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What is the Secret to Becoming Rich?

Everybody wants to become rich. Have you ever pondered why this is so? To finally buy that big house, to finally get that new model year car, or to finally keep up with the Joneses I suppose? The answers and the reasoning behind why 99% of all people who want to be wealthy will amaze you. What is the secret to becoming rich you ask? If I knew it I would already be rich, they say in subliminal talks with people who don’t save. If I had to answer this question today or tomorrow, I will continue to say the secret to becoming rich is investing yesterday. If you didn’t invest yesterday, invest today and tomorrow to play the game.

The person with the highest annual income who doesn’t invest will never be rich. Why can’t the dude who works in Wall Street making a million dollars a year be rich? Because he makes a lot and spends more than a lot. The high earner only feels rich, when in reality is not even close to any riches. This is the secret within the secret that people will never openly discuss. They spend more than they earn, and that is no way for anyone to become rich.

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What is Your Personal Savings Rate?

Did you know the recent savings rate was released by the government agency in charge of tracking this vital information, and I bet you already knew it is pretty low. How low do you ask, my financial smart friends? It is a pleasantly never reaching retirement figure of 5 percent. What is your personal savings rate?

What can you do with 5% in the future? It might cover the cost of gas, cable, and food but then that’s it. Who or what will help you pay for shelter, entertainment and any other fabulous budget categories we all cannot live without? If you say Social Security, I say bite your tongue right now.

Did you know that the earlier you start saving the sooner you will be done, and the sooner it will grow, and the less you will ultimately need? But you already knew this right?

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8 Creative Ways to Save Dollars

Hello friends today is another money saving opportunity to help you reach your savings goals. We can achieve so much financially if we focus and stop placing limitations on our ability to save more. I have a few pieces of financial information to make you rethink the normal way to save money. The 8 creative ways to save dollars was established especially for you, to conquer any money goals you need to complete in 2016.

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7 Ways to Make $500 Extra Dollars Next Month

Side hustle topics and podcasts are all over the internet to help people find a way to make extra income. But how do you really start today to get some extra dough without killing yourself with an immense number of hours added on top of your weekly work load. Most of us have a 9-5 consuming the bulk of our time every day, so if your day is flexible maybe you can hustle and bustle your way to make surplus money.

How you can make $500 extra dollars next month well that depends on your abilities, skills, and dedication to get out and make it happen. Why would you want to build another income source? Because its a good idea to diversify income away from 1 source and into multiple sources. As of right now I have 3 sources of income and I am I looking to increase it every year. Those with 5 income sources or more are in a position to presumably avoid financial risk due to the diversification of total income. If 1 income gets eliminated the person can fall back on the 4 others to pick up the slack. See Below for a few ideas on how to add another income source.

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Who wants to Join The 20% Savings Club

OK now I know most people in the financial news media, repeat and regurgitate the save 10% of all income all the time. But I say forget that; let’s do the best we can today. Let’s begin to save at least 20% of all income for life. Who wants to join the 20% savings club? Well if you’re asking and I’m telling, it means all of us should join the club. If you make 1,000 or 25,000 dollars a month it really doesn’t matter, let’s set aside 20% based off income for life. The strategy will be a bit different from the norm, as you will take 10% in pre-tax savings, like 401K accounts or Roth IRA’s, and the other 10% in after tax savings like a brokerage account. Who wants to join the 20% savings club? (Everybody Should)

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What is Savings

If I said before I’ll say it again, savings is a means to an end. What end that will be is completely dependent on what you value for your money life. What is Savings? Something as simple as taking 3 years off to raise you’re kids, can be a savings goal. Another one can be saving for a business venture. We tend to over assume things will just work out, and we don’t prepare enough with finances. What is savings defined in my life, well you will soon read below.

When you have long term savings goals, life gets interesting because you’ll usually achieve them, but without a plan you will most likely just get by completing smaller savings goal. Lets rev up our internal engines or brain waves and save some cold hard cash.

No excuses here for this topic because having savings is and should be a priority even above paying Chase. Because Chase will never cover your monthly expenses if you lose a job. Find out below why you need savings today.

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All the things I’ve owned for 10 years

Making a list like this is not easy as we live in a consumer driven society. Which means that most people are constantly upgrading things before it’s even necessary? Can you remember all the things you’ve owned for 10 years? This my very own experiment to really test how long things can last and instead of just throwing things out because a shiny new product is glimmering from the retail store display. All the things I’ve owned for 10 years is a real feat, because I’m breaking records and have no desire to make any replacements unless its necessary.

Stuffitis is a real disease going around since before the 1970s, no really I was not even born yet, but I read history books. Garages all over America have been filled with all the extra stuffities, including 2 retro refrigerators because folks buy new ones instead of replacing a little motor.

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What is Wealth

This post will be a short one as I am swamped with work and in addition have crazy demands on the family front. It will be about the best topic in the personal finance world to discuss, and it is called what is wealth.

Wealth has been defined by Investopedia as: A measure of the value of all of the assets of worth owned by a person, community, company or country. Wealth is found by taking the total market value of all the physical and intangible assets of the entity and then subtracting all debts.

If you do this money management exercise it will reveal a positive number and you might be ecstatic. On the flip side for some, it will reveal a negative number, and a feeling to turn things around to eventually bring things on the positive side of money.

Now I leave you with what is wealth to me and hopefully you can relate to how I described wealth below in Acrostic writing style.

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