WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.690 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.690 --> 00:00:03.840 align:middle line:90% Pay Yourself First. 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:08.910 align:middle line:84% Think you don't make enough money to save some of it? 00:00:08.910 --> 00:00:10.560 align:middle line:90% Think again. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.080 align:middle line:84% If you earn $25,000 a year for 40 years, 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.590 align:middle line:90% you will have earned $1 million. 00:00:16.590 --> 00:00:22.510 align:middle line:84% Earn $35,000 for 40 years, and you've earned $1.4 million. 00:00:22.510 --> 00:00:25.800 align:middle line:84% And if you earn $45,000 for 40 years, 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.070 align:middle line:90% you'd have made $1.8 million. 00:00:29.070 --> 00:00:32.870 align:middle line:84% Pay yourself first, and you can get ahead in the savings game. 00:00:32.870 --> 00:00:35.180 align:middle line:84% Here's what can happen when you save just $100 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:36.860 align:middle line:90% a month for 40 years. 00:00:36.860 --> 00:00:41.200 align:middle line:84% At 3% interest, you would have about $93,000. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.300 align:middle line:84% At 5% interest, you'd have about $153,240. 00:00:46.300 --> 00:00:52.600 align:middle line:84% And if you got 9% interest, you'd have about $472,000. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.120 align:middle line:84% That's the power of paying yourself first. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:57.190 align:middle line:10% After all, it's not what you earn. 00:00:57.190 --> 00:00:59.400 align:middle line:10% It's what you keep. 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:06.000 align:middle line:90%