Breaking Free

The holidays are coming and having your strategy in place before you shop is the best way to avoid overspending. Planning helps you stay on track with your budget and financial goals.

If you want to break the chains of debt and build wealth an accountability partner can be the key to your success.

When it comes to performance, our own reality is stronger than actual reality. You can be in debt but see yourself as debt free and your habits and daily behavior will lead to becoming debt free. On the other hand , you can be on the road to becoming debt free and see yourself as a loser that will never get ahead and your own thoughts and reality will sabotage your future .

If you have gone through Breaking Free, we are looking for feedback. Let us know how it has helped you.

Group of people going through week 3 of Breaking Free. Learning the power of knowing where your money is going before a month begins.

Love this feedback from some Breaking Free participants. "Breaking Free helped Robert and I get in the position which allowed me to quit my job in Dec 2012 in order to fully concentrate on obtaining my Masters. That was so worth it."

Its often the little things that nobody sees that causes the big things that everybody sees and wants. This is especially true with eliminating debt and building wealth. Stick with your monthly budget, its worth it!

What are the most common areas you find yourself comparing yourself to others?

The constant companion to wanting something new is comparison. It is true with marriages or relationships, with homes, with our careers, with our families and it is especially true in our finances. If we want to be truly happy, we need to stop comparing. And if we want to live according to a budget we need to stop thinking about spending and replace it with saving. We need to see the benefits of less stress and more margin.

Here is a test to know if you are devoted to God or stuff. Are you generous to God financially? Do you put him first with your finances? Are you generous with other people?

The chief competitor for my heart is not the devil, its STUFF. Life is better with margin. Jesus said it like this in Mathew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted tone and despise the other. You can not serve both God and money.

The challenge in creating margin is not because its difficult its because it takes discipline. More MARGIN = less stress and higher quality of living.