Stop thinking of ways to spend money you don’t effing have!
Me, On a Particularly Rough Day
Do you ever do this?
For year and years, I would keep a post-it note stuck to my computer monitor at work. For the average onlooker, it looked like scribbles, but to me, it meant the world. It was my plan of action… my game plan!
“For what!?!”, you ask?
I’m a little ashamed to admit this, but it was my plan of action for if I got $1,000,000 today.
That’s right! I knew down to the dollar what I would do with a million bucks! I assumed 400K went to taxes, I would pay off some debts, give away some money, save some, invest some, blow some on stuff, etc. I actually thought that doing this would somehow prepare me for the major breakthrough that was most certainly headed my way.
However, that’s not the case. About a month ago, I had a profound realization on a really awful day. Nothing was working… blogs sucked, products wouldn’t sell, traffic was down and all I wanted to do was figure out how to spend a million bucks!
It’s delusional!!! It really is.
So, I said out loud in my cubicle at work… “Stop thinking of ways to spend money you don’t effing have!”
It seems so simple when you hear it out loud, but to an eternal optimist with countless business ideas… spending a million bucks is all I wanted to do. I wanted to count my money and plan my life accordingly, all while conveniently ignoring the work that needs to be done to make an extra $5, let alone a million! But, when I said it out loud something snapped back to reality. Something inside me realized that I allowed my procrastination to masquerade as ‘strategic thinking’ or ‘being ready’ to steward new resources. All-the-while, I was poorly stewarding my current resources.
I’ve stopped counting the money I don’t have and for now, that’s a step in the right direction.
