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“Help! Should I Focus on Making More Money or Investing?”

The dilemma: “Is it more important to focus on making more money or investing what you already have? I feel like I’m trying to do both and doing neither well.”

The answer: Haley Sacks, a.k.a. @MrsDowJones—the zillennial finance expert, New York Times bestselling author of Future Rich Person, and host of the podcast Financial Tea (basically, if CNBC and Bravo had a baby).

The honest answer: both matter. But the order you do them in changes everything. 

I get this question all the time, and I love it because it's so real. You're not failing—you're just missing a framework. Here's the one I use:

🪨 Start with your foundation

Before you do anything else, make sure the basics are covered:

If those boxes aren't checked yet, focus there first. Investing while carrying 25% APR credit card debt is like filling a bathtub with the drain open. 🛁

💰 Then invest. Consistently. Even small amounts

Here's the thing about investing that changed everything for me: the stock market doesn't care how much you make. It just compounds. And time in the market always beats timing the market.

Start here:

Even $100 a month invested consistently in a diversified index fund is a real wealth-building move. Don't wait until you can do more.

📈 Now focus on making more

Once you're investing consistently, even modestly, shift some of your energy toward increasing your income. This is where the real acceleration happens.

The math is simple: investing 20% of $60,000 is $12,000 a year. Investing 20% of $90,000 is $18,000. More income invested consistently compounds into a completely different financial future.

🖐️ The bottom line

You're not doing neither. You're doing both without a clear priority order. Fix the foundation first, automate your investing second, then go make more money. In that order.

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