One of the things I’ve learned in over 20 years of coaching and teaching is that there are certain things which are predictable about human beings. So even though I probably don’t know you personally, I’m going to make a bet with you that there is at least one thing you are not doing that if you did it, your most wonderfully impossible goal would come 20 miles closer today.
Imagine playing a game without any rules…
Would chess be any fun (or even playable) if you could move any piece in any direction at any time?
When I first began writing these tips just over ten years ago, it was in response to a comment a mentor made on learning that we were about to move to Los Angeles from London.
Managing your money is perhaps the most practical of the money masteries, and many of the basics of financial literacy can be easily learned online or over a coffee and donut at your local bookshop. (Just be sure not to get any donut crumbs on the books if you’re not planning on buying them later… :-)
Thus far, we’ve talked about the two masteries of money that most people who struggle with money claim to struggle with – creating it and accumulating it. This week and next, we’ll move into two of the subtler masteries. Without next week’s mastery, it won’t matter how much you earn or how much you keep because it will continue to mysteriously disappear.