A lot of times we think that money is too complicated or that we’re just regular folk, so we need to leave our finances to the experts. In other words, when we ask, “Who’s the expert of our money?” we think that it’s someone else.
So, we’ll take financial advice from the car salesman, the bank teller, and sometimes from our financial advisor. We let them be the expert on our money.
The trouble with this is that none of these folks are the expert on our life. And since they can’t be an expert on our life, they can’t be the expert on our money either. These folks aren’t the experts on our values, or our passions. Only we know these things.
More to the point, these folks aren’t going to know our calling. They don’t know where our live is headed. If we’re wanting to save money to give to the orphanage, the car salesman isn’t going to know this or even be concerned about it. So when the car salesman says, “Let me show you how you can afford this,” just know that this person doesn’t have the whole picture on our life. They’re not the expert on our money.
The way it’s supposed to work is that these folks advise us, and we decide to follow it or not. We need to compare their advice with where we want to go in life, and decide if their advice will move us forward or if it’s just a distraction.
Too many times, we just ditty bop along in life letting others make our decisions for us. And then we’re not happy with where we end up. We need to get back into the driver’s seat of our life, and be the expert of our life and our money.
So, repeat after me, “I am the expert of my life and my money.”
