Friday, February 29, 2008

Changing Financial Habits

If you often spend more than your needs, you best first step is to focus on a budget, looking for areas that are unnecessary and can be trimmed, and be prepared to have the discipline to stick to your new budget.

This is an essential tip for achieving your financial goals and changing your financial habits.

The majority of people fall into the category of spending more than they earn. This sets yourself up for finanical problems in the future. If you stick to a budget and spend less than you earn, you will be ahead of the majority of the population.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Keep a Journal

Keep a Journal. Open up a new word document (or journal, we preferred hand written) and commit to writing a few sentences each day about your progress.

This serves two purposes:

1) you are writing down what you want to achieve and how you are going to achieve it.
2)You are accountable to yourself - you will be amazed at how much better you will act if you have to write it down.