Feeling Distracted? Or suffering from False focus?
Hello, !
I remember my first money epiphany.
I was married, age 30, with a 3 year old and a 5 year old.
And we were broke. BROKE, broke.
“Making toothpaste from baking soda to save $1” broke.
Ahhh, the good ol’ days - some of them weren’t so great!
But anywhoo, I was determined to “do better” with our money.
So I borrowed a book from my brother-in-law called Total Money Makeover.
And I learned about a guy named Dave Ramsey.
In the very beginning of that book, he said something that turned my whole wealth paradigm on its head.
Sometimes you don’t have a saving problem - sometimes it’s an income problem. (paraphrased)
I honestly don’t know why that simple truth never occurred to me before that moment.
I think that’s what shame does.
It blinds us from looking at the issue clearly.
I felt so much shame over not being able to “manage” our little bit of money.
I also wrongly assumed that “God will meet all your needs” meant that God would miraculously make it possible to live on $11/hour as a family of 4 in 2007.
Maybe. Or MAYBE it was time for me to learn what ELSE the Bible had to say about money - and not from other poor people either (even if that poor person was a preacher)
So, that day, I turned my focus from “saving money” to “make more money”.
Within 6 months, our family income had doubled. YEAH! Finally above the poverty line!
The point of this story is not “how to break free from poverty by starting a business” (although that’s an article I should maybe write too).
The point is this - when we’re focused on one thing, we CANNOT see another.
My focus was so dialed into
frugality that I was blind to the options we had available to increase our income.
What are you FOCUSED on?
And, is that focus serving you?
At 11 am EST, I am hosting a free workshop on Facebook.
Find Your Focus - 3 Steps to Being Truly
Productive
Here’s the link to join.
Facebook: https://fb.me/e/5kXg9RHPn
Or, if you have specific questions you’d like answered, as a perk of being a newsletter subscriber, I invite you to join me on Zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81053164668?pwd=UMDsq1kGnskpCHPHIffPHKO8SWrzem.1
IF all goes well, I plan to send out a replay to you later. But it’s a new tech setup and I cannot promise that the tech gods will cooperate. IYKYK
Either way, take home thought -
What are YOU focused on during this season?
Do you feel like you are making progress?
Or, do you feel distracted?
And, BIG QUESTION:
What in your life would change if you STAYED FOCUSED in that area?
More money? Better relationship? Transformed body?
Join the “Find Your Focus” Workshop to learn the Simple 3 Step Framework that will help you REFOCUS on what matters most!
