Education can help you wake up to a happier, brighter financial future. It is the principles of intelligence that master mind our financial well-being. Possessed knowledge is power; shelf knowledge is of no value. Education is the gathering of knowledge and knowledge is intelligence. You can gather knowledge and intelligence from 0 to 100+. It is all around us in abundance.

Albeit known what type of intelligence you gather.

Edward Gibbon said, “Every person who rises above the common level has received two educations; the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important from himself.”

Some young adults graduate from high school with 12 years of education and others, somehow, manage to graduate with 1 year of education 12 times. Some go on to colleges and to great universities, but it is what Edward Gibbon referred to as the second education that inspires and motivates them to become the leaders of business, industry, and the nation.

Basic financial knowledge, together with IRS tax incentives, can help you accumulate wealth on the way to retirement and these same principles can help seniors and retirees enjoy more income, more growth, and less tax while providing more for their heirs.

On education, Thomas Huxley wrote, “Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do; when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”

Wisdom comes with the ages of time. Intelligence comes with the gathering of knowledge. Gather all the financial knowledge you can and your future will serve you well. For me Charles F. Kettering summed it up best with these words, “I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it’s going to be. That is my reason for planning.”

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