When it comes to financial education one of my favourite authors is Robert Kiyosaki! He took an unpopular subject: Money and how it works, and broke it down for the everyday person making it more popular and easier to understand; as well as more accessible and applicable to the average person and their lives.  His books have changed people’s lives!

Rich Dad, Poor Dad, his most popular and best-selling book has sold over 17 million copies; was on the NY Times best selling list for going on seven years, and has been translated into fifty-one languages.  From that first book, seven other books have followed making up the Rich Dad series, including one called ‘Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant.

Some say it is his most important book in regards to helping people change their lives! The key concept of CASHFLOW Quadrant is that there are four quadrants (as shown in the image for this post), each marked with a letter: E for Employee; S for Self-Employed or Small Business Owner; B for Business Owner; and I for Investor.  Robert Kiyosaki explains if you want to achieve financial freedom in your life rather than financial security, you have to change quadrants, rather than jobs.

Here he covers the topic in one of his RICH Dad Education videos:

The current reality is that the Industrial age, when the more traditional job roles such as; the Doctor, Lawyer Teacher and Accountant were the status quo, is now over!  We now live in the Information/Internet Age or even Entrepernuerial Age, and the roles I just mentioned are under financial attack.  Thus, for those that are working traditional jobs or not, but especially  those who are not working, it is time to get creative, to get resourceful!  There is no such thing as job security anymore, but financial freedom still exists, and with the various wealth creation tools and strategies available to us at a click of button, there are many ways of obtaining it with hard work and time.

When I look at the CASHFLOW Quadrant I think of it as stages; stages of growth in yourself, your career and finances. Some people jump straight into quadrants B and I or even S, but for most of us we start in the E quadrant. And this is not a bad thing because essentially, this is where we get our experience of what we do and don’t want from our working life. The great thing about the CASHFLOW quadrant is that once you understand that you don’t have to change jobs to achieve financial freedom but simply change quadrants, it is just a question of finding the many ways to move from the E and S quadrant, or even remain in those quadrants whilst you make your transition to the B and I quadrants.

Do you have a skill such as sewing, cooking? If so, why not offer a service to mend people’s clothes or even set up a resturant in your homes – (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxpc7)?  Some people are looking to set up a franchise (http://www.franchiseinfo.co.uk/exhibition) , or even join a network marketing business, which Robert Kiyosaki says “…a system I often call a personal franchise – [it] is a very democratic way of wealth creation”. Why not start an internet marketing business from home or even become a trader?  There are many ways and options to move quadrants and ultimately change your life and fulfil your potential, if YOU just simply take the time to seek them out.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

So, are you ready to change quadrants? If yes, then let me point you in the right direction!!! Get in-touch and let’s discuss!

To Your Financial Success and Becoming Financially Savvy!

Financial Educator & Business Owner of Butterfly Wealth Creation

P.S. If you want your own copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s CASHFLOW Quadrant or even Rich Dad Poor Dad (in Spanish or English) then you have a choice of searching for a free e-book version online or purchasing a copy from my Amazon e-book store by either going direct to the webpage ‘E-Store’ here on this site, or click here

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