What’s Your Wealth Activation Score?

Whether you’re trying to get rich quickly or slowly, there are a plethora of playbooks out there about saving, investing, real estate, business building, and side hustles for you to follow. While there is certainly plenty of advice that is garbage—especially on the get-rich-quick front—there are many, many paths to financial success. That is, if you define financial success as accumulation.

Once you’ve got a lot, you’ll also find plenty of strategies for optimally parting with your money. You can ladder, bucket, annuitize, exchange, reverse mortgage, take profits, spend, give concentrated securities, and otherwise dispossess yourself of all (and more) that you have accumulated in your lifetime. If you believe that success is living large and letting the last check bounce, your options are nearly limitless, and you’ll find many excited to enrich themselves through your decumulation.