How To Talk To Your Teens About Money – Use Cash

Where we are today in life is through a lifetime of choices that we have made as well as influence from the people that we have most contact with. The first people that has the greatest influence on us when we start out is our parents.

Let’s think in terms of inches. An inch is a very short unit of distance. How far away is one million inches? The surprising answer is that it is just over 15 miles. A billion inches would not even take you around the Earth.

Admittedly, all that heady billionaire success has been ingrained into my psyche from very early on in my business career many years ago. Is it achievable? I have already affirmed it. But is it really typically possible for anyone to achieve? Well, since there are currently about 6.8 billion people on the planet with just over a thousand Richest people in the world, I would surmise the ratio would be highly against that happening.

What you want to do next is, beside every item on your list, put a “$” symbol if that item represents something that requires money and a “*” next to the items that don’t. For example, if you wrote “pay off debt,” that gets a “$” since you need money to pay off your mortgage, credit card debt, etc. If you wrote something like “spend more time with kids,” that gets a “*” because you don’t need to write a check to do that.

We are always being whispered to, directed, and led to our next step on the path. The dream is lodged within us long before it takes form in our external world. The charge is: do we have the courage to follow it? Do we have the faith Youngest Billionaires to believe in it? Do we have the tenacity to see it through?

The unemployment rate is above 10 percent in states like California, South Carolina and Rhode Island. Michigan has the nation’s highest jobless rate at 11.6 percent. Texas has been fortunate to have seen some job growth in the last year, keeping the state unemployment rate under seven percent. It is slightly lower for the Austin metro area. The national unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in February.

I suggest that you do some research and find your millionaires or billionaires that will guide you to your success. Who knows, maybe he or she is just a click away on the Internet…