{"id":2338,"date":"2014-04-29T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:21:16","slug":"the-ultimate-measure-of-financial-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"the ultimate measure of financial success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you heard someone suggest that all their financial problems would magically disappear if they only made more money? But high incomes can\u2019t guarantee financial freedom; there are countless examples of people who earned millions yet still ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmoloan.com\/loans\/from-riches-to-rags-10-celebrities-who-went-broke.html\">bankrupt<\/a>. The common thread among folks who get into financial trouble \u2014 no matter how much money they make \u2014 is their inability to consistently spend less than they earn.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: The ultimate <a href=\"http:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id6202-a-high-household-income-nope-thats-not-a-necessity-either.html\">measure<\/a> of financial success is not the size of your paycheck. Rather, it\u2019s the money left in your pocket after paying for all your obligations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup><sub><a href=\"http:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id8119-100-words-on-how-to-determine-if-youre-a-true-financial-success.html\">source: Len Penzo<\/a><\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you heard someone suggest that all their financial problems would magically disappear if they only made more money? But high incomes can\u2019t guarantee financial freedom; there are countless examples of people who earned millions yet still ended up bankrupt. The common thread among folks who get into financial trouble \u2014 no &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2338\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the ultimate measure of financial success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,23,37],"tags":[152,322,402,494],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-insights","category-reprint","tag-budget","tag-finance","tag-income","tag-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}