Learn to Love Your Financial Life
Part of the tag line for MoneyCrush is “learn to love your financial life” — and it’s there for good reason.
I don’t necessarily mean learning to enjoy managing your money either. I suspect some people enjoy that more than others — I always have — but enjoying money management isn’t the important part.
For example, you can like dealing with money and have a not-so-fun, stress-filled financial life if you don’t have enough of it to manage, or if you’ve gotten in the habit of spending more than you earn.
Because money is a big part of life, learning how to handle it so that things run smoothly is key. No one starts out knowing how to manage their money at all; let alone knowing how to manage it in a way that lets us actually enjoy the fruits of our financial efforts.
Learning to love your financial life can mean different things to different people. It may mean overcoming a sense of being “bad” with money, learning to live below your means, making plans for your future so that you no longer have that nagging sense of worry, etc.
Basically, if there’s an area that’s stressing you out or that you’ve been putting off, that’s probably exactly the place to start.
Because most of all, learning to love your financial life means taking action.
Thank you for that last sentence. “Love” is not always a feeling; more often, it’s an action. And that’s true whether we’re talking about friendships or finances. It’s always helpful to be reminded that better finances start when we take action to make them better.
Yup, you’ve got to take action if you want things to change and improve.
This is great advice, very simple but true. Finances are similar to everything else in life and if you want to be happy you need to take action. Applying these easy rules will help create a peaceful financial life.
That’s true, the same kinds of “rules” apply to all aspects of your life.
Really liked how you said loving your financial advice takes action. I think more people need to hear that message.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
I love the fact that I live a low profile life. I do the things that are important or meaningful and skip the rest. If it is important to dine out, I do not have to spend a lot.
More people should do the things that are important/meaningful to them. It makes such a huge difference in how you feel…
I think one of the important ideas here is that this is something most of us need to learn. We are so often left in a state of coveting what we don’t have, that it can be hard to see what we do have, and what steps we can take to achieve the things that are important to us. By being active participants in our own financial lives (not something many people truly are) we can change that attitude.
And chances are, we’ll be a lot happier for it!