How do you learn to always make the most of your money?
How do you know when you’ve achieved that plane of existence where you sneeze and gold coins fly from your ears? Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but is it possible to get to a place where you are always making the best financial decisions all of the time?
Probably not.
Does it matter?
Probably not.
When talking about money, you need to include a discussion on keeping a healthy balance. You’ll drive yourself crazy by always trying to pick the winning stock and never spending your money on wasteful things like fast food and movies. I can’t imagine trying to live my life not making a wrong move. It’s just not possible and, frankly, not desirable. You have to have fun sometimes. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Does that mean that you’re doomed to live paycheck to paycheck, never accomplishing what your financial goals? Absolutely not. Life is not always lived in a straight line. Sometimes it meanders. And some of those little diversion lead to some pretty great stuff.
It’s like when you take a trip somewhere. You plot your course, you get in your car and you drive. But along the way you find a road you’ve never seen before or a sign post you haven’t noticed and you decide to follow it just to see where it leads and it turn out that you find someplace great. Of course, you could also find a crummy place that you never want to see again. But the odds are in your favor that you’ll find something interesting, at the very least, and you may find something great that you’ll want to get back to again and again.
That’s living in a balanced way. You make a plan and you work towards it. But, you’re also open to what the world is going to drop at your feet. Sometimes it will be good and sometime it will be bad. And sometimes it will be AWESOME!
Cheers
Sherri Overby
Financial Food for Thought 