At some time in your life, you will reach a point in your life when “you’ve made it.”
This may be when you get a big raise at work, marry the girl or guy of your dreams, sign for that big new house, or are laying on a beach during vacation, but you will experience the “I’ve made it” thoughts at some point.
When it happens, many people take their foot off the gas. They start to coast and maintain their lifestyle/happiness.
Only problem is there’s no such thing as “maintaining” or “status quo”
While you “maintain” and collect your wins and “relax” other people are going to blow right on by you. Why? They are hungry & they want to win.
Simply “taking a break” or “chillin” actually means you are putting the brakes on your growth, building your finances, & continued education & learning, and you will be moving backward by default. And when you are moving backward, others are moving forward and passing you by.
You have to commit yourself to getting better each and every day regardless of how much you have accomplished to date.
This means putting in the same work and effort day in and day out that got you to this point in your life.
This means continuing to educate yourself about finance, reading daily, putting your money to work for you, and striving to be financially free.
Being a Money Athlete means you continue to push the rock up the hill each day, inch by inch, no matter how far you have already come. The day you don’t move it forward an inch, you lose your strength….. and the rock crushes you.
Forward. Backward.
These are the choices. Every. Single. Day. Which direction are you choosing?
