Chasing Financial Freedom
Chasing Financial Freedom
Ep 315 | 3 Essential Strategies to Overcome Life's Unpredictable Challenges with Integrity and Faith
Navigating through life's unexpected challenges can sometimes feel like wandering through a maze without a map. When an unforeseen property issue rattled my week, it brought home the lesson that consistency, integrity, and faith—both in oneself and in a higher power—are crucial when things go awry. Sharing my journey as a solopreneur, I reflect on how my ever-changing path, filled with unexpected responsibilities and demanding deadlines, often tests my resolve. These experiences have taught me to focus on doing the right thing, even when no one is watching, and to keep my past from overshadowing my present.
This episode unfolds like a real-life lesson in balancing professional ambitions with personal values. As I recount recent challenges, including a plumbing fiasco that tested my patience and faith, I discuss strategies for managing multiple tasks without letting past obligations overwhelm the present. The narrative highlights the importance of aligning daily actions with long-term goals, maintaining a heart full of love, and trusting the journey even when it seems uncertain. Join me as I share insights on tackling these hurdles with integrity, and learn how to stay true to your path amidst life's unpredictable storms.
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Have you ever been on one of those journeys whether it's personal or professional, that you just don't quite know where you're going, but you know you're on the right path, or you're pretty close to the right path? This week, guys, that's what I wanted to talk about is I've been on this journey for several months, if not longer, and it feels like my path continues to change, but it winds, but I stay on the path. And I wanted to describe and tell to you excuse me, describe and share with you, guys, that if you are struggling in any aspect of your life, your business, you have to stay consistent and have a heart of love. And when I say love is, I'm pushing myself to be free of anxiety. And that's probably the biggest challenge I've had on this journey is as my path you know swerves and moves and changes and so forth, half you know swerves and moves and changes and so forth I don't know what to do. I mean, I just have to have faith, yes, in God, and push myself forward. And I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1:Last Thursday it's been cold, as you know what, in Evansville and one of the houses we sold almost a year ago, the stop valve busted and the homeowners called and said you need to cover this. And I'm like they called. They want us to actually cover the cost of the plumber to come out. I'm still reviewing it, but it is not required for us to do a water tap on that property and they've had negative temperatures and there's a bunch of people having pipes break, pipes frozen. I don't know what to do at this point, so I'm going to share some information. Let them know that we didn't touch this part of the actual plumbing I mean, and then go from there.
Speaker 1:But I really am struggling with being anxious at times, one and two, really finding my calling, my path. And my path continues to maneuver, like I said earlier, but it still is leading me back to where I am, you know. It's leading me back to we're going to finish Baird Park we're going to work on. We have another project we're working on in the background with another city. We're continuing to do those things. But I'm still struggling with my past and I have this saying that I put in my daily journal is keep my past off of my daily plate. I don't want my past to continue to really reside in my mind at all. If things come up I need to be able to address them, move forward and keep going. But last Thursday I spent almost all day on making phone calls on this water valve, this stop tap that happened on this property, to figure out what happened, one, two, where's the responsibility and where's the lines to be drawn and so forth and that's still to be determined TBD. I spent most of the day working on that when I could have been focused on another task or tasks that could actually be making me money today, in my present Now.
Speaker 1:How do you guys handle that in your business? What do you do? I am a solopreneur, so I mean I really have to do everything on my own, but I really don't have any other options other than to a fault. I need to make sure that we're doing the right thing. If we didn't touch this, I mean, excuse me, that is here and that's nowhere there, but I'm trying to do what is right in everybody's eyes, especially by doing right by God in everybody's eyes, especially by doing right by God.
Speaker 1:But at the same time, it really stresses you out because you have multiple competing deadlines and these deadlines are from my past that really I can't do anything about Other than, as they pop up, I have to resolve them. In my mind, I'm asking is this fair? And I don't know. There's a lesson in here somehow. And what I want to tie this all back into, guys, is having faith in what you're doing, in the path that you're on, being consistent in your actions on a daily basis. But the thing that comes to my mind when this all happens, or things happen from my past, is doing the right thing when no one's looking. That's what I really want to convey in this message is doing the right thing when no one's watching or looking. However, you want to say that Because, ultimately, we're only here for a finite amount of time on the planet and I want to be able to treat others as I would want them to treat me. And I know this is all getting spiritual and so forth, but it's where I'm at today, guys. It's where I'm at in my life is peace. Love in my heart, and being focused on the passions that I really want to be part of is my calling, and it's what I'm wanting to do.
Speaker 1:I just continue to have some of these items pop back up in my past, and it's a struggle, it's a total struggle, and I sit down and I just have some quiet time, five to 10 minutes of just figuring it out and I know I don't have the answer the man upstairs does. But in the end I still have to be able to handle it and deal with it and have the strength to move forward. I'm just trying to figure out. How does this all play into my life? I'm sure there's some type of lessons to be learned here. I'm learning more patience. I have a colleague, a friend, that is helping me learn how to be more loving in my approach when I'm talking to people, because sometimes I can be too direct, and I'm working on that. But in certain situations I need to be direct so I can get my message across. Can I do it a better way? I think so and I'm working on that.
Speaker 1:But when you're trying to communicate with somebody else or others and you can only communicate through specific channels, it's tough because you're not going to always get an answer in the time that you want it, and for me that is a stress point, because then I'm like okay, how much time is it going to take for this person to respond back to me? How much time is this going to take for this person to get the information I'm looking for. I guess, from my perspective, when someone reaches out to me for information and it's something I have and I can only control it I want to make sure I respond back to them in a timely fashion. And that just puts me in a place to where I just want to make sure that I'm effectively communicating, understanding whatever that person is going through, and be able to get the information I'm looking for. But it doesn't always work out that way and I get frustrated and it wears on me and I'm learning that if I just get up, walk away from it but then figure out another way to address it, it starts to be able to come to fruition. I'm having to be and I know we talk about it as being consistent, but the other thing is it's being nurturing. There's got to be a little bit of nurturing in that consistency to make it all work and play out.
Speaker 1:And I struggle with the nurturing piece. I know that. I'm very open about it and I'll tell you guys that it's a problem, but I can get better. I know I can improve, but I can get better. I know I can improve, but at what extent does that? I don't want to. It's, it's not. It's, there's no hurting, but it seems like it slows down.
Speaker 1:The items that I'm trying to resolve from my past and items from your past tend to weigh you down more than anything that you're currently working on. I'm not trying to worry about the future because I don't have the future in tune yet. I'm just trying to work on present day and as I work on present day, I'm getting hit with the past, and the past then gets me stressed out about that because I can't do anything about it. It's already gone, it's toast. Then, if I start worrying about the future, then I'm starting to worry about all the things that haven't even happened yet and I'm already starting going crazy. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 1:Staying present on my path, even though it's moving left or right and swaying and so forth you know, left or right and swaying and so forth has been tough, but some of it I understand. Of why it's happening, because there's learning experiences in it and I've learned some things along the way of, like I said, being able to change the way I effectively communicate with people, also having love in my heart and making sure that I'm helping others. Even though I'm in a bad spot, there's always somebody else unfortunately that's in a different spot than we are that might be struggling more and you see him or her. Help them out if you can, whether it be opening the door, going into the grocery store, helping them change a tire on the side of the road, buying them a cup of coffee and sitting down and just having a conversation, I don't know. I just know I have to do better in that aspect and that will help translate into every aspect of my business and my personal life.
Speaker 1:But it's a struggle because I'm stressed about what is on my plate today, and what's on my plate is stuff from my past that I can't seem to get rid of, and love to hear your guys' comments on this. How do you guys handle things that come up from your past that you need to resolve? That's that's my struggle. I don't know how to put them in a place to where they don't eat at me on a daily basis, because right now they do. Because I'm trying to get this resolved and I want to make sure I take care of everybody, but at the same time I need to make sure you know what the what happened, what's the responsibility and then how to be able to have that conversation to move things forward. That's the struggle I'm in. All right, guys, hope you have a great week. Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. I know I was a little all over the place, but at the same time I just like to be transparent. I like to be raw and just tell you guys what I'm feeling. Have a good one.
