For those of you looking for a free course on how to achieve financial freedom, I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I’ve searched the web for a course that was good, explained in detail how to achieve financial freedom and was free, and in the end I didn’t find one I could recommend to anyone. The good news is that the financial education course is right here.
The same thing has happened as with our course on learning to invest in the stock market: as we have written article after article, putting them together gives you the best financial education you can get. At least from a realistic point of view. Remember that we have hundreds of articles on financial education explaining how money works, and much more.
Let’s sum up what financial education is about:
Whatever you may be told, financial education starts with work and saving. Once that’s done, the goal is to reach the point where we don’t have to work to earn money, but money works for us instead. Put that simply, it sounds easy, but it is very hard to do, and that’s why we need to acquire knowledge and be fully aware of what we are going to do.
For an introduction to financial freedom, read the following article:
Once you’ve read it, our next two posts show the real cases of two real people, one of them a friend of mine, who followed two different paths. One set off down the road to debt and the other toward successfully achieving financial freedom. Both had the same opportunities but different thinking and planning. Study them carefully:
As you’ll see, two words will always be very present on the road to financial freedom: business and investing.
In business, you become an investor, because you invest in your own business expecting a return. That’s what an investor does. And in investing, you need an entrepreneur’s mindset, because buying shares means investing in the company that has put those shares on the stock market. Along the way, you try to turn your investments into a business that generates a return for you.
In short, to succeed, whether to get rich or simply so that you never again have to work out of necessity, you’ll need to learn everything you need to know about business and acquire a basic grasp of investing. Luckily for you, this blog covers both subjects with the same simplicity. Our investing articles range from the most basic terms to the most complex ones.
If you’d like to see the summary of articles to get you started in investing, follow this link:
Finally, we recommend several books on financial education that, in our view, are the best: the best books on financial education.
Featured image: MC3 Jonathan A. Colon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
