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Money MaGiC:

The keys To Mastering your Money

Money isn’t everything... but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Rita Davenport

Achieving a personal fortune is a beautiful thought. For most people it never

becomes anything more than a thought. Our lives are geared toward improving our financial

situations, and most of us spend an inordinate amount of time each day in the pursuit of

earning a living.

It’s sad that people who work to earn money their whole lives so often end up

with little or nothing to show for their efforts. People spend time each day thinking about

debts and bank balances, worrying about what they owe, and dreaming about what they

would like to own. Unfortunately, most of us have little idea of the precise condition of

our current financial position. You will, perhaps, find this chapter to be one of the most

important, practical, and immediately-felt lessons in the entire book.

“Most people, in their drive to get rich, are trying to build an

Empire State Building on a six-inch slab.” *

Financial planning is crucial. It’s vitally important because, in many cases, not

even the men and women behind the most profitable companies in the world are successful

money managers. Managing your money well means Mastering Money.

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Create order using the

Money Mastery Filing system.

“Order,” someone has said, “is the first law of the universe.” Many people who

experience financial problems can easily trace their problems back to poor organization

and sloppy record keeping. When tax time comes, or you need to convince someone of

your financial situation, it is embarrassing to look through drawers, shoe boxes and other

assorted storage areas.

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad, (Tech Press, Inc., 1997), 51.