A Random Thought about Financial Sanity
It frightens a lot of people when you start talking about money and finance. For some folks, these kinds of topics are just boring and uninteresting. But for other people, they are just plain terrifying. And if gut wrenching terror is what I wanted to inspire in you guys, I would’ve called this article exactly what I did. Maybe this is a random thought, but it deserves to be said because you never know who might get something valuable out of it. You know when a great random thought pops up that you have to put it out there, for better or worse. It’s a little bit like being married to an idea; wait, that’s a terrible way to put it.
Let’s just say that being financially sane involves planning ahead. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what makes a person wealthy versus what makes them poor. When a person is poor, he or she never really plans anything beyond a day or two in the future (if even that far). So when something goes wrong in life and stuff costs a few hundred dollars extra, there is a good chance that it will take Payday One to keep a poor person from drowning under unforeseen problems.
Contrast that against a wealthier person. Wealthy people always seem to have the money for what they want and need. And when you look at how they usually live their lives, it isn’t about living in the moment. It’s about living for the future. Because bad things might happen in the future, wealthier people take all kinds of different precautions to make sure that when a financial setback happens (and it’s always a when, never an if), they’ll end up doing all right. The reason why rich people seem to be pretty much unstoppable is because they plan the furthest ahead. We all need to plan further.
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