Many realistic ideas to increase your income – and a few crazy ones

This is an extract from The Poor Man’s Guide to Financial Freedom: A Realistic, 10-Step Manual for Building Liberating Wealth on a Low to Medium Income.
Step 5: Increase Your Income
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
– David Brinkley
It is not essential to have a high income in order to reach financial freedom. I promised a ‘poor man’s guide’, and this you shall have. However, if you can find a way to increase your income a bit, you’ll achieve financial freedom more quickly, and/or reach a higher level of financial freedom. As we will keep repeating, it is all about what you do with the money once you have it. Plenty of high-income people are floundering in debt and have no control over their finances at all.