Live within my limits

Living alone for a long a time has been good but at the same time destructive. The reason why I said destructive because, the selfish nature in me begin to take control of my life that I became careless with my diet. I begin to consume assess sweets and red meat and eventually it made me sick. My budget was always over my take home salary. I struggled to save the little that I have left but somehow I could not even control my spending habits. I was trying my best to be like my friends,eat what they eat, go to places where they shop,wear the same outfit as theirs etc,until one day I could not go on pretending anymore. Drowned in my own humiliation and pride,I begin to seek council from people that were successful before me. I approached one of my co workers who told me her experience. From her stories here were some of the ways that has help me to break off my bad money habits;

1) Impulse buying- I love food,so most of my money goes to food that I dont even eat myself. I made a lot of unplanned shopping trips. So, to fix it,I began planning my shopping and eventually Im happy.

2) Buying to keep up with my friends - Buying to be like others. I corrected this by spending alot of time at home and not with my friends and I have seen promising results.

3) Living above your means- Spending more then what you earn.I corrected this by only using 20% of my salary while the 80% goes to my saving and it has paid off.

With this three points, I got down to fixing my own bad money habits and moved myself forward to reaching my financial goals.