| A million dollars is a huge amount of money to | | | | This process is NOT about scrimping and saving, |
| throw away, yet every day many people do just | | | | forgoing life's pleasures simply to achieve a million |
| that, throwing away the opportunity to be a | | | | dollars sometime in the future. Life is for living |
| millionaire in the daily financial decisions we all have | | | | now. The point is that when you spend money on |
| to make. Without realizing it, they have a million | | | | things that advance you in life or lift you spiritually |
| dollar habit. | | | | the money is doing its job, but if you spend on |
| "Hang on" I hear you say, "I never had a million | | | | things you don't really want or need, it diminishes |
| dollars to lose - nor have any of my friends". | | | | you financially. Money saved by breaking such |
| That is probably true, but every day many people | | | | spending habits can be set to work, earning |
| spend money on things they do not really need or | | | | money for you. |
| want. Often such spending is simply habitual, the | | | | By consistently saving the money that would |
| speciality coffee, sodas, candy or the regular | | | | otherwise have been spent on such habits, it is |
| meals out. Other times it is a more compulsive | | | | often enough to make a millionaire! The great |
| habit such as smoking, drinking or even excessive | | | | thing is, nothing has really changed. You still earn |
| shopping. | | | | the same, you still buy the things you need and |
| One dollar, given enough time and the magic of | | | | want - you have simply eliminated the habits that |
| compound interest will grow into a million dollars. | | | | caused you to throw your money away on things |
| By simply modifying a few behaviors or habits | | | | you never really wanted anyway. |
| and investing the money that can be saved, | | | | The real power of this is not just the money, it is |
| virtually anyone has the ability to be a millionaire in | | | | the financial freedom it buys you. A person with |
| their own lifetime. Naturally, the more you are | | | | savings has choices. You may choose to wait for |
| able to save the quicker the process works. All | | | | the million dollars to accumulate in your bank |
| that is needed is the genuine desire to start | | | | account or you may choose after a few years to |
| building your financial future and the inner strength | | | | spend $250,000.00 to follow a dream. The value |
| to break those expensive habits. | | | | of that choice - priceless. |