47 | Keeping Tabs on the Story

This post is Part 3 of 3 of the "Zooming Out Instead of Fixating on the Details" series.

The risk is not that we will miss an important detail with our finances.

The bigger risk is that we get lost in the details and lose track of the bigger story.

The reality is that there are only a handful of things that need to be addressed from the technical side of our finances.

Beyond those few things, the rest of our relationship with money consists of the stories that we tell ourselves to fill in the gaps and make sense of our lived experience with money.

When we get lost in the weeds, we start to lose track of the story.

When we push on a rope, we start writing a different story.

When we zoom out, we give ourselves the best chance to keep tabs on the story.

Zooming out allows us to quickly see if we're caring for the technical things.

Zooming out allows us to orient when the details try to overwhelm.

Zooming out helps us call out feelings that are not in line with reality.

Zooming out helps us to rewrite narratives that have gotten out of whack.

Zooming out ensures that we're all seeing and talking about the same things.

Zooming out allows us to recognize when we need to change course and instructs us on what we should change first.

Zooming out ensures that the story we're telling with our finances matches the story that we're trying to live out in our lives.