Here’s a quick checklist for you to use anytime you want to see where you are and what still needs to be done to move you along the path to financial freedom. Take a look at the 7 Simple Steps and make sure that you not only understand them but have also activated them. Step 1: Make the Most Important Financial Decision of Your Life 1. Did you make

Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an

Sir John Templeton, not only the world’s greatest investor but also one of the greatest human beings, shared something with me almost 30 years ago: he said that he’s never known anyone who tithed—meaning the person gave 8% or 10% of what he earned to religious or charitable organizations over a ten-year period—who didn’t massively grow his

I can also tell you there are extraordinary positive consequences for those who give when it isn’t easy. It primes our brain; it trains and conditions us to know that there’s more than enough. And when our brain believes it, we experience it.

In Happy Money, Dunn and Norton wrote that when giving outside of ourselves is done right, “when it feels like a choice, when it connects us with others, and when it makes a clear impact—even small gifts can increase happiness, potentially stirring a domino effect of generosity.”

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. —MAYA ANGELOU

There’s nothing like the power of the human soul on fire.

Of course, giving means more than just giving money. It’s also giving your time, it’s giving your emotion, it’s giving your presence to your kids, to your family, to your husband or your wife, to your friends, to your associates. Our work is also our gift. Whether that gift is a song, a poem, building a multinational business, serving as a

When you give away money, especially if you do something for a stranger versus if you do something for someone you love, the level of multiplied happiness is geometric. It’s the equivalent of doubling or tripling your salary.