Where Are You Looking?

By general standards, when we look at where we are at financially, it can be easy to always be looking over the horizon.  In our imaginations we can see a victory that is made up something like this......

We fall into a wad of cash.....

All of a sudden we are debt free.......

And we have all the money we need....

So we get to live forever in a land of "No pressure"......

And then we look at where we are and we get down because it doesn't look anything like that. Instead we have bills on the corner of the desk, a job that can be frustrating, and braces to pay for.  In other words, it's not the dream that we would like to be living.

Don't Aim High, Just Keep Shooting



I read an interesting baseball statistic today:  In professional baseball, between the years of 1995 and 2000,  200 batters hit more than 30 homers in a season ( which is quite impressive), but none of them played on a World Series winning team.
 
Who did?

The teams who played "small ball" and focused on just getting teammates on base and advancing the runner. You see, what was instrumental to success was not the out of the park home runs, but rather those small, successful endeavors and focus on short goals.

The same thing can be said about our financial lives. We may not be able to write out a check today to pay off all of our debts or wake up to a fully funded college savings account, but just like in baseball we can achieve short runs at our long term goal and advance forward.

Pay those bills on time.

Stay within your budget.

Keep contributing what you can to your  savings plan.

Keep working at your goals and you will succeed. It takes time, energy, and persistance, but the end results are well worth it.

Where are you finding your victories right now?