Real Freedom
You will never really be free until
you are financially independent of the need to work for a living; free of the nine to five rat race.
Imagine for a moment what that level of personal freedom might
feel like and what it would mean to you, personally.
Eventually, most of us will be forced
to wean ourselves from paid employment.
Some of us even daydream of the day we take the gold watch and
ride off into the sunset of retirement. But the fact is that in our society today few of us are saving enough to maintain
our lifestyle into our golden years.
If we can’t accomplish the goal of financial independence
in forty or fifty years of paid employment, how can anyone expect to do so in any shorter a span of time?
Well, the failure to achieve financial independence by the usual
age of retirement is usually simply a failure of adequate planning and reaching financial independence before you turn age
62, 65 or at any age, for that matter, is simply a matter of having a plan to do so.
Most people don’t have a plan
to achieve financial independence, not at 62 and not at 65, not at any age, not ever.
Most people will never even stop to think and consider financial
independence as a viable option to working for a living.
It is almost as if, as a society, we have blinders on in this
regard or that we suffer from a group-think that tells us that the only way to pay your way is to trade your time for money.
There is another way and that is to put your money to work for you.
