We all want to make more money and at the same time have more freedom. Generally people think that in order to make more money you have to work harder and work more hours. An hourly worker thinks in terms of putting in overtime, sales people think in terms of getting in front of more [...]

The specific steps someone needs to take in order to gain control and improve their finances will differ from person to person. Someone who is drowning in debt has different priorities than someone who has to worry about paying excessive taxes because on their high six figure income. There are, however, fundamental rules to money [...]

Growing up, I always wondered what made wealthy people so differnet than the middle class or low-income earners. After all, we are all human and for the most part capable of the same things. If something has been done in the past, then it can be done again. It’s amazing how World Records are broken [...]

This guest post is by Sam X Renick, Author and Social Entrepreneur
Here are a few simple, yet practical steps to teach kids about money:

Regardless of age – focus first on making saving a habit. Right off the bat this gives kids an additional option for [...]

By definition, an entrepreneur is, “someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it.” Likewise, someone who is entrepreneurial is someone who can measure risk and reward and use innovation in order to profit or gain.
So at what point does someone actually become an entrepreneur? In order to label yourself (or be [...]

Take a look around at those who retire early. What did they do so differently that allowed them to hang up their hat and take the rest of their life off?

Was it a high income?
A lucky day at the dog tracks?
Maybe it was that they simply had a plan…

Typically people put in 40+ years of [...]

The belief is that if you work hard and save, over time you’ll earn your way to wealth and great riches, but that philosophy is all wrong.
While the standard definition of wealth refers to riches and material possessions, the term really has more value to it. Wealth is a lifestyle that cannot really be measured. [...]

Sometimes things are so incredibly easy to understand that they are overlooked. The basic money skills to make you rich, for example, were probably mastered by the third grade. We have a tendency to believe something is important, it must therefore be difficult.
You probably experience this on a day to day basis at your job. [...]

You live, you work most of your life, and then you die. Morbid thought, I know, but if that’s how it is then why save money?
I know a lot of people, including close family, that have gone their entire life spending and never even stopping to think about saving. No retirement plan, no cushion in [...]

Imagine that you recently received a rare seed for a money tree. This seed, if nurtured correctly, will begin producing a million dollars a year when it reaches 5-years of age. As it matures and the $20 and $50 bills are ripe for the picking, your money tree can be sold for tens of millions [...]