Sustained credit card debt is a strangler. I know because I’ve been there. I put extraneous pursuits on hold when I was younger and zeroed out my cc debt.
The feeling of freedom and accomplishment was profound. It freed me up to pursue my other interests.
The only problem I had with you was that you were setting an extremely unrealistic deadline. It would be different if you already had an idea of how you were going to accomplish it, but by putting it out here and waiting for ideas you’re easily killing one week of action at the very least.
You tend to discredit advice to set goals that are realistic and attainable. Two weeks is an absurdly short blip of time.
My suggestion to you is and has always been to formulate a workable strategy to reduce debt while simultaneously accruing money for your activities in Vancouver. Cc debt is a constant bleed.
What’s so terrible about a two month plan to accrue the money for your trip? Your subconscious would consider that doable and would not throw resistance.
Life has taught me that reasonably doable goals unleash creativity, while overly harsh self-imposed deadlines usually serve to discourage.
To you, my deadline may be unrealistic and undoable; you couldn't see yourself accomplishing it, so you project your own self-imposed limitations onto me. But your lack of belief in your own abilities has no relevance on what
I can achieve. Remember, I've done it before, years ago. So why not again?
And who said I've been sitting around, killing a week waiting for ideas? No, no, no. I've come up with two plans already, which I've put into motion. One failed today, but the other is still open. Plus, I came up with a new idea last night I'm going to act on.
Really, this is an experiment to me in what a deadline can accomplish.
We're only as capitalistic as our socialistic western governments allowed. Right now, the US is far on the female side with how money is orientated and distributed. That's as socialistic/ communist as it gets. We've been losing capitalism ground for ages, especially after the government got bigger and women got more rights. And since you live in Canada, you definitely aren't in a capitalistic country.
I beg to differ. The government doesn't own all commerce and pay everyone equally. So it's not socialism, though it harbors some aspects of it. But I can start a business and generate wealth for myself if I want. I still have that liberty in Canada. People who complain about how evil and unfair the government seem to use it to excuse their own failures in life and blame someone or something else for them. Not me.
