Being able to be financially secure is on the minds of a lot of people. You want to be able to enjoy your later years and retirement. You don’t want the stress of having to be worrying about money or debt when you are older. Well, you probably don’t want that stress at all! It can be hard when you are around my age, as life just calls for you to spend. You spend on cars, a home and starting a family. Wanting to save for the future, or even a ‘rainy day’ is in the plan, but it doesn’t always happen. Here are a few tips that we can all do to help us to prepare and save for our futures.
We often hear that successful people are people that set goals. They make a plan and set goals to help them to achieve it. So to be able to be successful financially, it is a good idea to make a proper plan. Say you wanted to have your student loan paid off, or you want to stop using your overdraft. It isn’t good enough to just say those things; you need to make a plan. If you are specific with your goals, they are much more likely to happen. So say that you want to pay off your student loan within five years. Then you can make a specific plan according to your current incomings and outgoings. When you make goals and follow through with them, it helps you to take control. It is your future so you want to be in control of it. So make plans, rather than ‘save’.
There are other things that you need to think about planning for too. It might seem like a long way off, but you will want to have a rough idea of what you will want to do in your pension years. Things like going to a care home, like Drumconner Care Home, need to be financially planned for. Will you move closer to family or stay where you are? It can be hard to have a definite plan this early of course. So just a rough idea, and then a plan to save for that plan, if needed.
One of the best ways to make sure that you are financially set for the future is my only borrowing for investments. You shouldn’t borrow to fund a lifestyle. If you can’t afford it, then don’t live like it. It just becomes counterproductive to saving or building up a nest-egg or wealth. If you borrow money to fund investments, wise investments, then the gain will beat the costs of borrowing. So if you need to pay for more education or a course for a business, it can help you to become secure financially, faster. Funding a business or buying a house can help towards being financially secure too.
What are some of the ways that you prepare for the future, if at all? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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