Making six figures a year is a lot of money. However, depending on where you live, making six figures may still not make you feel rich! Due to higher cost of living and inflation, making six figures is no longer a guarantee for high living. One of the great things about America is freedom. Tired […]
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To achieve financial independence, everyone needs to boost savings and control spending. Once that’s done, it’s time to maximize earnings. The wider you grow this gap, the wealthier you will become over time. The only problem when you boost savings so much is that it may begin to burn a hole in your pocket after
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To keep motivation up, remind yourself about the reasons for saving and investing so diligently. Once you have clear purposes for your money, saving aggressively becomes much easier. It’s too easy to eat one more cookie and find ourselves unrecognizable 10 years later. When we live in a free and abundant country, life can get
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Getting rich is about willpower. Without willpower, you will likely never get ahead of the masses. You need willpower, endurance, and grit to get richer than the masses. In the 1960s, Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel conducted an experiment on children that is now often referred to as The Marshmallow Test. Walter invited various aged
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Life accelerates as we age. And one day you may wake up and find yourself in the middle of a midlife crisis. The key to getting through it without going broke is to create a midlife crisis fund in advance. That and mentally prepare as much as possible. But before we get to discussing a
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If you are frugal, you’ll likely never get into financial trouble. I was very frugal saving between 50% – 70% of my after tax income until about age 35. Then I decided there was no point saving so much money if I wasn’t going to live a little. This post will discuss things worth spending
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There’s an idyllic notion about startup riches that once you’ve sold your company for multi-millions of dollars you’re filthy rich and never have to work again. I admittedly have this automatic mindset whenever I meet someone who said they sold their company to one of the tech giants. Even if they are still living in
Knowledge brings about wealth and power. If this wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t have families spending $20,000+ a year for their children to attend kindergarten through the 12th grade. If knowledge wasn’t so important, there wouldn’t be any private tutoring or a test prep industry. If education was no big thing, there wouldn’t be a
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Lifestyle deflation is what happens when you are overly frugal. Frugality is often praised as a key element to achieving financial independence. Frugality is one of the hallmarks of the FIRE movement I help pioneer in 2009. However, it’s easy to take frugality too far. I’m frugal to a fault. For 13 years after college,
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Everybody needs to have a blog. Successful personal finance bloggers will agree. I was eating dinner at my local Indian joint when a late 20s couple sat at the table right next to me. The guy, a new pharmacy graduate from UCSF was with a female pharmacy student. He was buttering her up with praise about how
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