How I Will Be Rich

This is my first (real) entry in to our Web log and since no one will probably read this for a while until I actually start posting something interesting, I will just post a little about myself and why I wanted to create this blog. My name is Matthew and I am 24 years old. I work full time running the family business. We are in the exciting industry of window coverings. More specifically, we make wood shutters. I know that this sounds like an amazing and fulfilling industry to be involved in and everyone out there wants to know how they can get in to this gold mine but I’m actually looking for bigger and better things. I am an investor that mainly dabbles in the stock market and I am trying desperately to set up some sort of online business. My ultimate goal is to make my fortune in real estate but that still seems a little far off for me. I read constantly. I go through about a book a week and sometimes even two. Every single book is either about business, investing, finance, entrepreneurship and so on and so on. They say the best way to learn anything is teach and I feel as if a blog is a good method to regurgitate all that I have learned and all that I have studied. If people actually read and get something from this, then I guess that is just an added bonus.

I frequent many blogs and will probably repost some of the great advice or give opinions on the less than stellar advice that I’ve read. My current favorite blog is the “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” Blog. I check in on it daily. Ramit is a great writer and has a lot to offer (Maybe that’s why he has got a book deal in the works). I am a fan of Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, Retire Rich, Retire Young) mainly because the way he writes gives me hope for the short term. I’ve read The Millionaire Next Door and I think it’s a great book, I highly recommend it. I will go in to a little more detail in a later book review. My problem with it is that it conveys a message of, “be frugal, save, invest and maybe someday you’ll be rich.” Although I think that’s great advice and you can’t just go out blow all your money, it is so much less that satisfying. I’m young now and I want to have fun. I like books and authors that write about how to make money young and meet your life goals before the typical retirement age. I believe it’s important to invest and to spend modestly but at the same time, I want to get in to real estate and I want to travel and I want to do it before I’m 50.

A friend of mine, Joe Fier, who will also contribute to this blog, has a very similar mindset. We have basically decided that when our two minds work together, we can basically accomplish anything. Expect great posts and information from him as well.

I’ll end on this…
We will be rich. I am 100% confident of this and we completely plan to document our path to get there. We want to teach people how we are doing it along the way and inform people of the books that have changed our lives. Feel free to comment if you agree, disagree or want to call us names but I will get there.

-M

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