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David Bach, author of The Automatic Millionaire, has some tips for a great life after graduation.
- Choose your life — “You don’t get what you wish for in life, you get what you go for.” Make things happen. Choose your life — don’t let it happen to you. Be responsive.
- Follow your plan — “Don’t blindly follow the expectations of your parents, professors, or mentors. Their beliefs are based on their life experience, not yours. They don’t control your destiny, you do.” Be your own person.
- See the world — If you’re one of the 93 percent of college students who wanted to study abroad but never did, “now’s a great time to do it before a career, mortgage, kids, and other responsibilities loom large in your life.” Travel can change your life.
- Become a young automatic millionaire — Pay yourself first. Save ten percent of everything you earn. “The sooner you start to save money the more freedom you will have to be who you really want to be.”
- Take some risks — “The sooner you go for your dreams, the better your chances of living a life where your dreams come true. The longer you wait, the harder dreams are to achieve.” Don’t live a life of fear; live a life of courage. Don’t procrastinate.
When I graduated fifteen years ago, I didn’t have any goals or dreams or plans. I let life happen to me. I acquired debt instead of building wealth. I took no risks, but played it safe. For fifteen years, I regretted these decisions. I’m only now beginning to make the life I want.
After graduation, you’re poised at the edge of one stage of life and the beginning of another. It’s the perfect time to make positive changes, to set goals, to try new things.
Be passionate about what you believe and do!
This article is about Education, Hints and Tips, Self-Improvement Thursday, 1st June 2006 (by J.D. Roth)
June 1st, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I’m belong to that 93% of students who wanted to study abroad but didn’t. I’d love to have a gap year to travel — but where are grads expected to get the money to afford it, if they haven’t already worked for a while to save up?
June 1st, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Go teach English abroad. They’ll pay for your living expenses, and you’ll make money at the same time. Also, experience abroad does wonders for your resume after you return.
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Between the remaining 7% of college students, how many never wanted to study abroad versus those who actually did?
If you ask me about travel and its effect on our country, I’ll tell you that I live in Boston and I’m surrounded by people who have seen Paris and Rome but who’ve never been west of the Mississippi except on an airplane bound for LAX. Small wonder we live in a country divided.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:53 am
[...] In a recent entry on life after graduation, one tip was to “see the world”. A Get Rich Slowly reader commented: I belong to that 93% of students who wanted to study abroad but didn’t. I’d love to have a gap year to travel — but where are grads expected to get the money to afford it, if they haven’t already worked for a while to save up? [...]
December 12th, 2006 at 4:04 am
am part of the 93% of student that want to study in aboard.but thanks to God i will be true with my education next year,and by then i will be a graduate.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I can’t get passed thinking of anything beside paying off the debt to go to school in the first place.