I wrote myself a cheque for $1 Million Dollars

Yea, I wrote myself a cheque/check. A cheque for 1 Million Dollars dated for the 1st of January, 2023.

I read somewhere or watched it somewhere that writing yourself a cheque and keeping it in front of you can motivate you to keep moving to make sure you can cash that cheque.

I don’t know about motivation, but since I’ve written that I feel like a millionaire. Looking at it makes me think I already have the money. The night I wrote myself the cheque, I even dreamt about sipping a pina colada onboard a yacht with a beautiful ocean in the backdrop. When I woke up, reality hit me. It hit me hard. I don’t drink pina colada. Even my dream was wrong.

Coming back to my cheque, I have kept it on my desk, I’m thinking of getting it framed to make sure it survives the next 2.5 years.

Being a calculated person (pun intended). I thought it would be helpful to reverse engineer the $1 million amount and see how much money I need to save to be able to cash this cheque on the 1st of January. So I asked Siri to open the calculator and started my million dollar calculations.

If we forget July (sorry July), we will have 29 months from August 2020 to December 2022 to save up $1 million. That means I need to save $34,482 every month from next month to December 2022 to cash my cheque. SHIT! That’s a lot, and that’s not what I have to earn, but what I have to save. Slowly I could see my 1 million dollars floating away.

I then had the inner procrastinator wake up and say NO! No AQ! We will make that, hell we would make double of that! I asked the inner procrastinator, how? And it replied, let’s think about that tomorrow. That was 3 days ago.

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