Living Big on a Small Budget: Mastering the Art of Successful Personal Financing
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When you finish your education and go to work, you must look ahead to when you will marry. When you marry, you must look ahead to when you will buy a home and have children. You must look ahead to your child's education and their wedding, and you must look ahead to your own retirement – even if it is fifty years away! All of this takes money, and it is money that you need to start gathering right away…not on the day that you need it.
In order to plan your financial future successfully, you really must make a basic plan for your life. That plan will most definitely change over the years, but the main parts won't change. For instance, the chances are very good that you will marry and have children. You will almost definitely reach a point where you want to purchase a home. If you have children, they will absolutely need to be educated, and will most likely marry.
You will definitely want or need to retire at some point. Those things are not likely to change in your life's plan. So, think ahead through the coming years of your life, and make a financial plan that will help you obtain your goals. The rest of life, with all of its up and downs can then be taken in stride – one day at a time.
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Living Big on a Small Budget - Anthony Ekanem
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Introduction
Congratulations on making your wise decision in investing in this manual! You definitely know that the best person on the planet to take care of your personal finances is none other than yourself! We’ve all been told to take things one day at a time, and this is of course the best way to live. Unfortunately, many people think that the ‘one day at a time’ theory includes their financial standing and future – and it doesn’t.
When it comes to money, you really can’t take things one day at a time. You must look ahead to the future, and set financial goals, and then create a plan to reach those goals. Once that is done, you start meeting those goals – one day and one step at a time.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you will ‘cross that bridge when you get to it.’ When it comes to money, you simply cannot do that, or you will find that you will never reach your goals. You must look ahead and see where those bridges are, and start working out how you will cross them long before you get to them!
When you finish your education and go to work, you must look ahead to when you will marry. When you marry, you must look ahead to when you will buy a home and have children. You must look ahead to your child’s education and their wedding, and you must look ahead to your own retirement – even if it is fifty years away! All of this takes money, and it is money that you need to start gathering right away…not on the day that you need it.
In order to plan your financial future successfully, you really must make a basic plan for your life. That plan will most definitely change over the years, but the main parts won’t change. For instance, the chances are very good that you will marry and have children. You will almost definitely reach a point where you want to purchase a home. If you have children, they will absolutely need to be educated, and will most likely marry.
You will definitely want or need to retire at some point. Those things are not likely to change in your life’s plan. So, think ahead through the coming years of your life, and make a financial plan that will help you obtain your goals. The rest of life, with all of its up and downs can then be taken in stride – one day at a time.
Within the coming pages, I’ll show you quick & easy steps on handling your personal finances – in layman terms, of course. While some ideas and facts can vary from state to state (country to country), the concepts and ground rules of handling your personal finances are still the same. All the best in stretching in every dollar you have!
Chapter 1
How to Take Control of Your Finances
Use Common Sense
In as simple as it sounds, financial planning is really just a matter of using common sense. For instance, why would you pay $20.00 when you could pay $10.00 for the same item or results? It’s no more than a guess that you work very hard to earn your money – so you need to make sure that your money is working hard for you in return. That’s one. Money, when it is all said and done, is a means to an end. You work to make money; you take that money and use it to make sure that you have a place to live, a car to drive, food to eat, and clothes to wear. And with luck, you take that money to enjoy some of the finer things in life. Many people believe that money is made to spend, and in a sense, that is validly true, and you will spend it – but not necessarily today.
If you are young, it is hard to imagine that you will reach a point in life when you can no longer work for your income. It may be a long way off, but that time will come, and you must be prepared for it. You cannot expect to start saving for retirement the year before you will need to retire! The sooner you start saving and investing for your retirement, the better your retirement years will be – and that should be a major goal for everyone!
When you retire, you will start spending the money that you’ve worked all of your life to earn and save. With luck and planning, there will even be some or plenty left over to give your grandchildren or great grandchildren a good financial start. Just because you make a lot of money, you don’t have to spend a lot of money.
We would all like to live rich and famous lifestyles, but it isn’t very realistic. Common sense is best when it comes to money, so again, why would you pay more for something