BASIC COMMON SENSE HABITS FOR HAPPINESS, SUCCESS, AND FINANCIAL SECURITY Replace bad habits with good ones… and add common sense
Most of us want to be happy and successful, and yet rarely do we receive any education or guidance on how to achieve those competencies and outcomes.
Happiness is routinely connected with good, close, and functional relationships.
Success is often connected with having fiscal literacy and being good with money.
As you get older and continue to experience the way life is, you will learn some lessons about what is really important. Among the lessons we learn are perhaps the two most important; how to be happy and how to be successful.
1. To be happy: You must be skilled at managing relationships in both your personal and your work life: listening, persuading, resolving conflicts, reaching agreements, negotiation, teamwork, handling emotions, and establishing solid closeness with others.
2. To be successful: You must be skilled at fiscal literacy: managing money at the least, and making money at the most.
Curiously, it seems insane that Relationship Effectiveness and Fiscal Literacy have been largely missing from school curriculums since there have been schools!
Is it any wonder that most of our relationships are sub-optimal and largely dysfunctional or that many of us are broke and/or spending more money than we have?
It is time to remind ourselves to embrace the Obvious and practice some Common Sense about how to be successful and foundationally good with money. This will likely make us more functional and prosperous!