Steph Wagner

So acknowledging, just wanting to take that first step is pat yourself on the back, right?

It's also small steps lead to big rewards.

No one's asking you to learn all this in a day, right?

These are little baby steps.

But I do think that the most important thing is to acknowledge where you are emotionally and to really start with understanding your current relationship with money, where you've been, why you have this relationship, and where do you want to go?

What are the goals that you want to have?

What's the vision that you have for your future?

Because if you do, it will start to inspire and ignite a flame in you that...

will want you to continue on this journey versus give up, you know, because the next step you have to do is really take a hard look at your financial reality and that can be kind of painful.

But if you have a goal of where you want to go, then it helps you say, okay, well, there's a reason why I'm going through all this work because I'm not going to get to accomplish that goal unless I do it.

So if you start without that, it's really easy to just fall off that diet really fast.