What if your money can fuel your life aspirations? [PF]
Are you limiting what you can do in life because of money, or are you having your money work for you and your life goals?
I believe most people are doing the former (IF that) and the biggest reason for that is because they do not know it is possible to have it happen the other way around.
And that is what I want to change.
My vision is that everyone's finances should fuel their aspirations, not cause them frustrations. That people don't save simply for retirement, rather invest it in themselves, their skills and their hobbies.
That is exactly the life that I am now living. Even though I still have student debt back in Canada, I have found a way for me to take a huge pay-cut to work in Malaysia at a company I truly believe in. And this works because I have multiple sources of passive income. I bought my own house 6 months into my first full time job and I also have a bunch of stock investments and now, cryptocurrency investments.
A picture of the outside of my house
In order to help people discover just how exciting life can be, I plan on creating a website (and who knows, maybe it'll be an app one day) that shows people just how simple it is to understand, manage, and ultimately make money.
I plan on documenting my journey here - to share the ups and downs so that when one day I have become successful (to a certain extent), others who want to go down the same path can realise that it was not something that happened overnight.
Since I am currently living and working in Malaysia, I plan on creating the material for Malaysians at moremoney.my (website still to come) and once I have created something that resonates with people here, I plan on scaling it out to the rest of the world.
The first step I plan on taking is to create a short series of videos that will hopefully show people how easy it is to have more money (to break the belief that having money is hard). I will upload each of these video drafts here for feedback :)
So if you too, believe that your family and friends (or yourself) would benefit from this, I would love it if you could provide me suggestions on ways to improve the material or the way it gets presented!
Thanks everyone!
Excited for the videos 😃 @cshaw!
Thanks, Elvira! Would love your feedback when it's out :)
Waiting for your shares
Happy steeming
Thanks @jerrywjl hoping to get one out later today :)
@cshaw There's quite a few website and blog about money management in M'sia. It will be interesting to see your perspective in comparison about how things are done or stuff M'sia may have missed out.
The challenge with something like personal finance is that only people who are engaged to a certain extent will search for it. At the same time, many sites end up focusing on SEO to build eyeballs and once they get to a certain size, they will focus on promotional posts (at least in Canada).
What I want to do is create a series of free videos that takes one through the basics of finance (there's only really a handful of things) and at the same time, help them connect money to making their dream lives happen. This way, instead of having conversations about having money for retirement (which doesn't have any emotional appeal), the conversation then becomes having money for the lives they truly want.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to also put marketing money behind this video series so that those who are completely disengaged can slowly be lured in :)