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Pinching pennies and living life cheaply can do more damage than good. Protecting your money at all costs prevents you from learning how to create money. The true path to wealth is having your money make money. Trying to save a couple of pennies on each transaction only leads to hate and discontent. Even if a cheap person amasses a vast fortune, they will hesitate actually to spend the money. Remember that they have lived their entire lives cheaply....
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90 to 95% of the workforce uses the "broke" money system. This cycle entails working, wanting, buying, and owning. The other 5-10% use the "investor" money cycle that entails budgeting, saving, investing, and spending. The key before between the two is cash flow. The "broke" use cash flow to buy liabilities, while "investors" use cash flow to purchase income-producing assets. And guess what? Income-producing assets (like dividends) produce more income...
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It's okay to spend money on things you love. The trick is to curb spending on items for which you derive no pleasure. Keeping a daily budget is the best way to focus on things you love. Daily budgeting helps you track what you love, say, coffee. It also ensures you are not trying to consume too much within the same timeframe. In essence, it helps you choose between going to a movie or buying Blu-Ray (for example). Don't fear tracking your spending;...
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As we age, our primary residences become an emotional blind spot; we would love to stay in our homes forever.
However, two things are true: we need a place to stay plus income. Therefore, we must make tough calls if we need to generate more revenue.
A reverse mortgage may allow you to stay in your home, create cash flow, and preserve generational wealth.
If you convert your lump sum into an income-investing portfolio, you will have more options...
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It's challenging to gain your footing as a head of household. There are many competing interests financially that you have to juggle. Saving for expenses, vacations, school, and maintenance is part of your daily routine. However, we still need to save for emergencies, invest for retirement, and build a nest egg for future generations. How is one to thrive in this overwhelming environment? First, learn to relax. Then we only need to create a road map....
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They teach you to work. They teach you to struggle. However, they don't teach you to enjoy life. Somehow, our lives have become about working for money, buying things, and upgrading to bigger things. Life is about paying it forward, spending time with loved ones, and growing your community. If you live below your means, you can quickly retire on passive income. Then you will have time to spend time with whoever you choose. However, they did not teach...
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Would you buy a $25 gift card for $20? The magic would be when you redeem it for $25. What if you could receive dividends before you redeemed the gift card at a profit? That's the magic of preferred shares. The typical par value of a preferred share is $25. You can find them at great prices like $18, $19, and $20. Once you purchase them below par, you will start to receive dividends. Once the company decides to call the preferred share, it will pay...
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Welcome to the elite Savers of America. Saving and Investing $1,000 per month is no small feat. Now it's time to decide how to allocate your resources. Everyone has their own investment strategy and risk tolerance. I love to focus on income investing, but you may love index funds. Others love the security of a high-yield saving account. The best part is that we can allocate our cash into multiple different strategies to have safety, security, growth,...
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Do you feel like you're not making progress financially? Welcome to America and the world of capitalism. Inflation is the cost of being alive. We can't sit still for a few seconds without prices increasing somewhere. To get ahead, we must make a drastic change in our lives. This change could be moving to a small city or relocating overseas. There is no use fighting about how unfair the cost of living is in America. It's time to make a serious move...
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We should all strive to leave the workforce while we are still healthy; however, some will leave sooner than others. You can determine how fast you can leave the workforce by lowering your standard of living, even for a short period. Retirement is the act of stopping to go to work. Financial freedom affords you the freedom of time, movement, and money. Those who aim for financial freedom understand they can leave the workforce as soon as their passive...
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As we look toward retirement, we will need multiple income streams to thrive without a full-time job. We can use writing to create multiple streams of income without investing too much overhead into our business. Becoming a writer is one of the best ways to start living as a digital nomad. Everyone should have a few books earning royalties on Amazon. Creating unique content by meshing together multiple topics is the key to becoming a successful writer....
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We should all strive to build generational wealth through real estate. However, we cannot expect our kids to purchase a home by themselves. The housing market contains many new players, including institutional investors, foreign investors, and Airbnb operators. All this new traffic increases prices, so our kids won't be able to participate. However, this is a prime time for lenders to introduce 50-year and 100-year mortgages to the general population....
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Can you save $10,000 in a high-yield savings account (HYSA)? It is no easy task, but I believe in you. The first step is understanding why saving money is vital to our future. We cannot pause our lives with every emergency that arises. Next, we must understand that our emergency fund should not be used frequently or randomly. In fact, we should aim never to use these funds. Finally, we must create additional income streams to increase our savings...
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Times are rough, and the future only holds more pain. What can the average American do about inflation? When all else fails, it's time to return to the basics. We need to track and document every penny that comes into our household. There are only two ways to become wealthy-reduce expenses and increase income. As you create more cash flow, you must invest in dividend-paying stocks. Dividends are the key to living your best life. The more you invest,...
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Life is good as an income investor. Not because you have tons of money coming via dividends, although that is nice. No, the real reason is that you have options. It gives you leverage when you have $1,000+ coming, regardless of your employment situation. Most people don't want to retire early truly; they want to find and execute meaningful work. Your income portfolio allows you to take your paycheck wherever you travel. Now you can work the job of...
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You have a lot going for you in your 20s-mainly the ability to work extremely hard and recover quickly. However, you also must overcome natural urges from your hormones and school programming. If you can build an income portfolio that pays your $1,000/month in dividends, you will be free for life. Time is the critical component of compounding, and you have time on your side. Your $1,000/month income stream will turn into $11,000/month in your 40s....
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What makes Dividend Growth Investing so special? It's the fact that your are building a massive nest egg that can fund your lifestyle. The best part is that you do not need to sell shares to generate income. All you need is to invest in amazing blue-chip dividend-paying companies. Over time, these companies will continue to increase in value and dividend payouts. Your wealth and income will grow along with these companies. You just need to sit back...
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You will own nothing and be happy! That's where the world is heading nowadays. We used to own CDs and Bluray discs, but now we stream everything. The same phenomenon is happening with housing. The bigwigs are buying all the properties in your neighborhood and renting them back to you. To own a home today, you can't be average. You have to do something extraordinary. For example, find a high-paying remote job. From there, move somewhere like Foley,...
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Once you turn 60, you can access your taxable 401K and Roth IRA. But what the heck are you going to do with this large sum of money? Most people have analysis paralysis and run to a financial advisor. However, you are not an idiot. You saved the money; therefore, you can learn how to grow the money. The absolutely worse thing you can do is take the money out and buy a boat or car. Anything short of that is moving in the right direction. We can use...
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What is our fascination with new cars? Between expensive cars and houses, we are surrendering our futures to debt.
But do you need to upgrade your paid-off vehicle? What if you continued to pay the payments toward your income investing portfolio instead?
You could receive $460/month in dividends from your portfolio in six years. Yes, your dividends would pay you, not vice versa.
Money is not about spending, it is about time. The person with the...
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