{"id":10098,"date":"2006-05-01T16:53:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/01\/how-much-money-do-you-need\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T18:45:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T15:45:48","slug":"how-much-money-do-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/01\/how-much-money-do-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How much money do you need?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lately I’ve been reading more interviews with millionairs than I usually do. Hmm. That didn’t come out right. Let me rephrase it. Usually, I don’t read interviews with millionairs, but recently I scrolled through a couple. Those were from different people. And by different I mean totally different – background, education, stamina, industry, working life, connections, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

The only two things which were in common for all of them were:<\/p>\n

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  1. All of them started of as non-millionairs, and now they are millionairs.<\/li>\n
  2. All of them said that as the first step of the way they had to decide what is it exactly did they want.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first point is obvious. At point X in time, all of them had less than $1,000,000USD. At point Y in time (which occured after point X), all of them had $1,000,000USD or more.<\/p>\n

    The second point is more interesting though. But simple. All of them said, that one has to clearly see the goal. “I want to be rich” is not a goal. It’s an endless process, and very much vague at that. The goal is more concrete, like “I want to live in a house, which has the market value of $500,000USD” or “I want to owe five Jaguar cars, each of which is valued as $100,000USD”. Setting the goal, they all said, is the absolutely necessary first step.<\/p>\n

    It struck me as interesting. I am very bad at setting goals. (I am much worse at completing them, but that’s not important right now.) So ,I decided, just for the practice-sake, to set a goal.<\/p>\n

    I was thinking about all the wonderful things that I may have, as well as pure cash, tossed things around, and summed it all up. It came up to 2,740,000 CYP<\/strong> (in USD that’s about x2). If I’ll have so much money by the age I’m 30, I won’t have to think about money ever again. Or so I think. Now.<\/p>\n

    What’s your number?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Lately I’ve been reading more interviews with millionairs than I usually do. Hmm. That didn’t come out right. Let me rephrase it. Usually, I don’t read interviews with millionairs, but recently I scrolled through a couple. Those were from different people. 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