Seven Money Matters I’m Horrible with and How I Deal with Them

It's human nature to want to appear perfect, to seem like we have it all together. This is especially true in medicine, where we’re afraid to show the cracks in our perfect image.

But if there’s anything recent events have taught us, it’s that the more comfortable we become with sharing our deficiencies, the better we can address them and improve.

Personally, I have enough flaws to fill a book’s worth of pages, but I can’t say I’m quite ready to bare them all here yet. However, here are some of my money matters I’m working on improving at the moment.

Seven Money Matters I’m Horrible with and How I Deal with Them

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When it comes to financial matters, keeping detailed records of your money is vital. Although I know these things are extremely important, I find it all extremely difficult to keep track of.

1) Accounting

When it used to come to tax time, I dreaded the idea of tallying everything up. Because of this, I let everything build up until I’m forced to take care of it. Every spring became a humongous ordeal with paperwork seemingly flying all over the place.

In complete honesty, I’m horrible at keeping a tight budget. It’s important to know where your money is going every month, and I know some people are great at it.

2) Budgeting

I’ll be honest, before online payments, I spent a lot of money paying off late fees. I always had the best of intentions, but somehow I tended to lose track of bills as those letters would get swept into piles on my kitchen table.

3) Paying the Bills

I’ve participated in two economic crashes: one in the early 2000s and the one in 2008. I’ve learned that when it comes to the stock market, I tend to get caught up emotionally.

4) Being an Unemotional Investor

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