When one's perspective doesn't hold the promise of being able to make choices, it's easy to feel depressed and helpless. Resignation can set in, and life can seem tedious. Money gives options for making choices; more, having the financial knowledge to make money can alter one's perspective, giving a sense of empowerment.
This blog will reflect my own journey into becoming more financially knowledgeable- I'd like to share what I've learned with you, in case it might help you too. We can help each other out, all of us, with what we learn- I'm always amazed at how a signle thought expressed by someone can completely alter my way of looking at things, and my subsequent course of life. How amazing that our conversations and words can do that!
So, let me give a brief background of myself so that you can better understand where I'm coming from, and why I'm taking the approach that I am.
For much of my life, I disregarded the importance of money, considering those who pursued it as being greedy or not-spiritual. I made a variety of choices based on that assumption which impacted my life, because I simply did not have a financial perspective that reflected reality: I took out student loans, I studied at a graduate program without considering career ramifications, did not understand opportunity cost. Faced with the passing of time, I focused more and more upon those mistakes, until I grew angry and bitter at the world. At some point, I recognized that what I was going through could be put in a context: it wasn't that I was an individual destined to be a loser, but that I simply did not have the financial knowledge to change my circumstances, to better inform my choices, and that that was something I could change.
So, like a marathon, I'm stepping out on this new adventure, going one step at a time.
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