Do these 5 things to achieve financial freedom quickly

Ankur Shrivastava
The New Millionaires
3 min readNov 28, 2020
Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash

Financial Freedom isn’t for everyone. It requires patience, willingness, dedication, and a lot of self-awareness.

Here are the 5 things you need to do if you want to shorten the timeline of your financial freedom journey.

Reading

Reading is for the brain what exercise is for the body. Reading improves focus. It improves concentration. In a world where our attention span is reduced to seconds, reading helps in improving it and thus letting us focus in a better way

Save before you spend and then save after you spend

You must have read this but this is different — read on

Saving a part of your income before spending — doesn't suit everybody.

Instead, do this — save 5–10% or whatever minimum you can of your income before spending

Then, try to cut down the expenses as much as possible. Now save whatever is left along with the cuts from your expenses. Live frugally. 🍁

Minimalism

This is very important — do not let anything sit at your home which you haven’t used in the past 12 months or what you don’t plan to use in the next 24 months.

Sell them. Rent them. Do anything but don’t let it sit.

Do not do impulsive buying — and follow a 10 minutes rule before making any purchases — ask yourself — do you really need that item? How will it improve your life — what are the use cases? — what if you don’t buy it? — what are the reasons you are thinking of buying it?

Evaluate the reasons rationally for any purchases.

Investing

Investing is something that a 10-year-old should also do. You don’t even need to learn anything. No need to read the Wall Street Journals. No need to spend 1000 hours to learn or read about multiple companies. Nothing is needed.

Solution: Index Funds

Why Index Funds?

Here’s NASDAQ

Source: Google Finance

This is Nifty50

Source: Google Finance

This is S&P500

Source: Google Finance

Did you see it? It’s always profitable in the long run. You don’t even need a second opinion.

Just invest in a low expense ratio Index fund. Especially global index funds. Nowadays you can easily invest globally using apps like Vested from India

Or you can directly invest in Zerodha Coin

And the last one:

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Ankur Shrivastava
The New Millionaires

Product Manager | Stock Market Trader. I write about product management, financial freedom, and personal growth.