Apr 17 • General discussion
Cheering for you Omar!
My bank wouldn’t let me wire the money for Omar’s program last year.
I was fresh off identity theft and have no online banking access. So I had to go in.
I didn’t believe in myself before content to cash.
I just signed a $16k photo job.
A year ago, I would have laughed at you and said, that couldn’t happen here in the middle of the map, no where Hutchinson. KS
Little by little, I have been putting myself out in the world. Being “the content.”
I’m here to share what I shared this morning on Facebook.
You are the content.
You are in control of your mind.
Be loud about what you care about and I promise you,, I am just starting to walk in what God has FOR ME.
Thank you for doing the work you do Omar. I will see you in Las Vegas for Neels conference and then hopefully if you don’t know me though my content, you will see my heart and know I’m not the crazy cancer mom!
Praying over you today!
I’ll be listening in!
Enjoy my Ted talk:
I was caged in my own mind.
I had lost my license.
I could not drive.
And somewhere in that season I started believing that everyone who looked at me could see exactly what I was carrying.
The shame.
The weight of what I imagined everyone thought of me.
I think that was the beginning of my visibility wound.
But underneath the shame was something else.
A money wound I did not even have a name for yet.
Getting sober cracked the cage open.
Community, money mindset books, and a lot of honest conversations started the slow work of healing it.
I am still healing.
But I am not caged anymore.
I live in a double wide in rural Kansas 160 (on acres of my FIL land) with my husband and two farm boys who run wild just like I did as a little girl.
I am not writing this from a fancy farmhouse.
I am writing it from a slow life I chose on purpose.
These six habits are a big part of why I have options today.
1. I stopped buying things that lose value on credit.
I grew up on a Kansas dairy farm.
My dad did not have much.
In 1985 the state bought him and his brother out of milking cows.
He did not quit.
He broke out.
He took that moment and built the legacy farm they have together today.
I watched that.
I just did not know I was watching it.
In 2003 I packed my car and left.
Not to run away.
To find out who God had made me to be.
Not the farmer's daughter.
Just Sara (the gypsie according to my 4 sisters).
My dad showed me what it looked like to start over and build something real.
What he also showed me without ever saying it out loud: you do not spend what you do not have.
You do not pay interest on things already losing value.
Cars. Phones. Furniture. Cash or you wait.
At 18 I got my first credit cards.
Worst financial decision I ever made.
I learned that lesson the hard way and I have not forgotten it.
Am I perfect?
I may have a mastermind or two on a zero interest card right now.
The cash is there.
But I am betting on my best year ever to pay it off.
That is not a failure.
That is a calculated decision.
There is a difference.
2. I am learning to invest before I spend.
Nobody handed me a system for this.
I figured it out the hard way.
Recently I photographed an entrepreneur camp for Adrienne Dorison and Mike Michalowicz, the cool guy who wrote Profit First.
I stood there thinking this is exactly what I wish someone had handed me at 18. A book about money and paying yourself first.
His next book is called The Money Habit.
Already on my list.
I am not perfect at this yet.
But knowing changes what you do next.
3. I kept my expenses low on purpose.
I drive an old Tahoe.
I thrift most of my clothes and honestly it is one of my favorite things.
There is something about finding the thing for almost nothing that just hits different.
It is also what my mom and I did together.
It was our thing.
So when life feels heavy I process my dopamine with a two dollar bargain here or there.
We live slow and wild on the farm.
Two boys who remind me every single day of a little girl riding her bike through an empty silage pit.
Not because we are broke.
Because we chose this.
The lower your monthly costs the more options you have.
That is not a sacrifice.
That is a strategy.
4. I stopped upgrading my life every time I made more money.
Every raise went into investing in myself and getting into bigger rooms with better people.
Not a nicer car.
Not a bigger house.
My lifestyle stayed flat while my thinking grew.
5. I stopped looking at what everyone around me was spending.
78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
That is not a standard worth keeping up with.
I stopped using broke as my benchmark.
6. I put myself in rooms with people who think bigger.
Not everyone in my life understood this.
My husband is a farmer.
Steady.
Practical.
Rooted in what is right in front of him.
And I love that about him.
But I needed something more.
I needed to be around people who talked about time freedom and abundance like it was actually possible.
Masterminds.
Online communities.
People walking in faith and building something on purpose.
Those rooms did not just change my thinking.
They gave me permission to want more without feeling guilty about it.
Proximity is a strategy.
Get around people who are living the life you are building toward and stay there.
Thanks to community, money mindset books, and a whole lot of grace I am slowly healing whatever wound I was carrying deep in me.
I am still fighting the urge to stay busy when God is asking me to be still.
Still calling my dad when the numbers scare me.
I am not who I was.
And I am not done yet.
Tag someone who needs to hear this today.
Always Chasing Joy, Sara
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