I'm not even sure how I found the book. Perhaps it found me. I downloaded the free chapters a few weeks ago, but hadn't even looked at them. I've been too busy. Work, family, trading my 5-for-2. You know the drill.
This Easter weekend, we were at my parents house, sitting around, chatting, talking about how our kids obsess about the strangest things. I half-joked "I'm glad I wasn't like that," and my mom reminded me about my youthful obsession.
"You always had posters of Lamborghinis on your wall," she reminded me. "You always said you were going to buy one when you grew up and had enough money."
That comment was all it took for me to do some hard thinking. I bought the book after we returned home and immediately began devouring it.
In 2004, my wife and I started the process of working out way out of debt. We scrimped and saved, working our Slow Lane careers and did pretty well in a short period of time. In a couple of years, we managed to pay off about $20,000 of debt.
Then in 2006 our first daughter was born. My wife, in her wisdom, wanted to get a part-time job and take advantage with as much time as she could with our daughter. "I won't get these years back," she said.
She was right and I begrudgingly agreed. I hated to see that hit on the income, but the reasoning was good.
That was five years ago. We're basically in the same boat (with one more kid) as we were then. She runs a preschool out of our home, and I work full-time. We bought a basic starter house last May and have paid off cars, but we haven't made any progress on our debt. We have a very large amount of student loans left, and except for making the minimum payments on them, we're not progressing.
It would almost seem like we're stuck. But now I see some hope. I'm always thinking of ideas for websites/web products and have an Evernote account filled with them. Plus, I have a buddy who I've been talking to about the book and he's come up with a doozy.
Looks like it's time to get out of the Slow Lane and head into the Fastlane.
This Easter weekend, we were at my parents house, sitting around, chatting, talking about how our kids obsess about the strangest things. I half-joked "I'm glad I wasn't like that," and my mom reminded me about my youthful obsession.
"You always had posters of Lamborghinis on your wall," she reminded me. "You always said you were going to buy one when you grew up and had enough money."
That comment was all it took for me to do some hard thinking. I bought the book after we returned home and immediately began devouring it.
In 2004, my wife and I started the process of working out way out of debt. We scrimped and saved, working our Slow Lane careers and did pretty well in a short period of time. In a couple of years, we managed to pay off about $20,000 of debt.
Then in 2006 our first daughter was born. My wife, in her wisdom, wanted to get a part-time job and take advantage with as much time as she could with our daughter. "I won't get these years back," she said.
She was right and I begrudgingly agreed. I hated to see that hit on the income, but the reasoning was good.
That was five years ago. We're basically in the same boat (with one more kid) as we were then. She runs a preschool out of our home, and I work full-time. We bought a basic starter house last May and have paid off cars, but we haven't made any progress on our debt. We have a very large amount of student loans left, and except for making the minimum payments on them, we're not progressing.
It would almost seem like we're stuck. But now I see some hope. I'm always thinking of ideas for websites/web products and have an Evernote account filled with them. Plus, I have a buddy who I've been talking to about the book and he's come up with a doozy.
Looks like it's time to get out of the Slow Lane and head into the Fastlane.
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