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How To Achieve Your Goals Without Depending on Money
It’s possible to be less dependent on money. It’s a choice.
It’s 19th April 2021, and I have less than £10 in my current account. I am not sad about it. I don’t feel anything about it. I just need to manage to spend less than £10 until the end of the week once I receive my salary. (I have all my bills paid, and I have food in my freezer and pantry. Also, I have a salary coming in soon. So I have more things to be grateful for than not.)
At the same time, I am focused on building my Emergencies Fund, which at the moment is £6,300. I could spend more money this week, but I am choosing not to.
I wouldn’t say I am privileged to have this money, I would say I have been working hard to get my shit together and make good choices every day — my main goal in 2021 is to save money, that’s why I am spending as little as I can.
Having a safety net is very important to me. I want to finish the year with £10,000 in my saving accounts. (Hopefully, more.)
So it makes sense that I need to be less dependent on money to be able to achieve my main goal in 2021.
(I truly believe that the three most valuable tools we have in life are money, time and energy. Read my article about How To Reclaim Time here. And read my article about How To Have More…
