Greetings with a reminder that God is always faithful…
Today I want to build on yesterday’s one thing (Measure What Matters) with a closely related topic. The one thing that I’d like for you think about today is: “Know Your Freedom Number”
What I mean by your “Freedom Number” is knowing how much money you need to have saved at a certain age in order to create the “passive income” (income generated without earning a paycheck) needed to be free to serve God’s purpose for your life without pay.
This will require you taking keen responsibility for your life. Most people just drift along hoping everything will work out somehow. Don’t do that! Make the lifestyle choices now that are required for you to have the option to make lifestyle choices later in life.
One more thing, notice that your Freedom Number is not connected with “retiring” (that’s not really a word that should be in a Christian’s vocabulary – at least in the way society uses it). Your Freedom Number is not about freedom “from” things so much as it is about freedom “to be able” to do things. (By the way, this shift from thinking in terms of freedom “to be able” vs. “from” will greatly change your motivation for working today.)So, sharpen the old pencil and get to work!
Looking forward,
dlkemp
P.S. A wise financial advisor can be of great assistance here.
P.S.S. I wouldn’t count on Social Security being there 😦
The ONE THING 
I once had a CEO ask me what amount of money would it take to hang it up and what would you do with your time, basically the ‘freedom number’. That question was asked to me 6 years ago. If he asked me that same question today, my answer would be significantly less…. I guess as I get older, my ‘priorities’ have changed. The good news is the ‘what I would do” hasn’t changed…see you Saturday.
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