This is optimal finance daily episode 1158 your number one obstacle by firecracker of

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Your number one obstacle by Firecracker of millennial-revolution.com I love obstacles obstacles put an impossible task in front of me tell me there's no way I can conquer it and I will kill myself proving to you that I can

like when my childhood bullies said I'd always stay poor,

like when I failed an exam and my professor told me I wasn't cut out for engineering and that I'll never get my degree.

Like when my ex-co-worker scoffed at me for quitting my job, snidely saying that I'd come crawling back in six months after running out of money.

I'm now a millionaire. I got my engineering degree, and not only did I not run out of money more than a year later I now

have more money than when I left. I never give into bullies and I love obliterating obstacles.

That's why when readers subscribe to the millennial revolution, I ask you all the same question.

What is the number one obstacle keeping you from living your dreams right now?

That's right, we actually do read every single one of your responses and here's what you told us

Note that many people named multiple things in their responses, so that's why the percentages don't add up to a hundred

Number one obstacle, debt. A whopping 64% of you said

debt, the most prevalent one being student debt, followed by mortgage and

consumer debt. Considering how 70% of Americans graduate their bachelor's

with debt and Americans collectively owe 1.2 trillion dollars in student debt.

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