The Quiet Habit Slowly Draining Your Money

There's a money mistake so many of us make that we don't see it as a mistake. We've not seen it as a problem but it's seriously dealing with our finances. For some, it's serious on their finances and for some, it's almost insignificant because they have a lot of it but the point is, there's issue.

The issue here is, the mistake people make with their money that is almost normal now. It still feels normal to me because I'm yet to fight it away completely but I'm aware of it and recognise it as a problem that needs my attention. Or maybe, I'm the one seeing it as one.

But hear me out, is it just me or there are actually expenses we do when we don't feel good inside of us instead of us to sit with what's really causing that feeling in us so it doesn't repeat itself? I think that's a scary realization because it made me think the number of times I've refused.

I remember a speech I came across some time ago, it said "If we'd all sit for 30 mins to a hour with our feelings especially when we don't feel good, away from our phones or any instant gratification we may find, either with by spending or whatever is in the kitchen, we'd learn a lot about ourselves and treat issues much better".

Maybe it's just me but I think a few of us have somehow been able to succeed in escaping realities countless times because we have our phones with us, data loaded in it to find instant comfort until another time the feeling resurfaces and we go back to what saved us out of it before.

There are many ways we find immediate comfort but my focus for this post is how we make mistake with our finances because we want to escape a reality or feel better about ourselves inside. We find ourselves buying the things we don't need, trying out what really doesn't fit us.

All those things are quietly eating into our finances, even though some never can tell so long they feel better. It's why financial advisors recommend tracking your money, you'll be shocked what you'll find. If you'd record every penny or money you spend, even the one you sent as a tip, you'd learn where your money goes. And that is where I've started to discover more.