Personal Financial Plan
Most people will tell you they have a financial plan. What they really mean is they have a “retirement package” with a pension fund, life and health insurance policies, mutual funds, and the like. The typical plan is nothing more than a collection of financial products purchased without a clear idea of the total picture.
Investing requires a personal financial plan. Where are you and where do you want to go? Do you just want to be secure? Comfortable? Or rich? Are you set up to retire early, or are you living like a financial yo-yo? These are the sorts of questions you need to answer in order to choose your investments wisely.
Rich Dad Tip on Personal Financial Plan:
Do you want to be: • Secure? • Comfortable? • Or rich?
It’s difficult to build a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the cover of the box. Likewise, it’s difficult to invest wisely without a fiscal picture in mind. The most successful investors are the ones who can envision a picture—and who build rather than buy the pieces.
How do you build your own financial jigsaw? First, you choose an image by envisioning your personal future. Will you retire at age forty-five or remain self-employed until eighty? Live in a mansion or in a small condo in the city? Spend your twilight years in a long-term care facility or tended to by a private nurse? Do you want to have too little money or too much money?
Once the image is clear, you’ll have to achieve financial literacy to create it. If you do not know how to make money, what type of income is tax favored or tax penalized, when to sell or when to sit tight, your plan is sure to fall apart. With the proper education and experience, however, you can break your plan down into investment vehicles, such as income-producing property, business franchises, and stock portfolios that will optimize your chances of financial well-being.
No two financial plans are alike, for dreams and comfort levels are different. Some people love camping in the wild, others can’t sleep without a roof over their heads. In general, though, people hope to be either secure, comfortable, or rich. The personal lifestyle you strive for determines what type of investing you’ll pursue. If your plan is to be rich, you must also have a plan to be secure and comfortable.
Source: Robert Kiyosaki’s Coaching Program
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November 17th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
With the right process, we will ALL be rich someday.
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November 18th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Btw, thanks for dropping by my blog.
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November 18th, 2009 at 11:50 am
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November 19th, 2009 at 1:17 am
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November 19th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I still have some investments in UITF. Unfortunately, it’s still at a loss right now since I invested when the stock market is at its peak before.
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am
“Where do you want to be?”. When answering this question, we should ask ourselves further. If we plan to be secure, then how long we can remain secured and can we remain secure as long as we are retired? If we plan to be comfortable, then how long we can remain comfortable and can we remain comfortable as long as we are retired? If we can’t remain comfortable for long after retired, then we are actually planning to get poor but not comfortable
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Asset accumulation is the key in building a huge portfolio of passive income earners and the younger we start, the higher the possibility that we can achieve it.
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am
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