Sorry, they don’t exist.
How about an instant, quick fix? Again, sorry.
WW II officially ended on September 2nd, 1945. WW II was won the year before on June 6th, 1944. How can this be? Why did so much time pass between winning and ending the war? D-day was the day when Allied forces invaded Northern France (June 6, 1944). This invasion was the turning point of the war. The war was won on this day but it took another year to prove it to the Axis forces.
My most recent coaching clients have won, but the war isn’t over yet. How do I know they have won? Because they are invading their own financial territory with guns-a-blazin’. The lightbulb has turned on. They are determined to crush it.
Only thing left to do is carry out the plan. Can you believe they told me they are even having fun? It can be fun when you pull ahead of the competition. That moment when you know for a fact you are going to win, yeah, that’s fun.
But you must pay the price. You must earn it. Discipline is the only currency accepted.
You must pay the price. Or, as my buddy Zig Ziglar would say, “You enjoy the price.”
-Derek
In 2010, I was trucking along in life, earning a steady, decent-sized paycheck and had managed to save up a small pile of beans. My net worth was approaching six figures and I was only 30. Debt free and loving it I had a comfortable and reliable financial buffer between myself and the Bad Things in Life. As if there is such a thing as a financial buffer between ones self and the bad things in life.