e enjte, 17 maj 2007

Buying Time

Get a good education, get a good job, save and retire to the good life at age 65. Have you heard that before? I bet you have, and the other 300 variations on the theme. Well sorry to tell you, it's not going to happen. You've also heard about investing right, buying property, shares etc etc. It's all good and what most people aspire to achieve in their lives, but I want to throw some gunpowder in the fire.

I have always used age 65 as a datum because everybody else does, and my goal in life was to buy back as many years as I could from 65. "BUYING TIME" So this is the theory...everything you do either adds to the years you have to work or subtracts from the years. If you are fortunate to have bought back 10 years of your working life, you will be able to retire at 55. Pretty decent if you think you will live to seventy (at least), but possibly even longer as life longevity increases.

The only way to achieve this is through income producing assets and investments that don't require you to be there. My whole focus over the past 8 years has been on "BUYING TIME" How can I improve what I do so that I don't have to be there, do I have a good team around me, to help and guide me, and how many assets and investments am I buying a year that pay me if I am there or not.

People ask me how I did it and how they can start "BUYING TIME", so what I am going to do is make the following assumptions:

-that I am currently a salaried employee, right on track to get the gold watch at age 65.

-that I earn R25,000 a month. (don't worry if this sounds alot to you. 8 years ago I didn't own a bicycle...)

I am going to start 2 businesses

-a share trading business

and

-an internet business

all at the same time and all while I am doing my job. My goal is to buying back 10 years in the next 5 years, ie I will in the next 5 years, make and invest in assets which will give me a passive income of R50,000 a month (double my current salary) on going

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BLOG about "BUYING TIME" and making sure you "BANK IT!!"

My life has been an adventure with many milestones, with many directions and ambitions, but the one underlying theme been "BUYING TIME". I believe time is a commodity which can be bought like any other commodity, and can be stored up and used at will later in life.

I am a businessman, an entrepreneur, and hope my journals will give you hope, that's it is possible to live your dreams.

In this site you'll discover two terms I use frequently, "BUYING TIME" and "BANK IT!!", a term I share with my life long friend, photo journalist Roger Horrocks.

I know that these two sayings will enrich your life and define it as a life with purpose, if you grasp them with both hands and embrace their concept.