Money
3 Ways To Reclaim Your Time
The buzzword has been financial independence for I don’t know how long. What we truly desire is the freedom to do what we want, when we want, and with whom we want. As for me, I desire to be a rich haute housewife living a leisure, luxury, lavish lifestyle with a full-time staff in 4 estates around the world in order to reclaim my time. It’s not as outlandish as it sounds. Well, how did a child of a domestic worker get the idea that it’s possible to be rich and live a leisure, luxury, lavish lifestyle with full-time staff at that? For one, I lived in a prestigious neighborhood…
Increase Your Learning to Increase Your Earning
Personally, I wish someone would have told me that you could increase your learning to increase your earning. Sadly, I held 25 jobs (that I remember) before I caught on. In my twenties, I held multiple trivial, mostly part-time jobs in order to make ends meet. These jobs paid around $7.00 to $8.00 per hour. Once, I had eight jobs in two years. Essentially, I job hopped for twenty-five and fifty-cent raises which was a lot of money to me at the time. I sold beanie babies, dietary supplements, pagers, cookies, toys, and shoes, as well as contracted as a substitute-assistant daycare teacher. My personal research (job-hopping) in the marketplace revealed,…
Money Behaviors Keeping You Broke
Are your money behaviors keeping you broke? Everything we know we observed and were taught. Either by someone in our sphere or some authority figure in a particular genre. Including our spending habits. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I follow 9 foundational practices – T.H.R.I.V.E. I in T.H.R.I.V.E. represents Practice # 4 | Invest In Yourself which consists of reading self-help books, listening to faith-building sermons, and/or hiring a personal coach, among other things. In the first 4 months of the year, I read 17 books. Now, I’m dedicating 121 days (May 2023 to August 2023) to reading 12 personal finance books on raising wealth…
What Would You Do With $10M?
As reported on www.nationalnews.com, From Dh15 ($4.08) to Dh15m ($4,087,193): Indian resident of Dubai becomes lottery millionaire overnight. Ajay Ogula was a driver for a jewelry company before hitting the Emirates Draw mega-million jackpot. His words as reported in the article, “Dh15 million? What will I do with so much [money]?” The excerpt is taken directly from the article: “Mr Ogula first plans to bring his family to the UAE for a holiday after he arranges passports and flights.” “I also want to buy a house for my mother and sister. They will come here and we will discuss what to do.” “He is also taking a small break from…
I Wanna Be Rich
“I wanna be rich” by Calloway is ringing in my ears, “I want money, lots and lots of money.” When I was on Facebook I added “Decamillionaire in the Making” to my profile name. I was reminded by so many people my financial goals may not be realized working a regular 9 to 5 unless of course, I won the lottery like so many people desired. I read a lot of financial books and the most common thread repeated in these books are business ownership is the yellow brick road that leads to “lots and lots of money.” I remember a colleague once stating you will never get rich working…
