The Best Self-Help is Free: Keeping Your Money

Chapter 22

This is Chapter 22 of The Best Self-Help is Free, a treatise by Mr. Stolyarov. You can read all chapters of this freely available treatise here.

If you are productive, earnestly determined, and skilled at promoting yourself, you should be able to make a decent amount of money somehow. How much money you will make - and ought to make - depends on your priorities and lifestyle of choice; there is no magical quantity of money that will satisfy everyone - although it is possible to live a highly comfortable, and even luxurious, life by spending far less money than most people do today.

The key to financial success and overall success is not just being able to get money, but also keeping it. For many people, the latter is more difficult than the former - as being good at what one does for a living does not necessarily imply that one also possesses the habits necessary for retaining what one earns. We will examine a few of these habits here. See if you have some or all of them already; if so, then you are likely to be able to sustain a high standard of living - however you define that.