How to Get Closer to Financial Freedom: Your Next 1%

So, you know your Freedom Score. You’ve worked out your Mindful Money Number. Now comes the most important question:

How do you actually move the number?

In Part Two of this Start Here series, Canna turns the idea of financial freedom into a practical roadmap you can start following from wherever you are today.

And you don’t need thousands of dollars left over each month, the perfect investment or a complete financial overhaul to begin.

Instead, Canna explains how small, ordinary financial decisions — paying off expensive debt, redirecting old repayments, building emergency savings, investing consistently, reviewing your super and reinvesting passive income — can gradually stack together and move you closer to financial freedom.

She also explores the two sides of the Freedom Score equation: increasing the passive income your assets generate while becoming more intentional about how much income your lifestyle requires.

Using her own $1,000 Project as an example, Canna explains how consistently building income-producing assets — and then reinvesting the income they generate — can eventually mean your existing wealth starts helping you build even more wealth.

In this episode:

• How to establish your financial starting point

• What to do when you feel like you have nothing left over to invest

• Why starting small is still starting

• How creating financial breathing room can help you move forward

• Why paying off expensive consumer debt can be an important first step

• The simple trick of redirecting repayments once a debt is gone

• Why emergency savings help protect your investment strategy

• How to start building income-producing assets

• Why you don’t need to build the entire portfolio today — you just need to start

• How reinvesting passive income can help accelerate compounding

• Why starting earlier gives your money more time to work

• The important role super can play in building long-term wealth

• The two levers you can use to improve your Freedom Score

• Why controlling lifestyle creep matters

• How automating savings, investing and repayments can make progress easier

• Why every pay rise, paid-off debt or financial saving should be given its next job

• How to track your progress without becoming obsessed with reaching 100%

Financial freedom is rarely created by one brilliant investment or clever financial hack.

It’s built through hundreds of relatively ordinary financial decisions that begin stacking on top of each other.

The debt gets smaller. Your cash flow gets stronger. Your investments get bigger. Your passive income grows. And eventually, your money starts helping you do some of the heavy lifting.

So don’t look at someone else’s financial position. Don’t become overwhelmed by 100%. And don’t wait for the perfect time to begin.

Start from where you are. Choose your next financial move. Then focus on your next 1%.

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