Friday, 29 March

Money wisdom series: Using your assets to create cash flow stream

Feature Article
Jerry J Afolabi

Financial freedom and independence is realised through financial intelligence ie. Your ability to create assets to generate and control Cash flow.

You can only become financially independent when your income from your assets exceeds your monthly expenses. What most people don’t realise is that the salary mentality leads you to financial slavery because you work to pay more taxes but the rich and successful people pay less tax.

Take Away: As an employee, you pay more tax to the government than your employer ie the more employees the employer has the less tax he/she pays. Think of starting a business to create cash flow and jobs so you can become financially free.

Key Financial Intelligence words to take note.

Income

Expense

Asset

Liability

Cash Flow

The most important of all these words that has made people successful and financially free is Asset and Cash Flow since they work to put money in your pocket consistently. On the other hand, Liability and Expense takes money from your pocket and leads you to financial stress and poverty.

What are your Assets?

Intellectual property

Talent/Hobby/Passion

Acquired knowledge/skill /craftsmanship

Landed property if it can generate cash flow

Your network of friends/family

The importance of contact and network is to create value and impact which would in effect lead to generating cash flow so build a very good circle of friends. The people and environment you play in has a huge impact on the extent to which you can be successful.

 

 

Source: Jerry J Afolabi