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 Josh Rashidz, today I have a simple encouragement for you.

I want to encourage you to put numbers to your goals.

Think about what some goals or dreams are that you have, and sit down and put some numbers

to your goals.

And I think if you'll do that, you'll be able to see ways of achieving certain goals

that probably previously seemed totally out of sight.

I was reminded of this truth yesterday.

I was sitting down and thinking about some things, and I just decided to start putting

some numbers down on paper, and I was really shocked with how it transformed my perspective.

I'll share the example specifically.

I'm traveling right now, currently in Bogota, Colombia, and as I was traveling, I was thinking

about traveling.

And when you think about traveling, I'm attracted often to people who, well, I'm attracted

to the idea of setting and achieving big goals.

I like to do things that other people, not very many people have done.

And one of the things that I have often thought about doing in my life is traveling to every

country in the world.

I've been interested in this for over a decade, reading about people who've accomplished

this goal, just kind of interested in it.

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