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Hi, I'm Erica Douglass. I sold my business and "temporarily retired" at age 26. I write here about investing, setting goals, and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, I share lessons I have learned that can help you on your quest for financial freedom!
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Why You Don’t Save Money (Even Though You Know It’s The Right Thing To Do)

I bought a new car on Saturday. Even though I have railed against buying new cars in the past because of depreciation, and even though that money would have been better spent in an investment… I bought the car instead.
I know the financial facts that most people don’t - that less money spent on [...]

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One Decision That Can Make Anyone a Millionaire

For most of us, having a million dollars liquid — that is, available for our use at any time, and easily convertible into cash — is the stuff of pure fantasy. But after talking to a few of my friends about decisions they were making, I was able to easily articulate one way we can [...]

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The 3 Cornerstones of Successful Forex/Stock/Options Traders

A while back, I wrote about Forex trading on this blog. That was over 2 years ago, now that I look back on it! A few things happened in the interim, namely that I got really swamped with my business and didn’t have a lot of time to trade. Also, the Forex company I was [...]

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Sharing my journey to one million dollars (Part 1)

There is a reason why I am compelled to write. As I follow along the path of creating my own business, gaining customers (and sometimes losing them), listening and understanding other entrepreneurs, I feel the almost uncontrollable urge to write it all down and create some sort of … story, per se. Something that people [...]

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Here’s how to become rich: Deliver value. Change the world.

An interesting synchronicity occurred today.
Let me preface this by saying that I read a lot of blogs. I spend hours a week reading blogs, and I consider most of them part of my work time. Blogs help me know what the trends are. Blogs help me know what our customers want (I read several [...]

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