How To Change Your Mind To Achieve Time and Financial Freedom

Have you ever wondered why or how some people get to have it all, i.e. financial freedom and loads of time to enjoy their money? Well if you have, you are in the right track; this is the starting point of knowing how to change your mind to achieve time and financial freedom.

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How To Change Your Mind To Achieve Time and Financial Freedom

Back to the million dollar question. Do you ever wonder why you are stuck in the rat race to an extent you feel that your life is all about paying bills and then die? And no, you are not lazy. You you rise up very early in the morning, come back home extremely late, and at times you have to burn the midnight oil while trying to eke out a living.

Then there are some people that barely do anything, but have their lives all figured out. They often go for holidays, have lots time to spend with their family, and always have lots of cash flow. Their life seems too good to be true. However, this is not so; you too can be free as a bird with enough time and cash to enjoy the fine things that this life has to offer.

Achieving time and financial freedom entails changing your mentality about the subject of time and money. The first step in learning how to change your mind will require you to stop complaining about not having enough cash but focus on figuring out why, you are broke despite your efforts.

The disturbing yet thought provoking questions

Thus instead of making excuses, I started asking myself disturbing yet thought provoking questions such as:

• Why do some people have more time and financial freedom than others?
• Can I attain time and financial freedom while doing any kind of job?
• Does the convectional advice about getting good grades, a good job, good benefits, and good investments really work?
• If this traditional advice is misleading us, why we then follow it blindly?

These questions are quite disturbing and even worse, you will not like the answers you will get. I took further initiative to pose the same questions to some of my friends, and colleagues. Everyone seemed totally sold out to the traditional ‘rat race’ way of life; i.e. work no matter how much it pays, involves an exchange of time for money.

“Everyone seemed totally sold out to the traditional ‘rat race’ way of life…”

I did not like this system at all because it seemed that it would never bring me time and financial freedom I yearned for. Thus, it was either I was being unrealistic or the rest of the world was going about it all wrong.

The need to change your mentality about how money is made

So as to solve the ‘me against the world’ dilemma, I set out on a mission to to educate myself on how  to change my mind to achieve financial freedom without sacrificing on time.

I plunged myself into reading books, listened and watched videos on how to achieve time and financial freedom. Fortunately, on my quest to open the Pandora’s Box, I stumbled upon a book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It is a book a boy and his best friend who compared how their fathers earned and spent their money.

This book was instrumental in enabling me to compare and contrast the different perspectives about money and time, enabling me to attain new discoveries that I have never heard of before. Some of these new discoveries brought about a sense of creative tension and also a sense of frustration from within.

“These new discoveries brought about a sense of creative tension and also a sense of frustration from within.”

They shook the very foundation of my traditional beliefs about money and how it is earned. As I progressively understood the concept of how the rich perceived, used and earned money, I began to let go of my traditional beliefs.

Some food for thought

• Does your job give you time and financial freedom or does it just involve an exchange of time for money?
• Think of someone who has attained both time and financial freedom? How did they accomplish it? Is it through conventional or non-conventional ways?

This article is not meant to provide absolute solutions to your financial woes. But it serves a stepping stone to help you question the status quo in your life. It is meant to stimulate your thinking to begin the journey of learning how to change your mind to achieve time and financial freedom.

Eric Gichuru

Eric Gichuru is a BESTSELLING author of a novel called With Eyes Wide Open and the Editor-In-Chief of Thelocco Magazine. Get in touch now HERE.