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Week 5: Automate Everything

Week 5: Automate Everything

Use this schedule to help you set up your own automation:

If you’re paid on the 1st of the month. Switch all bills to arrive on or around that time, too.

  • 5th of the month. Set up an automatic transfer to your savings account and to your Roth IRA.
  • 7th of the month. Set up automatic payments for your bills, like cable, utilities, car payments, or student loans.
  • Set up e-mail notifications. Get notified before your credit card is paid. So you can review it.
  • Before you start investing, add a savings goal of 3 months of bare-bones income.

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Anyone Can Become Rich

Anyone Can Become Rich

This is the main premise of the best selling book by Ramit Sethi. He structures his ideas into 4 buckets: 

  1. Track your spending. This will help you see where your money is going and identify areas where you can cut back.
  2. Set financial goals

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Your Six Week Plan To Become Rich

Your Six Week Plan To Become Rich

Do this to get on a path to becoming rich:

  1. Optimize Your Credit Cards
  2. Open high-interest, low-maintenance bank accounts
  3. Open Investing Accounts
  4. Start Your Conscious Spending Plan

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Week 4: Start Your Conscious Spending Plan

Week 4: Start Your Conscious Spending Plan

Use a tracking tool to see where your money is going. (e.g. Mint) Don’t just go and “create a budget”.

Choose the things you love enough to spend on— and then cut costs on the things you don’t love. This leads to a happy, rich life, not living a life of frugality for no rea...

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Week 6: Start Investing

Week 6: Start Investing

Invest in index funds not individual stocks. Put your own behavioral psychology to work here. Invest automatically and over long periods of time.

Once you’ve covered the basics (aka index funds), allocate 5-7% of your income to “mental outlets.” This is money for you to inv...

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Week 2: Open high-interest, low-maintenance bank accounts

Week 2: Open high-interest, low-maintenance bank accounts

Open a no-fee online bank account (e.g. Ally, Capital One). Avoid brick n’ mortars banks

The problem with brick n’ mortar banks (e.g. Bank of America) is they need minimum balances to avoid fees. For example, Bank of America’s “free” checking account requires a minimum $1,5...

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RAMIT SETHI

“Spend extravagantly on the things you love, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t.”

RAMIT SETHI

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Week 3: Open 2 Investing Accounts

Week 3: Open 2 Investing Accounts

Open:

  • a 401(K) account
  • a regular investment account.

Next:

  • If your employer offers a 401(k) match, invest to take full advantage of it. Contribute enough to get 100 percent of the match.
  • Pay off debts. This give you a significant instant return.

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Week 1: Optimize Your Credit Cards

Week 1: Optimize Your Credit Cards

A great place to start because it can have a big impact on your finances:

  • Set up autopay to pay your CC bills
  • Call to waive any past credit card fees
  • Negotiate a lower APR
  • Build credit history by keeping credit lines open
  • Increased your credit allowance

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4 Life-Changing Ideas About Money

4 Life-Changing Ideas About Money

Ramit Sethi lists his favourite approaches to money:

  1. Behavior trumps information. Knowing the perfect right answer is less important than taking action. Focus on small, innocuous behaviors. Like saving small every month.
  2. Focus on getting things 85% righ...

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