07/13/2026
Random finance tip:
Your dollars will go where you tell them to go.
Much like water that is flowing, you can divert it to different locations or pool it in certain areas.
And just as water will always find the path of least resistance, so will your dollars.
Picture a cup, with water flowing into it. Now let's imagine that this cup has a series of holes in the bottom.
The water will just flow straight through, right? We can’t keep any of that flow, and can’t control where it is going.
Those holes are our poor financial decision making and the lack of control we have over our finances. We can’t keep our dollars because we can’t control our spending. We aren’t telling our money what to do.
If we fill in those holes, what happens to the cup? Now, devoid of the obstacles, it will fill up and start to overflow. If we clean up the financial decisions we are making, we start to see our dollars grow.
Now we are controlling our cash flow properly, which is the first step of creating financial success, whether in business or our personal lives.
To further the point: Once the cup starts to overflow, we need to make sure we have other places to catch the water.
This becomes our asset location--the different areas that we are funneling our money to make sure that it does what we need it to do. Savings, investments, insurance, etc. We need to give our dollars jobs and then divert that money into the proper place for them to do their jobs.
When we start to dictate where our money is going, eliminating the run-off and catching/pooling the excess in accounts that we control, we begin to start winning with our finances.
If you’re a fan of action steps: identify the holes in your cup! This is best done by reviewing your spending from over the last ninety days or so. Once you look at the appropriate data, you will have a much clearer view of what the holes in your cup are.
