{"id":1749,"date":"2011-05-01T02:22:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justmovingout.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2017-02-26T02:01:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T02:01:54","slug":"broke-fix-your-money-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/articles\/broke-fix-your-money-management\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Direction: Change Your Mind About Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we like it or not, <strong>money is important.\u00a0 It affects our quality of life, opportunities for our children and will decide how we spend retirement.<\/strong>\u00a0 For most of us, <strong>money is also a constant source of stress<\/strong>&#8211;either we don&#8217;t have enough of it, don&#8217;t know where it goes, prefer not to think about it or some combination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem isn&#8217;t a lack of information.\u00a0 <\/strong>We can search Google for hundreds of personal finance websites.<strong>\u00a0 We also know the basic rules of money: Live within your means, save for the future, reduce debt, etc.\u00a0 So what&#8217;s the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about your financial struggles.\u00a0 What issues do you consistently have?<\/strong>\u00a0 What contributes to these problems?\u00a0 Maybe some of us learned bad habits growing up, maybe we let our emotions control our spending or maybe we just look the other way and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the issue and no matter how bad our financial trouble, <strong>we can turn things around to improve our financial situation.<\/strong>\u00a0 To do this,\u00a0 it&#8217;s important to <strong>1) acknowledge we have issues with money, 2) decide we want to improve our money management skills<\/strong> and <strong>3) commit ourselves to doing better<\/strong> in the future.<strong>\u00a0 Our goal is progress, not perfection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to<strong> get our finances under control, make money management easier and develop a better understanding of our situation and how to improve it.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money management is important to a successful life.  Financial stability lowers our stress level, increases our opportunities and raises our quality of life.  Despite knowing this, we still have trouble making good financial decisions.  How do we improve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}