Ideas for Good Financial Organization
by adminGetting that financial junk drawer in order doesn’t have to be difficult.
Besides giving it the time it deserves, following are some basic ideas that will make organizing your financial life a little easier.
Get Mentally Organized The first thing to consider when getting organized is your own mental state. Ask yourself if you are mentally disorganized or mentally calm. If you are a person who constantly “shivers” because you cannot make decisions about financial concerns, now is the time to learn how to organize your
mind. Dr. Peale suggests an excellent way to do this:
Get the calm selective ability to take up one thing at a time and
concentrate upon it. Deal finally with it, if possible before passing to the next matter. When you organize your mind, a sense of power will come to you, and you will soon wonder at the ease with which you can handle responsibilities. Your capacity for work will increase, so will your pleasure in what you are doing. Strain and tension will subside.6
As Dr. Peale notes, the best way to begin getting organized is to calm your mind first by doing one thing at a time. Trying to tackle your entire financial situation in one sitting will simply overwhelm you. Organization requires patience and steady persistence, but it does not require that everything be done at once. Getting organized is like the man on an African safari who came across a little pygmy who had just finished eating an elephant. “How on earth did you manage to do that?” the man asked the pygmy. The pygmy replied, “I didn’t swallow him whole, you know. I ate him one bite at a time!”
Taken from : Money Mastery “10 Principles That Will Change
Your Financial Life Forever
