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DYNAMICS OF FINANCIAL FREEDOM (Part 2)

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Welcome back to the Dynamics of Financial Freedom Series. Read the Dynamics of Financial Freedom (Part 1) via  http://tinyurl.com/hz7e9es ii. Managing Money The progressive pathway to financial freedom is in your ability to manage the funds you earn or given as gifts.I am pretty sure you have heard the idiom that states 'Cut your coat according to your size' which simply infers that you must learn to live below your means with the intent to expand your means. This phrase actually contains two lessons. The first is that regardless of our income, we should always manage our expenses properly. Remember, the goal should be to ultimately be able to save almost 80% of our income. But there is also a second lesson here. That we should pursuit the goal of expanding our means i.e investing your idle funds for larger profits to cater for additional expenses. The game of wealth is not won by always playing defense (minimizing expenses and not wanting to take risks. At ...

Mark Zuckerberg Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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When  Mark Zuckerberg  took  Facebook  public in 2012,  the IPO raised $16 billion , making it one of the largest IPOs of all time. It's safe to say the Facebook co-founder and CEO knows a thing or two about building a company. Don't set out to build a company, he advised. Rather, " start with the problem that you're trying to solve in the world . … The best companies that get built are things that are trying to drive some kind of social change, even if it's just local in one place." You have to pinpoint exactly what you want to do above anything else, Zuckerberg  emphasized. Yet, "people decide often that they want to start a company before they decide what they want to do. And that feels really backwards to me." And don't just identify any problem to solve  —   pick something you truly feel passionate about, he encouraged. "For anyone who's had the experience of actually building a company, you know that you go through...

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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self. "Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." - Aristotle "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins "Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter F. Drucker The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You cant blow an uncertain trumpet.  Theodore M. Hesburgh The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippman 'A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.' All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of t...