Have you ever felt this way? Like you were just in a waiting game? 🙋♀️
I call this the boring middle. Most people think that this phase is inevitable. Once you set your financial goals and automate your finances to achieve them, doesn't it just become a waiting game?
While I've felt this in the past, I vehemently disagree that we are stuck in a waiting game.
I actually think that this period of our journey is the BEST, MOST EXCITING PART! You no longer need to focus as much time on finances, and instead, get to focus on LIFE!
Here is how I responded to the email...
"I'm so glad you reached out and asked this question. Congratulations on getting yourself into such a great financial position!
Regarding staying motivated, I would say that the best thing we did was put less focus on the financial milestones (after a certain point) and more focus on figuring out what our post-FI ideal life would look like AND taking steps to make as much of that as possible a reality along the journey.
Do you feel like you have a clear vision of what you want your post-FI life to look like? Could you start taking steps to make that a reality now?
As a resource, here's a podcast interview I did on Choose FI earlier this year talking about your exact question - The Cure for the Boring Middle. From my perspective, the cure for the boring middle is to take all that energy you've focused on your finances up to this point and use it to design the life you want. For people pursuing FI, we have so much more freedom to do that than we sometimes realize.
I'm also leading a free workshop this Thursday called Life by Design that will dive into this exact topic. I hope to see you there."
The Fioneers
Last week, I received this email from a reader.
Have you ever felt this way? Like you were just in a waiting game? 🙋♀️
I call this the boring middle. Most people think that this phase is inevitable. Once you set your financial goals and automate your finances to achieve them, doesn't it just become a waiting game?
While I've felt this in the past, I vehemently disagree that we are stuck in a waiting game.
I actually think that this period of our journey is the BEST, MOST EXCITING PART! You no longer need to focus as much time on finances, and instead, get to focus on LIFE!
Here is how I responded to the email...
"I'm so glad you reached out and asked this question. Congratulations on getting yourself into such a great financial position!
Regarding staying motivated, I would say that the best thing we did was put less focus on the financial milestones (after a certain point) and more focus on figuring out what our post-FI ideal life would look like AND taking steps to make as much of that as possible a reality along the journey.
Do you feel like you have a clear vision of what you want your post-FI life to look like? Could you start taking steps to make that a reality now?
As a resource, here's a podcast interview I did on Choose FI earlier this year talking about your exact question - The Cure for the Boring Middle. From my perspective, the cure for the boring middle is to take all that energy you've focused on your finances up to this point and use it to design the life you want. For people pursuing FI, we have so much more freedom to do that than we sometimes realize.
I'm also leading a free workshop this Thursday called Life by Design that will dive into this exact topic. I hope to see you there."
Upcoming Webinar (tomorrow): youtube.com/live/fJZq76hUBio?si=_wHyoyWRl-qF3unl
Choose FI Podcast on the Boring Middle: https://youtu.be/kPG4sru2xlQ?si=lk9o4...
And, drop a comment below... do you ever feel stuck in the boring middle?
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