Life You've Always Wanted
What was the first brand that made an impact on your life when you were a kid? I remember Nike’s “Just do it” campaign. I owned a pair Nike Air Pegasus - the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn. When I ran I felt like I was running on clouds and twice as fast as all the other kids. The reality wasn’t quite as rosy, but Nike had me convinced that by wearing their shoes I would conquer the world.
The “brand promise” of having an abundance of money can be the same way. We may have financial goals that we reach, exceed even and yet it doesn’t feel quite as we expected. It’s not the victory parade we anticipated.
The reality is that the life you’ve always wanted probably doesn’t have money at the center of it. At the center are relationships, a deeper purpose, perhaps some kind of mission. In 2012 The Guardian published an Article titled “Top Five Regrets of the Dying.” You may be surprised to find that at the top wasn’t money or fame.
Top regrets of the dying:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish I had let myself be happier.
Though money has a hard time living up to what some believe is its brand promise it can have a powerful role in enabling us to live the life we’ve always wanted:
Being in a healthy financial position can give you courage to take risks.
Investing smartly should build passive income so you don’t have to work so hard.
Build a travel budget to see friends
Allow yourself a budget line item for treating yourself.
In its right place money can have a powerful effect in our lives. But so often it slips from that place. Comparison. Scarcity. Indiscipline. Lack of knowledge. And more mean that instead of viewing money as an enabler we view it as something that will either rescue us or condemn us!
Human Centered Financial Advice
Human Centered Financial Advice designs your finances around the life that you want to live. It’s the opposite of a cookie cutter approach. Want to take a year off work and travel the country with your family? Looking to build yourself a flexible lifestyle where you can balance work, family and play. Want to start the business you’ve been dreaming of all these years? Wondering how to pay for your children’s college and retire?
Human Centered Financial Advice crafts a strategy - a plan - around your own mission and vision and helps you get to where you want to go.
Around this time of year we often make promises to ourselves. Promises to health and wellness: to exercise more and eat less. Promises to our relationships: to call our parents more often, carve out time for our spouse or kids. Promises to our careers: getting that promotion we deserve.
Why not make a commitment to define your mission and vision and begin a financial plan that enables the life you’ve always dreamed of. We’d be happy to help. Schedule a free consultation and find out how our we can help.