Erecting a financial plan is somewhat akin to piecing together a mosaic on a vibrating chair. You possess all the fragments and have a basic notion of their alignments, but the surrounding environment keeps trembling and swaying, making it arduous to maintain order. Undoubtedly, external factors contribute to complicating the mosaic, yet part of the onus lies with you. Imagine trying to construct it using a pair of forceps.
Setting aside the inelegant metaphors, while numerous external elements can thoroughly disrupt your financial plan, at least half of the accountability rests squarely on your shoulders. Primarily, the efficacy of a financial plan hinges on the assumption that you will adhere to it consistently.
Successfully concocting a financial plan tends to imbue one with a sensation of invincibility. “I have formulated a financial plan! I’ve allocated funds! I can make purchases carefreely!” Although a financial plan facilitates ensuring bill payments and sustenance, this sense of invincibility can be perilous. Should you indulge in impulsive spending without contemplating its implications on your financial plan, you stand a high probability of exceeding your set budget and dismantling the entire system.
This same feeling of invincibility can also foster lifestyle inflation, whereby you progressively elevate the quality of your acquisitions as your income escalates. Often unbeknownst to many, numerous financial plans entail delicate equilibriums. Substituting an item in your financial plan with a costlier alternative can disrupt the entire system. You can’t force an ill-fitting piece into an arbitrary section of the mosaic.