@henrythechasetofreedom: 1. Your salary is your ceiling, what you keep is your foundation. I didn't earn more than £30k until I was 30, and years of that was in fast food. The only thing I could control was what stayed. I saved like it was a sport, and honestly the only reason it stuck is that I enjoyed it. No apps, no automation, I just moved it myself every payday because I wanted to watch the number go up. Nobody tells you this on a low wage. You can only save as much as you earn, and I can tell you to go get a promotion but that's not in your control. Saving is the only part you have full control over, and that's where you start. 2. Make every pound work, even while you're too nervous to invest. I didn't go straight into the market. I was risk averse and still am for the most part. So it went into fixed rate accounts, then a high yield savings account, then a cash ISA. This was exciting. My money was always earning something and I knew exactly where every pound was. The habit was never letting money sit there doing nothing. Then when I understood it better, I took the leap and started investing. If you're nervous, start where you're comfortable and make that money earn. Just don't let being nervous become the reason you never move at all. I have a weekly series where I invest £10 a week to help you on this journey. 3. Don't ignore the pension the way I did. All those years in fast food and I've got under £3,000 in a pension to show for it. Then years self-employed as a delivery driver, making no contributions at all. I'm not telling you this as someone who nailed it. I'm telling you because I can see exactly what those years cost me and I'm not getting them back. The money you put in in your twenties does more work than the money you put in in your fifties, and nobody ever sat me down and explained that. Had I grasped how much pensions and retirement mattered, I'd change it in a heartbeat. That's why I want you to know. Understand your workplace pension, state pension and private pension. I'm not special and I didn't do anything clever. I just kept going for longer than I wanted to. #personalfinanceuk #moneytips #investinguk #savings #pension

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