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Keeping it Simple: Strategies for Financial Security

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The simple fact is, taking small, simple spending and saving actions, especially early in your working life, can make a huge difference to financial security during your working years and into retirement. Make your mantra, ‘ Keep it Simple ’. So, how can you make things simpler? Simple spending, what a great concept!

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Remember to Celebrate Your Success

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To often, when it comes to saving money, we spend a lot of time on what we haven’t accomplished- or we downplay what we have accomplished. It’s true that we all make mistakes, but why do we focus on our failures more than our successes? Thinking about your success makes you feel good. Saving an extra $50 a month.

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Start Small; Dream Big: Achieving Financial Security From Small Beginnings

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Make sense? What about holidays, cars, homes, designer clothes, retirement? How would you like your future to look – financially secure or struggling to make ends meet? Plan to make some uncomfortable decisions. Tarahas this idea – “I made a game of finding new ways to stop spending everything I earned so I could save.

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