Most people learn to save but never learn to spend intentionally or define what wealth means to them. Omar Zenhom argues that visualizing your desired life, like planning a holiday, is the first step before you can actually build it.
Most people agonize over the saving part of money. They're taught about saving. Save, save, save. Almost nobody teaches you how to spend money meaningfully. When I ask people, what's your rich life? They almost always go, I want to do what I want when I want. And I'm like, oh God, not again. But I'm like, okay, so what do you like? And then they look at me stunned because most of us have never actually thought about what our rich life is.
Imagine that. I really believe it's very hard to actually make something happen if you can't imagine it in your mind first. If you've ever gone on a holiday, you don't just show up in the Bahamas. You Google it, you look at some pictures, you maybe look at the hotel prices, look at the rooms, what do the flights look like. This whole process is creating this image in your head. So it's not like I'll believe when I see it. You got to see it to believe it, but you got to see it in your head at first. When I started seeing myself rich, then I started to figure out how to get to the point where I needed to go.
