{"id":2854,"date":"2021-06-15T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:31:12","slug":"video-how-to-grow-finances-a-gardening-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/video-how-to-grow-finances-a-gardening-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Grow Finances -A Gardening Analogy [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFhCsaj0Zac\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/p><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This summer one of the things we decided to do again was to plant a garden. Now that our daughter is a little bit older she can help with the planting, pulling weeds, watering and the other fun things that come along. It\u2019s been fun because she can start to see the process of where our food comes from as we\u2019re working together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We planted the garden a few weeks ago and one vegetable we like to grow is corn. I noticed as I was watering something had bit off the top of some of the corn plants that had started to grow. It almost looked like something had eaten it. The same day we planted our garden we saw a deer walk through our yard. It was a reminder that since our garden is growing now we need to get our fence up to protect the plants from getting eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Grow Finances like a Garden<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This was such a great analogy on how to grow finances. There is a natural order of how things get taken care of. &nbsp;It is really a process to show that different stages accomplish different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Plant: &nbsp;Getting <a href=\"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/video-creating-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started by depositing money<\/a> or choosing what account to save in.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Sun\/Water: &nbsp;Continuing to add money or <a href=\"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/video-financial-review-update-your-net-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paying down debt to make progress<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Protect: &nbsp;Adding <a href=\"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/video-estate-planning-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estate planning documents<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/what-is-life-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insurance policies<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Weeds: &nbsp;Amending documents, changing the amount of insurance, <a href=\"https:\/\/financialdesignstudio.com\/video-update-your-monthly-contributions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">changing the savings amounts<\/a>, or saving to different types of accounts.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Harvest: &nbsp;Reach a goal!<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, if we don\u2019t take care of these <strong>WEEDS<\/strong> it can start to crowd out all of the good things that were already started before. \u00a0It\u2019s important that over time you\u2019re taking care of these little things step by step. 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