This weekend we started planning for my wife’s freedom day.  What is “Freedom Day” ?  Freedom Day is the day that Lindsay gets the choice of working or not.  Sure she could continue to work, have some other man control when she can have lunch, when she has to show up to work, how late to stay… OR, she can choose not go to work anymore and decide to wake up when she wants and pretty much do whatever she wants with her day. 

How did we come to this point? With success from our business and also streamlining our life.  We’ve been able to reduce significant amounts of debt in our life to the point we don’t have to pay that money to some creditor or to some credit card company etc… If you really think about it, paying a mortgage, visa, line of credit, and vehicle payments adds up to a full time salary at least for my wife (yes we owed a lot, just check out some earlier blog posts).  We’ve also decided to streamline our life in areas like cable TV, we don’t watch as much as we do so why not cut the cable back and then just download the shows we want to watch.  We’ve decided to sell our condo and rent a place for the next few years because all indications from multiple sources say the market is going to slow down after this quarter and we don’t want to have to re-sign our mortgage when the market is low and interest rates will be high.  We also crunched some numbers and know we can save more by renting then our house will ever appreciate in a year.  So that when we move to Kelowna we will be in a MUCH better position when we buy a place there.  So smarter decisions like that have allowed us to free up a huge amount of income to the point it makes no sense for Lindsay to show up to a job.  We’ve also started making some decent money with our business through hard work and persistence to stay core, which we’ve seen first hand works.  It’s quite amazing to look back at my outlook almost a year ago when Lindsay started this and how negative I was towards her.  I’m glad that I didn’t steal her dream because I almost did! Where would we be then? She’d still be working for some other company telling her what to do and not able to give her FIRST best to her husband and family.  She’s continue to be stressed at work and we’d end up having to put our kids into a daycare or day home. NO WAY!

That is why what we do is worth it!  Lindsay gets to have some time off work before we start to have kids so that she can really know who she is.  She can become that amazing woman she is supposed to be, free from someone telling her what to do in a job.  I know that she’ll be looking forward to doing Yoga in the middle of the day instead of before work or after work, she can do it on her own schedule.  Lastly she can serve our family the way it’s meant to be served.  Now I’m not saying she’s gotta be in the kitchen slaving over the stove, don’t misunderstand me.  What I mean is she can serve me and our future family by giving her best time to me and us instead of her second best.  That is some powerful stuff.  I’ve seen first hand through this business the people who have been freed from a job and how much less stress there is on their marriage and how they are able to just be a family or a couple.  The impact that has on people is out of this world.  You will never know yourself until you are free of stress, I like to think we are pretty darn close to that after she retires.  Just have to get me free!   

So if things continue on the way they are now we are looking at Lindsay to step away from her job this July.  I cannot wait to roll up to her work in the middle of the afternoon with all our coaches and mentors and walk in and pull her out of that job.  It will be a HUGE party that’s for sure.  There will be tons of pictures and good times.  Her work won’t know what hit them.  It will be an amazing day and I cannot wait to share it on her so that we can inspire people to do the same regardless of what vehicle they do it with.