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  • Story, not numbers

    When investing in a stock, index funds or new startup, look at the story, not the numbers. It’s not how much money the investment will return that should move you but the problem the product or products behind the stock, index funds or new startups will solve. The longevity of your investments is in the…

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  • A matrix for living

    If you died today, I give it a few days, weeks or months, at the most, and everyone in your life, right now, would have moved on. The reason many may not like or agree with the assertion above is that they overrate their importance . The only one that knows your true value is…

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  • The subterfuge

    It’s human to act modestly in the open but wickedly in secret. In the west, I should think this quality is on steroids with the way people are gouged out of existence through the greed of a few. Triumph over the subterfuge of human nature is only addressed by the death of Jesus, who miraculously…

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  • Want nothing, owe nothing

    If you content yourself with being an unadulterated version of yourself, the one that’s untainted by desire or any feeling of inadequacy, many will hate but respect you. It would be your biggest contribution to the world around you because you would owe nothing. Think about it for a second, if you owe nothing, you’ll…

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  • Make banks irrelevant

    In almost every case, your biggest expense will be your mortgage or some other payment to the bank. Banks are almost indispensable and they use every means available to achieve this. However, if you find a way to make the bank irrelevant, you would have paved a path to financial freedom because you would have…

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  • Habits, not goals

    Habits are better than goals. If you focus on setting habits instead of goals, you will have success-hacked your year. Imagine forming the habit of writing every day, how you might have authored several books by the end of the year. Instead of focusing on achieving a goal, focus on the habits required to achieve…

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  • Financial freedom figure

    Calculate how much it would cost you to live comfortably every month. Then, look for investments opportunities that can give you a year’s worth of your comfortable-living monthly expenses, noting the percentage return. Backtrack to determine the principal required…and voila. That’s your financial freedom figure.

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  • Living by the spirit

    Make no mistake about it, you have an enemy who is skilled at fighting you. He has fought and collaborated with some of your earthly ancestors so much that he has sufficient knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses in your bloodline. Maybe, you’ve never noticed it but the same problems are typically characteristic of particular…

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  • If you understand the grander scheme of God’s plan, you’ll understand that there can be no disadvantage to the one that is in Christ. Think about it for a second, the being, known in the Bible as the ‘prince of this world’ took counsel with his cohort of wicked spirits to destroy Jesus’ physical life.…

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  • Want nothing, owe nothing

    If you content yourself with being an unadulterated version of yourself, the one that’s untainted by desire or any feeling of inadequacy, many will hate but respect you. It would be your biggest contribution to the world around you because you would owe it nothing. Think about it for a second. If you owed nothing…

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