Establishing Your Credit - A Better Way To Financial Success

In today's economy, so many people are worried about their credit score. They believe that their credit score is incredibly important. However, if you manage your finances properly, you may never need a credit score. I know this sounds crazy... but relying on a credit score to handle your finances means that you are living beyond your means.

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Imagine if our nation had not overextended itself prior to the recession. What if companies minimized the amount of borrowing that they did? What if your family no longer carried $10,000 in credit card debt or more? What if we spent what we had and not a penny more?

It may sound unfavorable, but when normal means you are broke, why do you want to be normal? That is the question that Dave Ramsey asked many people. He encourages people to live debt free. The concept is not a new one. Even in biblical times during the 7th year all debts were forgiven.

If we look back in history to and learn from our past, let us look at the great civilizations of the past. The longest lasting empires and most advanced civilizations in our history did not allow the levels of debt that our society incurs everyday. Have we forgotten the successes of the past? Have we forgotten the wisdom?

Choose to Be Different

How you manage your debt is up to you. But, if you want to establish your credit why not start by only spending the money that you make. Here are a few tips to help you do that.

Step One-Spend Your Money on Paper Before You Spend It at the Store

I know that keeping a budget can be difficult. However, if every time you get paid, you keep a budget or log of how you're going to spend every penny, you will ensure that you do not spend more than you have. Basically, you sit down with your paycheck and a piece of paper. On each line you write what you owe and what you were planning on spending for certain categories. Then, you total up all of your spending and make sure that it equals how much is in your paycheck. If there is money left over, you need to add a category for where that money will go. A great category if you have extra is "savings".

Step Two-Check Your Budget Every Week

If you are anything like me, you can find time to watch your favorite TV show every week. But, you struggle to find time to check your financial situation every week. By setting a regular appointment to check your finances, you can make sure you are staying true to your budget. It does not have to be an involved balancing your checkbook process. You just need to make sure you are staying on budget. By doing this every week, you ensure that you never get too far off track.

Step Three-Create a Heaven-Only-Knows Category

Okay, we know that we can not be perfect at this system. If you were already perfect at this, you would not be reading this article. So, as a way to give you some flexibility, create a HOK category. The HOK category is your indiscriminate spending money. You can use this for what ever you want. And only Heaven will know what it was used for. Do not overspend. But, feel free to use your HOK money however you see fit.

By using these three steps you can be on the road to a well-established credit and a financially stable situation.

If you are looking for additional ways to manage your finances in a responsible way, read more of Jacob's articles by clicking on his Author link below.

A few others you may find of interest are Dave Ramsey, MotleyFool, and of course, one of my favorites, a book entitled: The Richest Man in Babylon.

How to Achieve Financial Freedom with Your Home

The secret disclosed on how you too could achieve financial freedom through property (and tell the pension companies just where to stick their measly, worthless ‘pensions’) Geoff Morris is a self-made property millionaire who made it in less than 18 months even with a hectic 'day job'. He has written a series of articles to help people like you achieve the same levels of success – as long as you are willing to ‘Go For It!’

Many people these days are getting more and more concerned as they approach retirement age. Even those in their late twenties are beginning to become concerned about the effects of old age. What has brought on such a dilemma in those so young? It is the plight of the pensions in this country that is causing this concern?

Probably.

But there is a solution to all this that could not only remove this fear, but also dramatically improve the lifestyle of all concerned.

What is this solution?

Most people are brought up to believe that their main goal in life is to own their own house, and have fully paid for it by the time they retire.

Why?

What is the point in just scrimping and scraping throughout your working life only to have to sell your house and move down market, or worse still, sell up and rent, while you just try and make ends meet on a pitifully small handout from the State?

As soon as you have bought your first house, you should be thinking about buying your second and your third, and your fourth…..

“What on earth for” , will be the retort of most of you, “ we can only just afford the repayments on the first one, let alone buy any more”

Let’s look at the way most people buy a house, and then lets look at some alternative methods.

The usual way of acquiring a house is to put down a large deposit – somewhere in the region of 10 – 15%, which on an average £200,000 house will equate to around £30,000.

The next route is to take out a repayment mortgage over a fixed term, say 15 to 25 years, where you will be paying a combination of interest on the outstanding loan, as well as repaying the capital.

On top of this, most people will take out some other financial facility, such as an endowment policy coupled with a life insurance policy for the period of the mortgage, so at the end of the mortgage term, they will not only own the house outright, but also have a lump sum. Not a very large lump sum, as a lot of the insurance premiums would have gone towards the life cover purchased.

Now, we have all seen how endowments have failed terribly of late due to overoptimistic performance, so there is no guarantee that the above route wil produce anything other than a tremendous financial drain on this person for a very large period of their lives, and with no real plan for their future except ownership of a house, a small endowment, and probably a ridiculously low pension to keep them going in their retirement years.

However, there is another way. Interested? Then read on….

Let’s look at a totally different scenario, where the couple looking to buy their first house took specialist advice from one of the more reputable property clubs that are around. These clubs are admittedly usually aimed at property investors, but isn’t that what we all should be?

Now, let’s take our example of the £200,000 dream house for our hopeful house buyers. They see a development of dream houses by one of the nationally recognised house builders. Do you think they could persuade the developers to pay the 15% deposit for them? On their own – not a chance, but if our hopefuls go via one of these property clubs, the chances are that the developer would now be willing to pay the 15% as a ‘gift’.

I can see your expression now. “Not a chance” you say. But it does happen, and we can arrange introductions to make this possible.

So, you now have bought your house, and instead of having to find £30,000 deposit, al you have to do is get your self a mortgage.

Now, when you move into a house, especially in your early years, the chance of you staying there for the term of the mortgage is very unlikely. You may change jobs; you may want to move to a different area, or there may be many other reason why you will want to move within a few years. So, the house you have bought is only a temporary residence, and you could almost treat it as a rental property – but with one big big difference.

Whether you paid the deposit, or whether you got this ‘gifted’ deposit from the developers, this money, this equity in the property is YOURS. And not only that, it is a historical fact that house prices, given time, will always increase.

So as this is a ‘temporary’ abode, why go for a mortgage that includes a repayment element in it? Why not go for what is known as an interest only mortgage? What this is then is a loan where you never pay back any of the principle of the loan, but only the interest on it. You will have to pay back the capital at the end of the term, but we will be showing you how easy that can be achieved a little bit later.

Your situation now is that you are paying the barest minimum mortgage repayment, but are also sitting on a considerable amount of INCREASIING equity! You do not have to pay for an expensive endowment policy, although a life policy may well give your other half a comfort blanket.

But now look at another effect, which is called ‘Leverage’. With a no-money down deal, the leverage is enormous, but consider the case where you bought a £200,000 house and put a 10% (£20,000) deposit down on it. If the house goes up in value by 10% the equity in your house will have increased by some £20,000. Now, your initial investment was £20,000, so you will have DOUBLED your investment in 12 months. Not bad huh! Try doing that at your local Bank, or even if you dare, the Stock Market!

So, let’s say house prices went up by just 5% per annum over the next 2 years. This would mean an increase in your equity (equity being the difference between the value of your house and the amount of the mortgage on it). This would mean you now owned an extra £10,000 after the first year (5% of £200,000) and £21,000 after the second year (5% of £210,000 + £10,000 from the previous year). This would mean that your house was now worth £221,000, of which you now owned (£221.000 - £170,000) which comes to some £55,100.

Wow! £55 Grand that belongs to you!

Now, let’s do something with this money!

With a good clean credit record after the last 2 years (assuming you had no defaults on your mortgage payments) you could now refinance your house. You could go to your existing lender (if you have a penalty period in your mortgage), or you could go to any other lender and negotiate up to 90% (subject to your financial status) of THE NEW VALUE OF YOUR HOUSE.

90% of £221,000 is £198,900. So you can release nearly £30,000 out of the equity in your house. And the best thing about this money is it is totally tax free! No capital gains to pay and no income tax! If you don’t believe me, speak to an accountant.

Many people have in fact done this, but have then spent the money on new cars, boats, holidays and the like, but once the money is spent in this fashion, it is gone for ever.

But how about if you went and bought another house, this time as an investment property?

You never know, your friendly developer may be persuaded to give you another gifted deposit, in which case you could buy several more houses (your only expense being legal fees, broker’s fees, and stamp duty, which on a £200,000 property would come to around £5,000). In this case, with your £30,000 you could buy another 6 houses!

But how do you go about buying all of these houses? And how, if they all have £170,000 mortgages on them are you ever going to meet the repayments. Assuming an interest rate of 5%, that would be about £700 per property per month! £4,200 per month mortgage! Heaven forbid. How would you sleep at night with that level of debt to your name?

Some years ago this would have been impossible as there was no real financial system that would enable an individual to do this. However, now, you can get what is known as a ‘Buy To Let’ mortgage, where lenders will usually lend up to 85% of the property in question, as long as the anticipated rental income will cover the repayments , plus a bit. The ‘plus a bit’ tends to vary from lender to lender, but you can very quickly get an answer from lenders on whether they will meet the loan. Also, if you are going to get a ‘gifted deposit’, there are only a few lenders who will offer 85% of the list price, so once again, you will need to use a property club or a broker who is used to this situation.

So, you are now the lucky owner of 6 investment properties, as well as your own house.

You also have a commitment to pay 6 investment mortgages as well, and we totalled that as being some £4,200 a month!

But – you don’t want to have to pay that do you? No! You get tenants in, who very kindly pay the mortgage for you (plus a bit for your pocket and 10% or thereabouts for a managing agent to look after the tenants). You can also take out insurances to cover loss of rent, damage, legal fees on disputes, so it is eminently possible for you to become an ‘armchair’ investor landlord.

However, you now own 6 investment houses, not one. You have already seen how equity can build up in your own house. So let’s look at each of your investment properties.

If each property was worth £200,000, and you got a 15% gifted deposit on each one, you are already looking at an equity of some £30,000 in each unit.

If each property increased in value by just 5% per annum, that’s £10,000 from every unit.

Just look what you would be gaining. You would now own a property portfolio of 6 investment properties worth £1.200,000 of which you would have instant equity of around £180,000, and this would be increasing (at just 5%) of some £60,000 every year. Without compounding this increase, if you sold all of your investment properties after 10 years, you would walk away with well over THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION POUNDS!

So, do you still believe that – whatever the cost – your main objective in life is to pay off your mortgage?

By all means, have this intention – but only after you have made so many other gains that you can really afford this luxury.

This is just one in a series of informative news articles issued by Geoff Morris.

Others include:

• “How to generate an income in excess of £30,000 per annum without leaving your Day Job” • “How to benefit from Off-Plan property purchases and what pitfalls to watch out for” • “How to use a SIPP (Self Investing Pension fund) to grow your portfolio and protect it from the Tax-Man!’’

Other articles can be viewed by just signing up to his property investment page at [http://www.propertyprofits4you.com]

Geoff Morris has built up a multi-million pound property portfolio in less than 18 months. He has written a number of articles aimed to help others follow the same path to financial freedom. Imagine the peace of mind that you would achieve if you follow the advice to be found in his Free reports and consumer guides to be found at [http://www.propertyprofits4you.com]

Free Debt Help - How New Laws Have Created Debt Relief Options

There was a time when people could get out of a difficult financial situation by filing bankruptcy and get a trouble free fresh start. But with change in laws free debt help has come to the rescue of the masses so that what has been changed by the new laws can get people some respite.

Today what people face are the changed implications of the personal bankruptcy rules given in chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code. According to the new rules anyone filing insolvency will have to pay some part of the debt that he or she owes to the financer. Besides that there are many other types of loans which are not exempted from being written off, such as student loans and government taxes have to be paid in full without any reductions.

These changes in the laws have made bankruptcy an option which should be considered the least when it comes to resolving debt issues.

When one passage shuts new avenues appear. This is what happened with the implementation of the new bankruptcy rulings. People found debt relief as a far better option in the current scenario. With a bankruptcy you will end with a very low credit score, but on the other hand a settlement will give you a lesser damage. Besides when you have to pay a part of the debt then it is best in everyone's interest that maximum amount is waved off. This is what relief options offer.

If you are in need of free debt help you have a better chance of finding it online. Free debt help is available for all those who have a balance in debt exceeding $10,000. There are relief networks that provide information regarding personal debt elimination. Here you can learn all about the available options that you can exercise and benefits that each option has to offer.

For those who think that the new laws are unfair, all that I will say is that the government has its duty to protect all individuals and all institutions from being harmed. The present economic situation in the country dictates that the financial institutions need support from both the government and the account holders. The new laws are here to protect the system without which our economy is likely to deteriorate further. The change was inevitable but the debt relief options give all of us a lot of support which should be utilized fully as insolvency cannot solve anything anymore.

Getting out of debt through a debt settlement process is currently very popular but you need to know where to locate the best performing programs in order to get the best deals. To compare debt settlement companies it would be wise to visit a free debt relief network which will locate the best performing companies in your area for free.

Free Debt Advice [http://www.freedebtsettlementadvice.com].

Finance for Children: How to Provide Financial Education Through Allowance

Are you looking to teach your child about money management? The earlier you start this process, the easier it will be for your child to develop financial habits that will benefit him or her for a lifetime, and prevent them from moving home after college in serious debt. Statistically speaking, they may still come back to the nest, but debt free would be nice. Yet sadly, too many parents avoid talking finance for children as they think it is too advanced. Maybe as parents our finances are not the way they should be, too much debt, late bills, and collections so we chose not to talk money with our children? Don't fall into this category, regardless of your circumstances. Your child can learn to budget wisely starting at the age of three, yes, starting at the age of three, and odds are as parents we'll learn something along the way. By the time he or she is ready to head out on their own, these habits will be so deeply ingrained they won't experience the financial difficulties many of us have had to, and better yet, if they fly back to the nest, they can treat us to dinner! Here are six steps you should follow when setting up an allowance that can teach finance for children in a fun way.

1. Start by determining how much money your child should be receiving and the frequency of payment. If they are old enough, let them be a part of the negotiation. Get creative, many parents will chose chores as the foundation for payment. This is a great opportunity to instill the entrepreneurial spirit in your children. Not just chores, maybe you would like the artwork on the fridge updated monthly, or fresh flowers on the table every few weeks. Give them opportunities to explore their passions, it's a delicate balancing act, putting a value on what the enjoy, but this will encourage them to investigate ways to create income beyond a J.O.B. Which for many of us means "Just Over Broke".

2. Once you and your child have determined what activities generate income, they can be compensated in the form of an allowance. How you choose to pay your children is up to you. Over 50 million people bank online, at our house, over 95% of our money management is virtual. With the advent of online banking, online bill pay, and banking apps it is vital that our children learn how to manage money without having cash in hand. Here you have a few choices, set up a bank account that your child can manage online, or use an online system where they can manage virtual money, like Three Jars, or create a spreadsheet. If they're young enough, consider decorating 3 jars as a craft project, and set up some form of payment system.

3. When your child receives their allowance, you want to show her how to budget wisely. As many financial experts will tell you, the most important thing to remember in terms of finance for children and adults, is always pay yourself first. Before they enter the complex world of bills, investments, and life on their own it is important to build a strong foundation beyond take the money and run. As adults, we use a six jar system taught by T Harv Eker. While this may be complex for children, this is the perfect opportunity to teach them about saving or paying yourself first, spending, and giving. So make sure a portion of the paycheck goes into savings. While it may be a little early to teach saving to create passive income, it's never too early to save.

4. Now for the next step, teach your child to give to charity or support a cause. Again the amount designated for charity will be up to you, but we recommend a minimum of 10%. As your child will learn, giving and receiving are closely intertwined. How often are they asked to raise money for a school event or project? Having a charity account within their allowance will give them a sense of pride knowing that they can make a direct impact. If school fundraisers aren't their thing, let them chose where they want the money to go, there are endless charities that appreciate any support.

5. The remaining money will be the child's spending money for the pay period until his or her next allowance. Whatever he or she has to spend, don't supplement it if they run short. If they run short, this is the perfect opportunity to review budgets, as well as generate financial solutions that avoid debt.

6. The last step is to help your child track his or her spending during this period. This will help him or her to learn finance for children and how important it is. By tracking this information, your child can see where he or she is spending the most money and make changes if needed to ensure the allowance lasts longer. Or better yet, create ways in which they can use their money to create additional income. Work out a deal where he can rent the lawn mower to mow neighborhood yards for extra money. Or buy lemonade mix and run a lemonade stand to double their profits. You get the idea, we can learn just as much from our children when we help them learn to not only manage their finances but be creative in generating income.

By following these steps, you can teach finance for children by saving, spending, and giving. Remember, if we start early, and establish a strong foundation, when our nest is empty, a debt ridden birdie won't be coming back. It will be your child whom you taught to bring home the worm.

Nick Lubbers is one half of The Minivan Millionaires, experts at maintaining family balance while being full time entrepreneurs and parents. They invite you to join them as they provide helpful tips in achieving Family Freedom at: http://theminivanmillionaires.com/

Why Do You Need to Invest in Your Financial Education?

Wikipedia defines financial literacy as the ability to understand finance. More specifically, it refers to an individual's ability to make informed judgement and effective decisions based on sound financial knowledge and understanding.

Our school system was designed to train employees for the industrial age. No wonder you were not taught how to handle your money and make wise financial decisions. Most financial knowledge comes from your own experiences (either good and bad) and your close ones like your parents, friends and relatives. You invest in 401K or RRSP and diversify your mutual fund portfolio because that's what other people do and you don't know any other investment options. It becomes a serious problem during the economic downturns. While many people saw their lifetime saving shrank dramatically from the last global financial crisis, some with a solid financial education became richer than ever. You wonder how they made it.

It is time to invest in your own financial education. It is time for our school system to adopt financial education into the curriculum of high school and college/university. Because a sound financial education gives you an unfair advantage to those without.

In his best-selling book "The Conspiracy of the Rich", Robert Kiyosaki lists four basic investment categories (business, real estate, paper assets and commodities) and says a sophisticated investor invests in all four categories to achieve true diversification. If you have only one source of income (e.g. "Job", "self-employed"), no matter how much you earn, you are vulnerable to any financial instabilities. You need to have multiple sources of income. You need to have more than one investment vehicle to build and protect your wealth. You may ask "Sounds great but where do I start?" Well, the best and the quickest way to success is to learn from those who have been successful. In this section, you will be introduced to some of the most successful and influential investors, entrepreneurs and financial educators of our time in North America. So fasten your seat belt and let's explore their world.

Robert Kiyosaki -- author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, is an investor, entrepreneur, educator and New York Times best-selling author. His financial education book series Rich Dad Poor Dad has been translated to over 100 languages and sold more than 26 million copies world wide. He also created the educational board game Cashflow 101 to teach individuals the financial and investment strategies that his rich dad spent years teaching him. Robert Kiyosaki's perspectives on money and investing are different from traditional teaching. The old beliefs of getting a good job, working hard, saving money, getting out of debt, and investing for the long term are obsolete in today's world. Robert Kiyosaki's teachings focus on generating passive income through investment opportunities, such as real estate and businesses, with the ultimate goal of being able to support oneself by such investments alone. Some of Robert Kiyosaki's bestselling books:

Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert Kiyosaki (1998)

Find out which quadrant you belong to, why people from different quadrant think and react differently and which path to take to achieve financial freedom. Download Notes taken from Cashflow Quadrant.

Conspiracy of The Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money by Robert Kiyosaki (2009)

If you are still in the mentality of having a secure well-paid job and counting on your mutual funds to retire you comfortably at age 65, you need to read this book. In this book, Robert Kiyosaki shares his view of global economics and explores why people are finding themselves challenged by these turbulent times. If you are worried about or were hit by the last financial crisis, you want to be prepared for the next one. Notes taken from Conspiracy of The Rich.

Michael Maloney -- To escape the rat race, you not only need to build wealth but also need to protect it against inflation and financial downturns. Gold and silver serve such purposes for hundreds of years. If you are interested in investing in gold and silver, you've got to learn from Michael Maloney, who is Rich Dad's advisor. Michael's book Guide to Investing in Gold & Silver presents a historical view of economic cycles, money history, gold and silver, fiat currencies, and the Federal Reserve in an easy-to-understand way. It explains how the US government is driving inflation by diluting its money supply and people's purchasing power, why to invest in gold and silver, and how to invest in gold and silver. Through the lens of the history, you know where we stand today and how to prepare for our future.

You will find updated news and analysis on gold and silver investment from Michael's website goldsilver.com which attracts hundreds of visitors daily. You can purchase gold and silver online through his website.

Robert G. Allen -- a Canadian born financial author. Some of his best-selling books are: Multiple Streams of Income, Creating Wealth and Nothing Down. He has helped tens of thousands of people achieve their financial goals with his books and seminars. His Multiple Streams of Income covers the topics such as stock market, real estate, tax liens, network marketing, internet marketing, etc.

Robert Allen reveals the secret formula for extreme networking marketing success through his 14-page eBook "The Secret Formula For Financial Prosperity".

Don R. Campbell -- Canadian-based real estate investor, author, and market researcher. Formerly worked for Sears back in early 1980, Don achieved his financial freedom through real estate. He is the president of Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) which one of the largest organization of its kind in Canada and has more than 15 years history. To be a REIN member, you need to fulfill a 17-month membership obligation. The monthly fee is relatively high to some people but the information on Canada's most current real estate market and education you will get are worthwhile. If you are new to real estate, it is definitely a good starting place and save you many trial and error.

If you are interested in Canadian real estate investment, Don R. Campbell's best selling book 97 Tips for Canadian Real Estate Investors is a must for you. It offers Canadian specific content and advice that are relevant to Canadians.

Chris Martenson -- a trained research scientist, and a former Fortune 300 VP. His free video series Crash Course gives a clearest and most straightforward explanation of how our economy, energy systems and environment interact -- how we got to where we are today, and some reasonable expectations for the future. Chris sends out the same message Robert Kiyosaki has been teaching over the years -- the next twenty years are going to look very different from the last twenty years.

Stay tuned. We will continue introducing some other successful and influential investors, entrepreneurs and financial educators of our time through future article submission. We highly recommend you invest your time in your financial education and personal development. As an old saying goes, "Success is not something you pursue; Success is someone you become".

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Let Financial Freedom Ring

For most Americans, the month of July conjures up images of fireworks sizzling in the sky, back yard BBQs and the thrilling sound of patriotic songs; "Our country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing." America was built on a solid foundation of freedom for all, with the additional caveat that all men and women were created equal. At least that seemed to be the original idea.

The word liberty refers to the state of being free from other's restrictions on how one chooses to live life. If we apply this definition to what we actually have today, we can see that there are millions of Americans who aren't free at all.

Being truly free generally requires that we have the information and tools necessary to create that freedom. And in order to create that freedom, it's helpful to have at least a basic understanding of how money works in society and the primary investment principles that are required to become free. In addition, a strong entrepreneurial spirit is almost mandatory these days if you really want freedom in your life.

Learning this critical information currently doesn't come as a natural right of being born an American, or a Canadian, or a Mexican or a Frenchman, etc. Financial intelligence, for some strange reason, is usually relegated to 'elective' status when it is as necessary as reading, writing and arithmetic. And often when it is taught, it's about budgeting and balancing checkbooks, not investing in passive income producing assets or thinking like a wealthy person. Heaven forbid, we teach kids how to become financially free when they're young instead of expecting them to spend 40-plus years in a job where they will hopefully 'accumulate' enough money to 'retire' at some point in their future. What if we teach kids the concept of financial 'utilization' instead; using their natural born entrepreneurial talents to create businesses that allow them to live amazing lives while helping others along the way? Gone are the days of a good, stable, secure job; here are the days of creating your own way.

At present, most of America's youth are not learning about money in school and the vast majority of children never learn about money at home. This is because most parents don't understand money either and those that do, for whatever reason, don't talk to their kids about it. The fact that such a small percentage of people actually understand the 'language of money' explains why the consumer debt number in America in 2007 reached an astronomical $2.5 trillion dollars, not including real estate mortgages. According to the Federal Reserve, $2,500,000,000,000 represents $8,200 for every man, woman and child that lives in the US.

Something happens when the numbers get this big. There's a shift in our ability to conceive it as real. It is one thing to owe someone $1000 but quite another when that debt reaches $100,000. The idea of adding another $100 to a $1000 debt causes most people to consider what they are doing. Adding $100 to $100,000 worth of debt often doesn't raise an eyebrow.

It's a matter of contrast; the bigger the contrast, the smaller the perceived reality. This is exactly what's happening when Americans view our national debt: the numbers are SO big that you just can't wrap your head around them. It's kind of like thinking about the Universe; our brains short-circuit and shut off.

So what do we do? Well, in my opinion we must start educating our youth about money. I believe the more we educate, the less we must legislate. How do we do this? I have three simple things that, if done, will yield amazing results for our nation's financial future.

First and foremost, we must set a better example for our youth, from mom and dad all the way up to the highest branches of our government. Children learn first by example and they learn by example in three primary ways: by what they SEE; by what they HEAR; and by what they EXPERIENCE. Bottom line: start watching what you and others are teaching your children about money by what they see you doing with it, what they hear you saying about it and by the experiences your kids are having with it.

Second, talk to your kids about money. Just like sex and drugs, if you don't talk about it, you have no idea what they are learning, or from whom. We all have to get over the idea that money makes us who we are. Money is simply a tool to reach our dreams, help others and do good in the world. Money doesn't make you happy, pretty, sexy or cool. Money generally just makes you more of what you already are. If you were greedy when you were poor, chances are you'll be more greedy if you become rich. If you were generous when you were poor, chances are you'll be more generous when you're rich.

How do you bring your kids into the 'family money conversation?' Simple... just start talking. Let them help you pay bills online and write checks, balance the checkbook, work on the family budget. Let them tag along when you visit your financial planner. Invite them to work with you or give them a job in your business. Talk to them about your paycheck and taxes, your investments, your debt. Yes, I said your debt. What better way to help them learn about debt than to experience the pain around it. Don't shelter them. Show them. Let them see that money is just another tool we all have to learn to use wisely. Make learning about money a family affair. Show them what it takes to be an adult who is working towards self-reliance and financial freedom.

Third, give your kids practice with money before they move out and their mistakes cost them dearly. College students are dropping out with huge amounts of debt. Some are even committing suicide over the debt they accumulate. For the most part, teens don't have the maturity or necessary knowledge to handle their own finances. This includes all the credit card offers they are tempted with, the high cost of living and competing with their peers in terms of clothes, entertainment, vacations, phones and more.

Financial practice must start early and you must have a system. The Ultimate Allowance is one such system. This book is the result of teaching thousands of kids and their parents about money for the past seven years. It shows you, the parent or guardian, how to run the money that you're spending ON your kids, THROUGH them instead.

Consider this example: If your son or daughter came to you wanting to grow up and become a major league baseball player but you never gave him or her a ball, a glove, a bat, time to practice, a place to practice or heaven forbid, THE RULES, what's the chances of him or her accomplishing the dream? Slim to none. This is exactly what we're doing with our children. We MUST start teaching them how to think like, and make decisions like, people who value financial freedom over Piddlycrap.

What's Piddlycrap? Just look around your house and you'll see it everywhere. It's the stuff we waste our valuable financial resources on every day; the stuff that goes down in value instead of up. The stuff you sell at a garage sale for pennies on the dollar. It's the stuff that takes money out of our pockets instead of putting money into them.

Parents, your number one job is to prepare those beautiful kids of yours to be self-reliant ~ and loving them is not enough. This means you have to:

1) set the best example you can;

2) talk to them about everything money; and

3) give them plenty of practice while they're young.

Doing these three things will dramatically increase your chances of successfully turning America's children into resourceful, financially free leaders who will make this country's economy strong again. And isn't this what all parents want?

In 2002, I dedicated my life to teaching our youth, and their parents, the basic financial principles I never learned in school or at home. I have taught many different races and cultures, genders and ages and, everywhere I go, I find people want to learn the same thing. They crave the knowledge they need to know how to make informed choices and decisions that will help them create a sense of freedom for themselves.

Isn't that what this country is all about? Isn't that where we started; a desire to be free? Isn't that what Martin Luther King, Jr. was willing to give his life for? Isn't that what this nation stands for?

Let's make financial literacy mandatory in our schools and financial intelligence a sought after value. It's time everyone had access to the information and tools they need to create real freedom in their lives. Join me in this mission, won't you?

Teach your kids about money using The Ultimate Allowance system, available at http://www.ultimateallowancebook.com or visit me at Creativewealthintl.org or give me a call at 805-957-1024.

Elisabeth Donati
Author, The Ultimate Allowance
Creator, Camp Millonaire
elisabethdonati@gmail.com

Downline Building Network - How to Triple Your Network With Google AdWords

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