A few weeks ago, I did a Facebook Live making Pumpkin French Toast. I was excited to try a new recipe and it turned out to be delicious!
But one of the comments I got was, “That sounds disgusting.”
This made me calm down immediately…
I deleted this post??? Did everyone else think it sounded bad, too?
And then it hit me: this is how life usually is. We will make decisions that not everyone will like, agree with or understand. And that's fine.
Don't let other people's opinions dictate your decision-making.
I thought back to when we made the decision after Jesse graduated from law school not to buy a house. We continued to rent and save and live on less than we were making because we had set ourselves the tough goal of paying cash for our first home.
People thought we were crazy and really wrong. Why would we continue to rent and live on beans and rice while Jesse worked as a lawyer and made three times the amount we had (which was still a very small salary by most people's standards since he was fresh out of law school, but it was EXACTLY how we made it when he was in law school!)?
I look back and realize that those counter-cultural choices we made – which almost no one understood – became the basis for the financial freedom we enjoy today.
Maybe you feel the same way right now. You choose to live on less than you make, buy used, pay bills instead of going on vacation, drive an old car, live in an old house, take your lunch to work every day, cook, or just make choices that many people around you don't really understand or support.
Don't let the opinions of others – no matter how loud they sound – control your decision making!
It's okay to go against the grain and be the only financial decision maker that you are.
It's okay if no one really gets the way you are and thinks you're crazy.
Go ahead! Keep making those sacrifices. Keep taking those baby steps. It will be worth it! And maybe some people will think you're weird, but go ahead and eat your symbolic Pumpkin French Toast knowing that it's actually really delicious, despite what others might think!
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