The Hare features in the latest edition of Urban Village to share his tips for killing your financial goals AND booking your dream holiday.
Is booking and lavishing yourself with your dream holiday the same as buying property or retiring early? Of course it is! Whether you’re looking to create your likeness in gold bullion, put the kids through private school or buy a seat on the inaugural Virgin Galactic space flight you can be certain that, in theory, the goal setting process is just as familiar as imagining, booking and enjoying your dream holiday.
Follow these three simple steps to envision, enact and enjoy your wildest dreams!
- Dream up (and write down) the ideal destination for you.
Nobody books a holiday to a place they don’t want to go. Goal setting should be exactly the same! You wouldn’t choose a holiday destination ‘just because’ and there is no reason why your financial destination should not be the same. Dream up your ideal scenario, somewhere that you’re certain you will be happy and go for that! Whether that be home ownership, early retirement or a Mariah Carey sized closet full of Jimmy Choo’s, envisage it, own it and count down the days until you’re there enjoying it.
- Break It Down Into Baby Steps
The process of transferring our dreams and aspirations from an idea to reality is never an easy one. We don’t just wake up one day in Tokyo! Before we can even think about that steaming bowl of ramen in Shinjuku, we’re charged with working out how to actually get from our comfortable Surry Hills digs to Japan. There is annual leave to consider, the funding of the project and wrangling the schedules and needs of anybody else who might be joining us. Just like waking up in Tokyo, waking up in your own home (or Mariah sized shoe closet) is unlikely to ever happen without meticulous planning. Once you’ve envisaged the destination, break it down into manageable steps, read how other people have done it and formulate a plan that’s going to work for you.
- Execute the plan with military precision
Admittedly, transit is never as enjoyable as the final destination but that doesn’t mean the journey is any less exciting. There is the monotony of counting down the days, the screaming terror of realising that the traffic on O’Riordan St might actually cause you to miss your flight this time, arduous security lines and the list goes on. For better or worse, life is extraordinarily unpredictable and things can change in a heartbeat. The only constants are you and your attitude toward getting things done. When you’ve got a clear plan to follow and you do in fact follow it, only the most heinous of circumstances can slow you down. Don’t worry about the snarling traffic, overzealous airport security and shameful people standing two abreast on the escalator. You’ve got a plan, just stick to it! You’ll touch down in no time.
Those that have goals succeed, because they know where they are going
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