Chaos in your life and the impact it has on financial success or enjoyment of life.
I recently had a discussion about chaos and stress in our lives and had some great insight I thought I’d share:
In my own life I know that if I act too quickly without stopping to think through the situation or the options - or if I'm doing something because I feel like I 'should' do it - not really with a strong sense of why I'm doing it or what it will mean - If I'm not focusing on the really big rocks and the true purpose, priorities, etc.... then I often end up in a crisis.
Such an example happened the other day: I was supposed to go to a presentation on financial planning situations arising from financial statements; I'm interested and the presenter is someone who has helped me with some cases in the past - but... my focus is not in doing more technical financial planning at this time - it's on building an educational franchise system and immediately making sure I am delivering on the expectations people have from me and MoneyMinding® to help them in their life today. Financial statements are interesting and the topic is relevant – it’s just not a priority for me today.
I had another situation that has caused some ‘chaos’ over the past year as well, and in this case, I felt I 'should' use someone’s services for a job I needed done because he was a client of mine and he brought it up when we were talking one day so I said sure, even though I wasn't confident that he was the right guy for the job. The job ended up needing to be re-done and is still causing problems and costing more money and more stress.
This whole area of focus and being true to our priorities and who we are is such a big part of our financial development that often gets overlooked until we’re looking at ways to find more time or more money to do the things we are really passionate about. We have to learn to become aware of how are decisions on a day to day basis affect our bigger life experience and purpose.
Copyright© 2006 Tracy Piercy, CFP
Written permission is required for reproduction. Thank you.
In my own life I know that if I act too quickly without stopping to think through the situation or the options - or if I'm doing something because I feel like I 'should' do it - not really with a strong sense of why I'm doing it or what it will mean - If I'm not focusing on the really big rocks and the true purpose, priorities, etc.... then I often end up in a crisis.
Such an example happened the other day: I was supposed to go to a presentation on financial planning situations arising from financial statements; I'm interested and the presenter is someone who has helped me with some cases in the past - but... my focus is not in doing more technical financial planning at this time - it's on building an educational franchise system and immediately making sure I am delivering on the expectations people have from me and MoneyMinding® to help them in their life today. Financial statements are interesting and the topic is relevant – it’s just not a priority for me today.
I had another situation that has caused some ‘chaos’ over the past year as well, and in this case, I felt I 'should' use someone’s services for a job I needed done because he was a client of mine and he brought it up when we were talking one day so I said sure, even though I wasn't confident that he was the right guy for the job. The job ended up needing to be re-done and is still causing problems and costing more money and more stress.
This whole area of focus and being true to our priorities and who we are is such a big part of our financial development that often gets overlooked until we’re looking at ways to find more time or more money to do the things we are really passionate about. We have to learn to become aware of how are decisions on a day to day basis affect our bigger life experience and purpose.
Copyright© 2006 Tracy Piercy, CFP
Written permission is required for reproduction. Thank you.
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