Resolve To Take Control Of Your Finances

Invest into your  future, you need to make sure that your outgoing expenses are less than what you are receiving as income. You need to develop yourself to excess that you can have something  to invest.The only way to create an excess it to spend less than you earn, instead of spending all that you earn.

Even doctors and lawyers, who earn well over millions  per year, often end up at retirement at their old age with little more Net Worth than factory or office workers.

Net Worth is known by removing the value of all the things you need or loans you have from the income-producing assets you have to give you the net value of your income-producing assets. 

Why are high-income earners  not retiring wealthy? Why don’t they end up with a greater Net Worth than someone on a low income? It is quite simple. Human nature seems to dictate that whatever anyone earns….they spend….some even spend more than they earn and charge it on their credit card.

The higher your income grows…the more you spend and the only way to get out of this cycle is to know  that it is happening, and make an  effort to change  this habit….and to start reducing your spending  so that you can free up money to invest into your future.

The best way to in vest into your future  is to try the 10/90 plan. This plan simply means that as soon as you receive your pay….you put aside 10% of it for investment….and then use the other 90% to liveyour life off. Put aside the 10%, and then pay all the bills and do the shopping and any other thing you need to do and then after that whatever is remaining you can spend.

Many people do it the wrong way around they pay the bills, do the shopping and spend what is left over, forgetting to save or invest. 

Note:By taking the investment money out first you will alleviate the temptation to spend it.

The road to wealth is not determined by how much you earn, but by how you manage the income you have and how much you save and invest.

You need to take control of your finances. One of the best ways to start having more control over your money is to find out where it has all been going, and then amend your spending habits to allow you to live within the 10/90 plan.

If you write down a list of your monthly net income, then in another column write down a list of the essential items that you have to spend money on. You should be able to work out an average for telephone, gas, electricity, insurances and rates, from your previous bills. Work out an average of how much is spent on grocery shopping and petrol. If there are any other necessary utilities include them as well. Then remove the second column from the first – and this will give you the maximum potential savings for each month. 

Another good learning experience is to simply write down for a fortnight every dollar spent and write next to it what it was for. You will soon find that there are a lot of unnecessary expenses, often caused by impulse buying, where you have spent money on items that you neither needed or really wanted, and could easily have gone without. 

When you can begin to discover these areas, and start to change  whether or not you are spending your money wisely, before you hand it over, then you will be beginning to take control over your money and are well on the way to embarking on your investment journey, which will enable you to have a financially secure future for you and your children.