"Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children."

- John Sununu

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3 Principles For Wise Investment

• Three key things determine the success of any asset growth strategy:

How much money you invest

The growth rate on that money

Length of time of the investment

Questions for you:

• Are you investing all you can?

• Can you deal with the risk that comes with higher returns?

• Are you willing to educate yourself to the necessary level to earn higher returns?

Two-Part Mantra For Growing Assets

Formulate the three principles into rules that support your

wealth goals.

Consistently abide by those rules.

“Why not invest your assets in the companies youreally like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.””

- Warren Buffett

GROWING ASSETS:9 Steps for Success

Step #1:Have a Goal And a Plan

• Have a written plan. Without goals and a plan to support them, success will be very challenging to achieve.

• Studies have shown that goal setting and planning are incredibly effective and go a long way towards guaranteeing positive results.

• The best plan for you will vary based on your current assets and income, as well as your current stage of life.

Step #2:Live Within Your Means

• The freedom of being wealthy needs to be more important to you than having the appearance of wealth.

• Every dollar that passes through our hands really only has one of two outcomes: it is either used to increase wealth or it is not.

• Following a budget helps you allocate more of your dollars toward building your assets.

Step #2:Points To Note

The most important component of building wealth is the rate at which you accumulate assets.

• Eventually, a tipping point is reached where the returns are much larger than any further contributions will be. Try to reach that tipping point as quickly as possible.

Focus on building those assets.

• Earn as much as you can, spend as little as you can, and invest the difference.

Step #3:Increase Your Financial Knowledge

• The best way to achieve growth of assets is to educate yourself.

• Learn how to maximally profit in any market condition. This takes effort and time, but it’s well worth it.

• Increasing financial knowledge is a critical step to your financial future. There is no shortage of books, websites, courses, and newsletters to provide the necessary education.

Step #4:Start Early

• At a 12% growth rate:

• Procrastination has a hugely detrimental effect when it comes to financial matters!

In 6 years:

Your money double

s

Wait 6 years:

Level of

wealth cuts in

half

Wait 12 years:Level

of wealth reduce

d by 75%

Step #4:Start Early (Cont’d.)

• The longer you wait, the more difficult the process becomes.

• See how much each age group has to save to achieve significant assets:

Step #4:Start Early (Cont’d.)

• Need to save 10%

Start in your 20s

• Need to save 25%

Start in your 30s

• Need to save 35%

Start in your 40s

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”

-Plato

Step #5:Save and Invest on Auto-Pilot

• Most things are easier when done automatically.

• Set up automatic paycheck deductions into savings and investment accounts.

• Invest in vehicles that automatically grow your assets.

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth...both financial affluence and emotional security."

- Suze Orman

Step #5:Examples of

The Auto-Pilot Principle

Automatic Savings

Deduct part of

your pay before

you touch it.

You can’t spend

the portion

you don’t have.

Own a Home

Owning a home is

like forced

savings.

Each payment reduces debt and

builds assets.

Own other Real

EstateBecoming

a landlord can be

lucrative.

Great tool for building

asset base.

Retirement

Investment Plans

Save in 401(K)

for retiremen

t.

Benefit from tax breaks.

Step #6:Learn From Your Results

• You have the power to create your financial future:

1. Take action.2. Evaluate your results.3. Then improve your actions until

your goal is achieved.

• Asset accumulation must become a set of habits that you create for yourself.

Step #7:Over-Commit Resources

• The military has a principal called 'overwhelming force'.

• In a nutshell, this is the idea of committing resources well beyond what is needed.

• For example, if a particular mission needed a minimum of 1000 troops, four tanks, and three planes to be successful, the military might send 1500 troops, six tanks, and five planes.

Step #7:Over-Commit Resources

Avoid sticking to minimums:Minimums leave no room for setbacks or

mistakes.

Follow the same example to grow assets:Determine how much

is needed to reach a goal.

Save more for a longer period of time.

If the original assessment was correct: The success of the mission is guaranteed by

the over committing of resources.

Step #8:Keep Your Assets Out of Reach

• It is much easier to save money in the long term if it is kept in a place that is difficult to reach.

• For example, with a brokerage account, most of us would not sell stock for a little weekend fun. Similarly, money that is saved in a retirement account incurs financial penalties associated with accessing the money.

Step #8:Keep Your Assets Out of Reach

• The best policy is to never borrow from your long-term savings to fund your current lifestyle.

• The more you're willing to sacrifice now, the more you're likely to have in the future.

Step #9:Manage Your Risk

• It’s important to guard your assets while still providing the opportunity for significant growth.

• Always consider the downside to any financial moves or investments.

Step #9:Manage Your Risk

• Insurance prevents you from depleting your assets in a crisis: health insurance, automobile insurance, long-term care insurance, and more can protect your assets.

GROWING ASSETS:Investing in the Stock Market

Getting Started With theStock Market

• The stock market typically pays long-term returns of 11%. It’s a venue that you’ll likely want to use in growing your assets.

• The most common stock market investments :

Getting Started With theStock Market

• Easy, automatic investing• Spreads your risk

Mutual Funds

• Choose your own companies• Buy and sell when you wantStocks

How to Analyze a StockUnderstand the company and what they do

Understand the basic financials

Potential for growth?

Income

Further research

Stock Analysis:Understand the company

• If you understand what the company does, you'll be able to make better decisions as market situations change.

Follow Warren Buffet’s lead in choosing companies that you understand.

• Smaller companies often have more opportunities for growth.

• Large companies tend to grow slower but can be more stable.

How large is the company?

Stock Analysis:Understand the basic financials

• These numbers can help you determine if a stock is priced fairly. They also give some indication regarding the health of the company.

Stock Analysis:Understand the basic financials

Earnings per share (EPS) tells you how much profit the company is making per

share of outstanding stock.

Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E Ratio) is the stock price divided by a company's

earnings. A high P/E ratio suggests that either investors are expecting share prices

to rise or that the stock is overpriced.

Stock Analysis:What is the potential for growth?

• Is the industry stagnant or does it show a lot of potential for growth in the future?

• How has that field changed over the last few years?

• What is the expectation for the future?

Stock Analysis:Income

• Does the company pay any dividends?If so, how much does it pay?

• Many times, the more income an investment provides, the less likely it is to experience significant growth in the future.

• This is because the profits are being spent on the investors instead of expanding the business.

Stock Analysis:Further Research

Does the company’s future look promising?

What are the experts saying?

What is the company's past?

Grow Assets

Set goals & plan to

reach them

Live beneath

your means

Never stop

learning

Get started early

Build automatic

wealth

Learn from mistakes

Apply more than

minimum

Keep assets out of reach

Manage risk

“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Curtis Roese is an experienced professional with extensive experience in personal finance and small business matters. Curtis writes and publishes articles, courses, guides and special reports on his personal finance blog.

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