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How to Make Your Money Work for You
Learn the Fundamentals of Investing and Take Control of Your Financial Destiny
Up until a few years ago, the mere mention of the word “investing” would give me tremendous anxiety. I still remember it quite well when I first read this term. In an instant, my heart started to palpitate with millions of questions: What is investing? Where do I start? What if I just lose all my money?
The more I pushed through this forest of difficult money language and the myriad of conflicting advice, the more I realized two things: investing is not for rich people or financial experts, but rather, it is indispensable to secure my financial future.
I knew nothing about finance while growing up. I have only learned from my mistakes. I mostly wanted to start working so as to pay off my credit card debt, and I needed to settle the bills. I should also mention that I was able to get the credit card only after I started working after the university. I did not have much knowledge on how to grow my savings. On the whole, it was very hard to find some sort of middle ground between savings and spending; investment sounded like the next really huge challenge out there.
I still remember the time when I faced the paper and pen right in front of me. I took this as a challenge, and this…
