Somebody left me a note saying this website is ambitious. First of all, being ambitious is not bad. Secondly, financial freedom is not optional, it is mandatory (that is if you don't want to end up depending on someone else). I didn't start this site to encourage materialism, I wanted people to DREAM again and work on that dream.

I guess the reason our country is not going anywhere (...but down) is because we have stopped having goals. We have resigned to our "fate" and content living mediocre lives. If we are honest to ourselves, we'll know that we can do more than what we are doing, we can achieve more than what we have and we can make more money than what we are earning.

Kim Kiyosaki wrote that, "Money is not the most important thing in the world, but it affects everything else that's important." Mr. Jun Avendaño of Wealth Academy said, "It's not the money perse that is important, it is what money can do." It is a means to an end. If you want to help others, it can be a means to help them. The best way to help the poor is not to be one of them.

Going back to financial planning, whether you are a missionary, a pastor, a priest, a CEO, a hotshot politician, a widescreen goddess, a matinee idol, a boxing champion or an overpaid athlete- you will retire one day and your source of income will stop. What's your plan? How will you spend the rest of your life? Do you have enough funds to support you?

"It is better to aim for the moon and hit only an eagle than to aim for the eagle and hit a rock." - Chin-Ning Chu