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I live in the Western suburbs of Chicago. I'm a slowlaner currently. Almost every single person in my family is a slowlaner.
Good story though: Funny enough though my uncle is a chronic sidewalker. He spends as if there is no tomorrow. Money to him is debt plus income. He's constantly broke even though he has a well-paying union job(where he works tons of overtime), his mortgage payment is fairly small, and he has no wife and no kids. He is up to his eyeballs in debt.
He bought a house in 2006 against the advice of my mother and grandfather who told him that housing prices were inflated (they both dealt with real estate for a while). Sure enough he bought high and the prices crashed. He doesn't admit it, but I'm sure he bought it because some guru on the tv told him to. "Buy a home now, prices will go up forever!" What does he buy? Everything, books, new tvs, sport memorabilia, gold (he's a conspiracy theorist), guns, new computers, and everything else. Some of these things are nice, but he's consistently broke every week.
I had no way of quantifying this behavior before I read The Millionaire Fastlane. But I knew it was bad financial behavior. He is a sidewalker and will likely be one until he dies.
I see my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and everyone else and think, "I don't want to live like that." Ever since then I've pawed through every get rich scheme imaginable. If I had spent one quarter as much time searching for a way to be rich as to actually build something, I'd be there by now. Lots of money and time flushed down the toilet. I'm 23 and like everyone else, wish I found this book 5 years earlier. But I digress, that is the past, the old me was too lazy and undisciplined.
Currently? I'm making a plan and absorbing everything I can about website creation. I believe that creating a brand (myself) and then using that to move into products is the best strategy. It won't be easy. But it will be worth it. I'm currently re-reading The Millionaire Fastlane via audible. It's time for action.
I live in the Western suburbs of Chicago. I'm a slowlaner currently. Almost every single person in my family is a slowlaner.
Good story though: Funny enough though my uncle is a chronic sidewalker. He spends as if there is no tomorrow. Money to him is debt plus income. He's constantly broke even though he has a well-paying union job(where he works tons of overtime), his mortgage payment is fairly small, and he has no wife and no kids. He is up to his eyeballs in debt.
He bought a house in 2006 against the advice of my mother and grandfather who told him that housing prices were inflated (they both dealt with real estate for a while). Sure enough he bought high and the prices crashed. He doesn't admit it, but I'm sure he bought it because some guru on the tv told him to. "Buy a home now, prices will go up forever!" What does he buy? Everything, books, new tvs, sport memorabilia, gold (he's a conspiracy theorist), guns, new computers, and everything else. Some of these things are nice, but he's consistently broke every week.
I had no way of quantifying this behavior before I read The Millionaire Fastlane. But I knew it was bad financial behavior. He is a sidewalker and will likely be one until he dies.
I see my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and everyone else and think, "I don't want to live like that." Ever since then I've pawed through every get rich scheme imaginable. If I had spent one quarter as much time searching for a way to be rich as to actually build something, I'd be there by now. Lots of money and time flushed down the toilet. I'm 23 and like everyone else, wish I found this book 5 years earlier. But I digress, that is the past, the old me was too lazy and undisciplined.
Currently? I'm making a plan and absorbing everything I can about website creation. I believe that creating a brand (myself) and then using that to move into products is the best strategy. It won't be easy. But it will be worth it. I'm currently re-reading The Millionaire Fastlane via audible. It's time for action.
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