What I do NOW affects THE FUTURE
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| Sat, 01-29-2005 - 7:03am |
Hello!
I am trying to tell myself NO more....It is hard, but I am trying. I sorta blew the budget last weekend, but now I am more determined to tell myself NO more and OBEY it!!!! I know I am the only one who can reallly stop myself.
I have been trying to not go to stores, and for the most part, it's been okay, but on occasion I find myself TEMPTED, and OUT LOUD I start saying "walk away! walk away!" and then end up singing some song about not buying whatever it is and walking away. I'm sure people around me think I am nuts! In the end, however, I am glad I didn't cave in.
There are other things I can say YES to....and they will send me on my way back to financial sanity and health, so I have to work on that, too.
I think with me, I'm just thinking of NOW NOW NOW, and not really looking at the big picture that encompasses LATER and THE FUTURE. What I do NOW affects THE FUTURE. (This is also something I think about trying to diet and exercise.) I need to hang that saying up on the wall......... Today is yesterday's future....so what I did in the past is affecting what I do now.
These thoughts will help me get thru today as I am attempting a zero spend Saturday.
Littlesbigs

I'm so w/you on this. It's so hard to think about "the future" it seems so far away to even think about. That's why DH and I made a conscious decision towards the begining of the year ans ask ourselves what our goals were for the immediate future (to us that's 5/6 yrs down the line).
We both agreed that we want to be not only debt free, but that we'd like to start a family, and that I WOULD BE a SAHM, and that until that happens we want to take steps to live soley off his income putting mine into savings as practice for when that day does come.
Saying it out loud and writing it down as our gift we're going to give each other has made it a LOT easier for me to say NO to things lately. Anytime I want something I REALLY don't need all I have to say to myself to put myself in check is...Do I want this shoe OR do I want to be a SAHM mom in 5 yrs. I want that so bad that NO SHOE is worth my charging, lol.
Also since we know where we want to be in 5 yrs time we're doing what we can now, sort of as a race to see if we can actually get all our goals accomplished BEFORE 5 yrs. is up. Hence our selling the house in the spring, doing the apt. thing for a while and paying off all debts with equity so we're not tempted to blow the $ off and not have anything to show for it.
Maybe if you stop thinking about the future so far out and focus on what you want in the next 5 -7 yrs. it'll be easier to put things in perspective, and write it out like we did as a GIFT we're going to work hard to give to each other and ourselves, I have mine on my bathroom mirror so I can see it EVERY day.
Good Luck, I know you can do it.
Remember, sometimes slow and steady wins the race.
:)
What is it about Zero Spend Saturdays that makes me feel like I'm going through detox?
All my best,
Danni