Parents always want the best for their children. A bright future filled with endless opportunities. A great education. A big home. Personal and professional success.
Everyone has good intentions. But where many parents fall short is in the specifics.
There’s a big difference between wanting these things for your children and actually taking the necessary steps to make them happen.
Lots of people fail to ever take their vague hopes and turn them into concrete plans. And I completely understand why.
It’s scary to think about all the major expenses down the line. It’s tough to make compromises and face hard tradeoffs. It can be heartbreaking to realize you might not be able to afford all the trips and all the activities and all the years of education you always hoped you would.
Even just talking about it can bring up uncomfortable emotions and feelings of inadequacy or like you’re somehow failing at yet another thing as a parent.
So it isn’t easy to take your best wishes for your children’s future and break them down into specific items with specific timelines and specific price tags. It really isn’t.
But it is absolutely necessary.
If you start making these plans sooner rather than later, you’ll be able to do more. All the timelines will be longer and everything will seem more affordable. You’ll have better options and you’ll get to avoid making a lot of the hard decisions that you might have to make if you waited longer.
The longer you delay, the less you’ll be able to do. All the timelines will be shorter and everything will seem more expensive. You’ll have fewer options and you’ll have to make a lot of tough decisions and compromises that I’m sure you’d rather not make.
If you want your children to have the future you always dreamed they’d have, you need to get specific, make a plan, and start taking action.
I’ve been through this process recently with my own twins, so if you’d like help figuring out where to start and how to get everything in motion, shoot me an at hey@tallkirk.ca or book a meeting with me and we’ll go from there.