Know the Rules, Play the Game to Win – Financial Literacy – How it Can Affect Your Financial Future
The first step is Preparation: Do you think any successful doctor goes into the operating room unprepared? Operating on you based on general statements about what he heard on the news… or what his next door neighbor told him was the newest and latest procedures for a triple by-pass surgery? If so, would you allow this doctor to perform surgery on you? If not, why do you allow yourselves to work on your family’s finances? If you don’t know the rules, can you really play the better yet, can you play the game to win? Why then are you surprised when your family’s finances look really similar to the person that was operated on by the untrained surgeon? (Jacked up!)
If you don’t know what tax bracket you are in, if you don’t know how much you are paid before taxes and after taxes, if you don’t know … READ MORE ...