Step one: Get in the mood Step two: Find that good song that amplifies your celebration mood Step three; Throw your hands in the air and dance. Roll on the floor and shout your lungs out. Now that is how you celebrate when you win a challenge you have been on for three months. Three months ago, I started on a saving challenge that tasked me to save 1,500,000 Ugshs for Pallet Furniture for our living room. I have been documenting this here under these blog posts; Delay Gratification, SMART, Facing Challenges, Getting back on Track, The Journey to Achieving Your Target and How to use the Available Resources to Achieve Goals. As I write this, I…
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How to use the Available Resources to Achieve Goals
Setting savings goals and achieving them means one needs to acquire a degree of self-control, strength and advice. These are most important because they make the journey easy. Others invest in research and learning new ways and skills to equip them with the necessary knowledge to achieve those goals or targets. When I embarked on a saving challenge under the #AfricaSaves Barclays bank campaign as documented in these blog posts Delay Gratification, SMART, Facing Challenges, Getting back on Track and The Journey to Achieving Your Target; the need to up my game and stay motivated rose to levels that required me to find resources that could help me stay on track. I almost lost focus on…
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Getting back on Track
I can’t change what happened yesterday but I can do better today. When you fail under whatever circumstances to meet your set goals in life, work, savings; most times you get up and dust off the soil, start all over again. You do this because you know you can do it and you are routing for yourself, and the reason why you started has not changed. I started again on my saving plan as I have been documenting here under Delayed gratification, SMART and Facing Challenges blogs. I have been going slow, steady and strong but I have to catch up because my set target end dates didn’t change even with the challenges.…
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When It Doesn’t Go As Planned
Hardships, setbacks and challenges are lessons that help us overcome some or all of our limitations.
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Are you spending on unnecessary things?
Recently I embarked on a savings journey to have my sitting room and working space furnished with beautiful pallet furniture. I have documented it here and Twitter using #AfricaSaves. In my first post,I explained how I am going to be using the four delayed gratification tactics that were stated in the blog. I tend to spend money on unnecessary things, which can be put on hold until I reach my savings goal. This includes things like shoes when I have more than enough pairs, fancy eat outs when I can cook myself a cheap healthy meal, watching movies in the cinema when I have a Netflix account and a DSTV decoder…
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Spend Today or Save for Tomorrow
What side would you be on? Are you Heart or Hand? How do you win this kind of rivalry within yourself? Delayed gratification according to Wikipedia is deferred gratification, which means the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward. It is associated with resisting smaller and immediate rewards in order to receive larger and better rewards later. Delayed gratification is one of the most effective personal traits of successful people. It is thought that people who delay gratification are more successful in their careers, relationships, health, finances and really all areas of life. A person’s ability to delay gratification relates to other…
