“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
– Frederick Wilcox, writer
Whether you want to improve your credit score, save more money or retire 5 years earlier it all requires change and some level of risk.
There are no guarantees other than you are guaranteed not to win if you don’t enter the race.
Baggage is a real killer.
Sometimes it stops us due to prolonged periods of discouragement or fear of moving forward and if nothing else it is slowing us down and causing us to expend extra energy just to carry it with us.
The concept of money can be broken down into 4 parts:
1. Debt
2. Income
3. Goals
4. Savings
If you close your eyes and think of each of these 4 parts of money you will find yourself with 4 unique sets of feelings and emotions.
Each set of feelings and emotions comes from a lifetime of ups and downs, victories and loses, tragedies, hurts and more for each area.
Try to pinpoint and specifically identify the negative feelings, emotions, and real life stories you think of for each area.
These are the excess weight and baggage you are lugging around with you in trying to succeed in each of these 4 areas.
Like anything the 1st step towards a solution is identifying the problem.
Now that you know your baggage take steps to let go of the negative, learn a positive truth to replace the old, forgive yourself or others or just choose to believe differently.
Let go of the old and walk today with a new jump in your step on the road to financial freedom.
Here’s another excerpt from the ebook I am reading containing an interview with Jim Rohn…
“A phrase in the Bible seems to indicate that whatever you move towards, moves towards you. It mentions that God said, “if you make a move toward me, I’ll make a move toward you.”
If you move toward education, it seems like the possibilities of education start moving your way.
If you move toward good health, the ideas for better health, the information starts moving toward you.
That’s good advice.
If you’ll just start the process of moving toward what you want, it is true, mysteriously, by some unique process, life loves to reward its benefactors.
If you start taking care of something, it wants to reward you by producing and looking well.
If you take care of flowers, they seem to bloom especially for you and say, “Look how pretty we are. You have taken such good care of us. Now we want to give back to you by giving you our beauty.”
I taught my two girls how to swim and dive. Of course, like all kids, they’d say, “Daddy, watch me. Watch me do this dive.” It’s almost like they’re saying, “You’re the one that taught me. You’re the one that had patience with me. You invested part of your life in this process. Now watch me. Watch how good I am.”
All of life wishes to do that.
All life wishes to reward its benefactor.
It could be something like a garden that grows because you took the time to cultivate it, to pull out the weeds, and take care of the bugs.
Now, the garden does extremely well for you as a reflection back to you Because you are the one that invested time, energy, effort, and a piece of your life.”
Make a move towards your financial freedom today.
“One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.”
Carl Zuckmeyer
1896-1977, Writer and Playwright
How often have you heard of people who win millions in the Lottery and end up broke years later?
On the flip side how often have you heard a rag-to-riches story of someone who set goals, made a plan and disciplined themselves to accomplish their goals?
Are you willing to gamble your financial future on the 50% of life that is luck?
Make a step towards financial freedom today!
One of the potential hazards on the super highway to financial freedom is “job burnout”.
Are you at risk? Take this quiz to get an idea of where you are at with your job satisfaction.
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