Best Selling Author Says Thinking More into the Future is Key to Financial Freedom
"One of the keys to becoming financially free is to stretch your thinking further into the future."
There's an informative morning radio program I catch occasionally when getting ready for work called Something You Should Know.
The other day, the host of the program, Mike Carruthers, interviewed Keith Cameron Smith, author of The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class. Not that I'm straining to be a millionaire, mind you, but being solidly entrenched in America's middle class, I found Mr. Smith's distinctions between the classes to be extremely enlightening and some of his phrases left me wondering if some of his insights might not come from Scripture.
Consider this observation: "Very poor people will think day-to-day. Poor people think week-to-week; middle class people think month-to-month; rich people think year-to-year and then very rich people will think decade-to-decade. So one of the keys to becoming financially free is to stretch your thinking further into the future."
Smith lists the primary goals for each category (example: the primary goal of the poor is to survive), and then challenges people with a key strategy that involves...not complaining for seven days.
Do read the entire article; it's a keeper.
