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Organising_Your_Personal_Affairs
| Organising Your Personal Affairs
I’m always amazed that so many people spend most of their life
at work and totally neglect their personal affairs.
Many of the business people I work with want their professional
lives to be in order, and admit that their personal affairs are
in chaos.
They have no systems for handling this most important area. The
household paperwork is disorganised...piled up in a corner of
the house...somewhere, they have no idea where they spend their
money and often have no plan for their financial future.
If you do not organise your personal life, you won’t have much
of a future to look forward to.
Avoid the excuses that you are too tired, don’t have the time,
don’t know how.
Here are a few tips to get you started:
Personal Papers 1. Set up a filing system to store your
paperwork.
File your papers in categories: Bank, Car, Children, Home,
Medical, Insurance, Investment, Tax, Utilities etc.
Organise direct debits for regular bills.
Read, sort and action your snail and e-mail daily. This will
avoid a big build-up.
Make a note in your diary when you need to remember to do
things.
Check your bank accounts weekly via phone or the Internet to
keep tabs on your money.
Allocate a particular day and time each week to review your
personal affairs.
Organising Your Financial Future This area should be top
priority. If you do nothing because it’s too much effort well,
think about this.
What would happen if you lose your job, have an accident and
receive no income for 6 months? How would you (and your family)
survive financially? Do you have your insurances in order?
Where will you be in the next five years? Maybe retired and on a
pension? Or perhaps you have superannuation you hope will be
enough to live on? Unfortunately too many people are under false
illusions about how superannuation will be the answer for a
secure retirement.
Hope is not enough. You have to be pro-active and seek out
professional advice to help you. But be careful who you take
advice from and what is the motivation behind them “selling” you
their ideas?
Educating yourself on how to make the most of your hard-earned
money so you can create wealth should be a high priority. After
all, if you’re not interested in securing your financial future,
who is?
The Final Word If you take control of your personal affairs you
will have peace of mind and know that you are making things
happen.
I once heard someone say: Some people make things happen, others
watch things happen and still others wonder what happened.
Stop procrastinating and just do it!
Have a great week! Lorraine Pirihi
About the author:
The Office Organiser TM
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