How To Stop Struggling Financially Starting Today

It’s no secret that people with virtually no experience with money and how money works always end up struggling financially.

Until you decide to get a good financial education and apply what you learn to your current financial situation consistently, nothing much changes.

Having a good understanding of basic financial concepts will keep you from wondering whether you can actually afford to save more money, how and where to invest your money, and how to pay off your debts.

A good financial education can also serve as a great financial foundation for you, if you seriously want to improve your finances and live an abundant life.

However, you have to be prepared to do what it takes to dramatically transform your financial life, and that means dropping your old financial habits, and developing new supportive ones like living off your income, instead of debt.

Dealing with debt

One of the biggest causes of severe financial problems is perpetual debt.

Without the right financial information, it is easy to accumulate more debt than you can ever hope to pay off, especially if you erroneously believe you can borrow your way out of a financial mess.

This could probably work for a business in certain circumstances, but for an individual on a single regular paycheck, your chances are slim to none.

The overwhelming majority of people who carry more debt than they can pay off, attempt to diligently follow this futile strategy and wonder why it fails to free them from debt.

Borrowed money usually comes at a cost (interest) that increases over time.

If the borrowed money does not generate interest or a profit, you will find yourself having to pay back more money than you actually borrowed.

Soon you will find yourself in a never-ending cycle of borrowing money to keep up with your expenses, ending up with more debt than you ever imagined.

When I worked at a corporate job years ago, practically everyone I knew at work was living off debt, and because I did not know any better, I found myself doing the same.

I got to a point where I wanted out and getting rid of the debt seemed like a life-long struggle for me. I simply couldn’t figure out how I could ever be debt free.

I remember wishing time and again for a cash windfall so I could pay it off at one go.

When that didn’t happen, I knew I had to adopt a proactive approach to dealing with my debt problem, and in less than three years, I had paid off all my debts including my mortgage and was completely debt free.

Getting out of debt and staying out of debt requires you to change the way you think.

I soon learnt that moving from “I can’t” to “how do I learn how to…” gives you the opportunity to learn how to overcome challenges you will face along the way.

The journey begins…

If you want to stop struggling financially, planning your finances is crucial and perhaps the most important first step.

Implementing the plan is where most people fall by the wayside.

Those who have trouble working their finances don’t seem to realize that small seemingly elementary steps they can take today, can make a very big difference in the near future.

Believing there is little you can do to get out of your financial predicament can force you to do things you wouldn’t do if it were not out of economic necessity, such as sacrificing family time for work with little pay, and working at a job that does not fulfill you.

The question is, for how much longer are you going to keep wondering how you can stop struggling financially instead of doing something about it?

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