I believe I’m past the crisis of wondering whether I should be where I am right now and has been riding the wave pretty successful for quite some time until now, I realized the importance of time which is kind of frightening. Before, when I do my budget and my plans I don’t consider my age. Anyway, I also realized that I need to sit down and figure my priorities straight and have better short and long term plans that I can stick to. Hopefully, although it’s already mid-year, I can make this work and I’m really excited about taking charge of my life.

I’ve realized most of these through the book John Armstrong’s How to Worry Less About Money which is really an eye-opener.

Here are some of my favorite highlights:

• The aim of adult life, one might say, is to worry well.
• Any failings that may seem to be due to money are in fact the product of failures of rationality.
• What is key is addressing your relationship with money and the feelings you have about it.
• I’ll only respect you if you spend a lot of money. You want to avoid these kinds of people.
• A more desirable habit of thinking is one in which worries are held in the mind, so that they can be turned into genuine enquiries.
• I didn’t in the past. Why would that change now?
• It is so soul-destroying to spend a lot of time doing anything that you do not believe to be worthwhile.
• Listening means discovering what is actually going on for another person.
  

Do check out the other The School of Life books.