Getting Comfortable With Money

Money is Your Sidekick, Not Your Master

TL;DR - Quick Comfort

• Consider money as your tool for enjoyment, not a monster to fear

• Track it once, then maintain and the fear disappears

• Save £10 per week, bag yourself £520 in a year

*Coming January 2025

The Big Lie We Tell Ourselves

Do you tend to think of money as being this big, scary, unknown and evil monster that you don't want to even think about, let alone look into? Or that it is so complicated that it ties you in knots whenever you hear a money related conversation?

Well, the truth is, money is just a tool for you to use and integrate with your life. Just like you use a phone as a tool to communicate with others or a car as a tool to transport you from A to B.

You don't need to know all the inner workings of your car or phone. You just need to know how to use these tools to get what you want out of them - same concept applies to money.

Your 3-Step Comfort Plan

Now you see that money is a tool, let's get you comfortable with it via a 3-step comfort plan. Here's your homework:

1. Track your spending for the next 7 days with zero judgement

2. See where every £ goes and understand the lay of the land

3. Redirect just one small spend that you have made into a savings account and don't touch it for a month

Suddenly, it's not that scary when you take action and put this into practice.

Redirecting that small spend into a savings goal (e.g. a holiday) will give you control and a sense of power back to where it belongs. In your hands.

Take Action

To help get you started with your journey on being comfortable with money, take a small action now to build a healthy money mindset:

• Open your "Notes" app on your phone

• Note down today's spends

• Tomorrow, do the same again

See, you've already started, you've got this.