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