“You’re already a financial trader… if you work for a living, you’re trading your time for money. Frankly, it’s
just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can’t get more
time.”– Tony Robbins, MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
What Tony’s really talking about here is…
Financial Zen Habit #4:Always make money while you sleep.
If you want to get out of the rat race, then your money has to work for you…
…and the more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.
This is not a new concept. Every book related to retiring early / getting rich / building wealth includes this
in some form.
For instance…
The first chapter in Robert Kiyosaki’s famous book Rich Dad, Poor Dad is titled:
Lesson 1: THE RICH DON’T WORK FOR MONEY: The poor and middle class work for money. The rich
have money work for them.
Every penny you have should be earning more money.
Even the cash set aside for an emergency fund should be “invested” in a high-yield savings.
(If you’re emergency fund is at a big bank, it’s earning 0.01%)
Retiring in 9 years is entirely possible, but it requires you to be obsessively focused on having your
money make money.
And then in 9 years, the script will flip and your money will work for and you can stop working for
money.
