All Entries in the "Financial Freedom" Category
Make Your Own Luck: Successful People Create Their Own Opportunities
Becoming Financially Free requires commitment, perseverance and a little luck. This article will give you a new perspective on luck. Source: CNN Money . com “It was really an inadvertent thing,” Jason said of the profitable market niche he had stumbled on. After a moment, he added, “If I made a list of all the things [...]
What are your Big Five for Life?
I read a book a little over a year ago called “The Why Are You Here Cafe” by John Strelecky. It is a very eye opening book that can be read in a couple of hours and will have you thinking for many days afterwards. The book asks the question – What are the five [...]
First Things First
I can talk about debt reduction, buying assets, yadda, yadda, yadda. It’s all moot until you allow yourself to dream. What are the five things that you would like to see, do or experience before you leave this world? Allow those goals to drive your day to day behavior and freedom will be yours.
Accumulating “core-assets”
When I graduated from college, I had certain salary expectations. As I gained more experience and education, my salary requirements increased. When those expectations were not met, I would change employers or seek different opportunities within the company. That is how 90% of the people in North America operate. They focus on the income column. [...]
Financial Freedom: Saying Goodbye to the Time for Money Swap
Before we address the issue at hand, let’s make sure that we are clear on the definition of financial freedom. Up until 4 or 5 years ago, I had a warped perception of financial freedom. I pictured it as a life of leisure with a couple million dollars in the bank. After taking on too [...]
Think Free
A common trait amongst financially free people is that they are not shackled by conventional thinking. Traditional career paths with titles and corporate ladders are of little interest to them. They are contrarians who are quite comfortable zigging while others are zagging. The financially free’s mantra is to support their lifestyle by generating income [...]
