3 Main Reasons Why Most People Are Poor

This is now the formal start of my financial planning guide lessons. Since in our previous series of steps (for those who are new in my blog please click here and follow each step) we already talked about the necessary steps to take before actually planning your financial life.

You already have a dream life, a financial goal, and now it is time for the "apply lessons-fail-plan again-repeat until successful" part of financial planning.

Now let's talk about the three most common reasons why many people are poor.


1. Because most people do not really want to be rich.

Yup, you heard me right! We really do not want to be rich. I know many of you would react and say, "I have never heard a person say that he does not want to be rich". In fact if I ask you right now if you want to be financial free and be wealthy?

The common answer would be - OF COURSE!

3 Main Reasons Why Most People Are Poor

Step 3 : Claim And Commit To Your Financial Goal

I know that this may seem as a "non-contributor" in a financial planning guide lesson but I want to clarify this issue and how it relates to our financial life.

We often relate financial freedom to having lots of money, or how much money a person earns, spends, his cars, etc..... So in a natural way, we relate wealth to the amount of money a person has in his bank account.
For most people, if you don't have a big house, don't drive a Jaguar, or don't have the latest cellphone then you are not rich.

Step 3 : Claim And Commit To Your Financial Goal

Step 1: How to Compute Your Net Worth

Now going back to the Steps of Setting our Financial Goal, we start with step 1 which is:
"How to compute your Net Worth"

I know a lot of people hate the subject of accounting (that includes my wife), but it is a necessity when it comes to taking control of our financial life. Although in this section we will discuss a few points in accounting but we will discuss it the simplest and practical way I can possibly explain.

Step 1: How to Compute Your Net Worth