Find money you don't need for your week-week month-month life don't forget those once a year expenses too.
have money allocated to everything that you absolutely need or don't want to live without!
It's your life so you should know pretty well what those things are, then just figure out how much they cost and boom budget!
Establish an emergency fund $500-$1000
preferably 1 month of expenses before you start investing
Why so many stipulations before you start to invest money?
Because if you don't have the other things properly taken care of you will either want to pull money from your long-term investments or be forced to if times get bad enough.
The result…Takes away from your long term wealth building...