Fiscal responsibility

I have a lot of friends that are just beginning their life after college. I feel privileged that I’ve had a few more years of experience so I can (hopefully) help them learn some fiscal responsibility.

A recent post by Ramit Sethi on his blog I Will Teach You To Be Rich made me feel good about myself. The flow chart diagram he has on there is, with no exaggeration, exactly how I handle my finances. In the current times, having things set up that way has made me feel safer about my future than many people around me are. (And I’m not saying that to be cocky at all, trust me.)

Sethi recently wrote a book by the same name. In it he outlines a six-week program to get your money under control. I haven’t read it, and I’m pretty sure most would be a repeat for me since I’ve followed his blog for years, but I do own a copy. If any of you, my friends, need help learning to be responsible with your money, I will gladly loan it to you.

A lot of the reason the country is in an economic mess is because people didn’t know or understand what they were doing with their money. Be responsible for your own future and the future of your country and get on it.