Embracing Essential Learning Opportunities: From Clueless to Cash Savvy (1/6)

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LEARN· SAVE· AVOID· TRACK· INVEST· RESIST

This six-part series will help you apply basic financial principles for a better life and greater financial security. Success depends on accepting and adopting these principles through self-discipline, making them habits over time.

• LEARN: We will discuss how you can learn not only from this six-part series but also from other resources as well. Most people simply have not learned even the most rudimentary of financial principles for managing their own finances. Their impulses and intuition don’t help them; in fact, oftentimes they hurt them.

Any topic concerning money matters can be found using your Internet search engine, with many links offering free advice. You don’t have to buy a book, or even to take a finance class like the one I taught at university for four years. The information is at your fingertips, and you can understand the basics well enough to make important and lasting changes in managing how you save, how you spend, and how you invest your money.