Vision. Future. Reality: How to Budget Like a Boss

By Emerald Athena Sparks

Do budgeting like a boss. Get yourself a vision, as it will shape your future, put it into action and make it your reality!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483578798

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Reality

Chapter 1: Life Is About Choices, Be Choosey

Budgeting without a clear defined vision is like driving a car and not knowing where to go. Budgeting with a vision requires you to budget with a purpose. This purpose invokes a mind state and is more focused then cutting expenses. Truthfully, once you budget with a purpose, the cutting expenses will follow because you will start to feel that your purpose is far greater than some of the frivolous things we spend our money on. For instance, like most, I could tell you eliminate your cable bill, reduce your data plan, stop going to Starbucks! But that’s like telling someone who is struggling to lose weight to eat only vegetables, cut out fried foods, stop eating out, and my favorite, no more eating past 6 P.M. Yeah, that will happen instantly! No it will not realistically! We as humans, especially, in the social media age, enjoy instant gratification. We want what we want and we want it right now! If we could get it faster than RIGHT now, we would sign up to get it faster.

But instead of meaningless tasks, let us jumpstart our personal development with a visual change?

Do this exercise for me: Visualize your current lifestyle and your current income. Now, imagine yourself spending money without a plan. Let’s dive into you. You have not been tracking your income or your expenses. Some weeks you earn overtime, you know that is time in a half, but you have no idea of what you are bringing home from you paycheck most months. You create all common expenses such as electric,