Imagine a wealthy person. What are they wearing? What do they drive? Where do they live? Now—walk into their (imaged) house—find their office. Look around, what do you see? Maybe a big filing cabinet? Maybe a nice clean desk with pictures on it? Maybe there is even a stereo system in there? It feels wealthy, it smells wealthy (go with it)...touch it, it is wealthy. You’d love this home office, you want this home office.
Your turn. If you want to be wealthy—you’re going to have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is in your own stack of papers. It’s time to set yourself up for wealth. To be wealthy you need a home office. Maybe it’s a corner of your living room. Maybe it’s a corner of your bedroom, maybe it’s a closet—but declare said space your office—and own it! This is the place where your wealth will build. Where you’ll file your finances, and build your empire. You may start in the closet—but one day you’ll work your way up to a gorgeous home office that you’ll love.
It’s not that hard to build your office. You’re just starting your wealth journey—so you don’t need much. But what you do need is a great attitude about it (happy happy!), and you do need to channel your organization spiritual guides—you know, the kind of oomph that kicks your butt to clean your home before your Mum comes over, or the kind that helps you do the laundry cause you’re down to wearing your bathing suit to work—that one. You’ll need those cleaning spirits yet again.
Do you really want to spend the weekend sifting through paper work and building your office? Nope. But that stinky attitude is why you’re not wealthy YET. You’re going to have to shake that off—and get on with it. Who’s going to set you up for success if it’s not you? Show me a wealthy person and I’ll show you their home office. It’s your turn—let’s do it!
When you’re financially organized and your office is done—you won’t even need to celebrate—you’ll feel so good, you’ll tell all of your friends how you spent your weekend, and all the neat things you found. Maybe you’ll find an old lottery ticket? Maybe you’ll find a number you’ve been looking for? Maybe you’ll find $50 stashed away—you won’t know until you build your office. This is just the beginning.
Be proud of you new office!
Take pictures of your new home office- before and after and email them to me at bernadette@wealthywilma.com and I’ll post them to wealthywilma.com—we’ll show the world what you did. You’ll be an inspiration to all.
Good luck!
Your turn. If you want to be wealthy—you’re going to have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is in your own stack of papers. It’s time to set yourself up for wealth. To be wealthy you need a home office. Maybe it’s a corner of your living room. Maybe it’s a corner of your bedroom, maybe it’s a closet—but declare said space your office—and own it! This is the place where your wealth will build. Where you’ll file your finances, and build your empire. You may start in the closet—but one day you’ll work your way up to a gorgeous home office that you’ll love.
Do you really want to spend the weekend sifting through paper work and building your office? Nope. But that stinky attitude is why you’re not wealthy YET. You’re going to have to shake that off—and get on with it. Who’s going to set you up for success if it’s not you? Show me a wealthy person and I’ll show you their home office. It’s your turn—let’s do it!
I have some sure fire ways to get you from zero to office hero, have a read:
- Pick a day, and then—a back up day. You may need two days to get it all done, or a day to bail and then a day to really do it. Book this in your calendar – pen it in/type it in.
- Tell two friends that you’re going to build your office THIS weekend—commit to it out loud.
- Find a picture of wealth, be it a big house on the water’s edge, a fancy car etc, whatever wealth means to you—blow it up—and put it up where you’ll see it. You need something to work towards.
- Make a list. What do you need to do the job? Remember you’re not just organizing-- your building your new office—large or small (or miniscule).
- Think of it in phases. You’re working on your phase one office. But what is phase one? Phase one might just be a filing cabinet and an organized system. Phase two might have a filing cabinet and a desk. Phase three has a fish tank, desk and a filing cabinet. Phase four has a book-keeper, fish tank—etc.
- Look in your home for the perfect spot to build your office. What room, spot, area feels right?
- To tackle your phase one office, your list could have the following:
- Filing cabinet – let’s get serious and get a structure for all your papers.
- IKEA has them for under $60 – and they’re somewhat stylish.
- Staples has rinky dink kinds of filing cabinet-thangs—but you can’t stack them, I’m not a fan—but they’re cheap, like $12. I’d go with IKEA—I’m just sayn’, you have options.
- Hanging File folders- lots to choose from. I’m not a fan of the IKEA ones as you have to ‘build’ them yourself of course, and they’re plastic; so slippery—so I’d go with Staples (not to mention they’re a buck cheaper than IKEA).
- File folders: same as above—but do you want to colour organize or not? I’m not a colour coordinator kind of gal—but there are a lot of freaks out there, so fill your boots. Colour code away if that makes you happy. You know who you are.
- A good pen, maybe two—they always vanish when you need them.
- Scissors – I’m not sure why you’ll need these—but always good to have your tool belt ready.
- Recycling bin/box—cause you’ll be ruthless.
- And most importantly-- good tunes.
When you’re financially organized and your office is done—you won’t even need to celebrate—you’ll feel so good, you’ll tell all of your friends how you spent your weekend, and all the neat things you found. Maybe you’ll find an old lottery ticket? Maybe you’ll find a number you’ve been looking for? Maybe you’ll find $50 stashed away—you won’t know until you build your office. This is just the beginning.
Be proud of you new office!
Take pictures of your new home office- before and after and email them to me at bernadette@wealthywilma.com and I’ll post them to wealthywilma.com—we’ll show the world what you did. You’ll be an inspiration to all.
Good luck!
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