Altering Your Habits To Save Money and Avoid Debt

The mind is an astonishing thing. It captures the ordinary patterns of your life in order to free you up to concentrate on new things. These captured patterns are called habits.

Habits are like well-trodden pathways in your brain. Once those pathways are formed, it's hard to go elsewhere. Some habits are necessary for survival, but most habits are neither necessary nor helpful. The more of these non-survival habits you can break, the better.

The best way to start breaking down little habits is to start with your routines at home. In the morning, as you get ready to start a day, do things in a slightly different order than usual. This exercise is not as easy as it sounds. But you will probably be surprised at how ingrained even these little habits are.

Your behavior doesn't have to be completely different every day for this exercise to work. Just try to change one thing each day. Soon you will find that your thoughts are less confined. You will probably find it easier to come up with new ideas of find solutions to problems that stumped you previously.

As you get better at breaking the little habits, start thinking of the habits you have that involve money. These habits may range from not picking up change that falls on the ground to buying on impulse to overusing credit cards.

Here are few tricks that may help you change your spending habits:

• Don't charge anything under $30. Pay cash or write a check either.
• If you see something you want to buy, leave the store. Go somewhere else for a while, walk around the block, and ask yourself if you really need the item. Often, as soon as you're away from the store, the impulse will pass.
• If loose change falls on the ground, stop to pick it up. First, change adds up. Second, contempt for small amounts of money can undermine your intention to take larger amounts of money seriously.

Good luck.

Martin Chandra has over years experience in marketing. Good at seeing the big picture with an eye to detail.

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