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personal finance isn’t about the finance
WSA adsense code -->Its common knowledge that personal finance isn’t really about the finance, its about the personal. People don’t really mismanage money, they mismanage themselves - they could have issues to deal with (mine is security), they could have unhelpful personality traits (mine is laziness) it doesn’t really matter. What matters is doing something about it - you can’t do anything with the hand your dealt except play it as well as possible.
In response to my security issues, I ensure that I have access to lots of credit, I’m well insured and I have a healthy emergency fund. In response to my laziness, I automate everything in sight. What would you say was your biggest financial issue, and what do you try to do about it?
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© 2007 plonkee money. 
I’m totally with you on the laziness, but it’s more complicated than that. It’s not that I don’t want work, I just don’t want to have to do work I don’t want to do. For me, one key is to find a way to make some money doing exactly what I’d do anyway–or, at least, almost exactly.
Being able to make a few thousand dollars a year can be the difference between being able to retire now and being not being able to retire for years.
It’s like you’re my personal finance twin. Security is a huge issue for me as well. One of my biggest concerns is losing my job and not being able to take care of my family. I respond to this by a) working like crazy, which is a bad trait in itself; b) trying to achieve financial independance as soon as I can. That one is waaaay off unfortunately.
Laziness is also a nasty trait of mine (at least for everything not job related). I hate doing things around the house and running arends. This is problem, because given the option I almost always throw money at problem to make them go away.
Mine is procrastination. Is that the same as laziness?