What do you really want?
As a financial advisor, this is a question I spent a lot of time asking my financial services clients. The answer to this question is really where all things start in our personal, professional, spiritual, and financial lives. However, in our sound bite world most people seem to skip the first part of the process and jump over to making decisions and taking action, not always based on a foundation of understanding first “what I really want”.
What Do You Really Want is also the title of a book which is targeted to teens and written by Beverly K. Bachel. I didn’t know anything about this wonderful book until it was shared with me by one of a woman who works on a volunteer project we lead. Our activities involve some wonderfully talented young women who may not have always had the opportunities we had. So, the volunteers simply spend some time with the students and teach life skills. For the high school students who are seniors, Ms. Bachel’s books seems perfect. It formalizes the topics we have discussed over the last three years and gives them an easy way to roadmap their lives…based on their hopes, dreams, and goals. It encourages them to focus on what they want, not necessarily what their friends, families, or boyfriends want for them.
As I started planning how to compress all this wonderful information to make it meaningful in a lunchtime setting, I was struck by how valuable it is for not only teens, but for all of us. Parts of it mirror conversations and processes which are in my Financial Freedom Party for Women, A Little Book about Money for Women.
I encourage you to check out Ms. Bachel’s book ( mine too!) and consider sharing it/them with the young people in your life. Not only will they learn things and have a process to record them, you will probably learn a lot about yourself as you lead them through the book (s).
Until Next Time
Debra Hadsall
Financial Freedom Party for Women (FFP)-Talk 
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