Comments on: 5 Important Tips For Coping With The Financial Crisis http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/ The Official Self Help & Personal Development Blog for INeedMotivation.com by Frederic Premji Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-14661 Andy Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:38:01 +0000 http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/#comment-14661 Building up your emergency (cash) funds is also a good idea in this environment. I would say you should have upto 12 monhts of zero-interest cash available to you if needed. Building up your emergency (cash) funds is also a good idea in this environment. I would say you should have upto 12 monhts of zero-interest cash available to you if needed.

]]> By: Ron Towns http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-14597 Ron Towns Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:23:46 +0000 http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/#comment-14597 People that have lived a certain way for years, or have become conditioned to a certain lifestyle, have created strong neural pathways that reinforce their habits. People in this situation won't change over night, or even in a week. There is a process that can produce true change, and help develop new habits. The first thing somebody must do is, as you mentioned, identify the essentials. Identify what is important in your life - what is needed and what is not. Set your goals and determine whether certain clutter in your life is helping you move closer to your goals or away from your goals. Next, create a vision board of images that represent your goals and dreams. Look at the board every single day, morning and night. Even create a presentation of these images on your IPOD, in a sideshow format. When viewing the images, think of the emotional feel (probably positive) connected with each image. If you have an image representing saving money, how would it make you feel if you saved as much as your goal? Your mind will remember these images and emotions attached to these images. Your brain is a device whose primary goal is to ensure survival. Survival doesn't only refer to physical survival, as in eating so that you don’t starve. When you've ingrained goals deeply into your subconscious, not accomplishing them and experiencing the emotion you connected with them is a form of mental death. You are being deprived of whatever pleasure that you determined is a pleasure to you. Do you see how this is working? People that have lived a certain way for years, or have become conditioned to a certain lifestyle, have created strong neural pathways that reinforce their habits.

People in this situation won’t change over night, or even in a week. There is a process that can produce true change, and help develop new habits.

The first thing somebody must do is, as you mentioned, identify the essentials. Identify what is important in your life – what is needed and what is not. Set your goals and determine whether certain clutter in your life is helping you move closer to your goals or away from your goals.

Next, create a vision board of images that represent your goals and dreams. Look at the board every single day, morning and night. Even create a presentation of these images on your IPOD, in a sideshow format. When viewing the images, think of the emotional feel (probably positive) connected with each image. If you have an image representing saving money, how would it make you feel if you saved as much as your goal?

Your mind will remember these images and emotions attached to these images. Your brain is a device whose primary goal is to ensure survival. Survival doesn’t only refer to physical survival, as in eating so that you don’t starve.

When you’ve ingrained goals deeply into your subconscious, not accomplishing them and experiencing the emotion you connected with them is a form of mental death. You are being deprived of whatever pleasure that you determined is a pleasure to you.

Do you see how this is working?

]]> By: self-improvement http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-14594 self-improvement Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:20:22 +0000 http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/5-important-tips-for-coping-with-the-financial-crisis/#comment-14594 Great suggestions! Changing spending habits is big. Learning how to eat at home, or bring lunches is key. Also learning to be happy with what you already have. Getting new 'stuff' shouldn't make you happy or define who you are. Backup plans are a good thing to have. Great suggestions! Changing spending habits is big. Learning how to eat at home, or bring lunches is key. Also learning to be happy with what you already have. Getting new ’stuff’ shouldn’t make you happy or define who you are.
Backup plans are a good thing to have.

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