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You May Lose Money Because You Don’t Invest Enough Time

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There are only two things we can invest with: Time and money. Many people lose money because they don’t invest enough time.

Remember the 90/10 rule of money. I can say that 90 percent of the investors invest with money, but don’t invest enough with time. And the 10 percent who earn 90 percent of the money invest more time than money.

Let’s take a look at the diagram of three types of investors below. This is important to understand the relationship between time and investing.

When we look at this simple diagram, it is easy to understand why non-investors and passive investors say “Investing is risky.” They either have little or no financial training, and they have little financial experience.

Most investors consider investing risky and seek financial advice from finance professionals with little financial training or experience.

Did you know these?

• Becoming a licensed massage therapist takes more time than becoming a financial advisor.

• Less than 20% of all stockbrokers and real estate dealers invest in products they recommend to their clients.

• Very few politicians and legislators have any investment.

• Economics department academics generally don’t have a financial training or experience in investment.

• Many journalists who write on finance issues have little financial education or investment experience.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Warren Buffet

It was discovered that the most used word in English is “time”. The word “money” may also be in the top 100, but it wasn’t even near “time” on the list. 

How you spend your time is very important because lost time can never be recovered. The money lost is often recoverable. As Pericles puts it, ” Time is the wisest counselor of all.”. I recommend that you be mindful of your time and learn to invest your time thoughtfully.

If wasting 15 minutes meant losing $ 500, would you be more conscious of how to spend those 15 minutes? I think you would. If you are in the hospitality industry, going to new restaurants doesn’t mean you waste time and money. What waste is, is different for all of us.

Be aware of how you spend your time. Not all money in the world can make up for lost time.

We are all affected by money, regardless of who we are or where we live or what we do. If there is something that will affect your life, it’s best to learn as much about it as possible. Can you find time to invest in your financial education?

Evaluate how you spend your time. There are 168 hours a week:

Can you devote between 4 and 10 hours a week for your financial education? You can probably do that. The real question is: Will you take the time?

Make a promise to yourself to take more time to learn, and then keep your word! Reading this blog is a good start. But more is always needed. What else can you do?

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Don’t Be Afraid To Invest Your Money

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Wealth Is Measured in Time Not Money

“Wealth is the number of days a person can live without physically working and maintaining her standard of living.”

Let’s say your monthly expenses are $ 1000. If you have $ 3000 in your savings account, your wealth means 3 months or 90 days. Wealth is measured in time, not money.

After all, it is not how much money you make, but how much money you can keep and how long you can increase the money. I know many people who make a lot of money every day, but most of their income goes to the spending column.

If their income increases, they consider buying a bigger house or a new car. This means long-term debt and hard work, so nothing is left for the asset column. Money runs out quickly.

“Going in Red” Shortens The Life Of The Engine

To go in red is to continue driving even though the gas gauge drops empty. This phrase is also used to describe going at full speed.

Whether rich or poor, there are many people who always “go in the red”. No matter how much they earn, they quickly spend what they get. “Going in red” shortens the life of the engine.

According to many doctors, the main cause of stress today is hard work and not making enough money. Especially some people insist that “wallet cancer” is the biggest cause of health disorders.

Money Works for You So You Don’t Have To Work

No matter how much money people make, eventually they have to use some of it to invest. Investors are more interested in making money out of money. This is also the idea that money works for you so you don’t have to work. But the important thing here is to know that there are other ways to invest.

Other Ways to Invest

People invest in their education. Traditional education is important because the better you study, the better your chances of making money. If you devote four years to college, you have the potential to earn between $ 24,000 and $ 50,000 a year or more. Considering that an ordinary person actually gives 40 years to work, studying at a four-year university or similar institution can be a very good investment.

Loyalty and diligence are also another means of investment, for example a lifetime working in a private company or a government agency. The reward for this is the retirement bonus and lifetime pension, as well as the right to various services. However, this type of investment, which is valid in the Industrial Age, has lost its validity in the Information Age.

Others invest in a crowded family and want children to take care of them in their old age. Such an investment used to be good, however, due to today’s economic difficulties, families are no longer in a position to meet the living and health expenses of the elders.

There are also independent pension investment plans called individual pension plans. The federal government provides tax relief for incentives to both employers and workers so that they participate in these plans.

Income from Investments

Although all of the above are investment tools, people who invest are more concerned with a continuous source of income than these. Are you currently deriving your income from your investments? In other words, does your money work for you and generate income for you?

Let’s look at someone who buys a house for investment and rents it out. If the rent he receives is more than he has to spend for that house, it means cash coming from investments. The same is true for those who earn interest on their money in the bank or receive dividends from stocks.

Advantage of Earning Income From Investments

The main difference that separates those who make money from their investments from others is to make money from money. If they succeed in this, they can run their money, and the next few generations of members of their family also benefit.

In addition to the obvious advantages of knowing how to earn money from money and live without having to get out of bed in the morning and go to work, there are also tax advantages that are not available to those who work to make money.

One of the reasons the rich get richer is because they earn millions but do not pay taxes on that money. Because their earnings are included in the “active column”, not the “passive column”. Or they make money from their investments, not physical work.

Those who work to make money are not only subject to high taxes. Also, a certain tax is deducted from their wages, that amount goes to tax before they even get it.

Why Are More People Not Being Investors?

Investing means working less, earning more and paying less tax. So why don’t more people become investors? For the same reason as the small number of people starting their own business. In one word, we can say because of “risk”.

Many people are afraid of losing money when they are investing it somewhere. Even if they know how much their investments may earn them, they avoid investing and risking their money because they are afraid of losing.

Fear of losing money divides investors into four classes:

1. Those who avoid risk, love guarantees and keep their money in the bank

2. Those who leave their investment decisions to experts such as financial advisors or mutual fund managers

3. Gamblers

4. Investors

We can distinguish between the gambler and the investor as follows: According to the gambler, investment is a game of chance. For those who hand their money over to someone else to invest, investing is a game that they do not want to learn. It is important for these people to be careful when choosing financial advisors.

It’s Time to Become an Investor!

The defined and predictable plans of the Industrial Age are gone. As the Information Age shifts to specific retirement plans, everyone has to be responsible for their own finances. However, the number of people who realize this is very few.

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Earn More With Less

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The difference that separates a good investor from a bad investor is that the good investor can make more money with less money.

Leverages allow us to do more with less force.

The Key Is Leverage

People have sought to do more work with less labor since they lived in caves. When a child was old enough, he was taught to use a spear for hunting and defending himself. Spear has provided a great deal of convenience to human beings in their cruel environment. Over the years the spears have shrunk in size and the bow and arrow have been developed. This was a superior technology. Compared to a spear, the bow and arrow allowed people to do more with less.

As time progressed, man learned to tame horses. More distance could be taken on horseback in a shorter time and with less fatigue. It was an important convenience used not only in transportation and agriculture but also in wars.

When gunpowder was invented, the rulers who owned the cannons triumphed. Indigenous peoples such as the American Indians, the Hawaiian people, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Aborigines of Australia, and many other cultures lost to gunpowder.

Just a hundred years ago, cars and airplanes replaced horses. Once again, these new technologies have been used in wars and peacetime for some work. Telephone, radio, television, computer and internet networks all also enable people to do more with less. Actually, they are all levers. Each breakthrough new invention brings more power and wealth to those who have access to these tools.

If you want to be rich and not a victim of global changes, it is essential that you develop the leverage that is stronger than all others: Your mind. If you want to be rich and protect your wealth, your mind, your financial education, is your strongest lever.

You might say: “I don’t know anyone who can teach me finance. I haven’t heard of such an education. There is nothing to do.” Perhaps because of this mindset, your chances of reaching great wealth and, more importantly, protecting your potential wealth are extremely low. Your chances are low because you are using your most important asset, your mind, against yourself. You’re using your mind to find excuses instead of making money or finding solutions. Remember that your mind is your strongest lever. If you can’t control your mind, you can’t control your life. Excuses are easy to find. For this reason, unsuccessful people always have an excuse.

We Are All Born Rich

We are all born rich. Each of us has been given intelligence, the world’s most powerful lever. So instead of using our minds to make excuses, let’s use it as leverage to make us rich.

In summary, the difference between cavemen and monkeys is leverage. The difference between the rich, the poor, and the middle class is leverage. The difference between savers and investors is leverage. A well-educated and disciplined investor can achieve higher returns by taking much less risk and spending less money. But this requires leverage. And in order to have leverage it requires you to train yourself and use your mind wisely.

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The Difference Between A Good Investor And A Bad Investor

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Many people invest in mutual funds. When I ask someone, who is investing in mutual funds, he answers: “But I am also investing. I have a portfolio of mutual funds. I also have bonds and stocks. Isn’t this all investment?”.

Yes, saving is also an investment. Buying mutual funds, stocks or bonds is also an investment. But it is the kind of investment a saver would make, not an investor.

Let’s take a look at the passive investor philosophy. Most investment advisors provide a recommendation like that:

• Work hard

• Save money

• Get rid of your debt

• Make long-term investments

• Diversify your investments

This is good advice for a certain group of people – suitable for people with a savings philosophy or passive investors. In today’s circumstances, I believe this advice is riskier than any financial advice. It may seem as a reliable and wise advice to those who are financially inexperienced.

There is only one word to distinguish between a saver and an investor. That word is leverage. Thanks to leverage, you have the ability to do more with less.

Many savers do not use financial leverage. And if you don’t have enough financial knowledge or experience to apply leverage, it would be better for you not to use it. I will explain this to you later. Let’s take a look at these standard recommendations from the perspective of the saver and then the investor.

Work Hard

When many people think of “work hard” advice, they only think about their own hard work. The leverage effect on one’s own hard work is very small. Imagine if others will help you to get rich with their hard work. This is the power of leverage. States do not ask us to seek jobs, but to create jobs. If everybody starts looking for work, economies will collapse. For economies to grow, we need people who can create jobs.

Save Money

The problem with saving money is that the current economic system needs borrowers, not savers, to grow. In order for our economic system to continue to grow, it needs smart borrowers. The system does not need people who get poor by borrowing, but people who can borrow money and get rich. While 10 percent of the people who borrow money in the world benefit from their debts to be rich, 90 percent of them become poor with their debts. And this ratio is getting worse every day.

Get Rid of Your Debt

Many savers think that debt is bad and it’s smart to pay off mortgage loans quickly. And for many people, borrowing is bad and getting rid of debt is wise. However, if you are willing to devote some time to your financial education, you can use your debt to move forward. But if you are considering investing with debt, I would like to warn you once again that you should invest in your financial education first.

There is good debt and bad debt. Being financially smart is knowing when to borrow and when to avoid it.

In these economic conditions, savers are losers and borrowers are winners. For whatever reason, you should always be careful when using borrowed money.

Make Long-Term Investments

Look at this advice in terms of sellers: “Give me your money to keep me for years, and I’ll get certain payments from you over the long term.” The phrase “make long-term investments” is like the advantages that allow you to earn points. You become a loyal customer.

Depending on the payments you make to manage the fund, mutual funds may not earn you as much money as other investments.

Diversify Diversify Diversify

Warren Buffet, considered the richest investor in the world, says this about diversification: “Diversification is a safeguard against ignorance. It won’t make much sense if you know what you’re doing. “

Then the question arises: Whose ignorance do you protect yourself from? Is it your own ignorance or the ignorance of your financial advisor?

Diversification generally means that you should not put all the eggs in the same basket. Warren Buffet puts them all in the same basket. He once said: “Put all your eggs in one basket, but watch your basket carefully.”

Personally, I prefer to focus rather than diversify, and actually the reason I was able to move forward was focus, not diversification.

I saw an acrostic on focus in a book I read.

For many, diversification is a good strategy. This is only because it protects investors from themselves and inadequate advisors.

The traditional financial planning advice “work hard, save money, get rid of your debts, make long-term investments and diversify” is good for the average. This advice is also good for those who are rich but are not interested in learning how to become an investor. Many movie stars, wealthy professionals, or former athletes do that. Just remember that while following this path, you will have a very small leverage.

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Make Money in a Better Way

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It Doesn’t Need to Have Money to Make Money

We know that many successful people dropped out of school without getting a degree or never went to college. General Electric founder Thomas Edison, Ford Motor Co Founder Henry Ford, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, CNN founder Ted Turner, Dell computer founder Michael Dell, Apple Computer Company founder Steve Jobs, Polo’s founder Ralph Lauren did so. Higher education is important in traditional professions, but for these men it wasn’t important in accessing great wealth since they started their own business.

So, What Do You Need?

If money isn’t needed to make money and schools don’t teach how to achieve financial freedom, then what is needed?

It is necessary to dream, to be determined, the desire to learn quickly, the ability to use God’s blessings, and to know how to earn income.

Which Way Do You Make Your Income?

Different ways of earning income.

An employee earns money by getting a job, working for someone else or working for a company. A self-employed person earns money by working for himself. An employer has set up a business that generates income. An investor earns money from the various investments she makes.

There are different ways to generate income. It requires different mindset, different technical skills, different learning path and different people. Different people find themselves closer to different areas.

Although money is the same everywhere, the way it is earned can be very different. Think of the different qualities required in all four ways and ask yourself which way you get the most of your income.

Each one is very different. Earning income from different segments requires different skills and different personalities, even if the person in each segment is the same. Switching from one method to another is like playing golf or tennis in the morning and going dancing at night.

You Can Earn Income in These Four Ways

Most of us have the potential to generate income in all four ways. Which one we choose has nothing to do with what we are taught at school. It is more related to our values, strength, weaknesses and interests. What kind of person we are determines how we will earn our income.

Whatever we do professionally, it is possible to earn income in these four ways. For example, suppose a doctor chooses to earn income as an employee. He can work in a hospital or a public institution. He can even become a military doctor or become a permanent doctor of one of the insurance companies.

The same man can also open a clinic and work as a self-employed. He can also choose to be an employer. He hires other doctors. He doesn’t have to work in his own polyclinic, then he can employ a administrator. If this doctor does not necessarily want to have a job in the field of health, he can also establish a company operating in a completely different sector. 

He can also invest in other people’s business or other investment instruments such as stocks, bonds and real estate.

Different Methods of Generating a Source of Income

The way we earn income depends on our character. Some prefer to work for someone else, some hate it. Some people like to own a company but also like to run that company. While some people like to invest, others avoid it by citing the risk of losing money. Most of these attitudes can be found in us.

You Can Become Rich or Poor in All Four Ways

There is no clear relationship between these methods and wealth or poverty. Earning millions or being broke is up to the person himself. Choosing one way or another is not a guarantee of financial success, and no one can give you any advice.

These Methods Are Not Equal

Knowing the different features of each method is useful in understanding which one or which ones are more suitable for us.

Let’s say I choose to earn my income primarily as an employer and investor. Because I would like to take advantage of tax benefits. Legal tax privileges for groups at the top of the table are limited. On the other hand, there are plenty of loopholes regarding tax that can be used by those below in the table. If I get my income as an employer and investor, I can earn much more money in a shorter time and I will not pay high tax.

Money Supports Life

I believe it is absurd to spend a lifetime working to earn money and pretending that money is not important. Life is worth more than money. On the other hand, money is also important in terms of supporting life. We must learn to make money without working long hours. That’s when we get plenty of time to do other things.

If you take a closer look at this simple table, you will see that it contains not only different views of the world, but also very different worlds.

Neither is better than the other. Each of them has strengths and weaknesses.

Some of us can walk more than one path, maybe even all of the paths. We are all different individuals, remember, one method is not better or more important than the other. In every village, town and city of the world, all kinds of professionals are needed in order to balance the financial stability of the society.

On the one hand, our interests change as we grow older and our experience increases. For example, many young people who have just graduated from school are elated when they find a job. However, after a year or two, few find that they are not interested in rising up the corporate hierarchy or are not interested in their business. These changes that come with age and experience cause one to seek new ways to grow, challenge, achieve financial reward and achieve personal happiness…

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The Key To Being a Successful Investor

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One tenth of the people in the world own nine tenths of the total assets. If we are not careful, this ratio can reach 95/05 and even 99/01 in a very short time. In other words, 1% of people can own 99% of wealth.

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”

Robert Browning

It is our dreams that keep us moving forward. If your reality starts with your dreams, I am happy to say that your dreams will become your reality.

Why so? Because if we didn’t have dreams, we would be living just to survive. I don’t believe that most people’s goal is just to survive. Have you ever heard any teenager say that he hopes to be a stray bum? Usually they say things like: “I want to be president.” “I want to be an astronaut.” “I want to be a fireman.” “I want to be a doctor or an engineer.” These are professions that require effort and sometimes heroism, and young people have dreams and aspirations for these professions.

Winners are always young in spirit. They set high goals and have plans and enthusiasm to achieve what they aim for. They may have crazy dreams, but that’s better than not having them. Then they focus on whatever is necessary to achieve these dreams and make an effort in this direction.

Being stubborn is an important part of being a winner. Some people fail because they give up too soon. When I was little, my uncle always told us the story of a man who loved soda and therefore got into the soda business by creating a product called 3UP. It had failed. Therefore, he started to work again and this time came to the market with a soda called 4UP. This product had also failed. So he named his product 5UP and this time he did whatever it took to be successful, but as you can imagine, it failed again. Realizing that he still liked soda, he made another trial and named his new product 6UP. When this product failed, he completely gave up on this business.

A few years later, someone else produced a new soda and named it 7UP, which was a huge success. When I was young, I could not understand why my uncle kept telling this story. He has told us the same story many times. Later I realized that he actually wanted to tell us not to give up. I never forgot this story and never gave up. His story was very accurate. Tell yourself this story if you need it, and see your inner winning side come into play.

The other component of winning is simply having a winning attitude. I tell people to see themselves as victorious. Positive thinking helps. It is a great power. Winning requires you to have that kind of power. Power means durability. Being positive gives you the strength to deal with extremely difficult situations.

Are you stubborn enough to win? Then you can invest to make money! This is not a foreign region, and you don’t need a passport or visa to enter the winning investor class. I have heard many people say “I am too stubborn” when talking about themselves. But then they pretend they don’t have what it takes to invest! They even talk in such a way that you think they don’t have the right to learn about investment. They’re just missing out on a great pastime and also a better financial future.

Ignorance can cost a lot more than education, and this certainly applies to your financial education. Don’t let the fear of the unknown hamper your aspirations and financial well-being. There are people who would like to take advantage of you. As an example of this, I have seen such situations happen to successful athletes. While they had millions during their sports career, they lose all their assets within 10 years of retirement. Do not let such a thing happen on your own. Learn about money and use what you’ve learned in a way that works for you. This is the first and most important key to a successful investment.

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Make Your Investments To Earn

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People have three types of investment behavior:

  • Not investing at all
  • Invest in order not to lose
  • Invest to earn

People who do not invest at all expect the state, the company they work for or their families to take care of them after they retire.

Those who invest in order not to lose usually choose investments that they think are safe. This group constitutes the majority of investors.

Those who invest in order to earn, turn to higher return investments. They are more willing to invest, they research and learn more about investment.

The strange thing is that all of these people, regardless of their investment attitude, have the potential to become rich.

The reason many people invest in order not to lose is because they find the investment risky and compare it to gambling. In addition, almost all of them think they need to take more risks to get higher returns. However, there is not such a direct relationship between high risk and high return.

Raising money is a really fun game. However, most people live in fear instead of enjoying this pastime. Therefore, they take their steps cautiously. They make “safe” investments, cling to social security, and live below their possible standards. Millions of them are also bogged down in debt and live paycheck to paycheck. Although these people wanted to have fun, they did not learn to invest in order to earn. Therefore, they are not considered to have actually built a good life.

The 90/10 Rule of Money

Most of us have heard of the 80/20 rule. Now I want to tell you about the 90/10 rule. This rule is an always reliable practical rule that I also apply in my own life.

Very simply, in the money game, 10% of the players get 90% of the money. We know that 10% of the world owns 90% of the current assets. 10% of real estate investors hold 90% of the investments. One-tenth of these are also the ones with the highest wealth. The 90/10 rule also applies to specialties. For example, in basketball, 10% of all professional players earn 90% of the money.

The 90/10 rule also helped me decide which area to head to. For example, the reason why I did not choose to be a basketball player was that I thought I would not be able to enter 1 in 10 in this field. If you had seen me singing, you could understand why I am not a singer.

Ask yourself in which field or industry you can enter the 10%. Do you think you are in the 10% of your current job? If not, is it because of your lack of skills in your field or something else? This short conversation with yourself in front of the mirror will give you a lot. Just make sure that no one is around you while doing this…

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You Need to Know These to Get Rich

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We don’t always like the rules. But it would be in our best interest to know them. To get rich, we first need some information. We must know the rules, laws and restrictions. No matter how talented we are, we cannot be a perfect captain if we don’t know the rules that apply at sea. The world is full of people who try to be the great captain even though they don’t know the rules of the sea. Talent alone is not enough; we also need information and education.

There is something we all value: Our loved ones. Suppose your family’s well-being is at stake. What do you do? You do your best to keep your family ship from getting water. I don’t want to cause fear, but your ship can start taking water at any moment. The financial security of all of us is at stake. Just because something is fine today does not mean it will continue like this tomorrow.

In order to protect ourselves financially, our need for financial education is increasing. Education gives us vision. If we have a vision, we can identify economic problems and turn them into opportunities. We need to get outside of our comfort zone and learn some finance.

Someone said: “I could see the world clearly before ads came into our lives.” This person complained that advertisements, propagandas, and politicians influenced and manipulated his thoughts. He said that the experts who came up to clarify some issues actually blurred our opinion. In such an age, we must learn to think critically. We should aim to obtain accurate information while also learning finance.

Just as we cannot learn how to swim from textbooks, we cannot learn to manage our money simply by reading. Besides theory, practice is also required. We must learn from both reading and experience in order to financially secure our future.

We need Financial IQ in order to map the sea of economy nationally and internationally, to make the rest of our journey well and to make the right decisions at the helm. Improving our Financial IQ takes patience and effort. However, anyone who wants to live in prosperity needs to improve their Financial IQ.

“The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.”

Einstein

A captain should know also history as well as geography. We can learn very important lessons from history. Learning why ancient civilizations and empires disappeared can contribute to our existence. Do you know how many years the Ottoman Empire ruled? So how and why is it collapsed? Knowledge is power and helps us to survive.

What would you like to remember if you suddenly thought today was a thing of the past?

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A Motivation Post for Those Who Want to Get Rich

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Everyone has financial problems. If you want to get rich, you have to solve problems. Identifying the problem creates the opportunity to reach a solution.

Each generation has and will have a unique set of financial problems. The challenges faced by my generation of parents were the global economic crisis and the oil shock. Their solution to these problems was going to school, finding a safe and good job, retiring at the age of 65, and spending the rest of their lives watching sports. For the vast majority of my parents’ generation, getting a good education and getting a good job was enough to survive financially.

Our generation is faced with a different set of financial problems. A good university education and a good job are not enough today. Exporting jobs overseas also makes the problem even more intricate.

The next generation, Generation Z, will have different financial problems that it will have to deal with. If our generation fails to clear the mess that the generation before ourselves left us, the complexity that the generation Z has to deal with will be much greater. Generation Z will have to deal not only with their own financial problems, but also with the problems they inherited or even inherited to their parents.

The growing scale of this problem, currently worth trillions of dollars, is daunting. Simply handing this problem over to the next generation will only make the problem bigger and more complex. As financial problems become bigger and more complex, the financial IQ we will need to solve them has to be higher. We will need all of our brainpower to solve this problem.

My suggestion to you is to overcome the storms in today’s financial world with proper financial education and planning. Find ways to solve problems and get richer with this training.

One thing we should all bear in mind is that a little effort is the best substitute for excuses. If we all make some effort to understand what is happening around us; If we can think with a superior, caring mentality, a more enlightened and correct way of thinking will emerge. While defining intelligence, problem solving skills are mentioned. This is possible with education. Just as there is no understanding, there is hate, if there is no education, there is fear.

Ignorance may be easier, but it often comes out of fear. Reduce your fears and trigger your courage.

This is an amazing power of energy if you have the determination to move forward quickly. And when you focus on the right thing, your chances of success are very high. I have always liked this statement of Alexander Graham Bell: “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”. If you can control your energy then you will have a good opportunity to create and control your own level of wealth.

Problem solving will also become a lot easier if you think they are a challenge. Problems are part of life. It is inevitable that a positive approach to problems will give you more energy. Trust is a big step on the road to courage, and fear will evaporate when confronted with confidence.

At the beginning of the post I said that a problem can create an opportunity. If you start seeing your problems from such a perspective, I can also assure you that you will be on the way to solving them.

Like everyone else, I know that problems can be complex and sometimes seem like never ending. However, I would like to encourage you to see them as an opportunity to challenge you to great success. Just remember that reaching nothingness is easy… But who wants to reach nothingness? You can achieve great things with your financial intelligence.

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The Biggest Financial Problem In The World Economy

by Enes Öner3 Comments on The Biggest Financial Problem In The World Economy

There are many definitions of intelligence. To me, the most practical definition is as follows: “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.” If you can solve math problems at school, you are considered smart. Outside of school, if you can fix a car, it is assumed that you have automotive intelligence. When it comes to money, it is thought that the more you can solve bigger financial problems, the higher your financial intelligence is.

Today, the world is facing a number of serious financial problems. Many of these are linked, while some are independent problems. Some of the most urgent problems are:

  1. The fall in the value of the dollar
  2. Increase in national borrowings
  3. The exponential increase in personal debts
  4. Increase in oil prices
  5. The widening gap between the rich and the rest
  6. Salary drops
  7. Export of jobs and workers
  8. Melting of savings
  9. And the most important of all is the lack of financial education

The questions that need to be answered urgently are as follows:

  • What can we do?
  • What are the solutions?
  • Is our Financial IQ high enough to solve these problems?
  • How can we avoid being the victim of these problems?
  • How can we protect our families and loved ones suffering from these problems?

Many of today’s financial problems still exist because they were not resolved when they emerged. Unfortunately, instead of raising the Financial IQ of the population, people were taught to wait for the state to solve their personal financial problems.

“We need to look after those who can’t take care of themselves.” you might say. I agree with this. As a civilized society, we must care for the needy. However, many people may be able to take care of themselves if they are trained. For this, the Financial IQ of the societies should be increased.

Due to the low financial IQ solutions found in the past, the demographic structure of today is the impoverishment of the people except the rich; even though more people earn more money. Unfortunately, the United States is not the only country moving in this direction. Many of the world’s economies are transforming into two-class societies: The rich and the poor… The upper class or the masses…

Simply put, the world is on its way to becoming a well-educated place of rich and poor people. The middle class is endangered. The real problem is that the world is beginning to consist of people who are good people, well-educated, hardworking, but still expect the state to take care of them when they retire.

Apart from these, there are two other problems: The first is that even Ponzi Scheme is not known what it is, since nothing related to monetary matters is taught in schools. The second, most of the people now deserve to be paid because they have made all their retirement payments.

However, if each of these people in the US starts receiving only $ 1,000 per month under Social Security and Health Insurance, the government will have to allocate an additional $ 75 billion per month for salary payments. This amount is equivalent to the cost of Hurricane Katrina or the Iraq War. The good news is we still have time to prepare for the impending financial hurricanes.

You can feed a person for a day by giving fish. And this is what we have been doing as the world for a long time. This is the thought that underpins Social Security and Health Insurance Services.

I want to encourage you to get rich because the world is turning into a two-class society; only rich and poor.

The middle class in Western nations is slowly but surely disappearing. If you want to stay in the middle class, you may need to consider living in China or India. These two countries are making their middle class bigger, rather than destroying it. But keep in mind that middle class members in China or India generally don’t live a better life than many poor Americans. This is because the middle class is too crowded in these countries. 

The rich will always spot opportunities, while the poor will bury their heads in the sand and pretend nothing has happened.

Let’s think a little bit. Let’s consider how we can take advantage. 

Can you identify the opportunities that may arise from this economic order?

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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