• Retire at Age 50

    How to Retire at Age 50

    As a teacher, I really enjoy my job. It allows me to help shape the lives of countless teenagers. It also helps to keep me young as I learn about the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of teenagers. Although I enjoy my job, I don't want to be forced to work forever. In other words, I want to have the option of retiring early. Perhaps this means that I do part time work or maybe I'll actually stop working completely. Maybe I´ll even continue to work full time. But no matter what, I want to have the option of leaving full time employment by the time I am 50 years old.…

  • 4 Steps to Break the Cycle of Car Debt

    Most people probably don´t realize it, but car debt is one of the main things that is keeping us from being wealthy. As a matter of fact, a $400 monthly car payment could become $467,000 if it was invested for 30 years and earned a 7% rate of return! Unfortunately, car payments are considered normal in middle class society. In any parking lot full of newer cars, we would be hard pressed to find a car that doesn´t have a payment on it. Because of this, most of us are missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment gains. Many of us may even want to get out…