How many hours of your week is spent working just to pay for your “wants” versus your “needs”? Do you have to put in overtime just to keep up with minimum credit card payments, or can you survive comfortably on your regular salary? Are you working for your stuff or are you working for you? These are important questions to ask yourself when you feel the desire to spend your hard-earned money on “stuff” rather than putting it in savings or buying necessities. While most people work to live, many people work so they can try to buy their happiness — and it’s never going to work. Instead, they find themselves working longer hours at jobs they hate or extra jobs just to try to keep up with paying for their “stuff” that is supposed to being them happiness. What a horrible way to have to live! When you start breaking down how many hours of your day are spent working just to pay for the extras in life, suddenly the extras are not that attractive anymore. If I was still spending like I did in my early 20′s, I would have to be working 3 jobs just to put food on the table. It’s definitely not a good way to go through life, and I am glad I stopped all that nonsense sooner rather than later.
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