This hinders your happiness

This one was a big problem for me in the past โ€ฆ That tiny graph shows that no matter where our current salary is ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜†/๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ. We donโ€™t realizeโ€ฆ

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What is Wealth to You?

What do you do with your money?

Managing Money is easy.Managing Wealth isnโ€™t. We quantify whatโ€™s easily countable, not what matters most. Wealth isnโ€™t as easily defined. But itโ€™s quite impossible to manage something we havenโ€™t defined for ourselves. ๐ˆ ๐š๐ฆ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ?โ€ฆ

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๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Š๐’” ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐‘ต๐’†๐’• ๐‘พ๐’๐’“๐’•๐’‰ ๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’๐’๐’˜?

More Rational Thinking

๐‘ซ๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’™๐’‚๐’„๐’• ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’๐’–๐’๐’•? To accumulate more money is presumably the main reason we spend most of our days working. But do we keep track of how much we have? Do we know how much is enough? Iโ€ฆ

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Focus less on money

Disposition Effect

โ€œ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™—๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š, ๐™จ๐™ข๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ช๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š, ๐™ข๐™ค๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™๐™ž๐™—๐™ž๐™ฉ, ๐™ก๐™–๐™ง๐™œ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก.โ€ – ๐˜ผ๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ฉโ€“๐™Ž๐™˜๐™๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฏ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ก๐™š (๐™ฅ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ค๐™œ๐™ฎ) Itโ€™s a loose rule, not a law, but it applies to so many things: Debt, ambition, networking, exercise, caution, & money. ๐—” ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณโ€ฆ

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It’s all about your Cash Flow

Cash Flow could be the most important term in the world of money, yet it is often the least understood.

Cash flow is a fancy term for money that goes in & out of your bank account. A lack of cash flow means you need to find a way to get more money to flow into your bank account. ๐—ฃ๐˜€๐˜†๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜†โ€ฆ

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Index Funds donโ€™t have an ego

Money? I heard money?

๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ: ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ.๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฎ: ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€. The good news about the recent market turmoils is that Index Funds donโ€™t have an ego. โœ” They wonโ€™t commit fraud against you orโ€ฆ

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From dumb money to smart money in two moves

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐˜€, ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€.ย  Isn’t one of our motivators to work the money we get for itโ“Then let’s also haveโ€ฆ

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When you have money, you don’t have to spend it

Bias: Slow down and think. Don't trust your intuitions.

๐—–๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ? โŒ The truth is, when you use money, you lose it โ€” forever.โœ” When you keep money, you keep it โ€”โ€ฆ

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