278 |Retire Early...For You | Amy Blacklock

<div class= "elementor-element elementor-element-15da9379 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="15da9379" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type= "theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul> <li>Don't fall for the misconception that financial independence is just for 20 and 30-year-olds. It is for everyone at any age and it's not too late to get started.</li> <li>Amy had a wake-up call in her early 40s. Starting with no net worth, through flexibility and adaptability, she got started and reclaimed decades of her life.</li> <li>Amy describes herself as a trier of many things. She used to wonder how other people do it. How do other people drive new SUVs, live in a large home, dine out, and save for their kids' education and their own retirement? She says most people don't do it all.</li> <li>You have to select for yourself what's important and save wisely to spend on it.</li> <li>Previously, Amy was trying to keep up with everybody else, thinking that she needed it all to be happy. She was buying all the stuff but wasn't saving for the future.</li> <li>She heard something on the radio one day about needing to save a million dollars for retirement and thought it didn't seem possible to get there. She and her husband were in their 40s and she knew something had to change.</li> <li>Amy began looking at what other people were doing but what she didn't know if that everybody was just like her, trying to keep up and not saving for the future.</li> <li>She had grown up with a single mom who had a lower-middle-class income. She always wanted more because she felt like she was always lacking. When she got a job and was earning money, she worked hard and thought she deserved all those things everyone else had.</li> <li>She had fallen into the trap of thinking money equals happiness and once in, it was hard to get out of that trap. While she had a mortgage and car loans, she didn't have much other debt. However, she was spending almost everything coming in and her n