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This 1 Habit Changed The Way I Saved Money Forever
First, let’s acknowledge it’s not just young people who need help saving money.
It’s everyone.
The unfortunate truth is most people have little to no savings at all — and I don’t mean “savings for that vacation to Hawaii,” I mean retirement.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by money.
Not necessarily for what it can buy in a materialistic sense (I rarely spend money on myself), but what it can be used to create. For me, money was the equivalent of gasoline in a car. Money meant I could spend more time doing this instead of that. I could build something on my own instead of working for someone else.
Money was the gateway to decision, and the decision was the habit with which I could steer the direction of my life.
As a result, I have spent the past five years studying finance as a hobby.
In college, I studied creative writing and math was never my strong suit, so I took it upon myself to seek out mentors who had learned how to master money: investors, bankers, successful serial entrepreneurs, etc. I wanted to learn how they had made money work for them, instead of getting caught in the cycle of always working for money.
