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  • Writer's pictureDmitry Milashchuk

В продолжение поста "Откуда взять деньги" - несколько советов по финансовой грамотности.


1. Планируйте и анализируйте расходы и доходы.

Ничего нового, но это неизбежное упражнение, если вы хотите контролировать свой бюджет. Сначала будет трудозатратно и скучно, но со временем это станет автоматическим действием. В помощь вам многочисленные приложения и шаблоны таблицы Excel. Вы быстро убедитесь, что это позволяет экономить, даже если вы решите не менять образ жизни.


2. Создайте финансовую "подушку".

Откладывайте 10-15% от любого дохода. Такой запас принесет некое спокойствие, и в кризисные моменты у вас будет, на что рассчитывать.


3. Проверяйте цены.

В силу разных маркетинговых манипуляций один и тот же продукт может стоить по-разному в разных местах и для разных потребителей. Не нужно покупать вещь просто потому что на неё есть скидка. Но лучше искать скидку, если вы решили что-то покупать.


4. «Я не настолько богат, чтобы покупать дешевые вещи».

Парадоксально, но чем больше вы пытаетесь экономить, тем беднее становитесь. Замечали, что чем беднее человек, тем больше хлама у него дома? Дорогая качественная вещь обычно служит дольше, чем дешевый аналог, который нужно менять или ремонтировать гораздо чаще.


5. Избегайте «невероятно перспективных» финансовых инвестиций.

Не делайте значительные финансовые вливания, если вы плохо разбираетесь в инвестировании (даже если все вокруг советуют). Это плохо не только для кошелька, но и для нервов. Да, на акциях и криптовалютах можно заработать больше, чем на классических банковских продуктах, но и потерять тоже можно много и очень быстро.


Нe надо становиться жертвой социального давления.

Мы - заложниками убеждений общества, утверждающего что успешный успех нужно демонстрировать. Хотя в Швейцарии я наблюдаю другую тенденцию. Действительно богатые люди зачастую выглядят и ведут себя так, как на постсоветском пространстве называется «бедненько, но чистенько»:).

  • Writer's pictureDmitry Milashchuk

Further to my previous post "What about money" a few advices on basic financial literacy.


1. Plan and analyse your spendings and income.

Nothing new here indeed, just required exercise if you want to have a control over your money. Boring and time consuming until you get used to it, though there are dozens of mobile apps available to make the tracking more fun, and good old MS Excel is still here. When you start to understand what are the spending patterns you have, it will be much easier to save, even if you don't change the income flows. For me - Excel does the job:)


2. Create financial Safety cushion.

Highly recommended, doesn't matter what is your income. Put aside 10-15% of net income your earn, to ensure peace in mind and to have some money to see you through the crisis.


3. Check the prices before you buy something.

Shopping malls or chains are using various marketing strategies, so the price for the same product can be different. No need to purchase the stuff just because it is "on sale" now. But if you have decided to buy something, look for the shops where the item is on sale. With online shopping such hunt becomes even more interesting.


4. “I am not rich enough to buy cheap things”.

Sounds paradoxical but more you try to save, poorer you become. When you buy the high quality and expensive thing, usually it serves you for a long time. While the cheap stuff you have to replace more often, spending additional money.


5. Avoid risky investments.

Unless you know well enough modern financial instruments, don’t rush to make the investments, even if everyone is talking about it. It is not good neither for your wallet nor for your nerves. Indeed it is possible to earn bigger money while investing into shares and cryptocurrencies, as well as lose everything you have invested.


Do not fall a victim of social expectations.

We follow the social norms of the society we live in, which dictates us to radiate success through expensive stuff we buy. Though I see another tendency in Switzerland. The lifestyle and spending patterns of really rich people may appear "average" to the citizens of, for example, the post soviet countries.

  • Writer's pictureDmitry Milashchuk

One of the most popular problems. What to do with resentment and hurt feelings, which are eating us from inside. Everyone has those unpleasant situations, which keep surfacing in our memory. We circle them in our head, every time trying to find a better solution to that event in the past. Such thoughts are often destructive and don't allow us to move on.


Answer from all psychologists - let go of the situation and the person who hurt you. However how to do it practically?


Those methods work for me:


• Talk to that person, if it is still possible. What exactly they meant by their words? Was it intentional action or just spontaneous reaction, which they regret now? Is it possible to repair the damage?


• Change priorities and environment - exclude the person from your life;


• To feel sorry for that person - most probably, they are unhappy and alone in life. Their only joy is to hurt someone and watch them suffer. Visualization of the miserable life of such people - very positive instrument to let go and live your life;


• Don't show that situation is important for you - no need to give those people a reason to believe they have some power over you. Sometimes such people thrive on others' negative emotions.


• Look at your life beyond that resentment. Enjoy many things you have achieved. You will see how insignificant was that old story which is bothering you.

Coach

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