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Building Wealth With a Clear Goal, Taking Back Control.
I believe that time is the best equity money can provide. I want to be able to invest my time in what I care about, like spending more time with my kid, investing in education, dedicating myself to building businesses that can impact lives for the better, and working with young people to create a better and more assertive generation of leaders.
When we grow up with nothing, being rich means being able to afford everything we did not have growing up. That’s why often people tend to show their latest big purchase (car, home, and private jet) to make this statement “I’m rich.” While some of them can afford it, most of them get into a lot of debt and, in the end, lose it all. Another group of new rich certainly know how to manage their money, develop all kinds of sheets to help people manage their money better, and sometimes get upset because their audience does not respond the way they expected them to. For these experts becoming rich or wealthy is a question of money knowledge. It is their truth, it’s their relationship with money, and that’s how they understand it; nevertheless, it does not make it true for everyone who wants to be financially free and stable.
Most financial gurus try to teach people how to save up enough money to retire early. You need to do this, you need to do that, and by the age of X, you will be free…