Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I am your host, and today I'm going to talk with you about

the power of changing your goals in the face of adversity. As I record this on

Friday, sorry Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Millions of us all around the world are facing the reality

of complete and total financial destruction, complete and total devastation.

Millions of us are finding out that we simply have no job to go to on Friday.

Millions more tomorrow on Friday we'll find out that we have no job to go to on Monday.

Millions of us are contemplating the loss of value in our investment portfolios.

We're contemplating the destruction of our businesses.

We're sitting down and we're picturing the faces of the people

that we're going to have to lay off tomorrow or Monday or next week or in a month.

We're contemplating the various scenarios foisted upon us by this current global pandemic and wishing desperately that things were different but

acknowledging that things are bad. I'm no exception to that. I've been considering it a lot over the last couple of days.

I've been on the phone non-stop with clients, working through adjustments to investments and

working through adjustments to businesses and talking about how bad it's going to get.

And basically just giving my estimate on how long

it's going to be until there's martial law and national guard troops in the streets or a police

officer on the corner and then how long this thing is going to go on and of course I

don't know and I desperately hope that I'm wrong, but at this point in time

It's not gonna be long right the National Guard troops probably be on your street. I don't know Monday right if not before

You're gonna be locked down in the next few days and probably for

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