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Money: Financial Freedom on a Dollar a Day--ALBERT
EINSTEIN
It
all starts with a single unit of money.
In
the
But
wait a minute. Can this ordinary piece of paper money be worth more than
meets the eye? Could it be a magic ticket to a more abundant life of anywhere/
anytime/ anything you want? One thing's sure: How people feel about these
silly pieces of paper makes a huge difference in how they enjoy life's
great banquet of prosperity.
When
you've finished reading this chapter, I promise that you'll never think
of money in the same way again. Ever. You
see, prosperous people don't think of money as just colored pieces of paper
adorned with pictures of famous dead people. They imagine it as seeds--money
seeds--with the power to grow into money trees, bearing fruit to fulfill
every one of their dreams. And they are absolutely right. Every dollar
bill is a money seed. Just as a tiny acorn contains the power to grow
into a mighty oak tree, each dollar bill has the power to grow into a mighty
money tree. You can grow one of these money trees . . . on as little as
a dollar a day. Could
you afford that? If
you follow the advice in this book, you will soon have your own majestic
money tree, growing right in the center of your future dream home. Imagine
that! Branches of your money tree are growing along the ceiling and spreading
into every room of the house. Every few feet along each branch are ripening
money fruits that pop open once or twice a day releasing crisp $100 bills.
As the $100 bills fall from the tree, they float into money baskets throughout
the house. All night long you hear the pop, pop, pop of the ripening money
fruits. You might think the sound would keep you awake, but it's a very
soothing sound. Your money tree produces fruit 24 hours a day. While
you sleep.While you work.While
you play.While you eat. It never stops. An
endless stream of cash flow. Whenever you need money, you just take
whatever you want from one of the baskets. Get the picture? If
you destroy an acorn, the potential oak tree inside also dies. Every time
you waste one of those silly pieces of paper money, it's just like destroying
a potential money tree. That's why it is so important to preserve and protect
each of these money seeds. (See Figure 1.1.) So
how much is one of those seeds really worth? That depends on how long you
let it grow and at what rate of growth. Let's suppose you take a single
dollar and put it into a special bank account that will let the dollar
grow, untouched by taxes and fees. How long will it take for this single
dollar bill to grow into $1 million? That
depends on the interest rate that the bank account pays. If it's like ordinary
bank accounts, then it's going to take a long, long time. Table 1.1 shows
you how long it takes for a single dollar bill to grow into $1 million
at various interest rates. TABLE
1.1 A Single Dollar
As
you can see, at bank rates of 3 percent it will take 468 years for a single
dollar bill to grow into $1 million. What? Not planning on living 468 years?
Relax. We're not done with that dollar bill yet. We've got to supercharge
it. How can we do this? Rather than just planting one money seed, could
you plant them more often? Could you afford to put away a dollar a day?
Thirty bucks a month! You can do that.
Table
1.2 shows the number of years it takes for a dollar a day to grow into
$1 million at various interest rates. Wow! A dollar a day becomes $1 million
in the span of a normal lifetime.
Suppose
you'd invested a dollar a day starting on the day you were born. Table
1.3 shows what you'd have at age 66. A dollar a day grows into $1 billion
by
the normal retirement age! That's a whole forest of money trees. You're
Ross Perot in embryo! And what makes this happen? The power of compound
interest makes a few dollars a day grow into enormous sums of money.
Einstein himself said, "The most powerful invention of man is compound
interest."
But
suppose you don't want to wait for 66 years. Okay, there's another way
to speed up the process. Could you plant two or three seeds a day? Or
five?Or ten? What does that do? Well, let's
cut right to the chase. If you put away 10 lousy bucks a day and put it
in the right mutual funds or stocks or real estate and let the clock tick
at 20 percent, you're a millionaire in just 20 years! (Pop, pop, pop, pop.)
Excited yet?
Now,
I can hear the skeptics saying, "No one can sustain a 20 percent rate of
growth for 20 consecutive years. It's not possible!" Well, Warren Buffett,
the stock market genius, was able to do it for over 40 consecutive years.
When you've finished reading this book, you'll know that it's not only
possible for you, but entirely within the reach of anyone with discipline
and a few financial skills. You don't have to be a financial genius. You
don't have to own a big company. You can do it from your kitchen table
using the money that you're now foolishly throwing away. If you just divert
a few of your ill-spent dollars and funnel them into some well-timed investments,
you can achieve financial success.
I'll
bet you'll think twice before you throw away one of those silly green pieces
of paper. It's like throwing away the seed to a $1 million money tree.
Every
time you save one of those money seeds, you start sowing your way to wealth.
The most important lesson of this chapter is to change your attitude about
money, especially those $1 bills. I have no doubt you can save $30 per
month . . . even on the most meager budget. Over time, you will want to
increase this to $100, $200, or $300 a month or more. The
more the better. The more the faster. How many seeds do you think
you could save and invest every day? Table 1.4 and Figure 1.2 show you
how a few dollars a day can grow into $1 million.
HOW
TO EARN AN EXTRA MILLION IN YOUR LIFETIME
The
real key is to keep socking away the money. Let the numbers whisper their
silent but relentless message. Consistency.Day
in, day out. Save. Invest. Save. Invest. It might be boring. It
might be dull. It might be hard to do. No matter. Just do it.
I
met a young man in Our
parents were right. We cringed when they told us, "Live on less than you
earn. Invest the surplus. Avoid debt. Build long-term security." This may
not be the exciting get-rich-quick rabbit, but the tortoise laughs slowly
all the way to the bank. So, with that tortoise mentality firmly in place,
let's start building some specific plans for the future. Setting
Some Specific and Realistic Financial Goals First
of all, you have five decisions to make about your money seeds: Target: How
much total money would you like to accumulate?
For
example, suppose you decide you want a $1 million nest egg in 20 years.
Your ultimate purpose is to quit your job and spend your life working with
the youth in your church. According to Table 1.5, one scenario would be
to invest $10 per day at 20 percent per year to reach your goal: Target:
$1 million
Using
the charts in Table 1.5, I'd like you to come up with a reasonable scenario
for your wealth-building plan. To do so, use the worksheet that follows
and fill in the blanks for your target financial goals. Make sure you spend
some quality time asking yourself the question, "Why do I really want this
money? What is my ultimate purpose?" Your moneymaking will be much more
successful and meaningful if you have a clear purpose. If it's just "to
make a lot of money," you may find yourself one day with a lot of money,
wondering, "Is this all there is?" Financial
Target Worksheet
The
sooner you start, the richer you are immediately! Hey,
wait a minute! This sounds too good to be
true! A few dollars a day and you can become a millionaire? If this is
so easy, why aren't all of us millionaires? Well, the truth is, we all
could
be
millionaires, but most of us lack the simple discipline to make small daily
deposits over long periods of time. And then, of course, we procrastinate
getting started. Let
me show you the terrible cost of procrastination. Suppose you had the discipline
to sock away $200 a month (about $7 a day) over a 20-year period of time
with a target interest rate of 20 percent. How much could you accumulate?
According to my calculator, $200 per month at 20 percent for 20 years grows
into $632,000. Not bad! Now,
suppose instead of starting this year, you wait a year to get started.
This leaves you only 19 years of growth instead of 20. According to my
calculator, you would have only $516,000 in your bank account in 20 years.
That's $116,000 less than you could have had if you had started on schedule.
In other words, your procrastination cost you $116,000 in future dollars! Procrastination
is expensive! For each of the 365 days that you waited, your future portfolio
was shrinking by over $300 (116,000 ¸ 365 = $317.81). In other words,
every day you procrastinate costs you $300 (or $13 an hour, 24 hours a
day). --
Exerts From Multiple
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