by: Anna Marie Tagaan

One of the keys to financial freedom is to create a “Golden Goose”
where you can eventually live off the “eggs”. It was Aesop, who told a tale with a moral core in “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs”.

A man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose that laid a golden egg every day. For a while they were happy and lived well. But then they became impatient with how quickly they were accumulating their wealth. So they thought that if the goose could lay such a fine egg of gold, it must be lined with the precious metal. If they cut the goose open, they could get the gold all at once. Of course we all know what happened, the goose was just a goose and there was no gold inside. For Aesop, the moral of the story was much wants more and loses all. There is also a hidden message in this tale, - true gold comes from the process of creating.

Look after your Golden Goose. Never Mistake the Egg as the Gift. We have become a society that values things more than people. It is often joked, tongue-in-cheek that you are only as good as your last accomplishment. That is the ultimate lie. We are not a collection of the things that we do, the sale that we make, or the goal that is conquered. You are the gift. You are the Golden Goose. The egg is just the last thing you created.

Wherever you are right now in your life, please stop for a moment and hear this truth. The true gold lies not in the outcome or accomplishment, it is in the process of creating. When you give yourself a little space and care for the Golden Goose inside you, you will once again lay a golden egg. Don’t worry, there is nowhere to go, you have everything you need for the blissful life you desire. You just forgot where the true gold lives — inside of you.

Financial independence is a journey. And like any journey, if a person wants to travel from where they are to where they want to be, they need to know where they are starting from, where they want to be going, and the options of how to get there. And if they’ve never been there before, they need a map, even if it’s only used as a reference for when they lose their way or the planned road is temporarily or permanently closed.

What people are looking for is a roadmap to prosperity. That roadmap will differ from family to family and individual to individual. Each family has its own situation, needs, values, priorities and definitions of financial freedom. Furthermore, families and individuals want to educate themselves in how money works without being dependent on their bank, their insurance agent, or even their financial adviser. They want to be able to make their own choices for their own journey. And most want “enlightened” financial freedom - to achieve abundance without compromising their integrity, their values, their happiness or their friends. They want to understand basic financial principles so that they can develop “golden eggs” from their own financial freedom “goose”.
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The Wealth Academy series answers this need to learn about financial literacy. It is not anymore something that only a few people know about. This knowledge is now made available for people from all walks of life. Before there is a saying that “the rich gets richer while the poor gets poorer”. This happens because financial education before was made available only to those who are capable to spend money on financial advisers and the like. Now, we can not say that anymore.

EVERYBODY can be rich. We just have to find the right environment, to learn and apply what we have learned. It is not our fault if we were born poor or less privileged. But IT IS OUR FAULT if we die poor. That means we have not done something for ourselves and our family. We must take charge of our future NOW! Let us not procrastinate and wait until it will be too late.