Where the Heck am I?
July 10th, 2017
Paths paths paths! Have you ever looked at a map? Yes, a real map? You know, a piece of paper commonly found in the rectangular or square form with lines that lead to places. If not, that is OK, that just means I have more life experience than you. On a serious note, whether you use an ancient map or a GPS on your phone; you are using coordinates to get to a place. Hopefully, it is a vacation. What about our life GPS? If you grew up like me, then you might not have had a good one installed when you were built, like some other people may have. However, most people didn’t. On average Americans are spending 136% of their income. Can you say, “yikes”? That is a painful number for me to see because I care about people. I know that under that amount of pressure there is no way people can be living with a peaceful mindset.
Although you may be living in a horrific financial situation and may feel there is no way out. There is! There absolutely is a way out, and even better there is an abundant life out there for you IF you are willing to make the tough choices in life. So many of us settle for an “ok” life. A life that is status quo. A life that we get through, but don’t truly live! Living life is not simply looking around to see if you are in a better place than your neighbors. If this is how you are living, I hope that you are reading this with an open mind. I hope that you can break free of the mindset of “average”. I do think you need to be content with where you are, but strive to be the best you that you can be! Strive to go to your next level.
By now, you have either stopped reading or you are fired up like me. If you are fired up, then this could be the first step for you. What next? you may ask. Well, for some it will be simply getting a basic financial plan together to get you out of debt. For others, it is time to take some risk. Sometimes we live so safely. We take our money and huddle in the corner with it. We grip it like 14-month-old grips their security blanket. The average millionaire invests 20% of their income. (Many choose Real Estate as an investment option. For the tax breaks, etc.) They are completely debt free. No debt at all! They have left themselves with margin. They can take risks because they are not bound by “golden handcuffs” or controlled by fear. Instead, they are standing on a mountain and not quicksand.
So, where are you? What is your next step? Please start to ask these questions because life will not just lead you to a place of peace and tranquility. You must fight for it! That is quite the oxymoron, but it is true! You must fight for your peace, financial freedom, family, relationship with God. This world wants nothing more than to distract you from all the things that are important using all the things that are very unimportant. So, write down your goals. Recite your goals. Then declare your goals! Do this often, so that your focus is not broken from the important, but rather you will then be distracted from the very unimportant. Start today by inputting the coordinates you want in your "life's" GPS, and compare your location five years from now, to today; you won't even recognize it. Or, change nothing and nothing will change.