Remember at Yahoo! HotJobs when I used to disappear into the nap room for an hour every day at lunch?
Everyone just figured I was an aggressive napper.
But a year of “naps” later, I revealed that I was actually studying for the Certified Financial Planner exam.
I’d study for an hour at lunch. I’d study for 2 hours after I got home.
Then I’d study all day Saturday and Sunday.
Looking back now, I realize it was the very first of thousands of sacrifices I would make – without question – to do what I do.
Finding your calling is paradoxically the hardest and easiest thing we can do.
You’re heeding the call to realize your highest self. It requires stripping your current identity and leaving everything that you know behind. It’s lonely and terrifying and the self-doubt is unlike any you’ve ever experienced..
That’s the hard part.
The easy part?
Once you find it, you don’t have a choice.
Once you find it, you can’t NOT follow your calling.
My “Why” for Financial Zen is that we can remove one of the biggest obstacles for people heeding their call – money.
I found my calling at 29 years old. I didn’t have kids or a wife or a mortgage. The only person affected when I went from “tech sales income” to “new financial advisor income” was me.
Our goal of helping our members achieve Financial Zen ASAP isn’t just so they can sip lemonade on their front porch.
It’s so we can remove the very real financial risk of heeding your calling when so many people depend on you.
I hope that my study “naps” ultimately lead to YOUR study “naps”.
