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Motivate Yourself to Get Out of Debt by Finding the Reasons

23 November 2007 7 Comments

Synopsis: People fail to get out of debt because they are lack of reasons and motivations to do so.

I always emphasize that the reasons are the most important source of motivation for us to take action and achieve something. By clearly knowing the reasons, it will be easier for us to plan for our goal, take action, be motivated and never give up. Giving Up is the stopping point for our goal. I believe as long as we don’t give up, there is no full stop for us and so as failure. If you never give up and keep doing, one day you will success. This is why finding the reasons to do something are very important.

Getting out of debt is one of the hottest goals that many people have make. However, not every one of them can work until they pay off the last cents. Why? This is because most of them don’t have a concrete and painful WHY to support their goal of getting out of debt. If you are one of them, don’t worry. In this article I will show you some of the reasons why you must get out of debt as earlier as possible.


Reasons Why You Must Get Out Of Debt

 

Your Marriage and Family

Debt has the power to wreck a marriage! It is really sad to hear that couples around me arguing and quarrelling because of money or debts. They love each other however they just cannot handle the stress from debts and then release their stress on their love one. This is quite a common condition happens on most people around me.

Debt has some kind of side effect on our emotion especially for the person who generates income and manages the expenses of a family. Usually this job is done by husband wife. The condition even worst if they found that their income is not enough to cover all the debts. No matter how hard they work, they just can’t drop down the debts. Then they will start blaming each other that why they overspending, buy something useless and etc. Then each of them will be angry, unsupportive and finally threaten their marriage. Long time argument will break a marriage. Once a marriage is broken, then the family will be separated and everyone will suffer from this incidence, especially the children.

So If you love your family and children, please set a time and sit down, talk to your spouse and discuss what you all can do to pay off the debt as long as possible.

 

You Sanity!

Are afraid to answer the phone because you have many creditors after their money? Do you lose sleep at night because you mind keep counting the number that how much money you owe? Are you living in a worry and stressful life as you have to keep facing the debt again and again every day? All these are the most common problem that people may have if they are deeply in debts.

Don’t you feel that it is a big problem if you have this kind of lifestyle? All this will affect your both your mental and body health. First, debts will generate unhealthy emotion such as anxiety, frustration, hopelessness and worry. All these emotion states will affect our health of mental and we call this financial stress. When the financial stress hit until certain level, people will try to do something to release it. Here people will likely adapt some bad habits such as drinking, smoking, over-eating or even taking drugs! All this will affect our body. This is a chain!

So if you want to live longer, freely, out of worry and be happy every day, then you must make the decision, take action and do something to reduce your debts. There are plenty of debts reduction advices available on the internet. Just read through and take action. The more debts you pay off, the less of stress you can feel. You really can feel the change.


Your Credit and Future

Our credit is very important because it is linking up with our future. Let me ask you – Do you want to achieve financial freedom, become rich and wealthy? Or Do you want to have financial security for your life? Where you don’t really have to worry about your money so much….

If you say yes, then you must take a good care over your credit. This is because we can leverage on our credit to achieve our financial goals in future. For example, you want to buy your dream house for your family. So you will need to have a good credit in order to get a good mortgage deal. If your credit is bad, no bankers will lend their money for you to buy your house.

If you want to be financial free and rich, then credit is one of your weapon. You are going to need credit to borrow massive of money as your capital and invest. You are going to use “other people money” to build your own wealth. This is one of the fastest ways to generate money.

Now all you have to do is start taking care of your credit. Of course, the most direct and effective way to increase your credit is paying off your debt!

 

Conclusion

Above are just some of the main reasons why we must get out of debt. This is for the goods of our family, our love one, our health and future. You may also figure out more reasons to support your desire to get out of debt. The more reasons you have, the stronger your desire will be.

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7 Comments »

  • FinanceIsPersonal.com said:

    These are all good reasons, I got out of debt once and for all about two years ago, and it wasn’t really for friends, family, or even my sanity, but rather that I wanted to be filthy rich some day, and that wouldn’t be happening if I kept spending more than I made, so I buckled down, worked extra, and kicked my credit card debt and student loan out!

  • Harrison (author) said:

    Hi FinanceIsPersonal, thanks for sharing your points. I think being rich is another reason why we must debt free. However, I also believe that sometime we need to leverage on good debt to achieve what we want to.

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