Financial Autonomy

Episode 61 – Have your 20's set you up for financial failure? Habits. Human brains love them! Any time we can go on auto-pilot, we jump at it. Author Samuel Johnson observed, “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken”. I also like a quote from Agatha Christie on the subject “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them”. In your financial life, many of your significant habits are formed in your 20’s. And often you don’t realise it until much later. So today’s post highlights some of the habits you might have inadvertently picked up, and suggests some ways that you can create new habits to put you in a stronger financial position into the future. Whilst my 20’s are now quite a while back, they’re not so distant that I can’t recall the enormous transformation that occurred from the beginning of that decade in my life, until I came out at the other end. Uni and work – I studied part-time at night over 6 years and worked during the day. From living a