Welcome back and Happy New Year!
We took a break to recharge and recover last week but we’re back to go even deeper in overcoming financial trauma!
This is the time of year where people are more intentional about setting goals…and unfortunately where they fall off the wagon (so to speak). We often approach goal setting from the perspective of ‘set it and forget it’ and if we miss out on a day, a week, or a month, we might start to feel guilt or shame about not remaining consistent and abandon our goals altogether.
I’ll admit, some of the goals I’ve set for myself I’ve missed days of already but i’m not abandoning ship, and you shouldn’t either.
Whether it’s budgeting, eliminating debt, spending less, saving more, or any other financial goal you have the power is in the consistency in striving for the goal not the accomplishment of the goal alone.
Taking your financial goals off of autopilot means being more intentional about accomplishing those goals. Yes, you may have created a vision board but are you asking yourself every day “what is something I can do today that will bring me closer to my goal?”
Be honest with yourself about how you feel about accomplishing and not accomplishing your goals. Be honest with yourself about why you even have the goals you do and what your expected outcomes are.
Vision boards turned into SMART goals deal with hopes, dreams, and aspirations and make goals more quantifiable. When people say things like:
"If I only made more"
"If I had just this much money I could..."
"I wish I could win lotto and all my problems would be solved"
They aren’t setting goals, they are telling their mind that this is something they don’t have and in some ways can’t have.
Here’s your wake up call. Be intentional about your goals if you don’t have them already, and if you haven’t maintained your cadence around your financial goals know that today is a new opportunity to get back into it with more intentionality.
How does money make you feel? Do you think having or making more would solve your problems or could you be happy with what you have?
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Thank you always,
Rahkim