Celebrate YOUR independence from debt

While you may be out celebrating America's independence today (and that is a very good thing), I would like to encourage you to consider one day celebrating YOUR independence from debt. It may not be as dramatic as signing a Declaration of Independence, but it is significant just the same.

The founders of America certainly desired for everyone, the opportunity to pursue happiness, but I'm pretty sure that didn't include using the credit card and living paycheck to paycheck. Instead, they meant for us to be financially free of those burdens.

If you are feeling the weight of debt, then you are not living the "American Dream" as some call it. Instead, you are living the dream envisioned by your creditors: that you would be indebted to them for as long as possible.

Few things will provide a reason for shooting off fireworks a year from today than declaring yourself free from debt and living life independent of your debtors. Wouldn't that be worth celebrating?

We remember the sacrifices of so many to give us the freedoms we have today. My hope, is that a short while from now, you will be able to celebrate the sacrifices you made, in order to get out of debt once and for all.

Celebrate the fact that one of the freedoms we enjoy in America today is the freedom to be owing to no one and to enjoy the full fruit of our labor free from the stress and worry that accompany indebtedness. That celebration can be yours!

With that thought in mind, have a happy and very safe, Forth of July!