I just wrapped up reading Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and honestly, it really got me thinking about money, income, and how most of us handle investing. This book has some solid insights and can shift your perspective on finances if you really pay attention to it.
After finishing it, I started connecting a lot of the lessons to my Bitcoin investments, especially for those of us looking to buy and hold Bitcoin for the long haul...
A Quick Overview of the Book (If You Haven't Checked It Out)
Rich Dad Poor Dad isn’t specifically about Bitcoin. It dives into finance and mindset, explaining how money functions, how people manage it, and the intentional process of building wealth.
One big thing Kiyosaki keeps hammering home is the importance of building your asset column. He says, "Assets are what put money in your pocket, while liabilities are what take it out." He keeps stressing how many people work hard, make money, and then spend it mostly on liabilities, whereas wealthy people prioritize acquiring assets that generate income.
That idea really resonates with how we should view Bitcoin accumulation. But it’s also crucial to consider different income levels since not everyone is starting from the same point.
>>>For those who are earning on the lower end and trying to create a solid Bitcoin portfolio, first off, respect. Because it takes dedication.
Getting Your Finances Straight Makes Bitcoin Accumulation Easier
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I agree with how you appreciate Bitcoin here, but for me I am against people who treat Bitcoin like easy money, like some people think investing in Bitcoin will make them a millionaire overnight or in a week.
What Bitcoin taught me over time is how to manage my finances or my money. I became responsible when it comes to money since I started to get introduced to Bitcoin, which includes your habits, lifestyle, income, etc.
Everything boils down to proper financial management. You don't invest in bitcoin when you don't have a discretionary income. Bitcoin is a long-term investment therefore, you should be patient, ready to sacrifice, discipline and make it a habit for you to always buy bitcoin when your extra funds is available. It's not compulsory for you to DCA when you don't have regular discretionary which is the reason improving your income is very necessary in life.
It is all about PROBABILITIES. It is difficult to find ways to get a million (with zero financial investment) overnight with 100% probability (or even with 1% probability). It is easy to find ways to get a million overnight (with zero financial investment) with 0.0001% probability.
Bitcoin in the first place wasn't designed to manage your finance but to basically profer alternative for payment service and otherwise, a store of values.
The book in the reference is only inspiring for financial exploration such that shapes good managements with the edge of future goals that may involve investments not prioritizing on bitcoin. Already, good management is what makes investors achieve their long goal in bitcoin investment, not also every rich or average earners may bear the risks of bitcoin.
The aspiration of the book Rich Dad and Poor Dad can be versatile in terms of economy structures and with your points of contacts on this discussion, it'd be better to have this post on the economy section not on the bitcoin discussion board.
Perhaps this is a very interesting financial planning discussion what a strong approach of investment strategy which can be applicable in bitcoin and other basis to achieve successful goals.
Meanwhile I've come across some threads where Ops are making good senses with the opinions but because it was posted on the wrong discussion board, it got moves to off-topic board. I hope this get move to the economy section where it's best fit in.
Financial management is the basic thing that can shape everything neatly in the future. Someone who can manage finances well will look more neat in his life. They will be able to control stress and anything that makes them depressed and so on.
In today's life, one of the things that we must learn and understand is how to manage finances well. This is part of preparing for the future, with good financial management we can know our income and expenses so that we can make investments comfortably and more directed.
hodler_gweiFull Member
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#7Sep 24, 2024, 10:05 AM
Personally, I have to start with the potential that motivates me, and that can be achieved through discipline and consistency. I mean, after experiencing and seeing Bitcoin's track record and experiencing its incredible returns, the potential for greater long-term returns motivated me to continue buying Bitcoin through DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging). With that strong motivation and conviction, I strive to manage my finances well from my monthly salary, by minimizing unnecessary expenses and creating a strict budget so I can continue buying Bitcoin regularly and setting aside an emergency fund so that when I really need money, I can use it without having to resort to Bitcoin. And so far, everything is going well, and I also have a small business to help manage my finances and have been able to slightly increase my Bitcoin purchases, including for vacations, dining out, and other things I believe my family should continue to enjoy. Family and Bitcoin are equally important to me and are my motivations, and I must continue to do my best for both because in the future, they will reap the many benefits Bitcoin has to offer.
degen_nonceFull Member
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#8Sep 24, 2024, 02:04 PM
I think there is something people are getting wrongly in terms of bitcoin investment and everyone are liable to manage their financial system properly without including and featuring bitcoin over there. Bitcoin is a digital asset created as an alternatives means of payment and not as a tools for investment, but due to its growth and changes in prices people now sees it as the right tools for investment whereas is designed as alternative means of payment/transaction. However, everyone has the same equal access to invest and hold bitcoin without them using it for its originally made purposes. For investment, you can directly do your investment or you can gradually accumulates your bitcoin on your portfolio, again, anyone who has a stable income or has emergency funds or discretionary income can as well manages their investment as those funds could serve them whenever they are in need without them having to overly or aggressively uttering their investment until they are sufficiently enough in their accumulation processes.
Overall is about money, if you don't have much money difficult to accumulate bitcoin and keep investing consistent in bitcoin how many people believing potential increasing assets by invest in bitcoin. Financial management easily manage if you have more income than outcome and not difficult if want accumulate how much hundred or thousand USD every week and every month. If your financial not stable yet have outcome than income I don't think easily for investing in bitcoin although have good money management because impossible to allocate for investing have much outcome than income.
Due bitcoin price have reach most expensive nowadays, investment small fund in bitcoin difficult to increase much with our assets in the future so improving firstly with higher income and lower outcome before investing in bitcoin.
The reality still remains that there's a clear distinction between building your bitcoin stack and building your financial strength. Doing one at the negligence of another only means that the investor isn't ready to be successful in his investment. One thing every investor ought to know is that when you're holding bitcoin as an asset, it's just one of the options you've chosen as a means of growing your wealth. The same way you pay attention to other factors should be the same way you should also pay attention to your investment. A reduction on your earning means one that and that's the fact that it's going to lead to a proportionate reduction in the quantity of bitcoin you're accumilating. In all, the importance you place on your finance also affects how well and effortlessly you will be able to invest in bitcoin.
cold5tor4geSenior Member
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#11Sep 25, 2024, 02:32 AM
JaanusRaim now you make everything sound like gambling and game of luck, and if you have such mindset towards Bitcoin investment it means you are taking Bitcoin as a miracle Money tree, that probability without commitment can give results, that is not true, to gain any bits of Bitcoin, you must own it either by buying it or working to get paid with Bitcoin.
Most people think bitcoin is a magic stick that will make them rich and solve any financial problems they have and thats a very wrong assumption. Bitcoin can itself may make you rich if you hodl it persistently but if your financial decisions are wrong, eventually youll end up poor because structurally you are destined to lose.
The book you mentioned is a great start to learn the basics of finance and once you understand that book, the rest will follow. Just keep learning and add knowledge brick by brick.
If you dont build the infrastructure that manages the wealth, the structure will collapse. In this case, that infrastructure is your experience and knowledge.
Yes before any investors can be able to hold bitcoin for a long time they should have a good source of income. Without having a good financial management it will be hard to be able to hold bitcoin for a long time. So having one finances in good shape will help in making it easier for bitcoin accumulation. It is mostly those investors that doesn't have a good financial management that mostly end up selling out there bitcoin holdings before the anticipated timeline. So good financial management is important for successful bitcoin investment.
miner_rocketMember
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#14Sep 26, 2024, 05:17 PM
This is the real foundation of everything. Without proper financial management, even the best investment would not work. Bitcoin is not something you jump into with money meant for survival. If there is no discretionary income, the pressure alone will push you into bad decisions.
Bitcoin is a long term play, and long term requires patience and discipline. It is not about forcing yourself to buy every time the price moves. It is about making it a habit to buy whenever extra funds are available, without stressing yourself or your daily life.
A lot of people misunderstand DCA and think it must be done religiously. It does not. If your income is not stable, it is okay to pause and focus on fixing that first. Improving your income is actually part of being a good investor.
It's not only easier when your finances are in order. When you don't get distracted with trading shitcoin or memecoins you can put the money to use for DCA.
The main reason why retailers are forcefully pushed out of the market is because they like the memecoins distraction too much letting the real cryptocurrency to be in the hand of institutional investors who hoard it and boguht it in bulk.
Can you imagine how much bitcoin gonna go if people don't keep giving money to memecoin ruggers.
That mindset you are talking about, being more responsible with money, paying attention to your habits, lifestyle, and income, that is the kind of mindset someone needs if they want to last long in finance and Bitcoin.. And also not just with Bitcoin, but with money in general.. Anyone who truly wants financial independence has to grow into that way of thinking at some point..
That is actually one of the main things Rich Dad Poor Dad was trying to pass across. The book was not really about making fast money or getting rich overnight. It was more like how you think about money, how you manage the money and how your daily habits affect your future. Th Author kept stressing that wealth is built intentionally, not through shortcuts.
Bitcoin kind of do the same thing if you approach it the right way. If you stop seeing it as easy money and start seeing it as a long term asset, it forces you to look at yourself. How you spend, how patient you are, what you prioritize, and whether you do have control of your finances
So when you say Bitcoin taught you how to manage your money better, that is a big deal. Because without that mindset, even if someone see money quickly, it would not last. But with that mindset, even small and slow progress will turn into something solid with time. That is really where I try to connect the book and Bitcoin. If the mindset is not right, neither of them will work. But once the mindset is right, the results might be slow, but they stick.
Financial planning will make it easier to allocate funds for investment, manage investment risks more wisely, avoid impulsive decisions that can lead to the risk of loss and allow you to continue focusing on long-term investment strategies. It is highly discouraged to force yourself to invest if you do not have the income to spend as you please, as this can lead to you feeling stressed and making unwise decisions.
To achieve success in investing, you must increase your patience, be prepared to face risks, be disciplined, and get used to always buying Bitcoin when you have additional funds from other sources. DCA is a good strategy, but this strategy is not mandatory, especially if you do not have regular disposable income. So, you should always try to increase your income and have proper financial management to give you the freedom and be more prepared to invest in Bitcoin to achieve success.
Rich dad poor dad was a simple guidebook that doesn't tell anything that is brand new or anything innovative, but at the same time doing it is not easy. A simple life lesson that you can learn while living would be that you are going to end up with a lot of debt because of unexpected issues that you face and for that reason you may not become like a rich dad.
I faced way too many obstacles in my life so far that I had to pay out of pocket and had so many payments and bills that I failed so far, does that mean I did not know Robert Kiyosaki? Of course I knew him, but how could I save when I was spending twice as much as I was earning on medical bills alone? It is not as easy as it sounds, just because it's an easy idea, doesn't mean everyone can do it.
vault_alphaHero Member
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#19Sep 29, 2024, 10:52 PM
The book is a good one, and so is your conclusion that balances the investment part of Bitcoin and the readiness of the investors. A smart man once said that "gathering money for savings or/investment is not the problem, but the problem is income." I tell you, everyone would have amassed Bitcoin in its volumes, but for the lack of capacity.
Still, I will continue to encourage people to take their Bitcoin journey seriously. Had it been I did that, it would have been a different story for me today. Who knows? Bitcoin could "hit the moon" in the future, what would pain most is the fact of not HODLing Bitcoin at all, and not having it so big. If we relax too much on excuses of wanting to have all it takes 100%, we may not invest at all.
Once we have a stipulated amount of money for the purpose of bitcoin investment, it will be more easier for us to achieve doing, because its all about what we already planned for and have the financial resources to invest in it, however, it is also necessary that we make use of a strategy to use in accumulating for our asset in bitcoin, because this is also very important, after we must have defined well the kind of investor we are.
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