Step 1: Start Now To Establish Basic Financial Independence
Start now with what you have and manage your financial affairs facing forward. When you look over your shoulder and think “woulda-coulda-shouda,” then you miss the opportunities right in front of you. Most of you have a proven ability to earn, now is the time to improve your ability to build seed capital.
- 1a) Define financial independence for you; learn three levels of financial independence, two ways of being financial independence, and four paths to achieving it.
- 1b) Trust yourself to make great decisions, only hindsight is 20-20.
- 1c) Earn to invest and learn how your current money-style helps and hinders your path to financial independence.
- 1d) Be happy and organize your financial life around the people and things that bring you joy every day.