How Taking Baby Steps Helped Me Achieve Financial Health

Over the years, I have realized how much my mental state has been crucial to other areas of my life including my productivity. My mental state drives my physical fitness or working at home with kids successfully. So, it’s been no surprise to me recently that financial freedom could help address issues with my financial health. And how do you do it? By taking baby steps. Personally, I decided to follow the Dave Ramsey baby steps method, but I found that the biggest attribute lies in taking small steps to achieve the desired outcomes. Let’s begin. Why Baby Steps Equip You To Succeed You may remember the Pick The Brain article, “How Small Steps Add Up to Big Goals: Achieve Your Dreams with “Little and Often””. In the article, you’ll see that writing just 20 minutes per day will result in a 70,000 word + novel or how committing to cook a couple of hours a week will result in hundreds of hours per year.  Why does Baby Step equip you to succeed? Because we are busy human beings. As a father of 3 young girls (and 1 on the way), I can motivate myself to do something big, but my actual bandwidth is much smaller than I expect. I will start something, but soon realize that I cannot attain what I am pursuing. Instead of breaking down the task into smaller steps, I too often will let that task go by failing.  You can find this in so many areas of life, but specifically in relation to your financial health. Why Financial Health Is Important F...
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