11. Positive Steps That I Took to Become Financially Savvy

Schools don’t teach you to become financially savvy-grammar school, high school or college.

However, we’re all expected to make financial choices. We’re bombarded with easy credit, easy mortgages and messages on why we should spend our money on various products, whether we need them or not. It’s easy to be seduced and many people are. For some, it can be a slippery slope to financial dependence and even bankruptcy. Our kids and grandkids face the same bombardment of messages hyping instant gratification, at a time when they’re ill-equipped to make sound decisions surrounding finances. No one has told them about analytical thinking.

Do you believe in serendipity? Do you believe that things begin to come together once you start thinking about them? They do. You just have to be aware. It happens all the time, but we’re so busy, we don’t connect the dots. There are times we act on these impulses, intuitions or seemingly off-the-wall information, but mostly we don’t.

You might think that I have a lot of money to be able to give away $35,000 to my grandkids.