{"id":1219,"date":"2023-07-28T04:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2023-07-31T04:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:40:44","slug":"hungry-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After this month, I will have another 90 days before I have completely fed a monkey while simultaneously starving it to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yay, me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point?&nbsp; If I, with my preternaturally irresponsible financial self, can get serious and consistent about paying off debt, then absolutely anyone else can, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, it only took getting sued, being shrilled at by Half for several days, paying a lawyer to negotiate some debt <em>satisfaction<\/em> on my behalf, but still.\u00a0 Motivation is key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And<\/em>, and \u2026 the success of the debt <em>satisfaction<\/em> of that one monkey is incentive to satisfy them all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, got a long way to go, still looking at six figures of debt to resolve, but the important thing is getting started in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saw a thing, somewhere, from somebody, about becoming a millionaire and the steps necessary to get there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Step one:\u00a0 Have a job, and ask (<em>negotiate<\/em>) for a higher salary.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Step two:\u00a0 Start investing one percent of take-home salary in the stock market<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 then increase by one percent at a time as comfort\/able<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 (example:\u00a0 if $1000\/bi-weekly paycheck, toss $20\/month)<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Step three:\u00a0 Get a side hustle, with minimal investment time&amp;money<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basically, sums up to making more, spending less.&nbsp; Total brain surgery\/rocket science, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that I\u2019m doing any of this, \u2018cept maybe the side hustle, but doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing at a time.\u00a0 I\u2019m working on being less fat and less broke.  Maybe after dropping to five figures and by fifty pounds I can get busy elsewhere.\u00a0 {<em>1 Corin. 14:40<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, no reason you (Other Person You) can\u2019t use the info now.\u00a0 Launch your success, get that money right(er) \u2026 Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this month, I will have another 90 days before I have completely fed a monkey while simultaneously starving it to death. Yay, me. The point?&nbsp; If I, with my preternaturally irresponsible financial self, can get serious and consistent about paying off debt, then absolutely anyone else can, too. Now, it only took getting sued, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1219\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hungry Monkey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,25,28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobuy","category-debt-monkeys-the-credit-circus","category-proof-of-god","category-strategic-spending"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}