Passive Income Secrets: The Essential How-to Guide for... (PDF) (2024)

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Passive Income Secrets

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The Essential How-to Guide for Creating Financial Freedom andLiving the Life You Have Always Wanted!

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Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: You Can Start NowChapter 2: The Berkshire Hathaway ModelChapter 3: What is Passive Income?Chapter 4: Essential Elements of a Passive Income PortfolioChapter 5: Define Your GoalsChapter 6: The Steps for Successful TransitionConclusion

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IntroductionI want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, “PassiveIncome Secrets: The Essential How-to Guide for Creating Financial Freedomand Living the Life You Have Always Wanted!”This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to start building your ownportfolio of passive income sources. No matter what your financial status maybe right now, you can definitely control your own life and create the financialfreedom that you have always wanted for yourself. You need to know that youhave the power to bring abundance and success in your life.Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

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Chapter 1: You Can Start NowOver the past few years, Passive Income has become a buzz word. There havebeen a lot of articles in the internet written about the topic. So what really isPassive Income? Yes, it can be an important tool that can give you the financialfreedom that we all aspire for. But more than that, passive income is a systemthat will require both time and effort from you. You will need to perform initialresearch and quite extensive preparations. When you are able to do so, yourpassive income will allow your money to work for you while you stay at home,travel around the world or even while you sleep.Many people have this thinking that the only way for them to earn income is byworking for it. This kind of thinking is based on the linear income model.Currently around 95 percent of people in Western countries continue to followthis income model. Whether they work inside an office or in other professions,they will have to wake up in the morning, travel to their workplace, and spendtheir time in exchange for the paycheck or the income that they will earn. If theyfail to go to work, their income will be diminished or completely evaporated.Many people start thinking of passive when they have already retired or arenearing retirement age. They normally look for ways on how to continueearning income even when they are no longer eligible to join the workforcebecause of their age. But you do not really have to wait until old age to aim forfinancial security. As a matter of fact, you should begin working on it as soon as

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possible. Even if you are currently working on a job that you truly enjoy, youshould aim to have financial freedom that will enable you to work because youwant to work and not because you have to work.Payday loans have become rampant in the previous years. More and morepeople are relying on payday loans to make their ends meet. Even with theexorbitant interests and fees that they incur, a lot of people choose payday loansas an easy way to manage their finances. They realize too late that they arerelying more and more on payday loans and have been getting multiple paydayloans at a time. Before they know it, they are already in a much worse financialsituation because of their enormous debts. If you are one of these people, thereis good news for you. There is a way out of this financial mess. You, too, canachieve financial freedom. You just need to realize that it will take time and alot of effort from you.You do not really have to let go of your day job because any successful passiveincome requires enough preparation time. You need to meticulously plan howyou can achieve financial security. Just always remember that no matter at whatfinancial status you may in right now, you can always choose to begin thejourney towards financial freedom today.

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Chapter 2: The Berkshire Hathaway ModelBefore we continue discussing Passive Income, I think you will appreciatelearning about the secrets of Warren Buffett in bringing success to his companyBerkshire Hathaway. Back in the 1960’s, the value of Berkshire Hathaway’sstocks was only at $8. Today, the value of the company’s stocks is more than$100,000. In one of his current shareholder letters, Warren Buffett explainedhow he and the management team focus on two value “buckets” for thestcompany. The 1 bucket is composed of several operating businesses thatndBerkshire Hathaway owns a controlling stake while the 2 bucket is composedof other investment vehicles such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds.The two-bucket strategy gives Berkshire Hathaway the following two keybenefits that allow the company to achieve success:1. When the stock market crashes down, Warren Buffet is able todepend on the cash inflows produced by the various operatingbusinesses of the company. He can then use part of those cashinflows to re-deploy funds into the stock market and buy stocks orother assets at a very cheap price. This will not have been the samecase had Warren Buffet decided to put all of the company’s fundsinto mutual funds, stocks and bonds. When the stock market crashesdown, the value of all these holdings will come crashing down, aswell. He would have been compelled to sell some of his investmentswhich were already under-valued in order to purchase other assets or

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investments that were even more under-valued.2. Except for the operating businesses with parent holding companieswho have public stocks, all the other operating businesses owned byBerkshire Hathaway are basically shielded from day to dayappraisals. This fact makes those operating businesses to have a lotmore secure net worth and projected value in the private market.Stocks, bonds and mutual funds can have very volatile market value.This is the reason why banks and other credit institutions are moreinclined to offer long-term loans with fixed rates to a moreestablished and secure business who owns real assets like factories,buildings, retail stores and vehicles. A company whose majority ofassets is invested in a portfolio of stocks, bonds and mutual fundsmay not be able to enjoy such debt leverage.You can apply the same two-bucket strategy in your own life. You will be ableto find it a lot easier and quicker to increase your personal net worth when youcreate two sources of income – active income and passive income.For a lot of people, their day jobs are considered as their principal “operatingbusiness”. No matter what your profession may be – teaching, firefighting,accounting or even as a part-time restaurant waitress, your income from yourday job enables you to pay your monthly rent and utility bills, buy yourgroceries, pay for your other necessities. This source of income can also provideyou with the actual capital that you can use to get into real investments.You need to treat your finances as your own business and as a business owner,you would want to make sure that you are able to increase your profits, which in

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this case are your income from both active and passive sources, while using themost minimum investment required. If you will be given a choice betweenworking extended hours as a waiter to earn more money and continuing yourstudies to become a licensed physician, which will you choose? Well, you maychoose continuing your studies because it can allow you to have more earningsin the future compared to working in double or triple shifts as a waiter. Andhere you will learn the golden rule in building wealth in your life which is toprioritize investments in your own self if you truly wish to achieve financialfreedom in your life. You need to continuously aim to gain new skills whichyou can utilize to make monetary gains.There are a lot of specialized skills that you can choose from depending on yourabilities and interests. You can choose to become a neuro-surgeon, automechanic, dentist, plumber or fluent French speaker. Practically every one of ushas the potential of adding unique and distinctive skills into our occupationaltoolbox in order to get ahead in life. We can no longer live inside the dreamworld where we can simply graduate from high school, look for employment,work until retirement age and enjoy your old age in abundance and peace. Thatdream world no longer exists especially with the continuous globalization of oureconomy. You can no longer escape reality.After you have ensured that your primary or active career is right on track andyou are making continuous investments in your own skills, you can then startacquiring and establishing your other sources of income, again choosesomething that matches your skills and interests. Your choices could includebuying an unused building to convert into storage units or starting a car wash orlawn mowing business. If you like baking, you can start selling cookies andcakes. You just have to make your interests and skills into money-making