the recession’s end. Real jobless claims are at 17% even though the official unemployment rate, (a different category) is 9.7%.

If our currency crashes in the next two years, will you be positioned for the outcome? Wake up people, the money matrix has you!

Phillip Tilley is the author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles.

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