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Behind the Power Curve

Are you financially flying on the back side of the power curve?

Something strange happens when you get slow in an airplane.

- It takes more and more power to keep flying.

In personal finance, we say – "It’s expensive to be poor"

💡 It really is the same concept.

Let’s dive in:

When your paychecks are confiscated by various debt services,
You have less to finance your ordinary living expenses.

You slow down.

This also means you have fewer reserves when the inevitable S hits the fan.

This often prompts expensive financing to survive the S hitting the fan.

Then you speed further slows down.

And you need more power.

...Rinse and repeat - and it's easy to get trapped there.

Running your life at full throttle, burning fuel...

...exhausted, but barely moving.

Here is what needs to happen:

1) A 3-6 month Money-Fast cutting all expenses, less the essentials.

2) A 3-6 month extra income feast where you hustle every extra dollar.

â›” No more than 3-6 months or you’ll burn out.

3) Whatever surplus you can generate goes to unconfiscate your paycheck.
Begin with the worst offenders = high-interest debt.

Once the worst offenders are “offloaded”

4) You build an "S hits the fan emergency fund", so that when it does, you do not lose speed and get behind the power curve ever again.
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Your life will move forward on the curve and get easier.

You'll notice this wasn't an income problem as much as a "confiscated income problem".

Image showing how it is expensive to be poor.
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