Let's get serious. Your financial situation is a huge mess and you don't know where it is going to lead you; depression, ulcers, or maybe a heart attack. You want to make a budget but your spouse doesn't see the problem, either they are in denial or they are so busy doing other things to notice the financial mess that you are in. How can you convince your spouse that the time has come to tighten the belt and begin to live within your means? In this article I will show you 3 powerful motivation strategies to help your spouse (and whole family) to help you make a budget and fix up your family finances.
1. Uncover Hidden Victims. Most parents don't want to harm either their spouses or their children. On the contrary, they want to do only what is best for them. Unfortunately, the busyness and complexity of life blinds us from properly seeing what is really happening. For instance, one of the parents buys only name brand clothes for the children, the newest gadget as a present for her husband, and takes his wife out the the fanciest restaurant. They are only doing all of this so everyone will be happy. When you show them that their spending habits are really hurting members of the family they will try to change their spending habits.
2. Natural consequences. A lot of people think that only children and teens don't realize that what they do have consequences. They think that only their children who are lazy when it comes to schoolwork or who dangerously speed around town in their souped up cars don't realize what their actions can bring them. This is a mistake, we adults also don't always connect our bad conduct connected with bad results. (smoking, bad eating habits, uncontrolled spending, etc.) Therefore, show your spouse how their health or their stress is connected with the financial chaos in the house. After they realize the connection they will help you to make and keep a budget.
3. Reward and Punishment. It isn't easy to change your spending habits and to tighten the belt; but it's worth it... for a price! Therefore a good strategy to get your family to agree to making and keeping a budget is to promise that 25 or 50 percent of the money saved will be used towards ... { a new stereo, vacation, or anything else that your spouse or other family member mentioned they would like in the past}. When you do this they have a tangible and concrete reward which makes the effort worth while.
You know that your financial chaos is no good and that it has to be changed. Try these three strategies to convince your family to help you help them.
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