10. Where Would You Like to Go?

Principle: When you can see your destination, it’s a lot easier to get there.

One day I was outside with my 7-year-old daughter. I turned to her with a challenge. “Let’s race,” I said in my competitive daddy voice. She then looked back at me and asked the most important question that you forget to ask when it comes to your finances. “Where are we racing to?”

Do you start things without knowing what the end looks like or where it is? How can you know if you’ve arrived at your destination if you haven’t designated one? Do you believe that whatever sense of fulfillment you are missing will be achieved by arriving at some place in the future? Or that the power to create it exists outside of what’s already available ...

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