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3 Basic Principles For Good Personal Finance Habits

There are three basic principles surrounding good personal finance habits, and they are:

* Live Within Your Means by Spending Less Than You Make

* Making the Money You Do Have Work More For You

* Anticipating and Preparing for the “Unexpected”

Living Within Your Means

Everyone talks about living within your means, which simply means that you spend less than you make, you avoid excessive debt and you save money. The concept is easy to understand, but judging by the number of people who spend more than they have – not so easy to apply!

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Building Rich Money Habits 101: my personal finance story

I have always thought there’s only one formula in making money.  That is work hard and at the end of each month, you get your paycheck.  Growing up in a family of farmers, I have seen what working hard really means.  I’ve experienced waking up early in the morning, go to the farm, plant or harvest rice until the sun sets in.  When you go home after a long day of working, the aching muscles says it all.  It is HARD work.  I’ve learned from my parents that if you want to have some money, you have to work  for it.  Often times, I’d go along with my mom to harvest tobacco leaves from a nearby town, and afterwards, she’d pay me for how much I was able to harvest.  That’s always been my training in terms of making money.  That was my first money habit – work to earn.

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