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Congratulations[amj1]!

Congratulations!

You have now learned all the basics to achieving Financial Integrity!

The 9 Steps are not steps in a ladder, leading you up to some mythical realm -- and once you arrive, you can let the ladder drop.They are actually skills and mindfulness practices that can serve you for the rest of your life. They are more like the steps in a DNA molecule – the building blocks of a fulfilled life.What grows out of them is up to you…

Financial Independence – THEN WHAT?

At this point, people begin to fantasize about what’s going to happen when they pass the Crossover Point and achieve Financial Independence. Many people have wondered if there isn’t a secret “Step 10” that helps you transition to a strange new life of unlimited freedom!

Remember the Fulfillment Curve? After you’ve reached ENOUGH, and you are at the peak of the curve in terms of money spent, you can still increase your fulfillment.

When we have our personal needs and wants fulfilled, what is there left to do? Well, we can expand our focus!We can consider the needs and comforts of family members and friends, our community, our nation, our world.We have the freedom to spend our life energy – our time and our cache-- being generous to others, instead of buying more stuff. We can go from getting to giving and participate in a larger circle of concern. Merely by living a joyful, free life we can inspire others to live a life of financial – and personal – integrity and fulfillment!

Participation

This diagram shows that fulfillment can keep going up, even though we are not spending much more. Increased fulfillment is no longer dependent on spending more money.

Joyful participation can expose us to knew perspectives, expand our skillset, introduce us to new friends, strengthen our relationships, and give our life greater meaning than we ever knew before. Such personal expansion will serve us no matter what life throws our way.

This program’s founder, the late Joe Dominguez, upon hearing that someone attained Financial Independence, would send them a kind letter with a real government bond in congratulations – only the bond was issued by the Russian Government of 1916[rh2]! It was his way of slyly saying, “Congratulations, but don’t get complacent. Nothing is guaranteed in this world.”

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[amj1]Don’t forget about this section.  what do you want to call it?

[rh2]Rozie, check on this.