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Life’s Little Choices

Life’s Little Choices

Our life is filled with choices every minute, hour, day, week, and month there are new choices to make. How do we know if we are making the right decision? Or is there a right decision to be made? Each choice we make has consequences good or bad.

How do you make your decisions? Is it based on facts? Or do you follow your gut feeling?

 

Recently, a good friend and I were talking about her decision to possibly have a second child. After she had her first child, she thought she was done having children, but as the years go by and seeing her friends have children, she is considering having another child.   She knows having a second child will cost more money, cause sleepless nights, and she will have to go through pregnancy and labor again. However, after spending time at her parents’ house in her hometown where her sister and brother live, cherishing the time with her siblings she is considering having another child.  She realized by only having one child, her daughter would never experience the sibling relationship she enjoys so much.  

Are Your Beliefs About Money Keeping Your Broke?

 Are Your Beliefs About Money Keeping Your Broke?

The other day I was on my way to a hike and I decided to stop at a convenience store to pick up a pumpkin latte and banana. I was so happy to find a pumpkin latte in the middle of the summer but you’re not here to read my favorite latte. As I went to the counter to pay, there was a man there requesting cigarettes that were behind the counter.  The gentleman in front of me took quite a while as he purchased four packs of cigarettes and debated on which scratch off lottery and power balls tickets he would buy. The gentleman knew immediately that he wanted the cigarettes but he contemplated for some time which lottery tickets he would buy based on the size of the potential lottery winnings. He conversed with the store clerk to see what the winnings would be if he won the lottery and determined based on her response, it was worth buying several tickets. At the end of his selections, his total was $64 dollars for cigarettes, scratch off tickets, and Powerball tickets.