361-The Power of If: If You Don't Like the Laws (Especially the Financial Laws), Avoid the Conditions that Cause You to be Subject to Them
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The past few weeks have been a bit depressing for me due to the absurdity of national politics here in the United States.
I broke my personal rules of not getting involved with national politics and the results weren't pretty. I was thoroughly annoyed and saddened.
Until Sunday afternoon.
Which is when a young man in my neighborhood cheered me up by showing how it's possible for someone who wants something to get it, no matter what stands in the way.
On today's show, I share with you some thoughts on the power of choice which we all have. We have the power to choose what we do and when and how.
Ultimately, the politicians don't have the power over our lives. We have the power over our lives based on our choices.
I cover some ways for you to build more freedom and independence (especially in the area of taxes) by understanding the laws that you're subject to and then simply avoiding the conditions of being subject to them!
Enjoy,
Joshua
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| 0:00.0 | Here in the United States, we've just finished up a brutal two weeks of presidential |
| 0:07.2 | politics being the central focus of our society. A week ago it was the Republican National Convention. Then this |
| 0:14.7 | last week it was the Democratic National Convention. And if you're anything like |
| 0:18.0 | me this weekend you're probably a little bit frustrated at the state of |
| 0:21.8 | politics. Seems like most people are pretty |
| 0:24.7 | frustrated at the state of politics. So today I'm going to try to give you an |
| 0:27.9 | antidote to worrying about political elections and presidential candidates and all of that by talking about about how, although the politicians might want to be in control, you are actually the |
| 0:36.6 | politicians might want to be in control, you are actually the one who's in control. Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show where we're focused on giving you the tools that you need to build a rich life now, while also building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 1:09.0 | Today, hopefully a note of optimism in your day. Don't worry. I'm not going to talk to you about |
| 1:17.3 | politics. I'm going to talk to you about freedom from politics, especially financial freedom from politics. |
| 1:27.0 | The desired outcome that I have for today's show is that you will go away from this show |
| 1:37.0 | thinking about how much control that you really have. |
| 1:42.0 | Thinking about how you really are in charge of your own life. |
| 1:46.0 | Because frankly, it's hard. |
| 1:48.0 | It's hard not to be a little bit depressed by current political events and if you're not |
| 1:53.9 | listening in the United States the same thing will happen in your country it just might |
| 1:56.6 | not be on the same schedule as it's happening here and this events none of what |
| 2:01.0 | I'm about to talk about is particularly related to the 2016 election cycle. |
| 2:04.6 | It just seems that there's more universal frustration and depression being reflected in this |
| 2:10.4 | presidential election cycle here in the United States than in many others. |
| 2:15.2 | And the genesis of the idea for today's show came from an interaction that I had yesterday. |
| 2:20.4 | So short story, there are a couple young boys here in my neighborhood about eight nine years old who have built a summer business for themselves going around and washing cars |
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