By J.P. Dahdah, Founder & CEO of Vantage
I love July. Not only is it the month I celebrate my birthday, but the good ol’ US of A turns another year older, too. Summertime is fantastic because it puts most people in a better mood. Kids are out of school, family vacations are taken, and best of all, we celebrate our country’s greatest benefit — freedom! Freedom is about the power of choice… choosing your purpose, your destiny, and your direction in life without anyone interfering or holding you down. Freedom is individual empowerment in its truest form. Wars are fought to defend freedom or to demand it. Because choices make things personal in our lives, it is in our human nature to want more choices, regardless of what we are choosing. Ironically, some people dread this level of independence and personal responsibility. Why? Fear. Fear of failure and fear of personal accountability. “What if I make a mistake? What if I make the wrong choice? What if I don’t have anyone else to blame for my results?” By freezing people in their tracks and preventing progress, this negative mindset holds people captive and disables them from making choices. That type of fearful mindset is not the mindset of the Self-Directed Investor. As a matter of fact, it is the polar opposite of how we think and behave. We embrace choices, personal ownership, and having control of our financial destiny. We don’t want anyone else to screw things up for us. If mistakes are made, we prefer to be the ones to make them, since we must pay the consequences for them. When I learned the truth about Self-Directed IRAs in 2003, I knew these accounts were for me. I love investment control. I love personalizing my portfolio. I love having virtually unlimited choices and flexibility with my money. If you haven’t yet taken the steps to Set Your IRA FREETM, I encourage and support you in doing so this month. (See special offer below.) Happy Investing!!!