(LOH 115) "Lifestyle Plans for 2023:Spend Less, Save More and Invest"

Greetings!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!🎉

Day two (2) of 365 for this new year. How are you today? Are you ladies? Yesterday was just a tiresome day for me, the reason why I ended up with no blog/s in all the platforms that I joined in. But, for some reasons, I still chose to give off some time to scrolled out and respond with the comments being left in my previous blogs. With that I was able to read a new blog regarding a writing contest hosted by one of my favorite communities in here. So, today, I will be joining this week's contest blog hosted by this community.
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As usual, it comes with the two proposed ideas which can be choose from. But, I will go on sharing my own thoughts about these two. Without any further ado, I welcome you all to my blog entry for today.

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To make it organize, let me answer it one by one.
"What lifestyle plans have you made for 2023?"

• The answer for this question is just like the New year's resolutions I made. When it comes to my personal well-being, I would like to become more physically active for my physical health. I am looking forward to prevent and avoid the factors which may trigger my stress and feeling negative for my mental and emotional health. As for my social health, I am looking forward to try engaging more people both in real and virtual world, and for my spiritual health, I will be honest, I can't attend church days and join church related activities, but as much as possible, give the best I can to spend time with God.

On the other hand, "Spend Less, Save More, and Invest." These are the ones that I really want to give focus on this year. Same goes with learning to become a risk taker.

"Are you going to be visiting your friends and family more regularly?"

• For the time being, I can't say how this should be. Because even in the previous years of my life, I can really say that I am not one of those who payed visit to friends and family regularly. It just happens when there is an important matter to discuss with them or a gathering where we can be together to spend time over a meal or just a mere chitchat.

"Over the past couple of years of not seeing loved ones, has your attitude altered rather to face the future visiting and caring for each other as was previously done, being by the side of those requiring help, the young desperately needing extended families, meeting to encourage natural immunities, or whatever life throws our way?"

• Knowing myself is a great factor of how I treat myself and the people whom I considered my loved ones. For some reasons, some of the people I didn't see for quite a long time, it makes me feel awkward and may the worst, be uncomfortable. Maybe because, as the time goes by without them on the daily basis or even a week or two, the time also changed of how I see them, of how I should act when I see them, and of how I should treat them. Especially, I have a feeling of inferiority for being just what I am in this current state I'm into. This really bothers me a lot. But apart from that reason of mine, I think I don't have any other reasons to not get close to them if given the chance though.

And now let me give you my thoughts about the second proposed ideas;

I guess all of us are greatly affected by the Inflation. This issue has started in the previous years, but become more evident the last year. Imagine the price hikes of almost everything that we need. The price becomes times two, others even becomes times three. "Aigoo!" And here's this problem, the income or the earnings of the costumers are at stake.

As a daughter of a "Tuba (coconut wine) Gatherer" that still relying with her parents, I am now feeling the guilt of still not having a stable job to help them out. What bothers me more is the continuous increase of prices of the basic commodities in the market, but the buyer of my papa's "Tuba" didn't buy it at a higher price. And as for you know, my papa is not the owner of the coconut trees that he climbs up, it was my grandfathers' which means, we are obliged to give a contribution for doing so.
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• When it comes to budgeting, I really don't take it as a serious thing since I am still living with my parents right now. But when we talk about money, as much as possible, I don't want to ask it from them. I will feel embarrassed knowing that this time forward, I should be the one providing them. So, with the question here, I will just give focus on how I budget my money for my personal wants and needs.

Like I said earlier, I want to give more focus on three things this year, "Spend Less, Save more, and Invest." In the previous years, especially the last year, I am like a spendthrift- spend here and there. So, with this, what comes to my mind now is minimize spending by cutting down those unnecessary things on the list. I should buy ONLY the important and necessary for me to not waste any cent of my earnings as a side hustler, for now.

You know, earning money is very difficult this days. And imagine, you hardly earn the money you have but you have few things out from it and like a tick of the clock, the money was gone, all of a sudden. Like for instance, you earned Php 1000 or $20 dollars for a week but when you went to town and buy the things you want and need using that money, you will not notice that you only have few cents left in your pocket. "Jusmiyo marimar!" That is why, we should really armed with information before going for a grocery or whatever it is that we do with the few we have on our pockets.

Plans are important for it will serve as our guidance or basis for how we work and act for it to happen. With hard work and determination, our efforts will be payed off.

ALL THE BEST FOR US! 🍀

Thank you for your time. To God be the Glory!
<Date Publish: 01.02.2022>
<Author: volleyren20>