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Thinking that they don’t have enough money is the biggest thing holding people back from investing.

Where are the tools that give people hope and help them to move up the socioeconomic ladder, to make a better life for themselves and their loved ones? The more I think about this, the more incensed I am that this key issue is simply ignored.

Here’s what is needed:

Empower people to be paid-up investors. Enable them to build up wealth and create passive income, where the starting point is a relatively small amount of money, a lump sum that is manageable for the average man or woman to save, where people do not have to take on debt of any sort to make this happen, but can work with, and build on, what they have.

What will happen is that those who buy one “investment ticket” – let’s call it that for the sake of this scenario – will buy more. Their way of life will change so that money is used mindfully. They’ll have goals, be excited, look forward to going to work to earn the money that’ll buy them their next ticket, and we will all rejoice over the new world order.

The sad truth is that many people don’t bother starting on the road to saving and investing because they believe they’ll never be able to afford it.

And because they don’t have the stash of cash and can’t see how they could any time soon, they blow whatever money they do have on – well, nothing important – and stay stuck, if they’re lucky, but more often than not, end up in a deeper money hole as the years pass.

The sad truth is that the people most in need of building a solid financial base are the very ones being left out of the wealth creator vehicles.

We don’t need to be mega-wealthy or tycoons to get a foot on the investment ladder. What we need is to stop accepting the status quo and to be brave and bold and take the majority of people on the road to financial freedom.

source: http://www.thenational.ae/business/on-t ... the-people