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Have you ever been told you need to spend money to make money? Many of us are not fed with a silver spoon, handed a pile of cash, or given any break on life. To me, this is not a bad thing, it actually builds character and gives us the tenacity we need to become who we are. We begin to develop a callus to adversity. It gets easier every […]

The Cheapest Ways To Become A Millionaire

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I am constantly brushing off advice that I’ve heard my entire life. Eat more vegetables. Floss daily. Read more often. The keys to happiness are people not things. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. We seem to think we are above listening to these cliches. That we are too smart to become inspired by such piddly wisdom. What if we changed […]

The Keys To Life Are In The Cliche´

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I am constantly sounding the alarm, telling people that the best time to invest is today. As we all know, just telling someone to do something won’t get the job done. So I am going to put my words where my mouth is and show you the magical powers of compound interest. I want to start our compound interest journey with a story: In […]

Why Investing Early Matters

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Like this post? Get the printable version and checklist here! This could be your best year yet. I’m not talking about just one area of your life, but exploding your growth in all areas. From your career, finances, relationships, and knowledge. It all weighs on the shoulders of the habits you create. It is ingrained in us to get better. To push beyond the barriers of […]

57 Ways To Accelerate Your Personal Growth

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So, you spent too much money for the holidays. You were engulfed in a wave of generosity, feeling like Oprah on a gift binge. You get a gift, you get a gift, everybody gets a gift! It was your greatest giving year to date. You made it rain presents. Your family, friends and co-workers, have no idea what hit them. We can’t forget your holiday party. The […]

How To Defeat The Holiday Spending Hangover

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Many of us have been sold the American dream. You go to school, attend college, work a 9-5 for 40 years, retire, then die. Leaving us to do the things we enjoy when we are old. Who the heck wants to live that way? Why is this the American Dream? Well guess what? We don’t have to. You should aspire to break this as the […]

Stop Trading Time For Money

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I was recently at a drug store picking up a few things. As I was leaving, another man was getting into his car parked right next to mine. He was a young guy, driving a 7 Series BMW. A six figure car. I thought to myself, I wonder what he does for a living? He backed out of his parking spot and I did the same. […]

How Fancy Are Your Pants?

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In the 1980’s, a few researchers came up with a proposed idea that they thought would help reduce crime in the U.S. They called that theory ‘Broken Windows’. The idea was fairly simple, a broken window is a sign of a community that has been neglected. In turn, a community that has been neglected, is more likely to have an increase in crime rate. The hypothesis […]

Why The Small Things Matter

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Money is a tough thing to wrap our brains around sometimes. Especially when it comes to our own personal finances. It can be stressful, make you feel lost, and seem like you’re running on a treadmill. I felt these same feelings early on in my financial life. I was in debt, frustrated, and looking for a way to figure this whole financial mess out. It’s a terrible feeling […]

You Inc.

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When I was a young lad, I would always tell myself little lies. Lies that in turn, would hinder my performance in school, athletics, savings, and many other goals a youngster would like to accomplish. As a result, in my early high school years, I developed a procrastination habit by creating these ‘loopholes’ for every situation. So my homework would get done just before it was due, and my studying […]

Loopholes

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It has been a little over two years since we bought our first home. An experience that has in turn become a valuable education for us. As someone who loves real estate, and is a licensed realtor, I constantly have real estate on the mind. I want to make sure that first time home buyers do not make the same mistakes I see so many folks make. If you are […]

How to Buy A House

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Imagine you are watching the World Series. The Cubs are playing the Indians, and you look up to find that Johnny Baseball from the Cubs just hit a home run to win the game. The team goes crazy, the crowd goes wild. There’s only one problem with this World Series from hell. Nobody kept score. Now the Indians think that they won the World Series. They begin celebrating because […]

How To Determine Your Net Worth

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Every seasoned real estate investor understands that to make money it’s all about how you buy. If you enter into your investment correctly, everything else will fall into place. We all hear stories of the guy who thinks that if the mortgage is less than the rent payment they will make money. That’s not always the case. Here I will give you a checklist that outlines 7 ways […]

7 Ways To Succeed As A Real Estate Investor

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Do you say “ain’t nobody got time for that” every time someone mentions investing? Well then you are in the right place. You can passively invest your money and still become wealthy. Actually, I will show you how to do this and retire a multi-millionaire. I’ve been investing since my early teen years. The biggest positive to starting young goes beyond the compound interest (which […]

How to Invest When You Dont Care About Investing

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If I had a nickel for every time I heard the greatest lie ever told, I would have a plethora of nickels. A boatload of sorts, because I hear the same tall tale from every single person who has ever been in love. Every person who has ever asked their significant other to marry them. What is that lie you ask? “We are just going to have a small […]

The $29,650 Lie We All Tell Ourselves

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Hey Everyone! I wrote a guest post for Stefan’s blog over at The Millennial Budget on how to find your retirement number! Check out the full post over at The Millennial Budget! What if I told you a single number can change your life. It can give set parameters to your financial goals that will set you up to retire much sooner than you ever thought you could. […]

How To Find Your Retirement Number

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