What if someone gets stuck on the Financial Road Map®? For example, we’re going up the Values Staircase™ and they say, “Taking care of my kids.” And I say, What’s Important About taking care of your kids, To You?” And they say, “I don’t know what’s important about that. It just is.” I tried projecting into the future but hit the same roadblock. Is there anything else I can do to help them move up further, or should I just stop there even if it is only ½ way up the Values Staircase™?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

First part of response is the same as above. Then: If projecting them into the future doesn’t work the first time, do it slower the second, “Let’s say that you are at a place in your future where you have done virtually everything you can imagine doing to take care of your kids… What’s…. Important… About… knowing that you did that for your kids… To… You?”

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