Bridging Life With Finance: What Does It Mean For You?

About this Blog

Welcome to my first post!

This is a space that not only speaks on finance but also living the day-to-day.  Bridging life and finances is about moving forward with your financial journey while managing the ups and downs of life. Here you can receive practical ways to be more effective with everyday living.  

Why Bridging Life and Money is Important

Do you ever feel like you're not finishing what you planned? Struggling through the process? Or at times randomly remembering "Oh yeah! what happened with that!?" 

We have passions and goals that we want with our money and personally. Sometimes our goals need financial support to accomplish. Other times we focus on life and even excel while our finances go down the drain. It's so easy with the business of life to want something but get distracted, overwhelmed, or even confused and not progress towards it. 

Money touches pretty much every aspect of our lives.  It can be the reason we place things on pause or give up. It can also motivate us or make us move in a certain direction. 

Whether we like it or not, the way we understand the correlation between life and money can determine the paths we take. 

What It Looks Like

Ultimately, bridging life with our finances is having a clear understanding of where you are, where you are going, and how to get there. 

No, we won't have all the answers all the time, but we can build confidence with what we know and can do. In the day-to-day, it's making decisions knowing how they affect you and your finances. Do you have peace when you make purchases or do you feel stressed? Do you ever just want to ignore your situation or tell yourself you'll deal with it later?

Here are some examples of what bridging life with your money looks like:

• Pursuing personal goals on your own time while feeling good about where you are financially

• Knowing when to say no and what is beneficial to you 

• Having peace about where you are, knowing that you're heading in the right direction

• Taking small steps toward improvement

• Not being stagnant for extended periods

• Living day-to-day understanding how it affects your tomorrow

What to do

Here is a list of a couple of things to think about to get started: 

• Evaluate where we are with our finances.

• Build courage to face your challenges.

• What goals do you have for yourself in this season?

• What long-term goals do you have?

• What are your passions?

• How are you managing life currently, financially and personally?

In Conclusion

Understanding how our behaviors and decisions around money affect our everyday lives will help us move forward in our financial journey as well as our personal goals. It's time to move forward, taking steps to grow. What's one step you can do today? 

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