1c: Earn To Invest…Find Your Money-Style

This is the third in a series of articles on how to earn to invest. The previous article is an exercise teaching you how to keep more of your next million.
Your money-style is the cumulative result of the relationship between your time and your money.

We all consume stuff at some level: lodging, transportation, [...]

1: Start Now…Find Out If You Earn to *Spend* Or Earn To *Invest*

When you earn to invest, you replace your habit of earning to acquire stuff with earning to invest in your own financial independence. You dump leaky bucket thinking and focus on gathering many healthy, self-sustaining and growing sources of income in addition to your job.

The word sustainable is very popular right now.You see it [...]

Find Your Money Mindset Part III

This is a continuation of a series of exercises designed to help you and your family better understand your attitudes about money.

Part I: Get In Touch With Your Money Mindset (Fear v. Ambivalence v. Opportunity)
Part II: List Common Phrases Use You About Money (Scarcity v. Abundance)
Part III: Inventory Your Financial Influencers

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Find Your Money Mindset Part II

Click here to see Part I: Find Your Money Mindset…Fear v. Opportunity.
→ Exercise: Scarcity v. Abundance
A key indicator of your money mindset is to listen to the little throw away phrases that you might say to a child or a friend in passing.

Here are a few examples.

A penny saved is a penny [...]

1: Start Now…Get In Touch With Your Money Mindset

Get out of your own way.
Really.
Your current finances are a result of your money mindset, your personal relationship with money.

Your money mindset is a combination of your earliest education in money management, your successes and failures, and your phobias. While some of the circumstances were pure chance, you made all of the decisions that [...]

1.A: Start Now…Trust Yourself

Trust Yourself To Make The Best Decision For Now; Only Hindsight is 20/20
Our culture is focused on doing things “best” and doing things “right;” there isn’t a lot of room for experimentation.  In order to learn how to be a financially independent person, you will need to acquire the confidence that only comes from [...]