hey guys tony bryson here and you know a lot of people think that the first million dollars is the hardest but in reality it's not the first million because most people hear a million and they clock out not possible i can't do it whatever i actually think the hardest is actually the first ten thousand this right here is the hardest and i saved up ten thousand dollars twice the first time it took me six months and then less than a month to waste all the money the second time it took me a little longer but then i basically saved that money and didn't spend that money invest that money now the reason i say the first ten thousand is a lot harder is because you know ten thousand dollars is very possible you know you can get there and what it takes to save the first ten thousand can get you to a million and i'm halfway there to a million maybe a little bit over and what i did to get my first ten thousand got me my first hundred thousand got me my first 300 and then got me my first half a million and i'm on my way there but it's the same exact concept i don't think a thousand dollars is that good because to get to a thousand it's kind of like you get paid in one month you made over a thousand dollars right so boom you got it but to get to 10 000 it's a lot harder and by the way in this video i'm gonna tell you exactly my routine when it comes to whenever i get paid everybody has a routine whether it's a morning routine a gym routine a makeup routine i got a money routine when i get paid money i have a ritual i have a habit some things i do with my money to make sure i don't waste my money and to make sure my money makes me more money and then i'm gonna have more money tomorrow that's the ideas in this video i'm gonna share that with you and i want you guys to use these techniques i give you which by the way are just three they're very simple i want you to use them to go ahead and save up your first ten thousand if you get there and if you accept the challenge comment down below and when you get there you dm me tell me yo tell me i got the ten thousand because i wanna know if you got there okay and i know you can get there as always guys do me a favor smash the like button it helps a lot on top but also subscribe the channel if you're brand new and get notified when i post a new video basically almost every single day now the very first thing that i do with my money and my ritual is this i have a baseline my baseline is basically the amount of money i need to basically live a comfortable lifestyle and to be able to basically get to my goals or whatever it is now here's what i see and here's what i did when i first started learning about money and budgeting and investing in passive income you kind of learn everything at once because you kind of become obsessed with it like i am a nerd and the idea was i wanted to be super crazy i was like yo i'm not gonna eat lunch for three days i'm gonna save all my money that lasted about a week because then it was like too much and i basically was like all right this saving things is too hard i would rather save a little less money and get there comfortably and not have to stop so basically inside of your baseline which is basically the amount of money you need to survive you should have in there the things that make you happy whether it's i want to go out once a week to buy some food outside i want to get my starbucks coffee every single day i want to get avocado toast have those things inside so you're not tempted or you have to retract or grab some money from your savings you're in there before you know you're not really doing anything my point is make things comfortable so when it comes to this baseline it has four main expenses for me the first one is basically shelter that means your apartment or your mortgage a very common rule is basically don't spend more than 33 percent of your monthly income when it comes to shelter i know people they spend half their money on a fancy studio of fancy apartments and it's not even theirs like you're just paying rent nothing wrong with paying rent but the point is live somewhere you can actually afford all right so that way you can basically live in your own home and actually own it later on in life that's the idea by the way if you're nose like i am i spend 300 on my shelter how because i basically bought my home i own it i don't have a mortgage on it and i only pay someone to clean it and take care of it and that's around three hundred dollars per month so i got mines very very low then you have for example utilities utilities to me are not just for example your light bill your gas bill your internet bill your phone bill but it's also things that are basically utilized by you that are important that means for example your health care also for example your gym bill those things to me are also utilities because basically i need them and they help me out in some way so i add them up here for me total amount here is around 300 i'm mistaken here 313.75 i know people that basically just their gym membership is over two hundred three hundred dollars don't be an idiot if you have utilities like a expensive phone bill expensive internet bill call in those companies and figure out hey i wanna lower my plan i wanna negotiate try to lower those bills as low as possible to save a lot of money all right and then you have thirdly your groceries people try to save money here i don't really like that because i don't want to live off ramen's noodles like all those movies saying i want to have a healthy diet because if i eat like trash today i'm gonna pay for it later on with my health care and all that stuff okay so no i spent around 300 when it comes to per month on food it used to be 200 but after inflation it kind of hit up a little bit more so around 300 bucks i don't really eat out whatsoever i do meal preps and i eat exactly what i want to eat and what i like to eat all right so 300 for me is a great budget and then lastly you have transportation and that basically means your car everything that goes into that car or whether you take for example public transportation for me my car is the sexiest best car in the world because it's paid off so i only have to pay for example to get it washed and also to get gas in it and since it has great mileage i basically only spent around 76.67 a month including insurance which i paid once a year so in total when you look at my baseline it basically means hey whenever i get paid all i got to do is take around one thousand five dollars and 42 cents a month and i know with this money i can basically live and i can be basically fine one strategy is have a separate account for your baseline money so when you basically get paid you get your paycheck you grab that money and you have a separate place to basically put it so you're not tempted to use that money for something else you know that hey this is my baseline the money i'm going to use for xxx that does not sound well but it's the money you're going to use for living a comfortable life okay not luxurious but comfortable a frugal nice life you actually enjoy second thing is okay when it comes to if you have your baseline and you have your income you're supposed to have money left over if you don't have money left over then obviously you're spending way too much or you don't make enough and that means basically you have to either earn more money via side hustles be there asking for a raise or be a change in jobs or for example you're spending way too much money so when you're trying to save money don't save money in the middle like utilities and groceries no save money on that both high and end points meaning hey your rent or mortgage that's the most expensive thing ever so save money up here or your car if you have a car that's super expensive you're paying a loan on it sell that thing get rid of it those is where basically the most money comes out of those two main things the top and the bottom not the middle not your grocery bill i'm not gonna get some starbucks today not the i'm saving money on my electricity bill no it's the top and the bottom the shelter and the transportation people spend the most money there so save money up there that's the best thing to do buy a used car buy a hooptie use that car and then get something more reliable later on that's the idea so you want to have goals with the extra money you have left over and you have long-term goals and you have short-term goals short-term goals and goals you basically gotta hit in five years or less long-term goals are five or more years obviously okay so simple there's just three here your first goal is short term be debt free in less than five years make that a goal so if you owe let's say for example a ton of money let's say you owe for example let's say i have debt i have student loans that have credit card debt i have personal loan debt let's say in total i owe thirty thousand dollars right make it a goal to pay it off in less than five years five years is basically divided by 60 per month that's basically around 500 a month gonna be put in towards your debt how do you pay the debt off don't pay the debt based on the amount you owe pay based on the interest rate if somebody is charging you for example a high interest rate pay the highest one first that way you save the most money that's your first goal because once you eliminate the debt what do you have you have extra money they can use for something else and you have less friction because you don't have to worry about paying other people anymore that's why that's your first goal to become debt free everything except the mortgage though because the mortgage is massive and it's super expensive and you're not going to pay it off like in five years obviously so just a short term stuff like student loan debt some personal loan debt car loans and all that stuff and credit card debt and all that stuff goes to short term debt that you want to pay off so basically if you spend 70 of your baseline use the other thirty percent to pay off that debt and to complete that first goal second goal should be save up for emergencies what's your baseline did you calculate it go calculate it right now pause this video and once you get your baseline multiply it by three so if my baseline personal baseline is one thousand and five dollars and again um 42 cents i'm gonna grab that money multiply it by three and save up three months worth of emergencies and that way if something happens to me i lose my job whatever i have three months to basically cover all of my bills if you want to do six months obviously um that's gonna be time six so that's gonna be six thousand dollars if you wanna save up six months for example that's gonna be again somewhere around twelve thousand dollars but again this is my baseline your baseline might seem a lot more different it might be three thousand might be four thousand might be two thousand might be six thousand it all depends on basically how much money you spend my recommendation is make sure your baseline is no more than seventy percent of your income if it's 90 that's like on the edge it's kind of crazy you want to save more money that's the idea spend less money get your goal a lot faster that's the whole thing now that's the main goal so you have pay off debt save for emergencies the third goal is is two and one it's the only long-term goal here is basically invest money into an index fund for your retirement so that way you can basically have money when you're older because you're gonna need money in the future and also for passive income and then why are doing that save up money to buy a home my rule when i'm buying a home is i use the 33 rule on a 15-year mortgage and what that means is the home i buy is no more than a third of my monthly income as far as for example all the expenses like the um actual mortgage interest and capital payments the insurance the taxes everything in that home basically no more than a third of my monthly income obviously not including utilities that's the idea and then you set it on a 15-year mortgage this limits you to an inexpensive home compared to everybody else is going to basically a 30-year mortgage and getting a larger lump sum of cash okay so by doing this you get a smaller home you're able to pay off in 15 years and once you add this into your budget because now you're not paying rent anymore now you have to pay for example for your mortgage well now that becomes a part of your baseline right so you should still have money left over with that leftover money once you're done investing 10 to 20 in into your retirement fund use the rest of the money to basically just basically try to pay off the mortgage faster so you're doing two things at the same time that's the only time you do two things at the same time you're investing and you're also paying off your mortgage faster and if you do both of these things at the same time you're going to be done with your mortgage on average in 10 years to 15 years and in 10 to 15 years since you've been investing 10 20 into your retirement account you're also gonna have a good amount of money and once those 10 15 years pass what do you have you have a lower baseline so now you have to spend less money to basically live and that's cool because with all that extra money you can use it for fun giving or whatever you want to do with it invest more make more money whatever but you got more options so what does this look like tommy in a real life like when i actually get paid whether it's weekly bi-weekly or monthly the idea is for simplicity's sake okay let's see you get paid right here like a hundred dollars this is basically all the cash i have available to me right now because i basically don't have any cash at all let's say for example you get paid a hundred dollars a month just for sufficiently sake here if your baseline is 70 obviously that's going to be seventy dollars so the minute you get paid you grab seventy dollars yeah we're on you know two when you got three and then basically you grab a ten that's basically seventy dollars people say for example no invest first and then you spend no because if you invest first and then you need money to live then we're gonna get that money from you're gonna have to dip into your investments and that's why i say don't invest until you're done with your debt stuff and also your emergency fund stuff okay because it makes no sense so 70 dollars that goes aside and if you have left for example thirty dollars right um you can say hey my first goal is to pay off debt so grab all this money put it towards the debts using the avalanche method pay the debt with the highest interest first once you're done with that goal again your baseline is still the same seventy percent by the way if you get a raise at your job you don't increase your baseline you keep the same baseline and you use the extra money towards your goals second is you save up for your emergency account so when you get paid again 70 goes into my baseline the 30 goes towards completing this goal and then again once you're done with that you got six months worth of three months worth in there you grab that money and you put it towards what you put is towards 10 20 towards your investments which is going to be for example again 20 bucks for investing 10 percent towards saving up my mortgage that's the idea once i get the house i want again 20 goes into my investments 10 i pay extra towards my mortgage and you keep doing this it's very simple it's not complicated i don't want it to be crazy stuff because the more complicated it is the more difficult it is okay so you got one your baseline two your goals and three you put it into action every time you get paid that's it that's the idea whether you get paid weekly bi-weekly or monthly doesn't matter this is all you have to do all right guys i hope this video helped you out a lot i 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