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Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

639: [Part 1] A Lifetime of Riches - Is it as Simple as a Few Habits by Mr. Money Mustache

Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

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🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Mr. Money Mustache reflects on the role of habits in a lifetime of riches. This is Part 1 of 2. Episode 639: [Part 1] A Lifetime of Riches - Is it as Simple as a Few Habits by Mr. Money Mustache (Goal Setting & Discipline). Mr. Money Mustache is a thirty-something retiree who now writes about how we can all live a frugal, yet awesome, life of leisure. He and his wife studied engineering and computer science in Canada, then worked in standard tech-industry cubicle jobs in various locations throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Then they retired from real work way back in 2005 in order to start a family. This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of their peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two. The original post is located here: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/03/19/a-lifetime-of-riches-is-it-as-simple-as-a-few-habits Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Optimal Finance Daily. episode 639 a lifetime of riches is it as simple as a few habits

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Part one by mr mr mr mr moustache. moustache. moustache. moustache.

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blogs on the planet.

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For now let's get right to our post and start optimizing your life.

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A lifetime of riches, is it as simple as a few habits?

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Part 1 by Mr. Money Mustache of Mr Money Mustache.com.

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As a Mr Money Mustache reader, you are on the straight and narrow path to considerable wealth. You're actively soaking up financial

1:14.7

knowledge and putting it into play in your day-to-day life. Unless you are very new here, you probably

1:20.4

don't need convincing of either the value of creating a golden financial situation

1:24.8

or the methods by which we pursue it.

1:27.2

Understand and optimize your spending with happiness as the prime directive while improving

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the rest of your life and increasing your ability to earn money as a side effect.

1:36.0

Sounds easy when you put it that way, but to newcomers there are many roadblocks.

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First is the issue of basic financial knowledge itself. Most of your neighbors believe

1:45.9

that borrowing money for cars and kitchen renovations is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

1:51.0

A 5 to 10 percent savings rate is admirable and credit cards are a way to borrow money

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