In 2004, my wife and I decided to start a family. We both had solid jobs and plenty of income, so we took out a home equity loan to expand our house.
Our son was born in 2005, and our daughter followed in 2008. But by 2011, everything fell apart. I was on unemployment, and we couldn’t pay the bills. We had to section off a small area of our home just to keep warm.
In 2011, I sat down with my wife and kids and told them my sole purpose was to find work and provide for them. I warned them not to expect anything more from me because it would take everything I had. I ate, slept, and breathed the grind, doing anything and everything to make money. By the end of 2013, we were back on our feet, and that’s when I discovered Bitcoin.
I immediately loved the concept and intuitively used it as my savings account. But I kept grinding, got us out of debt, and kept stacking. I’m still stacking, and now they’re stacking too—maybe not as much as I’d like, but they’re stacking!
I’m writing this because my family has sacrificed big time to get where we are. Tomorrow, I’m taking them out to a nice dinner to tell them how proud I am of them for understanding what I had to do. We may not have much cash on hand, but we’re living comfortably and a whole lot more freely. I value my time with them now more than ever because of what we went through.
Ultimately, I’ll explain how we’re halfway through my Bitcoin plan, and if we keep exercising some delayed gratification, we’ll be living a life they can’t even imagine in a decade.