I watched Obama's presidential state of the union address tonight and heard a lot of things I liked. One thing I remember specifically is when he was talking about the national deficit. He said something like, "Just like many Americans have had to make sacrifices to live within their means, they deserve a government that does the same." Obviously, this eludes to a reduction in spending that has been talked about forever but has not really come to fruition. Although I'm very hopeful that the government will follow these words with the appropriate actions, I'm not holding my breathe waiting for it to happen. This made me think of the time just before I started to go all out in my debt free journey.
I used to talk a lot about having financial freedom someday and I read a lot of books about the topic as well. Just thinking back, I now know that I wasted so much time "planning" for my financial freedom plan. Doing all the planning and talking and debating around the debt free subject didn't do anything to the overall debt balance, imagine that. It wasn't until I actually "did" something impactful that I started to understand what types of sacrifices and execution would be needed to get to my dream. So, make sure you do something about your journey, just don't talk about getting to it someday...because you more than likely won't. I'm so happy I finally decided to put my money where my mouth was...it would be wonderful if the government did the same.
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