Financial Freedom - Dreams and Strategies

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If I finally get the sum of money that I'm looking for, I'm first getting myself my dream home. A mansion at the beach or one with a rooftop deep in the jungle where all I would see for miles is vegetation. I don't even mind owning an island and having my dream home there. Of course I will get the best cars, clothes, jewelry, and other accessories. Basically it will be me funding my vanity, financing my luxuries and then retiring to my quiet home after the noise outside.

It's very important that while I'm living my best life, the people around me, family and friends, are also better off and not being dependent on me. I mean, where's the fun if everyone around depends on you? You'd basically be cautious of every pepnny that you spend because you do not know who is calling next for one form of financial assistance or the other.

I remember speaking to a friend who recently relocated to Finland. I noticed he started keeping his hair and beard, which appeared to be a bit too much and uncared for. I spoke to him about it, and then he said hair cuts are too expensive over there. According to him, it's not like he can't afford one every week, but he decided to streamline his haircuts to once a month.
I was curious because if he could afford to cut his hair and shape his beard every week, why wait and do it once a month?

I questioned further, and then he said whenever he thinks about his family back at home, he's mentally converting the money for each weekly haircut to Naira and summing them. He said the money realized would be enough to send back home and share reasonably among each member of his family.

In that moment of our conversation, I am quickly reminded of the importance of independence of everyone around me because, honestly, what my friend is doing with his finances is no way to live. Not only him, but it's a common practice where I'm from for one to not live their life to the fullest with their hard-earned money simply because they need to feed home.

So if I have the amount of money that I seek, a quarter of it will be shared amongst my immediate family members first, or it will be invested for them to yield returns they can live by, and I'm sure clearing them that I won't be supporting anyone financially again after making such a move or investment for them.