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Dave Ramsey after he sees you pull out a credit card

Improving your money skills means taking 10 steps backwards in the eyes of society to take 100 steps forward. All while people around you spend and use debt to upgrade their lifestyle, making you feel behind. You're not behind. You're building a life that creates more options beyond next weeks paycheck.

It doesn't matter how big your paycheck is, never rely on one source of income. One source is too close to none.

You work too damn hard to have your entire financial future depend on your next paycheck forever.

Nvidia -4.38% Microsoft -2.04% Google -3.41% Meta -7.84% AMD -7.85% Intel -7.33% Micron -5.64% Amazon -4.93% SpaceX -9.04% Tesla -2.63% what a day

You can literally feel it in your body when it's time. Time to stop pretending credit card debt is okay, time to admit how you’ve been handling money isn’t working, time to want a life that isn't financed. At some point, you just know. That's your call.

Investing is hard because you sacrifice a portion of your paycheck without getting an immediate reward. Your brain wants the payoff now. Investing asks you to wait. But the voice in your head would rather spend it all on stuff you'll forget about next week.

Understanding how to make investment decisions yourself is more valuable than collecting someone else’s stock picks. Because if the only reason you bought a stock is that someone else recommended it, what happens when it falls 30%? You don’t know whether the investment thesis has changed. You’re just waiting for their next opinion. Investing confidence isn’t built by outsourcing your decisions. It’s built by taking the time to understand the pros and cons so you can make the judgment call with YOUR money yourself. The cost is that you actually have to use your brain and think for yourself. Which can be uncomfortable because that takes mental energy. But that’s how the skill is built. Just like building muscles in the gym. Or building your own business from nothing. No one will ever understand your financial situation better than you do. Don’t give another person that power, especially random stock gurus on social media.

Once you learn how to convert income into assets, making work optional is just a matter of time

Many chip stocks are in a bear market territory. Here’s how far some have fallen: Intel: -34% Micron: -28% AMD: -17% TSMC: -13% Nvidia: -9% SOXX (chip ETF): -24%

Gotta turn up the boosters

If you’re a long-term investor, you should be more focused on stacking ownership for the next 10+ years than predicting what happens over the next 3 months. If stocks fall in the short term, your next dollar buys MORE ownership. Get out of the prediction game and start playing the ownership game. Lower prices are a gift to long-term investors.

Imagine how it would've been on here during the 2008 crash

The biggest flex is making money with your money, not your time.

Just because someone else is winning doesn't mean you can't win too. Opportunity is abundant. Stop focusing on "competition" and start focusing on becoming a little bit better than you were the day before