Rough Days On The Journey

Today was a rough day for me. I've eluded to the fact that there will be days when you feel great about the journey you've started and confident that you'll achieve all the goals you've set for yourself. But I've also mentioned that there will be days during the journey where you are really down and discouraged about all of the sacrifices you need to make to be debt free. Well, today was a major down day for me. I'm not sure what triggered it but I started to have doubts around whether or not I could truly achieve all my goals/dreams. And once you start with one of those thoughts, it snowballs into several other negative things in your head. You begin to wonder if all the sacrifices you're currently making are worth it in the end. It's a very slippery slope.

Although days like this are inevitable, they still hurt "big time" when they come. And trust me, you'll have many days like this along the way. It's human nature. There's only so much you can take until you break. Sometimes these days are triggered by specific events (i.e. a nice thing you can't afford to purchase, a vacation you can't afford to take, an event you couldn't attend because it cost too much). Other times, days like this just happen because you feel discouraged with the amount of time that is still needed to get you to your ultimate goal. Whatever the case may be, you just need to let it happen and push forward once the "down" feeling goes away.

Up until this point, I have written nothing but positive posts. One of the objectives I had for this blog was to record all of the ups and downs. So, in that spirit, I wanted to make sure I recorded my feelings today. Don't get me wrong, I'm still very positive overall with the journey and the eventual outcomes of our sacrifices. But I want to be truthful with the journey's low points so that you know these types of thoughts will run across your head during your journey.

What am I going to do about it? Well, I'm going to kiss and hug my wife and tuck my kids in their beds. Because even though the debt free journey gets extremely tough sometimes, my family is well worth the sacrifice!