Have you ever wonder why some people are more successful, while some are often encountering failures in anything they do? I will share this by looking from the perspective of having the right habits.
Here are some information, obvious yet often ignored by many people.
We all have habits. Good habits lead to a positive lifestyle, bad habits lead to a negative one.
The more good habits you have, you are more likely to have a more positive mindset. The more bad habits you have, you are more likely to have a more negative mindset. How positive the mindset is, will affect the person's probable success level.
Human are basically resistant to changes, especially those with discomfort. This is why it is often more challenging for most people to cultivate good habits than bad ones.
The longer or more intense you have had a habit, the more time or effort you may need to alter or get rid of it. This is because habits are already part of your life and programmed in your subconscious mind. We may have come across people doing things that even they themselves are unaware of. This is why. It is already programmed into them unconsciously.
A habit fundamentally comprises of: Some trigger -> Some actions -> Some effect. If the effects are of pleasure, comfort or rewarding, then the person is more likely or motivated to do the same actions again in future. It will be easier or shorter time to form the habit.If the effects are of discomfort, pain, then the person is likely to be more resistive to repeat the actions again in future.
Lets apply the above pointers into handling of money.
Form good habits such as regular saving, researching before buying, tracking of one's expenses will help to in better money management.Bad habits such as irregular saving, compulsive spending will probably lead to a more unpredictable financial state.
If we only have one good habit like saving regularly, then it is only one of the many conditions needed to have a good money management system. If we have cultivated all the good habits: saving regularly, tracking expense, monitoring and reducing of unnecessary spending, investing properly instead of gambling or speculating, then we are more likely to have a better financial mentality and better financial state.
It is easier to spend first before you save, then to save first before you spend. It takes no discipline to do the former, but lots of discipline are needed for the latter.
The longer you have been saving, the more easier it should be for you to continue saving. This is because you have already practiced that particular actions for many times, and some of your daily activities have been tuned to follow that direction.If you have been spending like all of your income monthly and often get into debt, it will be very challenging to kick this habit. A very long time will be needed
To the financially uneducated ones, spending money without control probably give pleasure. If you are to ask them to reduce their spending habits, it will create discomfort because their lifestyle are already tweaked to the spending mode.
In its most atomic form, a habit is simply a repeating-action system. It is so simple until people have often neglected its potential power that it can bring to their life. Having an awareness to understand the good and bad habits that we have, we can actually plan and adjust our life so that we can be thinking more positively, have more success in life, and become more skillful in handling our money.
To round it off, here are some prerequisites of cultivating good habits:
A willingness to admit that we have bad habits and a willingness to change them.
Lots of discipline and willpower to remind yourself and persist on the habits.
Focus on only one or two good habits at any time. Try not to do too much at any time.
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