Freedom!
- The Chairman
- 2 days ago
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💡 One of the Most Important Lessons I Teach My Financial Literacy Students
When you go to work, you trade something extremely valuable for a paycheck:your skills, your knowledge, and your time.
Before you ever see that money…Before you pay a single bill…Before you provide for your family…
The government takes its share.
That’s reality. And understanding reality is the foundation of financial literacy.
Once you receive your take-home pay, most people immediately start paying everyone else — rent, utilities, car payments, subscriptions, credit cards. What’s usually left over is little to nothing.
That’s why I teach this principle:
Pay yourself first.
Saving isn’t what you do if there’s money left over.Saving is what you do before the money disappears.
When you pay yourself first, you are building discipline.When you save consistently, you create options.When you learn to invest, you create opportunity.
Investing is buying your freedom.
Every dollar invested is a worker you send out into the world to work for you.If your investments grow and eventually pay your bills, something powerful happens:
You get your time back.
That is real freedom.
Financial literacy isn’t about getting rich quick.It’s about understanding the rules of money, playing the game wisely, and building a future where your money works harder than you do.
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