
Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom

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Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
If you don’t improve by working smart, continuously learning, and continuously experimenting, you could find yourself out of work before you know it.
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Instead of seeking totally passive income, investors should seek investments that produce large amounts of income with relatively little work. They should look for opportunities to solve problems in return for large savings or revenue opportunities,
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
The threshold to be in the top 1 percent was about $600,000 per year, according to a SmartAsset study in 2022.18
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Don’t shy away from monthly cash flows that take a little bit of effort to maintain; instead, view them as exceptionally high-wage jobs that require a small amount of periodic effort.
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Choose wisely and pursue one of the many professions that offers a chance for freelance work, large income, and other opportunities.
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Corporations dictate this career path, and advancement relies on the recommendation of superiors. The goal of this corporation isn’t for the analyst to be successful. It’s for the team to be successful. That means that the ambitious rising star needs to be squashed back down into place. A junior analyst with just a few years of experience cannot ha
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Much like frugality, increased earning potential must be pursued by dissecting one’s resources and ruthlessly cutting out the fat.
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
Don’t be that brilliant young professional who contributes greatly to an organization yet buys themselves into a lifestyle where they are incapable of pursuing any dreams beyond those of the next rung on the corporate ladder. Don’t become dependent on a standardized career track with predictable earning increases. Don’t wake up in five years and re
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