When deciding on the best way to invest your hard earned cash, it can be difficult to know where to start. To the uninitiated, the wide variety of methods can be quite bewildering. Whether it is stocks and shares, bonds, cash savings accounts, pensions or real estate, I suspect that many are simply intimidated by the murky jargon of the professionals to believe that they could educate themselves about this important aspect of their financial lives.

So they say things like “Oh I don’t bother myself with things like that! I don’t care about money. Money won’t make you happy, you know.”

Oh dear. These are the voices of the wage slave. These are the voices of the collective consumer mentality. These are the voices of those who lack the self confidence to educate themselves about how their money could be working for them while they sleep. Of those who believe that they will be sacrificing their precious time for money, grafting for every penny until they retire as a decrepit 70 year old, before shuffling off to take their reward in heaven or wherever.
The simple fact is that if you don’t acknowledge your own ignorance of finance and investing then you can never move forward. After all, most of us never attended dedicated lessons at school entitled “How to become wealthy; How to invest your money for maximum return; How to avoid becoming a wage slave”, etc.

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