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Readiness Isn’t a Number — It’s a Mindset

October 13, 20252 min read

What's Your Readiness Score?

Discover why true financial readiness isn’t about hitting a number but building control, certainty, and confidence in your cash flow. Learn how to create lasting financial resilience without relying on luck or market timing.

Tom swimming 3 mile, connecting it to readiness in financial certainty

Yesterday, I did something that, by most people’s standards—including my wife’s—I wasn’t ready for: a solo open-water swim.

No coach. No crowd. No perfect training plan.

Just me, the water, and a willingness to test what I believed I was capable of.

Published on October 13, 2025

By: Thomas Farrar of FreedomBankers

By all external measures, I was not ready:

  • I’d only trained three quick pool swims.

  • My body battery was 26 when I woke up.

  • My back was sore.

  • I’d slept in a foreign bed.

  • I hadn’t worn that wetsuit in 11 years.

  • And yet, I finished—with one and a half minutes to spare.

That experience reminded me of something powerful: readiness isn’t defined by numbers—it’s defined by mindset.


When it comes to finances, most people define “readiness” through outdated metrics someone else created.

They’ve been told to:

  • Chase a specific number.

  • Trust the market to do the right thing.

  • Hope that everything will go according to plan.

But hope isn’t a strategy.
And dependency isn’t readiness.

True readiness is control.
It’s understanding your cash flow.
It’s having liquidity, certainty, and a plan that continues to grow without relying on market performance or sleepless nights.

Just like physical training, financial readiness is built through consistency, not perfection.


Tom finished the  3mile swim

In my 50s, I’m compounding my physical readiness one workout at a time.
At the same time, I’m compounding my financial readiness through cash flow systems that don’t depend on luck, timing, or market swings.

Both require one thing: a decision to start.


So, how’s your readiness—physical or financial?

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to take control of your money, remember this: you’re probably closer than you think.


You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to start building certainty.

Make it a great day! And before you move on, ask yourself: What’s your readiness score?

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Thomas Farrar

Thomas Farrar is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner dedicated to helping individuals and families achieve Financial Certainty. Through FreedomBankers, he empowers clients to take control of their cash flow, recapture the banking function, and build lasting wealth with confidence and clarity.

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Terminologies

1. Infinite Banking Concept (IBC)

A financial strategy popularized by Nelson Nash that uses a properly designed whole life insurance policy to create your own personal banking system.

2. Becoming Your Own Banker

The title of Nelson Nash’s foundational book, teaching how individuals can control the banking function in their lives through IBC.

3. Whole Life Insurance

A permanent life insurance policy that provides lifelong coverage and builds cash value over time.

4. Cash Value

The savings component within a whole life policy that grows tax-deferred and can be accessed through loans or withdrawals.

5. Policy Loan

A loan taken against the cash value of your life insurance policy. You act as your own banker — borrowing and repaying yourself with interest.

6. Dividend

A share of the insurance company’s profits distributed to policyholders of participating whole life policies. Dividends can be used to buy more coverage, pay premiums, or grow cash value.

7. Paid-Up Additions (PUAs)

Extra coverage purchased with dividends or additional payments that boost your cash value growth and death benefit.

8. Mutual Insurance Company

An insurance company owned by its policyholders — not shareholders — meaning profits (dividends) are distributed to you.

9. Death Benefit

The tax-free amount paid to beneficiaries upon the policyholder’s death. In IBC, it’s also seen as a legacy-building tool.

10. Premium

The payment you make to keep your policy active. In IBC, premiums are often reframed as “capital deposits” to your personal banking system.

11. Banking Function

The process of managing cash flow, borrowing, and repayment — traditionally done by banks, but in IBC, you reclaim it personally.

12. Velocity of Money

A key IBC principle that highlights how fast money circulates. The faster it moves through your system, the more value it creates.

13. Opportunity Cost

The potential growth you lose when your money is tied up or spent instead of earning interest elsewhere. IBC helps minimize this loss.

14. Recapture Interest

The act of reclaiming interest that would otherwise go to traditional lenders by paying yourself back through your policy loans.

15. Tax-Deferred Growth

Your cash value grows without immediate taxation — a major advantage in compounding your wealth inside the policy.

16. Authorized Practitioner

A financial professional trained and certified to implement the Infinite Banking Concept properly for clients.

17. Certainty Advisor

A title for professionals (like Tom) who guide individuals in creating Financial Certainty using proven cash flow and IBC strategies.

18. Generational Wealth

The financial legacy built through assets like life insurance that can be passed on to future generations tax-efficiently.

19. Cash Flow Strategy

A personalized plan to manage income, expenses, and investments effectively — central to achieving financial independence through IBC.

20. Financial Certainty

A state of confidence in one’s financial life — knowing you have control over your money, debts, and future, often achieved through IBC principles.

21. Nelson Nash Institute (NNI)

The official organization founded to preserve and teach the Infinite Banking Concept as developed by R. Nelson Nash.

22. Dividends Option

Choices you have for how dividends are used — e.g., cash payout, premium reduction, or buying paid-up additions.

23. Policy Design

How an IBC practitioner structures a whole life policy to optimize cash value growth, flexibility, and long-term benefits.

24. Liquidity

Your ability to access money when needed. Properly designed IBC policies provide high liquidity without interrupting growth.

25. Control

A core philosophy of IBC — ensuring you have total control over your money, rather than surrendering it to banks or lenders.

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