Dear Future, Me,
I just realized that time is precious, and there is really no time to wait to build a future worth living into. To that end, and beginning today, I am taking the “bull by the horns” and are making my future a top priority.
As a matter of fact, this morning I took my first step in that direction by finally accepting the Benefit Funds invitation to register my Define Contribution Plan account at Empower.
As a side note, remember how silly I felt after completing that task? I don’t know what I was afraid of or why I was putting it off. You know what? I can’t remember what I was doing during the last six weeks, that was more important than securing me and my family’s future. Probably binge watching something. Ughhhh! I know. I know. I got to stop wasting time on things that don’t matter.
Hopefully, we will be sharing a laugh about how stupid I was by delaying accomplishing this task rather than crying over lost opportunities. If the latter, you have my permission to kick my ass.
But between us, and in an effort to avoid that ass-whooping, I have taken the liberty of listing the registration steps below as a constant reminder to myself as to how asinine and ridiculous it is not to take care of things right away.
- Go to empowermyretirement.com.
- Click on Register.
- Select I don’t have a PIN.
- Follow the prompts to create your username and a strong password.
Ha! I feel so pathetic to put that in writing. Look how easy that process is. It makes me wonder if I am falling short in the other areas of my life. Who am I kidding, we both know I am.
I know we are the same person. But I want future me to be a better, and wiser version than what I am today. Sure, most people believe that this comes with time. But that’s them, and this is us. And we are amazing. Plus, starting today, we no longer subscribe to dogma that does not support us. As such, we are going to become both wiser and victorious quicker by paying attention and mimicking best practices so as to avoid costly mistakes. Man! I am so energized by that thought. Like really energized – even more than I was when I realized that by registering my account, I was safeguarding my future. I know that sounds inane, but it really isn’t as that simple step helps protect my…., I mean our future by limiting the ability of “bad actors” from accessing my personal data and money.
You know what? I am totally into this new version of me. I think others would be as well. To that end, I am going to strut this new outlook at the August 19th, membership meeting.
I’ll write soon – Love & God bless - Me.