THE CONCEPTS OF WEALTH CREATION

{Excerpts from My Book; WALKING IN FINANCIAL FREEDOM}

Money needs to be understood. Most people never understand the basics of money and then they wonder why it never gets well with them. Financial language is different. Even if you are not a student of finance or economics knowing some simple terms like net worth, assets, liabilities, investment, liquidity, bearish and bullish markets, simple and compound interests, etc is a good idea. Remember, money is used by all, so it is important to know how it operates. Only when you know the language of the money you can know and understand what it says to you.

Wealth can simply be described as your ability to sustain “a lifestyle”, and to spend money on whatever you choose without depleting your cash flow. This can only be achieved if, through careful planning, you can subsume all your expenses within your income and live comfortably without working for the rest of your mortal life. Please, try and measure your definition of wealth in time. Take for instance, if you lose your job today, how many days can you survive based on your assets? This should be a food for thought for you if you are employed, what are you investing your income on? You must have assets generating income to cover all your monthly expenses, that is how you can be independently wealthy.

What are Assets and Liabilities here?

Assets are income-generating properties. Things that put money into your pocket i.e. stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commercial properties, skills, special abilities, businesses, etc

Liabilities are money-consuming properties. Things that take money out of your pocket i.e. personal belongings (Clothes etc), cars, etc

Now that you know what Assets and Liabilities are, what is your net worth?

Net worth is calculated by subtracting your liabilities from your assets. You may be a high-income earner yet be a low-net-worth individual. This means that your outflow (expenses) is greater than your inflow (income). This scenario applies to most people and even countries. On the other hand, you could be a low-income earner and have a high net worth. This means that not only do you live within your means, but you endeavor to create a surplus at all times. This is the best way to create wealth; you use money to create more money. Otherwise, one will leave all his/her lives on the deficit, serving people with a surplus. The “financial world” is a hoax where many people sweat the stuff for few to reap whether at the individual, corporate or country levels.

I DARE YOU...!!!

I am sure I have two categories of people reading this; {.....the PREVILEDGED and the LESS PREVILEDGED}. I mean in terms of employment.

If you are an Employee, congratulations! You are one of the privileged ones. There are millions of people out there who desire to be earning the meager salary that you earn.........., there are thousands of people with better qualifications than yours who are praying to be doing the dirty job you think you are doing.

Whether the job is paying you small or big, whether you are satisfied with it or not, what is most necessary is what you are able to bring out of it. Can you think of the years you have spent on that job? Can you list those things you have always wanted to achieve but have not because your salary is not always enough? I have one message for you........, [start thinking investment].

Tolu, why this preaching? .........I want you to stop complaining and start seeing yourself among the privileged ones. Then

FIND YOUR MOON - by Brendon Burchard

Let us leave our orbit of 2013, with all its struggles and its joys and memories, and let us fully enter a new moment, setting our sights on further stars, charting the course for our highest selves and contributions. Should we wish to change, let us be bold once again.

Yes, let us be brave and find our moon, chasing a vision so big and unimaginable that the mere thought of it brings sweat to our palms, stuns our heart with anxiety, yet never fails to lift our soul with purpose. Under no circumstances shall we