For those of you who made your first million in net worth, what did you do next?

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Kept going with the same habits, which got me to 2 million.

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The eighth wonder of the world.

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Second million

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It’s important to recognize that unless you’re dealing with MILLIONS AND MILLIONS the rules of personal finance remain the same. Maintain your desired asset allocation, continue to save and invest as planned, and don’t react emotionally.

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First million is always the hardest. Took me 12 years. Second million 4 years after that.

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How about third?

Give me about 18 more months and I'll tell you. Almost there.

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VP congrats- how do you plan to make almost 280k of savings over 18 months with asset base of 719k. Of course you may be saving and investing. Just trying to learn here.

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Look for ways to fine tune my investing and savings approach. Basically, I further “leaned” out my expenses.

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Spend it all so that I can try it again.

Never realized it until I put it all together. I crossed my $ 1 this year.

Keep going. It isn’t as much as you’d think.

Cutting out more expenses, paying down student loans as aggressively as possible, saving more, and trying to get another down payment together for an investment property - lots going on! 😬

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