We all want to do the best we can with our money and to feel as though we are spending it wisely. None of us like feeling as though we’ve wasted our income—the term “buyer’s remorse” has applied to all of us at one time or another, and we didn’t like how it felt.
So we do what we can to learn more about finance, from talking to financial experts, read books on the topic, watching television infomercials—even reading blogs on certain well-known websites. We do our best to stay up-to-the-minute—and then we notice something. The information we get is sometimes contradictory.
Money deals with numbers, but how we spend it doesn’t have just one right answer, like 2 +2 = 4. Sometimes it makes sense to take risks, and sometimes it doesn’t. There’s not a magic formula that applies to every situation. In a case like that, we might feel helpless to know what to do—but there’s one thing we have working in our favor all the time. Our intuition.
Have you ever gone to make a money decision and felt full of fear, or even sick to your stomach, and you knew it was the wrong thing to do? Conversely, has someone ever given you an idea, and while it was expensive, you could immediately see the possibilities and how you would make it work and how it would bless your business or your family in the long run? We were all given a wonderful set of guts to talk to us when we need to make a decision, and if we listen to those guts, our chances of success will improve dramatically.
Now, I’m not saying that we should listen to our guts, and only our guts, all the time. We need to ask questions and get information and weigh the pros and cons. But after we’ve done those things, if we stop and really examine how we feel about our choice, and evaluate how we would feel after the desired event takes place, I think we’d find that our natural, built-in financial advisor—our intuition—steers us straight most of the time, and we just need to listen.
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