A change is as good as a rest

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We had our first budget in New Zealand yesterday since the government changed, (9 years of way left of centre, new government centre right).

It was incredible to hear such resposible steps being taken, even though they will be unpopular. Basically they said: “We are not going to keep giving money away to everybody because we can’t afford it and we are going to have to not do some of the things we promised because it will cost a fortune.  We will do them when we can afford to do so”.

Doing the right thing is often not popular but it is a sound way to live your life, run your business, or in this case run a country.  Prime Ministers comments on the budget  JohnKey

“Living within our means” is a phrase most of us hate if we were really honest.  I hate it. I don’t want to live within my means, I want unlimited means so I can live how I like.  And as an educator of others I think that is a great goal to have, absolutely.  However unless we learn to live within our means now we will never have the discipline to ever achieve the goal of great wealth.

And for many of us our unbearable feeling is either a feeling of being constrained/denied or a fear of a lack of money.  And we tend to avoid both feelings and comfort ourselves by impulse buying and bad money management.

So think about this. Are you willing to learn to live within your means as part of a strategy to increase your wealth and your mental health.  It will require learning how to budget, how to deny yourself and how to plan.  Or are you resigned to feeling lack, living in financial chaos and always regretting what you can’t have or do?

The fruit of the first will be a life worth living with less stress, more joy and a growing ability to dream, plan and execute bigger goals!! The second, well you can figure that out.

I know which one I’d pick, what about you?

Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv