Time to pastor guys.
When you are working in a software company, you need programming skills. When you want to become a doctor, you need to study medicine and learn the required skills for that profession.
In every area of your life, you need certain skills. Without them, you can't do what you maybe want to.
There are also some skills you can learn to increase the quality of YOUR life. We can call them life hacks. See this life hacks as a programming language for example. The more you deal with it, the better you will get.
The answer is easy because it affects you every day.
And you can influence your life quality.
Let's start with something easy.
And by the way, most of you already heard about that or are living according to the following principle, but maybe you are not aware of that.
Let's take something that has to do with money.
Imagine you want to buy a present for your girlfriend, or wife.
And you missed to do it earlier, and now you are under stress.
You are hustling to the city; you have to hurry because the stores will close soon. You buy something from which you think it would please her.
Now you are coming back to your car, and you find a ticket on your window for false parking. In a hurry, you had no time to look longer for a proper parking place that's why you take the risk to get a ticket.
I am not recommending this behavior, but I think many of us were sometimes in such a situation.
So you have to pay the fine, money you could use for something else. Maybe you planned already something with the money you have now to use to pay the fine.
What if you would have already some money for exactly this kind of cases? Yes, you heard it right. Imagine somewhere at home or at your bank you reserved each month a certain amount for fines or for other unexpected expenses.
Or let me ask another question. What if you would find the exact amount of money you need for the fine on the street?
It may sound funny, or even striking and let me say to you that it could be and it serves only as an example.
People are treating money differently depending on where it's coming from.
Your hard earned money from your profession is more worth for you than money you won, or like mentioned above found on the street.
In psychology this kind of technic or hack, however, you will name it is called mental accounting.
It is considered a classical logical fallacy. Turn a loss into a win!
You are tricking your mind knowing that the money you will use to pay the fine is less worth. Of course, it is not, but your mind think that this is money is not worth crying why?
You already prepared it for that. This money you are not including in your financial math. It has only one purpose, one task.
For example money, you found on the street. As a good a citizen, of course, you would try to find the rightful owner but even then are you treating this money differently as it would be your hard earned money.
Same counts when you had a place which is only for this kind of situation. You would say for example: "Great that I have prepared already money for that type of scenario."
It will not change the truth that you have to pay your fine, but you are tricking your mind for the sake of your peace. This is Mental accounting. You cant change the fact, but you can change the influence the fact has on you. And this is a big principle. That means that you can turn something that looks likes a loss into a win. I am not saying that other people will see it that way but that's not the point because we are talking about your life.
Your words were great.
We're almost all familiar with Life Hack Ward. Life hacks are some small tasks or practical tricks that make your daily life a little easier and hassle free to make your daily life a bit easier. We all know a little more life hacks and work them out every day.
thanks for share your great full post @modernpastor
Hey, my friend :)
Thanks for this beautiful comment :) If I could get red I would ^^.
I am giving my best to share valuable things.
You are so right, really nice article @modernpastor and very well written! 👍
Gerne auch mit meinem 2. Account hier ge-resteemed. ✌
Gruß aus Berlin. Jonas @future24
Interesting way of looking at it. I mean personally, I look at something I earn with much more care and respect. Whether it's my income from work or even a blog post I write here on Steemit. My blood sweat and tears have been put into it so yeah, it's appreciate more by myself.
But like you mentioned, the world looks at it the same was. A buck is a buck. A euro is a euro. An SBD is an SBD...No matter how it's earned.
Something to think about for sure, appreciate the insight.
Yes, this is what I meant. Also what you earned here on Steemit has more value than money coming from a different place. Maybe I should have used also this example. Of course, it'ss improbable that you will find money on the street but compared to your steemit money you would give that money not the same attention.
but sometimes a sbd is $1,- and sometimes it's $13 🤑(and then the next moment it's $4 again 😭 LOL
I totally agree @modernpastor, it's a matter of mindset. Despite it's a financial loss you can set your mind to think it's not. And this way it won't hurt that much.
Thank you @modernpastor for letting me know its called Mental Accounting! :)
You got it exactly the right way. :)
Thanks @modernpastor ur post made my morning. It just came in handy. Cheers!!
Yeah yeah so true thanks @modernpastor
Thanks @oguns
I am glad to hear that @ishotz :)
Thanks once again
great share,i like your post
thanks for sharing
Thank you for your comment :)
Yes we have to be careful about letting things hypnotize us.thanks man
Money shouldn't be something to cry about.
Scripture says that it's better to only have little but living a calm life than owning a lot but having your hands full with labor. (Ecclesiastes 4,6)
Good biblical point. And yes, I agree with you :)
Hello pastor
A very clever article. The programming of consciousness plays an important role in solving any life problems. It's not the loss of money that matters, but the importance that we give to it. A good way to deceive your subconscious mind in order to feel calm.
About the comparison of the value of money that you earned and won. Interesting is the fact that all people who won big money in the lottery or in the casino - most often very quickly lost them. That is, what really matters is how a person thinks and how he treats money.
I read that if all people on the planet had to take money and make everyone equal. That is to force to begin all from the very beginning. Then, after a certain period of time, society will once again share in the poor and the rich.
That's how we think determines our place in society and our income.
Thank you @modernpastor
Oh yes my friend :)
Its a phenomenom how people you won money lose it really quickly. It has different reasons. Some don't know how to deal with money in a solid way.
But one reason is also that they treat it differentlybecausee it's not hard earned. They have a different view on that. The perspective of things or facts is so crucial.
Where did you read this? You are the second one who mentioned this.
I was the first who wrote about it.
Unfortunately I often come across when my comments copy. Sometimes this is done verbatim, and sometimes they try to change the meaning
I constantly try to develop and therefore read a lot. That's why I try to express thoughts as constructively as possible.
About this fact, I read in one book about finance.
The point was to change your thoughts and think differently.
Perspective may really be everything.
Truly it is :)
Thanks for your comment.
Great learnings @modernpastor. It's really important where the money comes from.
It is my friend :)
Great that this could bring something for you.
Yes, for sure. It does :)
Very very interesting post and outlook. It's funny how the universe works.
It works in a way that it will treat $0.01 the same as $1M, because the universal vibration of money is exactly the same, no matter what the amount is. I read somewhere that if you see $0.01 on the floor and you don't pick it up, that's the same as saying no and denying everything else coming your way... :)
Good point. You're right technically speaking it's the same.
Everyday is an opportunity for you to grow, make an impact and connect with others.
And money is of prime importance. It is often a marker of you doing something productive, smartly and hardly. Not always but many times money is the real deal.
It helps you to improve yourself, make the tough situation pass and give back to community.
Great stuff, buddy.
Hello post really very interesting. An excellent way to live better the relationship with money; I'll try to apply it, I like it! Thank you so much for the advice and congratulations on the very nice article. Sorry for the bad English, I'm not very good :-) I follow you, see you soon!
Live everyday like its the last and keep making your skills the best at the end of the day that is what counts
Your post is really educative and informative, it shows various awareness about money and how we see money depending on where it come from. You really took your time to discuss on various area concerning that. But from my own perspective what i see about the aspect of "people treating money depending on where it come from." i think it a natural philosophy because money that is luckily see on the street can not be compare with money that you spend all your time hustling for. In the sense that, you can easy give away money you saw on the street or money you won out than giving someone money you work so hard for.
That is very very true, good point!
Indeed interesting point :)