Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

On today's podcast, we continue our financial Goals that you should set series.

I'm laying out for you a series of simple, tangible financial goals that each and every person

should consider setting for himself or herself, which if you set

these goals they will move you consistently and in some cases dramatically towards

your goals. I'm making a special focus to make these things

meaningful and yet doable. I want them to be accessible to all people, especially the young, especially those who aren't making a lot of money yet.

I want you to systematically move down the pathway of wealth.

The first goal, goal number one, was simply get a job. The second goal was live on half your income, spend half, save half.

So far, by the way, that's probably the hardest one. But as I emphasized in that podcast it's something

that you can work towards systematically in a variety of different ways even if your

expenses were already high goal three was give away 10% of your income.

And today, goal 4, I want you to begin or build from where you are a job or a career that has potential in the fullness of time to help you to become a

top 20% earner.

I want you to build a plan that will eventually, could eventually in the fullness

of time help you to be in the top 20% of income earners within your local area.

Now I'm going to define that very carefully and specifically,

and I'll show you why this is such a big deal.

But I actually want to begin with a slightly smaller goal.

As we do that, though, I want to begin with a slightly smaller goal. As we do that though I want to begin by

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