Do you have a virus?

Living in a world of debt is like a virus on a computer. Recently I had to take my computer into the shop because of a virus. The virus caused my computer to have endless pop-ups in my browser.

After a day of surgery they fixed part of my problem. The computer geek told me they solved the pop-up problem but not the core of the problem.

He described it as a cancer. He cut out the infected parts but could not find the core of the problem. The core of the problem is an infection that will reactivate the pop-ups. He than gave me the special pop-up destroyer software that I needed to run at least once per day.

He told me the software is like cold-medicine that treats the symptoms but doesn’t cure the problem.

When I asked what would cure the problem he said we’d have to reboot the entire system and reinstall everything. More or less we’d have to have major surgery to get to the heart of the matter.

Debt free living is like that. It requires a complete “heart of the matter” surgery to change the way you think. You need to reboot and reinstall the software to get to the heart of the matter.

By the way, I kept running my clean-up software for several months before I had the computer geek redo my computer from scratch.

Living with debt is like having a virus in your system. You can treat the symptoms or you can have surgery done to start over.

When you treat debt like there’s good and bad debt you risk being taken over by boat loads of debt and going under. It’s like being pregnant. You’re either pregnant or you’re not pregnant. You can’t be half-way-pregnant.

Just like you can’t be in partial debt; you’re either in debt or you’re not in debt. There is no in between.

David….