I'm starting to feel a bit like There Will Be Blood. I have become a true capitalist.
Anything, as long as it is legal, I will do it. To grow my bank account and bolster my portfolio.
Whether it's $1 or $1,000, it feels great adding money to my checking account -- and then transferring some of that money to my online brokerage account. And then watching that money grow even more money for me.
I feel like I am still terribly behind... many of my peers at work have more money saved up than I do. But I'm catching up. And I'm glad I went through years of credit card debt and ultra-frugal/borderline pathetic living. It has taught me the value of a dollar.
And I know that every dollar I stash away or invest brings me just a tiny bit closer to financial freedom. To traveling the world, quitting my day job and exploring my other talents (the talents I had abandoned years ago in search of a stable, economically "viable" career).
I know this is an off-topic ramble of a post, but I wanted to share my progress with you. Sometimes it is frustrating that I haven't already hit my goal -- I'm nowhere near it. But I look at the graph and know I'm doing about ten times better than I was last year. Between having some money in the bank, and being in massive credit card debt, it's a no brainer. I prefer having some money.
Sure, I'm greedy. And I want a lot more -- enough to travel full-time, as I've said. But I also acknowledge how lucky I am to have stumbled across the right personal finance blogs and books over the past year. With the right philosophy and decent discipline, success in finance is almost inevitable. With the wrong philosophy and lack of respect for money, you could earn $3 million per year and still find yourself broke, miserable, or in debt. Seriously.
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