Youre Not Poor Youre Just Playing the Wrong Game
The other day, a subscriber wrote to me from an island where the sun hits hard and the rental prices even harder. He told me how, after living in several countries, he discovered something most investors miss: there are incomes that don’t show up on spreadsheets, but completely change your financial life.
They’re not passive incomes. They’re invisible incomes. And often, the key is in the passport.
When you talk to someone who has lived in Panama, Colombia, Portugal, and built a cashflow engine from a foreign-owned business, pulling in €120,000 tax-free and another €36,000 in rental income without touching the taxman, you realize Excel doesn’t cut it.
Because traditional spreadsheets measure yield. But they don’t measure peace of mind. They don’t measure geographic freedom. They don’t measure the power of living somewhere cheap, warm, and billing clients in dollars or euros from the outside.
And more importantly, they don’t measure the deeper truth: you get richer quietly every year. Because the country you live in is depreciating while your money is not. You live in weak currency, earn in strong. You’re not playing defense. You’re scaling margin. Buying years of real life.