Start with two questions: where do you want to be, and where are you now? The catch is brutal honesty about your actual numbers and circumstances, no excuses. Own where you are and you can map a real path forward.
those first two questions, where do I want to be and where am I now, as simple as they are, to be brutally honest with yourself and to look at your numbers without making excuses, to look at your circumstance without pointing your finger somewhere else, and to take ownership of your present situation. Because I can't chart out on a map how I'm going to get somewhere until I'm really honest about where I'm at and where I'm starting.
Yeah, you have to be honest about your foundation. You know, or you're just building off of like sand. Yeah, is the way I always look at it. It has to be solid, um, not perfect, you know, you can keep refining it, but you really have to be honest with yourself, and you can only improve something that you're willing to acknowledge.
