When you’re not making progress toward your financial goals and you’re struggling to keep up with your bills, your world tends to get smaller.
You slowly start thinking in shorter and shorter periods, about making it to next week, and gradually give up on your bigger, longer-term dreams. You lose faith in your ability to make your future better. You lose hope. Stop trying.
When I’m working with new clients, part of my job is to reverse this trend, to help people expand their vision of what’s possible, and to think bigger and longer term again.
Instead of just thinking about next week, I encourage people to think about the next twenty or thirty years and to really imagine what their life could look like, how much better things could be. I try to reinstill hope and optimism and the sense that with some consistent effort and a few improvements, that bigger and better things really could be ahead.
A big part of the value I provide is raising people’s ambitions and helping them think further ahead into the future. With an optimistic outlook and a long-term mindset, we can make our financial futures better.
Where would you like to be in twenty years? And what are you doing to get there?