I just don't understand...
I am a person who loves to travel, has an insane comfort level with debt, and can be too generous for my own good. But that said I always have considered my options and taken the steps available to me, that I was made aware of, to make plans and contingencies for my future. I never put these things off.
So now I am doing work I love where I get to share what I have learned and wish someone had shared with me years ago and seemingly at every turn I am faced with folks who insist on putting it off to later, when in these things, time is important. If it were just one person I might have an easier time just letting it go. But it isn't just one and I don't know how to get through.
As an energy healer I get that planning for the future hits the security nerve and when money is involved it can be a raw nerve. But I can not find the way to calm the fears and nerves if folks won't make the time to meet and have a conversation on the subject.
I wish I could get myself to just focus on the amazing just turned 25 year old who totally gets it and how her age is an advantage and was raring to take the needed steps. I have more 27 & 29 year olds ready to go than 30,31, & 32 year olds who all still have the benefit of time.
Have I hit a generational divide? Do my years make it impossible for me to understand the "preparing for the holidays is more important than having my financial future plan in place" perspective?
Spending time with someone in her 60s facing the real crunch makes me want to shake folks or time travel them forward so they can truly see I am not attempting a form of torture or trying to pull dollars from their pockets but actually trying to set them up so they will have more guaranteed dollars, which the sooner they start the sooner they see.
I've asked some of these folks if they would explain to me why but I get stonewalled. I really would like to understand. Some fellow agents tell me "just don't care. If they want to be idiots that's on them." The thing is I do care and I don't think folks idiots. I think there is a big emotional block involved and I am frustrated at not knowing how I might help heal it.
Maybe time is the only balm.
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