Over the last year, there has been a lot of talk about our spending habits and how we were living on credit and how that’s bad and five-step plans to get yourself out of debt and get the creditors off your backs and how to make sure you have a good mortgage and ways to have a cheap vacation all while living your dream.
Sorry for the run-on sentence, that was done for effect. It’s been a stressful year for a lot of us, myself included. Each of us has had to fight and battle through different challenges, but we’re here and we’re still ticking – chasing after that elusive dream each of us holds near to our hearts.
That begs the question today: Are you in debt? No, put those checkbooks away! I’m talking about your life.
Think about it in terms of your dreams and your passions and the activities you enjoy most.
Do you have too little time for you passions?
Do you have too much stress in your life? Or at work?
Are you spending too much time on tasks that don’t inspire you or push you to do after your passions?
If you’re answering yes to those questions, then yes, you are running a life deficit. It’s time to turn that around. As we near the end of the year, a few times a month I’m going to dive into this topic of running a “Life Deficit” and ways you can turn that around to run a surplus.
Let’s start with this though: What areas of your life are you running a surplus?
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I’ve been wanting to read, Three Cups of Tea since I picked it up last Christmas and I finally was able to work it into my schedule and I’m glad I did.
