Champagne bottles and beer pockets

   

      Have you heard the saying "Never live a champagne lifestyle on a beer salary". This is a very important principle to live by. It could keep you out of a lot of trouble and embarrassing situations and help you organize your life a little. All you really need is to discipline yourself and learn how to conserve and manage your resources. Yes it is important to have a little fun once in a while and just let loose by not thinking too much about your financial situation but you can't do this all the time. So it's all about balance, work hard and then you can play. You shouldn't spend what you don't have.



You can only spend what you have or at least you should only spend what you have. I use the word should because people have found a way to bypass this rule and get to spend more than their pockets. I have found that most of the time, this has to do with ego. Keeping up a certain image that you have painted about yourself. You get caught in a loop of borrowing and spending and paying back then owing some more and having to borrow again to settle then spend. You keep repeating this cycle and it's only a matter of time, before you know it,you won't be able to keep up the lifestyle. You find out that you put too much strain on yourself just to keep up a false image.

I understand that we as humans have our ego and that an expensive image is what most of us want. But you aren't going to kill yourself just because of an image would you? You have to learn that self discipline, that discipline that tells you to leave what you can't afford.

If you walk into a bar and you can only afford a bottle of the drink of your choice. You simply buy that single bottle and nurse it for as long as you can then leave. You might look around and see others doing it big but only use that as a motivation to work harder and make it bigger. If you keep lying about your image to others,it's only a matter of time before you start believing it yourself. This is very dangerous.

So in your everyday life, in every decision you make, don't forget to go for what you can afford at that point. Don't live a false lifestyle, if you want the big life then work for it, don't fake it. The law of faking it till you make it doesn't apply in this situation.