It's almost a tradition or a cost of entry for a financial blogger to talk about how they attained their first $100,000 as some kind of perverse freshman orientation into the world of financial blogging. I'm glad to played a small part in starting this trend when I authored Growing Your Tree of Prosperity over 15 years ago when I documented my own journey. When I turned my $100,000 into a self-published book and parlayed it into a feature on the Sunday Times, it was not cool. Some thread on EDMW racked up 128 pages with most postings from fellow Singaporeans cussing me for meeting my financial target. Some folks want an idea of how my thoughts have evolved on this matter you can refer to the following links on my blog :

• In 2015, Budget Babe met the $100,000 challenge and I wrote about it here.
• In response to an increasing number of Deci-millionaires, I wrote an article on how to frame your thinking about this phenomenon here.

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