May is here! I’m not even going to start on “where the h*** did April go?!“ because I feel I’m asking this question since February!
This month I’m not actually going to be talking (writing) about a topic. Well, I am but it’s one I love to talk about, money! I’ve had some feedback on the topics I choose to write about. Most people want to “Redesign “ their lives but it seems like so much work! Others want to get out of debt but “where to start“!!! Everyone wants a magic pill that they can take before going to bed and , voilà!, they wake up in a new life.
I want to say that “I hear you“! And I hate being the bearer of bad news but… it doesn’t exist! It does not work like that! It doesn’t matter what you are trying to change in your life, be it health, money, a new partner, you have to work at it. You have to actually pay attention and be intentional for things to happen.
When dealing with our money, that’s exactly how it is too! I mean you can take short cuts and go all in and half starve yourself to death and cut all the fun from your life, yes, you’ll save money! Until two weeks later, when you get resentful and binge on life and it’s fun and spend all the money saved and then some!
So I have a different proposition for you! Why don’t you start where you are, right now? Why don’t you start by creating a plan for your money, just the money you have coming in every week and all the money you have going out? No agenda, no paying debt, well, not more than your payments, no cutting lifestyle… just knowing how much is coming in and how much is going out!
It sounds like a foreign concept but, this is the first step to creating the life (financial life) you want! Yes, I realise that I’m not asking you to cut anything from your life or to start paying more on your debt. And yes, I do believe that this is the first step to become rich! If that’s your goal! This is where your life starts and it’s from here that it will tell you how you are going to live.
If I ask you right now, how much money do you need to live every week, do you know? Can you tell me the amount? Do you get anxious by me just bringing it up? Why? I know why, but do you?
You get anxious because you don’t know where you are at with your money. it’s not that you have a lot of credit cards or because you owe a lot of money, it’s because you don’t know. And you are scared to find out because it might be even worst than you think! Am I right? I can help you with that, I want to gift you a Coaching Session with me and let’s get to the root of this!
Knowledge is Power!
I don’t need to keep telling you that I’ve been there and I’ve done that! But I will continue telling you that until you hear and I’ll also tell you that, it’s probably not as bad as you think! Your brain is trying to protect you. It keeps coming up with excuses for you not to do certain things, like get up earlier to go workout, jump off a cliff… you know what I mean! It does the same thing when it comes to your money situation!
I just want you to think about this: What’s the worst that can happen? If you do create a list of the money coming in and the money going out, what’s the worst that can happen?
