5 Simple Steps To Get Out of Poverty in 2022 - YouTube

Channel: Proactive Thinker

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Have you heard the phrase, the rich keep getting
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richer, and the poor are getting poorer?
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Well, it's not just a phrase.
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Unfortunately, it's the truth.
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Despite the fact that millions of people are leaving poverty behind and are even becoming
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millionaires.
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Most people will never make it.
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In 2020, America's 614 billionaires net worth exceeded 3 trillion dollars.
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The stimulus bill that supposes to help your average folk ended up helping the billionaires
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the most.
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At the end of the day, most people spent that money either on their basic needs or purchased
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some gadgets on amazon.
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I guess Bezos was the ultimate beneficiary of the stimulus bill.
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Even though he has stepped down as the CEO of Amazon, he is still the biggest individual
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shareholder.
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But the question that I want to focus on in this video is - how do you get out of poverty?
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What if you are born into a poor family, it's not your fault, what do you do?
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How exactly do you build wealth and become financially free?
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We will answer all of these questions and many more, only if you give this vide a thumbs
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Just comment whatever you want, I promise that I will reply to every single comment
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under this video!
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Understand that no one is going to help you except yourself.
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it's great when there is someone who can help you.
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Either it's the government or your parents, but the reality is no one really cares about
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you except yourself.
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Of course, your parents want you to have a better life.
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However, they don't always have the ability to provide you with that opportunity, and
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if they have grown up in a poor family, it's very unlikely that they can give you good
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financial advice.
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Otherwise they would have gotten out of that position long ago.
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If you talk to people who are struggling financially, they will always blame someone, especially
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the government who suppose to take care of them.
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I am not saying that the government shouldn't take care of you, but if you rely on outside
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factors, you will have to wait for a long time.
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You have to make it crystally clear to your self that no one can help you as much as you
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can help yourself.
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That's the first step to make any meaningful change.
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Don't settle for a low paying job I am not against getting a job.
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In fact getting a low paying job when you are a teenager is a perfect opportunity to
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teach yourself the basics of business and money and learn how to be responsible with
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money.
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However, a low paying job is a trap that most people get into and never leave.
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When you grow up poor, every penny matters, every dollar makes a difference, you grow
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up with very little needs and wants.
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Everything you want can be fulfilled with a few thousand dollars.
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All you want is a proper roof over your head, some good food, and gadgets that everyone
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else around has.
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So when you get that first job as a teenager, it provides you with enough income to fulfill
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those needs, but in return, you have to give up most of your time.
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So you get to a position where you just work the entire day on a job that doesn't provide
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you with skills to increase your income year after year but at the same time fills your
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basic needs at least, so you get trapped in that job.

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A low paying job gives you instant gratification but a very little reward in the long run.
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You can quickly earn enough to be able to take a car on credit, get the latest iPhone
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and start going out with friends.
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But, at the same time, it won't give you the luxury of free time to work on yourself and
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make your time worth far more valuable in the long run.
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Hence, you have to teach yourself how to delay gratification.
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The best way to do that is to start going to the gym.
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No matter who you are, no one is going to see any progress after hitting the gym once,
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or twice or an entire month.
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Real progress comes after many months of hitting the gym at least 3-4 times a week, and if
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you want to see a substantial difference, then you might need to go to the gym for a
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few years, maybe.
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That experience will teach you how to work hard for something you will get years later.

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3. have a clear plan
 if you don't have a plan of how you are going
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to become financially independent, you will forever be trapped in poverty.
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It doesn't matter how long that goal is going to take.
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If you don't have the plan, you won't have the discipline to save and invest.
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Let me just give you a hypothetical example.
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Let's say you spend 50K a year.
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If you don't know how you are going to create a passive income of 50K, then you are wasting
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your time.
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But how do you create such a plan?
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We have discussed that in previous videos, but here is the point in short.
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You have to buy assets that generate income over time, it could be anything from real
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estate to stocks to bonds or a business that can function with minimal management.
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A 200K dollar house can be rented for 2K dollars a month, for example, or 24K a year.
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So, for you to become financially free, you need at least to purchase two properties that
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will provide you with a rental income of 48K dollars.
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That's just one way to do it.
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There are a million other ways.
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You can take a mortgage, for example, and let your tenants pay the mortgage and have
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a small cash flow with every property.
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Or you can consider the stock market, where you can expect a 10 percent rate of return
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in the long run.
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It doesn't matter what the plan is as long as it's there, and it seems like it has a
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good chance to work.
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Whether you are going to save 10% of your income to get there or 90 percent, it depends
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on you.
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But here is what most people are going to say, my income barely covers the bills.
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How am I possibly going to save that much and invest?
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that's why you need step number 4! 

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4.
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focus on educating yourself
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if you are making 50K a year, it's impossible to imagine yourself making 200K, for example
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or half a million dollars or a million dollars.
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Because you are comparing that million dollars to your current job.
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If you are making 20 dollars an hour, then you have to make at least 250 dollars an hour
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assuming you will work for 12 hours every single day to be able to make seven figures,
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and as far as it seems, no one is going to pay you that much for a such a job.
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However, that doesn't mean, there aren't ways to earn that much.
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There are people who make far more than that, the only problem is, you have to find out
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- how! that's why you have to educate yourself.
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But if you spend all your time on a low-paying job, you won't be able to do that.
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So what should you do, either find extra time after you are done with your job or what I
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did back then is just minimize my expenses, deny my self some of the things so that I
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could work less to pay the bills and suddenly I had some extra time to work on myself.
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If you are just starting out, pick up some books, take a look at my book recommendation
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video, find out what your strengths are, learn how the latest technologies work, and start
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something in that field.
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It's not going to happen overnight, but remember that you are in it for the long run.
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Set up a boring but effective routine 

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Once you come up with a reasonable plan, it's time to set up a routine.
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Forget about having adventures every single day.
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You cant be productive if you don't have a routine.
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That life you see on Instagram is nonsense.
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Trust me, everyone who makes real money almost never lives like that.
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The life of a person who makes a lot of money is super boring!
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Yes, it's boring but yet effective.
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You wake up every day at the same time, do the same thing, over and over and over a long
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period of time, which could be years, you achieve meaningful progress.
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Remember the example of the gym.
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Building a great body is a result of going to the gym every day and repeating the same
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exercises.
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Yeah, sometimes you try new equipment, but overall you do pretty much the same thing.
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You train your chest, back, biceps, shoulders at least once a week.
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After 2 or 3 years of hitting the gym 3-4 times at least a week, you start to see the
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fruits of your hard work.
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That's how everything works in life, including wealth.
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So don't feel miserable when you scroll through your Instagram feed.
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Just focus on what you are good.
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We don't choose how are we born.
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Some of us are lucky to be born rich, while others aren't fortunate.
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But As a wise man once said: "It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!"
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If you are born poor, it's not your fault, but if you stay poor for the rest of your
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life, then it's your choice.
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Of course, circumstances change from country to country.
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Being born poor in a first-world country like the united states is different than being
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born in the middle of Sahara, where you do not have the infrastructure to start building
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wealth.
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However, with the rise of the internet, that has changed, you could be anywhere and yet
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still educate yourself and even build an entire business online.
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