Mastering Your Money
A Booze-Free Writer's Guide
A Booze-Free Writer's Guide
I’ve never been great with money.
I don’t gamble or anything, and I try to pay bills on time and not rack up debt, but it always appears I should do better than I really am, I should have a savings account, I should not have a credit card debt, I should have a plan for my retirement…. but none of these things are so.
Money just seems to vanish.
I try to get better.
I try to make a plan, write a budget, keep tidy files, and save a little money every month. It works for a while, and then I slip back to doing none of those things.
I purchase on impulse. Stuff I don’t really need.
I have habits, like buying a takeout coffee instead of just brewing my own, downloading a new book to my kindle, shopping for ingredients for one meal, instead of looking in the fridge and creating a meal from the perfectly good food I already have. I occasionally forget to transfer money to our joint account, so a payment bounces and it costs $48 extra, because I wasn’t organised enough.
I put my head in the sand and think…” I’m not that bad”
Any of this sound familiar?
My relationship with money has been much the same as my relationship with booze.
I work on a “moderation” budget…. and then I get visited by the “F$*k It Fairy” and I blow my plan. Again and again.
The worst thing/best thing about quitting drinking for me, was that all my “money issues” came sharply back into focus.
No longer was I able to avoid and deny and numb the stress I caused myself by NOT dealing with my finances.
So I started the struggle down the path of financial sobriety. There have been some detours, but the general trend has been forward.
Debt is one of the main causes of stress. If your drinking has been triggered by stress, then this course is for you.
I share all the lessons I have learned, my daily money management strategies, how I got out of debt, how I accumulated savings and how I have learned to enjoy money, rather than fear it!
My financial stability is strongly linked with my booze-free life. I can't have one without the other.....and I'll show you how your booze-free life can be financially abundant!