There are a lot of young individuals out there who have no idea how to create wealth or multiply their income. To some, what they take every month is more than enough and they plan not for the future. Is it sad? Yeah. Is it going to stop? Hell no. Why? It is because the system responsible for producing most of these potential-filled individuals, somehow fail to teach them about financial liberation.
Today, i'm not here to add up complaints just like countless others who have over the years done nothing to curb this situation. I believe one valuable thing school can give people is the ability to help them know how to learn. Most people luck this. All their life has been a copying and pasting which is very bad for the success equation. To move to a level of higher financial IQ, you must first know how to learn the skills and how to apply them.
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The second thing is to have good company. Peer pressure has always been seen as a negative remark but do you know it can have a positive and a lasting effect on you as well. Consider this. You move daily with people who like to save and plan for their future and they always advice you to do the same. What do you think will happen if you still continue to enjoy their company? You will join them no matter how stubborn you are towards savings. In this situation, you have been seduced by the ways of your peers and this kind of seduction is the good kind.
You have to find a way to engage with people who have done what you want to do. This will keep you motivated and help you grow faster. Knowing that it has been done before makes it easy for you to go all in with everything (time, energy, money) you have got. One of my fitness mentors said “It is always worth it to give it your best and to work towards the attainment of the goal” These are words to live by.
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The last thing is to always remember to pray. Pray for strength and the will to continue when times get hard because it will get hard. Success is 99% failure and for you to get to the 1%, you need all the help you can get. Just let the big guy up there grant you the strength.