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How to Attack Your Finances
Stop being a pushover and take control of your money.
How many times have you heard the following advice?
- Make coffee at home, as those $5 lattes are destroying your budget and your retirement savings!
- Find the cheapest gas with an app; it’s worth the time driving all over town to save $0.02/gallon.
- Buy in bulk from Costclub, since single servings are for suckers.
All of these are protective in nature; failed attempts to hoard the money you have.
And all of them will make you poor.
You need to go on offense, find the big wins, and fight against the powers that be who are conspiring to take your money.
This mindset lets you take on the persona of the financial underdog, waging war against the mechanisms that are insatiably stealing your money.
If you know about the Miracle on Ice, you know that the US men’s hockey team was a vast underdog in the 1980 Olympics, especially against the undefeated Soviet Union.
There is a scene in the movie about this game, Miracle, where the team is watching film of the Soviets and witnessing firsthand just how good they are. Afterward, coach Herb Brooks states the following:
