Have you ever wondered why are you still poor? Most of us are good at spending like the rich, but not thinking like rich.
In this video, I’ll be telling you why we are still broke, and how we can think like a rich person, in order to become a rich person.
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0:00 – Intro
0:51 – Pay Yourself First
Every month, we pay the phone company, internet company,utility company, Netflix, SMRT and even the government. We are paying everyone, except ourselves. This can be seen when a study showed that 70% of Singaporeans are unable to handle a job loss of more than 6 months.
Paying yourself first means prioritising your money for yourself, my precious, instead of paying other people first. So, to think like the rich, every month, once you receive your paycheck, immediately pay yourself first by saving at least 20% of your income. Park the money at a high yield savings account that will give you slightly higher interest.
2:48 – Buying Stuff Costs Time
To think like the rich, is to realize that whatever money you are spending, is actually exchanged with time. We would spend so much time exchanging our time for money, then quickly use that money to buy stuff that we don’t actually need in the first place. So, the next time you want to buy something, just ask yourself this, how much will this cost my life? Is it worth exchanging a part of my life for it?
4:11 – Get Paid Based On Results
How much you are getting paid is just dependent on how big of a problem you are trying to solve. If you are getting paid based on time, no matter how much work you put in, your pay will still be the same. So, to earn money like a rich person, you have to get paid based on results, not time. The larger problem you can solve, the more money you will earn. Money is nothing but the byproduct of solving problems for people. You don’t have to create the next big thing to be rich. You can start by thinking what you are good at, because everyone is good at something. The more people’s problems you can solve, the more money you will earn, regardless of the amount of work put in.
6:40 – Using Investments To Pay
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. While we only use money to exchange for stuff that we need, the rich use money to exchange for more money. For example, if we invest in a dividend stock, and if we only spend the dividends, our money will be infinite. So, the next time you want to afford something, ask yourself this. How much money should I invest so that I do not have to use my own money to buy the stuff.
8:46 – Think Long Term
To be like the rich, you have to think long term. The 1% principle states that you just need to make a 1% change in your life everyday. After 365 days, you will 37.8 times better version of yourself. So, think long term, plan ahead and eventually you will become the person that your younger self would look up to.
10:12 – How You Think Affects Your Future
What you think, will affect what you become. For example, if you think you are an average person who will never achieve anything in life, you would be right. That’s because. if you feel that you will never achieve anything in life, you wont put in the effort to improve yourself. But if you think you are born to be successful, you will achieve exactly that. You will keep trying until you succeed, and that’s what separates the successful people from the not so successful people.
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Invest in stock market and get the dividends to spend or sell stocks and spend the capital gains, then re-invest back into the stock market. Be invested in the stock market long enough to be financially independent, not trade stocks. Like that you can fire your boss anytime you wanted.
Great information as usual. They should really teach this in school tbh
sadly it was never taught in schools ..
Reminds me of what I learned while reading books about F.I.R.E.
Another well made video I enjoyed very much. Best wishes Kelvin, I hope your videos will get more view and more attention soon!!
02:15 "Drinking Kopi Peng with only PENG!"
LOL, that's a good one!
Lol, very humorous with great info sharing 👍👍好样的
Encouraging Kelvin
Great show ending Kel!
The important reason is married too early. It can wipe out all your saving which u saved for a long time:
1) wedding dinner
2) proposal ring
3) honey moon
4) house
5) renovation
6) kid come a year later
All these easily wipe out your saving with little left for investment.
Haha just curious Kelvin! Are you a local? Cause your chinese sounds a little non colloquial.
Hey Kelvin, great video as always! Philosophical question for you, if you save and invest for 30 years, if you live cheap all that time and put away all your earnings and lets say at 50 years old you have 10 million dollars in the bank. Then you suddenly die of a heart attack and you have no wife or kid to leave the money to. Question is did you save the 10 million or did you waste the 10 million?
what do u thing about the stock market now?
69% in arkk arkw arkf
and 31% in Tesla, Apple, Pltr, nndm , Mara, IPOE.
Idk should switch to all in ark invest or just hold.
Alrdy bought the dip so no more money.
i realized my portfolio alot of overlapping.
Hi Kelvin, great video👍. Another point to add is how to be rich and live like poor so as to maintain the living expenses.
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from my interactions with most people, the biggest problem is number 5. most people dont think long term, and i think it is difficult to change that mentality when people are so used to living like saudi princes with only saodi(get it?) salary.
i prefer your old camera angle and lighting. it seems unnatural to me now.