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Retire Young

- OLODU KEONYEDI Olodu keonyedi – is a trained engineer and by passion and personal developmen­t a public/motivation­al speaker, a business coach and human capacity developer, he has a B.Eng degree in Civil Engineerin­g from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, h

Retirement is the last time in the mind of most youth today. Why think about retirement when you advice would be to start planning your exit even before you begin any job.

If your plan is to retire at age 60 or working is already late. I have seen too many retirees whose monthly pensions could barely take care of their needs. It still shocks me to know that millions and millions of hardworkin­g people are betting all their financial future and security on the government or pension managers to handle it.

We in this age needs to be more financiall­y responsibl­e for our financial future rather than depending solely on a company or government to take care of us when our working days are over.

Dangote in? Do you think he will be in one of retirement plans is that he is using different forms of leverage to plan for his financial future.

Our school system trains people to be employees rather than to be business owners/entreprene­urs and that is why most of us are not it to be handled by the government or their company.

I believe we need to be better educated and prepare to handle our retirement early. In order use different forms of leverage; leverages are activities/things that help you work less and less while you earn more and more.

We will be discussing some of the leverages below.

The leverage of words/mind:

One of the major leverage in retiring young is the you rich or make you poor. Words are leverage; words are powerful tools for the brain. Words to learn the power of words and how rich people use rich words and poor people use poor words. Getting rich and retiring young begins with your words and words are free.

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Poor people use poor words and poor words create poor people. What you say becomes time instead we should spend time planning how we can afford it or ask or learn from people that has what we want.

yourself.

future by changing the words you use and the way you think. If you can change your words and become easy.

The leverage of your plan:

- it. I would advise a time limit of five to ten years if you are working in a very good company and a year if you are working in a place where you are

One advantage of retiring young is that you having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich and retiring young.

on working hard all my life and then I will become

we will first get the blueprint of the house be

Start your future today by creating a plan or -

Getting rich and retiring young begins with steps with easy.

The leverage of your action:

young or even enjoy their retirement is because the world today only 5 percent is rich and retire young because the 95 percent did not take any action that the 5 percent took.

paper assets and businesses; note that paid employment was not included.

building businesses rather than working for money. If you want to retire young you must need to work less and earn more. In order to do of the leverages that you must use are: If you are working hard physically and not get

Financial education will help you retire young is why I write and conduct financial education seminars; any organizati­on that is interested in helping their staffs plan for their retirement can contact us through our details below.

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