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Many people believe that investing is only for the rich. That couldn’t be more wrong. It’s because people invest, that they become rich. So people with very little financial assets have to start somewhere if they want to create more wealth for themselves and their family.

If you maintain that your business or your job will make you rich over your lifetime, you couldn’t be more wrong. People who retire usually have some sort of investment product working for them during their working life. It’s the money that your employer or you place into superannuation or retirement benefit schemes that will let you retire comfortably. This is the investing side of the equation that will pay for your retirement. The other investment class that most people have is their mortgage. The value of their house will increase overtime to the stage where they can sell it and use the proceeds to retire on.

So why is it that most people find that even though they have these two investment vehicles, they still have very little to live on in retirement? It’s called inflation and the cost of living. Because of the effect of prices increasing over a long period of time the money needed to retire will no longer be an amount to keep them in the lifestyle they had dreamt about.

So what can you do about it? The answer is to invest now. Invest in shares and property. Use excess cash flow from your business or your job to buy property or shares. This creates passive income. Passive income is income that you earn when you have not used your time to create it. It comes from those things you own and is created regardless of your input or not. If you were to go on holidays, your passive income would be there for you when you came home.

Passive income is the secret of the wealthy. It starts with a simple formula of taking some of your cash flow and buying the items that give you passive income.

Property gives you passive income through rent. Shares give you passive income through dividends. Depending on your financial situation you may be able to jump straight into property investment. Shares are an easier way of starting out.

With online share trading accounts through some of the major brokers it can be as easy as dedication a proportion of your weekly wage to a share trading bank account each week. There are easier ways than this that are made available through brokers. You can buy an installment warrant. This is similar to a down payment on the full cost of your shares. So if you want to take advantage of the immediate benefits of owning shares, you can buy the installment warrant and make installments on it or if the shares go up enough, you can sell your installment warrant for a profit and reinvest it in more shares.

The choices you have are many and varied and it is not a really hard thing to do. The best thing you can do is to educate yourself about the share market and talk to professionals about your options for investing. The sooner you get started, the sooner you will have passive income so that you will be able to maintain your income.