I am trying my best to get out of the rat race. I don’t like trading time for money. One of the best books I think I’ve ever read was Robert Kiwosaki’s ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad‘. It really woke me up to a LOT of things. I learned that trading time for money keeps me in the Rat Race. I’ll never be able to really relax. And that made me start questioning a LOT of things that I have grown up believing.

His next book, “The Cash Flow Quadrant” was even better and helped me see the difference between being an employee, self-employed, a business owner and an investor. I originally read those books to help teach my children what they needed to learn, but ended up being the student before I could be the teacher. Reading those books changed my life. Totally.

Now, I’ve bought the board game Cashflow 101 and my life is changing again. I play it every month (by myself if I have to ). It’s an expensive game but I think it’s already been worth the price I paid. I’ve already learned a LOT about me and about money and ways I can change my way of thinking about life and money. It’s a lot like monopoly, only better.

Robert says in the game instructions that he built the board game so that we could learn from our mistakes in the game before we go out and make the same mistakes with our real money. I like that idea!!

Learning the principles from this book has already helped me to quit my job and work from home. Now, I’m slowly but surely getting out of the rat race and learning how to let my money work for me instead of me constantly working for money. Now, I work for fun. Can it even be called work?

Anyone up for a game of Cashflow??