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Here are three words you rarely hear: “Get rich slowly”.

The fact is that very, very few people get rich quickly. It simply doesn’t happen. If it did, we’d all be rich and the world would be a lovely place. It isn’t, sadly. I tell you this not to burst your bubble, but to help you understand the practical reality of how money works.

Lottery winners are among the few who get rich quickly, and statistics show that within 18 months, most of them get poor quickly. Never having had much money, people generally don’t know how to handle it when they win big, and they tend to spend their way to the poorhouse at great speed.

Enough bad news. It is possible to “get rich”, highly possible. The catch, if you choose to look at it that way, is that it takes both time and effort. You can get rich slowly, which doesn’t sound like fun, but is in fact enormously satisfying when you pull it off. All it takes is the application of common sense and an adult attitude. You are capable of both.

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Seriously, you dont….It’s not about being a genius, it’s about getting started.
I advise people on personal finance including banking, budgeting, saving, and investing. How to save your money-tricks, how to budget, and using credit cards, etc. How to make more money by investing? What are stocks? Bonds? Mutual funds? What can you do to start today and maximize returns?

All you need is three ingredients, income, discipline and time. Chances are, you already have two of them, income and time. All you need to do is add the third, discipline.

Here’s how it works: Say you start with nothing, invest $500 (of your income) a month (a healthy discipline), and let your money ride (over time) in diversified investments. Long term, the stock market returns at least 10% annually. Assuming a 10% return, you’d have $102,000 after 10 years, $380,000 after 20 years, and $1.1 million in 30 years.

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Over time, I have realized that without certain good habits in place, my finances quickly get out of order. Perhaps the most important habit that I have learned is regular savings. Long terms goals are described as goals that have a lasting effect should a person’s present actions be religiously maintained.
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Regularly contributing to savings account is important on several levels. Of course, it’s good to have an emergency fund available for any of the countless situations or save for planned major expenses for which you would need extra cash.

Even though I know the importance of savings I will never make it without a plan. Somehow its always easy to spend all the money I have, no matter how much it is. I therefore treat savings like paying a bill, and I guess this is what it means when they say pay your self first. The key elements to making this strategy work are quite simple, first it has to be done regularly. If you miss your telephone or utilities bill this month, you will be expected to pay double next month. You can’t cheat your utilities bill out of a month so don’t do it to yourself.

To figure out how much you can save every month, you have to have a budget and commit to at least that much. If you say well you will save whatever is left, you will probably never end up saving anything or if you are lucky you might end up saving a lot less than what you actually should have. Budget for so many dollars, and put it in savings before you have a chance of spending it.

So how about you? Do you have any tricks you use to help keep yourself disciplined in saving money regularly? If not, why not give this a try?

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