August is Money Month in New Zealand, and it’s the perfect time to focus on activities that can enhance your financial security not just for the month, but for the rest of your life.

Here are three essential actions to consider:

  1. Work Hard, Work Smart, Stay Open-Minded: Strive to earn as much as you can through hard work, smart strategies, and an open mind. Assume that you’ll require more money than your parents did for their retirement.
  2. Spend Purposefully: Spend money intentionally and according to a plan that bypasses emotional decisions. Your feelings are tied to the ‘here and now’, and your natural tendency will be to discount future security for present comforts.
  3. Invest Wisely: Invest the difference between what you earn and what you spend to the best of your ability. Don’t fixate on perfection, just make a start and don’t try and be a genius (unless you are in fact, already a genius).

These principles are straightforward, mainstream, and will likely lay the groundwork for financial stability just find.

But, let’s shift gears now and explore some unconventional ideas that might better prepare you for the future.

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If you’re skeptical about the state’s motivations or competence, what follows may not seem too controversial. For the rest of you, I apologise for sounding conspiratorial or speaking in a matter than may challenge your pre-existing belief-set too far.

The truth: Any organisation that uses coercion through media or military, will inevitably attempt to manipulate the masses through the money.

As usual, there are only two types of people in the world.

1 – Those who blindly trust governments and most centralised systems: They find it easy to overlook the flaws in currency manipulated by interest rates and new supply injections from a centralised authorities, like government and central banks.

2 – The ‘weirdos’ who ‘think differently’: They understand the importance of money created by the people, for the people.

If you’re leaning about investing but you’re still ignorant about the money, you’re sleeping walking into a very risky future. In the West, we might be witnessing the decline of the nation-state, mainstream media, and blind trust in centralised organizations. There’s no obvious battle or rebellion or even coup, rather, there’s a growing number of people choosing to place their value elsewhere.

We’re not talking about criminal’s currency or the tool of choice for scammers which of course, is damaging the planet (fiat currency, or money issued by the state). Instead, we’re focusing on a form of money that, block by block and user by user, is empowering millions around the world to gain more control over the resources they work hard to accumulate.

This week, amidst the distractions of the Olympics or real-world war, take a moment to consider what could be the potential solution to many of the world’s problems – the people’s money.

Louise Macfarlane from Easy Crypto, a passionate educator and advocate for people’s money, the technology behind it, and the community it supports. This discussion might challenge your perspectives and inspire you to learn how to break free from state money, and pivot towards peoples money.