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Self-Discipline is the Master Skill of Wealth Creation and Success!
3 min readFeb 1, 2022
When all is said and done, creating wealth comes down to one thing for most people: self-discipline. A twenty-year-old, saving $50 a week at 9 percent growth will have $1 million in the bank by the time he is sixty-two. or $332,020 at just 5 percent.
But what twenty-year-old saves $50 a week?
No matter where you are and however much you earn or don’t earn, self-discipline is the key to creating wealth faster.
You must have the self-discipline to:
- Invest in yourself and always look for ways to provide more value
- Save at least 10 percent of your income each month
- Put off large luxury purchases like cars, and never buy new ones
- Avoid buying “stuff”
- Say no when friends, family, and peers try to make you spen
- Not worry about keeping up with the Joneses
- Budget your household bills
- Audit your bills every three months
- Unsubscribe or downgrade from services you are not utilizing fully
- Buy fixer homes, not new ones, and buy where there is the greatest chance of appreciation, which may or may not be exactly where you want to live