Financial Freedom is a big term.
It's hard to get there if that is your only goal because it blinds you what should be done right now.
I like to chunk things down to steps that inevitably take me there. If you don't know the best route to the top of the mountain, at least you know you should start going up.
And to me the first financial goal of anyone looking to get true financial freedom starts with...
... 7 clients.
Not 70 or 20.
7 is enough.
The reasoning:
I charge weekly.
I've seen it perform better than monthly all my life. It's great.
And I love 7 weekly clients as a first goal because that means you get paid every day.
Charge something like $100-$250/week (which is actually quite low for a Whale),
And you just bought yourself a huge breather.
Because 7 weekly clients means that you get paid every day.
The real kicker is what it does to your psychology:
When you wake up every day KNOWING you're going to get paid you just move different. You talk different. You write different. And people feel that.
You have the “aura” that has what everyone else prostitutes themselves on the timeline and records cringe videos for.
Confidence is built on proof. You can only have “delusional self belief” for some time until reality shows up.
At some point it will demand that you show the receipts.
7 client clears a huge psychological barrier in yourself and in your business:
It proves to you that you're the person capable of getting paid every day.
I know a bunch of guys with big accounts. And they live in this constant state of tension and lies because they have to pretend everything is fine.