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Building The Foundation For Wealth
Copyright © 2005, C.C. Collins
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You wouldn't build your home on anything less than a solid
foundation. Similarly, you can't build wealth and financial
independence without first having sound foundational principles
to build upon.
I have found that many people are working on wealth building
strategies such as maximizing their 401K returns, aggressive
stock trading, and real estate investing without such a
foundation.
Most of my clients are coming from a "one step forward, two
steps back" cycle of wealth building that gets them nowhere in
the long run.
There are steps you can take to make sure that you are
maximizing and protecting your gains at the same time. Without
these steps, you are destined to experience the gain-loss cycle
which, in the end, is like spinning your wheels in the mud.
Discover how your employment circumstances affect your wealth
building strategy and have more of the things you want by
identifying your biggest expense and managing it without having
to make more money.
Most people take gains in their cash flow to mean they can spend
more on things they don't need. It is human to want to surround
yourself with the things you want to match how you feel about
your new income from investments or a raise at work.
But what happens here is that you lose future earning power and
you rip out pieces of your wealth building foundation because
you are not putting new income to work by investing in your debt.
People talk a lot about returns on investments. Think of the
return on a 13% credit debt that you pay off in 5 months
aggressive debt investment. It's NOT just 13% you are saving by
investing in your debt!
Once that debt is paid off you can turn the payments you were
making toward a larger debt, sometimes doubling the rate at
which you are able to pay off that bigger debt. Combined, the
return on your investment here is massive compared to regular
stock investing!
Wealth building, in the beginning, is actually started with debt
reduction and strict management. A change in attitude about
your debt, from "liability" to investment, is the first step in
true wealth building.
Today you should sit down and find the monthly expenses that
truly don't mean as much to you as building wealth does. See
how you can eliminate some of your spending to invest in your
debt in order to maximize your cash flow faster, giving yourself
a raise!
Take most of what you now have available per month and turn it
toward the next debt - raising the regular monthly payment by as
much as you can while rewarding yourself with a little thing to
note your accomplishment.
Before you take on another investment, think about the wealth
you can build with the money that currently goes to debt. Once
you have mastered your debt, all that money can go toward
investments, savings, and living expenses that far outstretch
what you are able to experience now.
The only aggressive investment strategy that has absolutely zero
risk is debt investment. You cannot lose and the gains are
always tremendous compared to any other form of investing.
Live your retirement years free of financial stress, relaxed and
enjoying life due to automatic income streams you create through
the powerful investments you can afford AFTER investing in your
debt.
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