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Poverty is not a vice. It is a school of life. Anyone who passed it, "infected".
Habits imposed poverty remain with man forever. Even if he improved financial situation. They, like leeches, sucking the nerves and money.
This article will help you to eradicate miserable thinking and thereby improve their financial affairs. As is known, the thought defines the actions and deeds - a success.
Not so long ago I was poor. To adulthood, I had no opportunity to change something. In the next 17 years, I no longer wanted anything to rebuild. I do not complain and do not grumble, as he picked his way.
These are the words of John Chiza (John Cheese). 35 years he lived in poverty, adrift, until one day by chance did not get a good job.
It changed his life. Fridge full, the bills are paid. But John was not able to get rid of the habits of the poor man. "Contagion" has penetrated into his brain too deeply.
Cheese, based on personal experience, described the habit of poor people.
1. cheap food
People living on the minimum wage, two criteria when choosing a food:
- Price (very low);
- shelf-life (maximum length).
Quality? Taste? Manufacturer? Leave it to gourmets, merchandised in the eponymous shop.
Products are bought once a week or less. 90% of them - canned. Fresh fruits and vegetables - too expensive. Meat? Maximum offal.
But the man gets used to everything. So much so that, when it will be possible to buy normal foods, you have to re-learn their taste.
Fresh, not canned tomatoes and apples will seem wrong. Even if you train yourself to breakfast tartlets Cheese Danish Blue Cheese, from time to time will still miss a sandwich with "Friendship" and the paper and soy-cooked sausages.
2. "Spare money
Large cash in the purse of a poor man - is nonsense. The prize, gift, dowry - if bred money they urgently need to spend. This reflex, caused by "infections of poverty".
Save for a rainy day does not work - it is always black. Poor man's way of thinking makes life here and now.
Man goes reflexively in store to market and spends everything to the penny, without thinking about how to pay next month's communal.
The habit of immediately spend the "extra" money is so strong that in the press every now and then exaggerated the curious cases: locksmith Ivanov won a million and squandered it in a week.
Paradox: in need of money, not protects them, and the wealthy, on the other hand, is able to save.
When a person has a stable high income, he has to learn to manage resources efficiently. He must understand that "extra" money does not happen, you should always have a financial buffer for unforeseen expenses (broken cars, fell seal).
3. Gifts
If a person has no money, he not to gifts. The most he can afford all these birthdays and the eighth of March, - souvenirs of Fix Price. Adults understand this and do not focus on.
But the children ...
Here's your new running shoes, but it's his birthday.
Tom, who grew up in a poor family, familiar with this phrase. And it is unlikely the child upset, that after six months will be left without a gift, the main thing - new shoes.
As a rule, the children understand the financial problems of the family and, even if you really want, do not whine, "Paaap, well, buy." But adults still remains a sense of guilt. Forever and ever.
Therefore, when the family is selected from the financial hole, parents are beginning to fill up their children gifts. No trip to the store without a new toy, "So much time I could not afford to pamper your baby."
The habit of forced savings to compensate for gifts manifested when the child was born already in abundance, and his parents grew up in poverty.
I did not, so at least let the children all will be.
4. accounting
The habit of constantly counting the money - another manifestation of the "poverty of infection."
You know exactly how much money you have on the card in your wallet (to kopecks). You will automatically add up the cost of products in mind, lying in a basket, always check the check and know all the utility tariffs, as well as the formula of their calculation.
This habit will remain even when the need to constantly count the money disappears.
Fear of a shortage of funds will be a long time to prosecute those who grew up in poverty.
5. Essential
If people can barely make ends meet, he buys only what he needs at a given time. Just must have.
Example. Summer, winter jackets sale. Price - for next to nothing. Model - simpatichnenko. The man guided for poor thinking, do not buy a jacket, even if he has the "extra" money (see. point 2). Before winter should be more live - what a winter jacket in the summer?
He who wore the clothes of the older brothers and sisters, knows that buying new jeans when leaky old, not when you want.
And this habit remains for a long time. "Why do I need new shoes? These can still be repaired! ".
Again, the paradox: the man with the habits of the poor shopping is not a pleasure. The money is there, but it is a pity to waste them. Especially on itself.
Willem de Kooning, a painter, sculptorBeing poor is bad only because it takes all your time.
Poverty creates thinking. But you can rebuild it, if you change the habits. By getting rid of the above described features of the behavior, you may soon notice that they have become more successful and confident. You have developed an immunity against "poverty of infection."