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How to Start Thinking Like a Rich Person - Start Small

Guest post by: Scott Ewart

Article Overview: To start thinking like a rich person does, you need to start small. Save a dollar, invest a dollar, and give away a dollar every day - make it a priority. You'll be amazed at how quickly your mind changes, and how quickly you start accumulating some cash!

How to Start Thinking Like a Rich Person - Start Small

Living most of my life working and trying to save money has been a good and rewarding experience. It is also all I know. So when I was inspired by the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad to make the choice to become rich, I said "Great - How do I start?" The author of the book, Robert Kiyosaki, recommended that to start you should go back to the basics of saving. Get 3 piggy banks and label them savings, investing, and tithing. Put money in them every day for ninety days. It does not matter if it is a penny or a dollar or five dollars, the point is to train the mind to think the way of the rich. Rich people save, invest, and give away. So each day you get up and before doing anything else, keep your daily commitment to save. Over time it will become a habit.

Never being a good saver and thinking that was an easy way to start, I put a system in place. I got 3 mason jars, labeled them, and put them in a place where I would see them every morning. I decided on 2 dollars each jar. I spent 6.60 on a latte and scone at Pete's each morning, why not spend that much on myself? So for several days I got up, went out in the morning to get my coffee and scone, then came home with my change and added my 2 dollars into each jar. Happily going along, one day I put my money in first THEN went to Pete's. I was standing in line and all of a sudden started to think - hey! Why am I giving Pete's this money when it should be going into the banks! At that moment I saw that it had already started to change the way I thought about money.

So start small - save a dollar every day and make it a priority. You will be amazed at how quickly your mind changes, and how quickly you start accumulating some cash!

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