You probably already know that your 20s are going to be the best years of your life. Here's another nugget of golden advice I hope someone has already told you about your 20s : it is also the best years of your life to start building wealth.

No, this post is not about the book, although its cover does provide an apt summary of what I'm about to say.

Before you get all happy and go about blowing off your first paycheck (or bonus), think about the fact that your 20s is the period of your life when you have literally no liabilities (save for your tuition fees, which you can look at repaying here). Thus, that also makes your 20s the best time for you to really build wealth and lay a foundation for early retirement. For most of us, once we enter our 30s, we ......