Rich Fontaine
Nov 7 · 2 min read

Financial Education is Power:

“It’s not a shame to be poor but it’s no great honor either.” -The Fiddler on the Roof. The reason the average person lives paycheck to paycheck, has nothing put away, has no idea what to do with their money or how money even works is because what Robert Kiyosaki would call it, “Lack of Financial Education.” In spending several years gaining financial education, I could literally say it has changed my life for the better. It has changed my relationships with my significant other, my relationship with money and even with myself esteem. I believed, like most people do, that what makes a person rich is having a lot of money. But I learned that “a lot of money” is relative in comparison to the person next to you. It dawned on me is that it’s not what money you have, it’s what you do with it, that matters. Are we saving it, investing it in the places that will pay back, do we understand the power of passive income or business taxes? These items, will help us manage the money we have even if it doesn’t seem that much. I recommend books on passive income, seminars on money management, lectures on wealth creations and biographies of the rags to riches. Money is not everything, but you can’t do everything you dreamed without money. Understanding how it works can help you manifest your dreams because you no longer will believe you are poor but on your way to stability. There’s no shame in being broke, but it’s hard to accomplish lofty goals if we remain that way.

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