I promise that I am not forcing these life lessons from hockey every week, they’re just coming to me. It seems like after every game I come home with some fresh bread (not literally, figuratively).
I may have revealed this before but for some reason on evenings that I have hockey games I come home from work exhausted and think “I really don’t want to play hockey tonight.”
It is very likely it is just that laziness is a cancer because I force myself to go anyway and every week I LOVE IT. Every week I come home renewed for my love of playing, working hard, pushing myself to limits, and teamwork. Right now I thinking, “I wish I could play hockey right now.”
However, I know of one inevitable future occurrence…next game, I will be right back to were I started and not want to go. Because I am a human, and humans forget so easily, I will forget what is right and begin to rely on circumstantial emotions.
What if one week I actually listened to these emotions. And I said, “yeah I don’t feel like going…so I won’t go.” I MISS OUT. By being apathetic and not going will actually me to miss out. Sure it doesn’t “feel” like I am but it is true.
If Hockey is the BEST thing for me then if I would just go to my game I would realize this. However, by choosing to follow my emotions I actually hurt myself.
I have a statement of truth for you. Children do what feels good, adults devise a plan and follow it. As an adult we are required to look past what feels good and move to what is right. Because when we pursue what is right, we then understand why it was the best thing for us anyway.
This relates DIRECTLY with money. Who has dealt with money before?
It should be everyone.
Who has ever looked at their bank statement and said “Where is my money going?”
Again, very likely just about everyone.
Now, most people in life have had some success on some level with money. Most people have a period where they put in effort to actually handle and track it wisely. When we do this we KNOW why it is the best thing for us. At this point we know where our money is going instead of wondering where it went.
But this doesn’t last. Because we are humans. We forget. And unless we follow what is right instead of our emotions getting back to that point of being on top of your money will be few and far between.
Most of us could have an easy time with the money have been entrusted. You have your income and your expenses. Make it work. Make your expenses less than income. It doesn’t matter what it takes we need to do it. Cut the cable, internet, use less electricity, don’t eat out so much, get a cheaper car, get a cheaper apartment, quit buying things for yourself until you get that income up. Whatever it may be, you can make your expenses less than your income.
Why is there so much debt then? Why can’t we fight out of it?
We don’t feel like it. We don’t feel like sacrificing our luxuries. We don’t feel like giving up tv and miss LOST once a week (when you could just run over to a neighbors house anyway and probably build a quality relationship). We don’t feel like inconveniencing ourselves. We just don’t feel like it.
Children do what feels good. If you are over the age of 20 and this is you and you feel even the slightest bit of conviction, I do not want you to be beat up (that is not helpful) I want to challenge you to move from pursuing what children do.
