Who I am?
As a working parent, you were never taught about finances by our local education system nor by our family apart from saving money. There is no talk around how to invest your money, how to manage a certain lifestyle choice and still financially save or how to financially plan for the future for example when you marry or have a family or when you retire. There was no financial conversation at all anywhere when I look back.
Underneath it all, I had this nagging voice inside me
You may not have heard this voice in your 20s or even your 30s but it seems to be getting louder.
You used to be able to work harder. Stay up late. Get another work goal achieved, but there’s a part of you that’s starting to realise that those strategies might not work forever.
So, you question a part of you….
You don’t want to downsize your life and you want to keep your daily trips to the hairdresser and travel on those beautiful destination holidays you enjoy. You don’t want to let money stop you from doing and having the things that are important to you.
When you look at the retirement statement for your retirement account, a lot of it’s written in a foreign language that you don’t understand. You may question yourself around ‘do I really understand how my money is invested’ or ‘know how to tell if it’s growing the way it should’.
Or you would like it to grow faster, but you’re scared of losing money and time.
Will I have enough money for the time ahead?” And “What if I want to retire?”
My goal is to inspire people to become financially free
I worked in a 9 to 5 job and was just about making ends meet and having a very stressful time earning money and not having the life balance I wanted and yearned for. I also had property investments that also required time and energy and I lost sight of these properties due to the demands of my day job and lost a lot of money. At this point, I decided to make some changes and set up my own business. This allowed me to attain life balance in the right way that suited me and my family.The first big financial achievement that led me on the path of financial independence
By setting up my business and to my surprise I started to earn double the income compared to my normal 9 to 5 job. I bought the family house we always wanted and we managed to balance the lifestyle we wanted as a family. Spending time with my family whilst I managed my business and grow my finances without it feeling like another job. I can’t tell you what a relief that was at the time.
Along the path, I made some money mistakes
I made a few money mistakes with credit cards, shopping, and poor investments. Each mistake was a learning curve for me to do better and that’s just what I did – I paid off my debt, I let go of those handbags and put my money to better use and I set a financial goal to learn about investing and how to do my due diligence in researching every investment I made.
During all of this I realised …… Making money and growing money were two different skill sets that are required.
- I became more committed and passionate than ever in providing other people with the financial education they never received in school.
- I wanted to focus my time and energy on helping others to avoid the mistakes I had made; I was able to build my company to make double the income compared to my 9 to 5 job. This allowed me to make empowered financial investment decisions without it feeling like another job.
- Having a 9 to 5 working mindset and learned behaviours about money required some work on my part to change, as I was in a place where I was comfortable with money and I was good at saving but never taught to create money, only to trade time as an employee.
- Without the ability to create money from a business mindset. I then started to learn how money was created and how to design and implement a wealth-building plan for myself and learn to assess risk and that’s when life shifted forever. I moved from a comfortable money mindset to a rich money mindset. Where I’m financially comfortable and have financial freedom.
My story as SK…
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