Akshat Shrivastava
Akshat Shrivastava

@Akshat_World

7 Tweets 12 reads Feb 19, 2022
Sometimes we make finance too complex.
Here are 5 simple things you need to do to be financially free:
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(1) Improve your earning potential, ALWAYS!
- If your salary grows by 100, but your expenses grow only by 20
- You are likely to be stress free (at least financially).
Even if you know 0 things about investing, just earning more solves a lot of issues.
(2) Either increase earnings OR decrease spending
- If there is a period, where the earnings are not growing
- Try to cut discretionary spending.
Adopt curated minimalism [i.e be more thoughtful with your spending].
Curbing your lifestyle inflation solves some problems.
(3) If you don't know how to invest, still invest.
- The best possible options would be Mutual Funds/Smallcases/Index Funds.
- Inflation depletes your savings, if you don't invest.
To get started, do check out some of my free Smallcase list: lnkd.in
(4) Create a safety net:
- Have an emergency fund (usually 6x your monthly expenses; just do a FD with it)
- And, have Health and Life insurance.
- Also, don't buy the wrong insurance. I did that and paid very dearly.
(5) Live frugally. And, keep a large chunk of your money liquid.
- If you keep all your money tied up in illiquid assets (Eg. Real Estate)
- It can be disastrous.
At the time of emergency, you might be notionally rich but might not get access to ANY of your own money.
(6) Summary: Being financially free is not complicated.
It is all about knowing the right things and actively pursuing them.
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