Ralph Waldo Emerson once said the ‘money often costs too much.’ and even he may not have imagined the stress of 21st century life.
In our fast pace and, what often seems, crazy society, the pursuit of money is indisputably one of the biggest factors contributing to high stress levels in modern cultures. Strangely, it appears as though individuals with high incomes and luxury lifestyles experience more financial stress than more modest earners. In general, if people aren’t worrying about the children’s education, they are anguishing over the easiest way to buy a luxury vehicle or expensive holiday! Makes sense?
Most of you will not need a research report to prove that this is 21st century problem of wide spread proportions. Or, if you were completely asleep, the event of the 2008 ‘Credit Crunch’ may have disturbed your financial slumber.
Yet, even today, the question still remains ‘how seriously are individuals seeking the long-term answer’? The western world’s slavish reliance on more and easier access to credit was only temporarily stalled by editorials of financial Armageddon. Now that the dust of exploding banks has almost settled our world ‘leaders’ are scrambling for the fastest way back to the good old normality of the recent past.
This can only be achieved because consumers cannot imagined another way of living and – in general – most people seem to accept that they’ll be in debt, and under torturous financial pressure, for most of their productive life. Has financial stress become your permanent, unconscious shadow?
Yet financial stress has an enormously negative effect on your health and spending the money to run off to the nearest spa for a week isn’t the answer!
Research (here we go again) has proven that living under prolonged periods of stress can - and almost always does - lead to symptoms such as:weaker immune system, sleep disturbances, loss of libido, bad digestion and even cancer. If you have experienced any of these symptoms it time for a new financial plan.
We at Financial Fitness have proven that a simple plan can go a long way toward alleviating the cause of financial stress.
The first step recognizing that you need help. The second is giving us a call.