my financial “aha!” moment
For most of my 30s, I thought financial freedom meant hitting a number — like, once I had $500K in the bank, I’d magically feel secure.
But that number kept moving. And I never actually felt “free.”
The real moment came on a random Tuesday. I was sitting in my car outside a CVS, holding a $14.99 vitamin bottle I didn’t really need, and realized I was trying to spend my way out of stress. Again.
I returned the bottle. Drove home. Logged into all my accounts. For the first time in years, I looked at the actual truth of my money — what I owed, what I had, what I was pretending not to see.
It wasn’t pretty. But it was a beginning.
I stopped chasing a number. I started chasing peace.
Financial freedom, for me, now looks like:
📌 knowing what I have
📌 saying no without guilt
📌 and sleeping without checking my bank app in the dark
I used to think money would save me.
Now I know — clarity did.
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