5 Steps For Getting Your Life Together Starting Today!
hi everyone happy New Year happy Wednesday Welcome to our live call sorry we're a few minutes late we're trying to sort out lighting it's so dark in my office today um but Happy New Year hi Dalia hello subie uh we are so excited to be back I wish everyone a happy healthy and prosperous 2024 full of abundance and blessings hi Anisa um um hi stie hi Andrea hi Stacy okay so we are back with our weekly lives if you are a first time uh Joiner my name is Bola Shen I'm the founder and CEO of clever Go finance we're all about empowering women to Achieve Financial Wellness on their own terms we do this weekly live every Wednesday 1 pm eastern time and there will always be a replay here on YouTube and we always pick a topic of interest to discuss and we're all about empowering you to achieve your financial Wellness so we talk about money topics career topics business topics um life topics so welcome and I'm going to have my amazing co-host yasmir introduce herself hi everyone I'm yasmir I'm one of the um content creators for clevergirl finance joining you from New York City um I wish everyone a Happy New Year yes yes so today our topic is how to get your life together starting today we're going to give five five steps but this topic topic is actually based on an article we have on Clever finance.com where we go over 18 steps to getting your life together we be picked out five steps to talk to you about before we get into it if you haven't already picked up a copy of the claro Finance book series your copies please do you can find these books wherever books are sold uh they're available as physical copies as ebooks and as audiobooks so you get to hear me read these books there is cleval finance the first book um uh which is the found foundational Finance book there is the investing book grow your money there is the side hustle guide and my most recent book choosing to prosper so please check out these books and of course uh for those of you who were asking about the Aaron condrin planner um mine is over here um this planner gets restocked on next week Friday it's sold out like it's sold out and they underestimated or under forecasted how well this was going to do but it's back in stock on Friday so you can definitely pick up a copy just check on their website erincondren.com budget or just Google Aron quran. Aron condran and clever girlf Finance we Google search for that um okay so now that everybody has come on in hello okaya um hello Miss back long time uh we're gonna get right into the topic and me and yasar are kind of like twinning today we're wearing I'm wearing my hoodie and she's wearing her sweatshirt yes it's nice and cozy and warm I love it and it matches the [Laughter] books um so as Bola mentioned um we're going to talk about five steps for getting your life together starting today uh and I I think many of us have felt like our life hasn't um been all together and it hasn't been the way that we kind of like envisioned it would be but if you're one of those people you are not Al alone I think many of us in our childhood had a different vision for adulthood um such as like you know by a certain time we'd have h a stable job we'd have disposable disposable income we would have a home etc etc um but we might find that we haven't fully achieved that Vision but that said it's never too late to achieve that that Vision that you have it's still possible um so we're going to talk about like what what we have to do to get our life together and what that means is is taking control of your life so you're not um derailed by every every stressor that comes our way and the best the best way to get your life together is to lay out the steps that you need um and and plan out so that anytime that there are any challenges that are ahead you're going to find the strength to to pass them that to um yeah to get to get past them yeah I agree you know sometimes life in fact not sometimes life never is how you expect it to be no and I just recorded a podcast episode um agnesa you just said the same thing doesn't always go as you expect and I just recorded a podcast episode this morning where we were talking about how you know the way life works is that you have to go through hard things it is inevitable to be come a person like life makes people people through hard things and everybody's hard things and everybody's hard experiences are different but that's just that's just the nature of life and so sometimes you get to a point where you may be feeling discouraged or down because you haven't quite you're not quite where you want to be you haven't achieved what you want to be especially this time of year I find a lot of people are saying oh I didn't do this last year I haven't done this in all these years and it's kind of like the new year is exciting but it's also a little bit it's it's a bit of a downer for some people because it's like oh I didn't do everything I wanted to do last year but it's it is possible to make change um it is never too late to make change you can still achieve your goals and one of the things that we we always encourage you to do and we'll continue to encourage you to do on this platform is to celebrate your small wins I did not uh achieve every single goal that I laid out for myself last year I didn't um am I going to put myself down because I didn't achieve those goals no because guess what there were goals that I actually did achieve and I exceeded and went beyond my expectations and there were goals that were big I didn't achieve but there were small goals that I I I achieved the small goal and I'm going to celebrate those goals so you want to celebrate your wins you want to um you know acknowledge them and so we're going to be talking about five key tips to get yourself together because 2024 were not about um being down and pity parties and wo is me we want to make progress we want to keep moving forward we want to keep growing as individuals we want to achieve our financial goals right so you are not behind um Denise uh you are a work in progress we're all works in progress and it's all about setting the intention to make the change so let's get into that first point the first one is to make a list of your current um circumstances so once you decide what you want your life to look like it's important to examine what it looks like in the present moment um so because you can't make any like meaningful change if you don't know where you are right now so if you make a list it should include things like um what does your current job situation look like your home your love life your finances friends um Health Fitness etc etc just look at what those aspects of your life look like now um so that then you can um reassess and make a plan for how you can make the changes so that it looks like what you want it to look like yeah absolutely so it's really important that you look at your current circumstances and this is not to make you feel bad about what you have not accom