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Wealth is Invisible

Want to know the secrets of the rich? Want to know how the 1% became the 1%? Want to know how you can go from drowning in debt to getting …

October 3, 2017

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Just a basic rule for life.
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How much does your money cost?
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Nearly 15 years ago I decided to start taking my l

Nearly 15 years ago I decided to start taking my lunch to work instead of buying lunch every day. 🥪 🍎 🍇
This was obviously a super small decision, although in the moment it felt like a big inconvenience. 😩
As you all know, I retired last year at the age of 40 and now I get to be at home full time with my family. 😁
Now, I'm not going to say that my choice to bring my lunch to work 15 years ago is the reason I was able to retire 25 years early. That's ridiculous. 🤪
But it's also ridiculous to say that decision had no impact on my ability to retire early. 😲
You see, that one really small choice opened the door to new opportunities.
Once I was taking my lunch to work:
✅ I was saving money on lunch, and gas not going out to eat.
✅ Saving extra money gave us the opportunity to pay off our credit cards faster.
✅ Once our credit cards were paid off we had the opportunity to tackle our car loans.
✅ Once our car loans were paid off we had the opportunity to pay off our student loans.
✅ Once our student loans were paid off we had the opportunity to buy a house.
✅By not having any debt, we had the opportunity to buy a nice house in a nice area.
✅By buying a house that was way less the we could afford, we had the opportunity to focus on investing more money in my work 401k and Roth IRA's.
✅ With our financial plan in place, we had the opportunity to buckle down and pay off our house as fast as possible.
✅Once our house was paid off, we had the opportunity to invest the majority of our money to build wealth.
✅ When I suddenly got laid off from my job, I had the opportunity to walk away and retire at the age of 40.
Easy peasy, right?
Clearly packing my lunch wasn't the decision that allowed me to retire early, but it was the decision that led to additional opportunities that my wife and I took advantage of.
It's easy to get frustrated when we see others having opportunities that we don't have, but we have to remember that those opportunities are a product of choices they have made days, months, or even years earlier.
What choices are you making today so you'll have more opportunities in the future?

Have you embraced these truths? #money #wealthbui

Have you embraced these truths?
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Only make bets you can afford to lose.
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Some things are much more expensive than you think

Some things are much more expensive than you think.
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I think we've taken the "work smarter not harder"

I think we've taken the "work smarter not harder" maxim to an unhealthy place.
There are seasons of life where working harder is absolutely the right thing to do.
But by internalizing the work smarter mantra, many of us come to vilify hard work.
We think that working hard is not smart.
We think that becoming a TikTok celebrity is the only true path to wealth.
We thumb our nose at jobs and careers that look like hard work because we think working hard is a horrible way to spend our lives.
We end up a society that wants it all but rejects the idea of having to do hard work to receive it.
Instead, we should relish the opportunity to work harder when hard work is required and capture the chance to work smarter when smarter work is the true remedy.
And we should applaud both as fitting and necessary methods of moving forward.
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You get to decide which messes you make. #money #

You get to decide which messes you make.
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