Feed Your Mind by Attending a Free Seminar

I woke up this morning at 11am to a bright and beautiful morning feeling totally refreshed. The sun was shining through the window and as I opened the blinds, I gazed up to the clear blue sky and felt like I hadn't a single care in the world. At this moment, I was reminded about why I had set the goal of achieving financial freedom in the first place. This was inspiring enough for me to also be reminded that financial freedom is built on the foundations of financial education and self-improvement. I believe that the more financial literate you are, the sooner you will achieve financial freedom.

Continually broadening your financial literacy is therefore very important and can be achieved by attending free seminars on financial topics. These seminars may be about property investing, derivatives and sharetrading, financial planning, and general self-improvement topics. There are an abundance of these seminars being held in your city all through the year and are usually run by companies that are marketing their services or products.

Granted, these seminars may have a strong focus on why you should sign up to their services, but beyond that are the opportunities to learn about the different ways in which you can achieve financial freedom, improve your knowledge about personal success and opportunities to network with other like-minded attendees.

Sometimes you will stumble across seminars that are just gems where you learn substantial amounts of information and just leave feeling inspired and more motivated to achieve your goals. One such seminar is Christopher Howard's 'Breakthrough to Success' weekend. Chris is such an exceptional and passionate speaker. That alone makes attending his 3-day free seminar well worth your time if for nothing else you learn what well-crafted public speaking is about. You can find out more about this seminar or check out his book Turning Passions Into Profits: Three Steps to Wealth and Power.

Other seminars can be nothing more than a salespitch but the beauty is that they are free and you can leave whenever you feel. Never feel obligated to stay for the full two or so hours and absolutely never feel obligated to purchase any services or products if you don't wish to. In fact, even if you do like what the service or product they were telling you about, I would suggest holding off from buying it just so you have a chance to settle and think it through. The great thing is that if the product or service is really worth investing in, the company would hold other seminars through the year where you would be given the oppportunity to take advantage of the discounted pricing only available to those who are attending that seminar.

If a seminar happens to be a total waste of time, well at least you'd get a free pen and notepad out of it and you can certainly cross that service or product off your list.

Ways to find out about free seminars:

● Signup to email mailing lists of people or organisations that deal in your area of interest. Eg. If you like property investing, you may signup to a mailing list of a property investing or real estate website.
● Keep an eye out for ads in newspapers and magazines for free seminars.
● Keep an eye out for ads on websites you visit particularly those about your area of interest.