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33 Things To Do That Your Future Self Will Thank You For

Who doesn’t like making life a bit easier? Well, here are 33 things to do that your future self will thank you for.

These ideas are a mix of practical and personal growth tips.

Take what you like and leave what doesn’t speak to you.

Enjoy!

1. Follow a financial plan

Don’t just spend the money you earn as you go along through life.

Your future self will be eternally grateful if you take the time to work out a financial plan that you can follow effortlessly.

This could be dedicating 10% of your earnings without fault to a savings account.

This could be getting a financial advisor who puts a portion of your money into investments each month.

The exact financial plan you follow doesn’t matter quite as much as the fact that you consciously follow a plan you worked out for yourself.

If you do that, you are already so much more mature and organized than most adults.

2. Always study something

If you are in school or college, you’re already doing that, and you know exactly why this is important for your future self.

But what about after school and college?

Most people stop studying once they don’t have to write tests anymore.

However, our world doesn’t stop evolving, and new information is being released every day.

If you want to advance in any area of your life, you need to gain more knowledge.

So make sure to be a student for life. Set aside an hour or two a day as study time, so your future self is smarter and more skilled all way around.

3. Meditating

The list of benefits to meditating is long and ranges from lessening stress to gaining profound insights.

Start making meditation a daily habit – even if it is for just 5 minutes – so that your future self will be able to do it as easily as brushing teeth.

Tools like the Muse Headband can make meditation more fun.

4. Journaling

Journaling can help you clear your mind, organize your thoughts, feel less overwhelmed and stressed, gain breakthroughs, and manifest your goals.

Even if you disregard all these benefits, starting a journaling habit will give your future self the chance to look back and remember the thoughts and feelings you once had.

5. Summarize your day in one-two sentences

Have you ever looked back at the end of the year and wondered where the time has gone? How is it possible for 365 days to pass by so quickly?

Time seems to slip by because we don’t experience enough noteworthy moments that create lasting memories in our minds.

If there is nothing specific we remember, the days slowly but surely blend into each other.

That means the key to feeling like you’ve lived a long and exciting life is accumulating many memories of it.

One great way to slow time down is to summarize every day in one or two sentences. Find something unique about the day and include it in that summary.

Try it for a month and look back to see how much you can remember from the month and how long it feels in retrospect.

6. Start a business

Whether it is a blog, a youtube channel, podcast, or Etsy shop, you should consider spending your time on a side project that could develop into an income-producing business.

Starting a side project like this doesn’t mean you want to become a full-time entrepreneur.

It can stay just a side project that earns you a little bit of money in addition to your income from your job.

At the very least, it is going to create memories and experiences you will never forget.

7. Wear sunscreen

Yes, I get it; applying sunscreen is bothersome. However, there are reasons people do it, and your future self will thank you for it.

Consider taking the time to compare products and choosing the one with the least harmful ingredients.

8. Take care of hormonal imbalances the natural way

Millions of women reach for medications like the birthcontrol pill to solve PMS, acne, and other health issues that stem from hormonal imbalances.

These medications rarely solve the problem. Instead, they hide it for as long as the medication is taken.

These medications in themselves already have many negative if not severe side effects. But if these underlying hormonal balances are not treated, they can increase the risk of severe health problems after menopause.

The book “In the Flo” has convinced me that it is worth taking the time and making an effort to solve these problems naturally and while I am still young.

I know my future self will thank me for it.

9. Write a last will + discuss your funeral

As uncomfortable as the topic of death is to most people, it is important not to disregard it.

Creating a last will and writing down the basics of your prefered funeral arrangement is something that you do primarily for your family and friends to make their life easier in the wake of your passing.

The last thing anyone wants to do while mourning is to obsess over what their loved one would have liked for their funeral. So make sure to give it some thought and either tell them or write it down somewhere for them to find.

If you want to feel a bit more optimistic about your inevitable death, I recommend reading “Life after Life.“

10. Get a drivers license

As someone who has grown up in a village and adores driving, I am always surprised that some people don’t have a driver’s license.

Sure, if you live in a city, you don’t need it.

But do your future self a favor and get a driver’s license.

After all, you never know when you’ll need it. Perhaps you’d like to go on a road trip through Europe one day or help your friends move.

11. Getting a passport

Again as someone who’s had a passport for as long as I can remember, I am always astounded that some people don’t have one.

It makes sense, of course. If you want to travel through Europe as a European, you only need an ID, and a passport costs money.

Still, you never know when the travel bug will bite you, and you’ll want to travel to the other side of the world.

So get yourself a passport and make sure that it is always valid for at least another six months.

12. Learn how to read faster

We are living in an age that is all about information. You will spend a lot of your time reading these information, especially if you commit to being a student for life.

Your future self will thank you if you take the time to learn how to increase your reading speed.

13. Get a job during your summer break

You might not need the money right now, but you most likely will a few years down the line once you want to move out or travel.

So think ahead and spend a part of your holidays working. It will also provide you with valuable experience.

14. Reading books with a variety of topics

Most people don’t read books, and those that do read mainly fiction.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with reading fiction, but you are missing out on a world of wonderful books on all kinds of topics.

Dare to take a step outside your comfort zone and try out a few non-fiction books that excite you.

Read also: Reading List For Personal Growth

15. Keeping a dream journal

Your dreams contain gold that you should reap.

Your dreams can provide you with ingenious solutions to the problems and challenges in your life.

They can also provide you with new ideas that could prove incredibly valuable to you.

Many people recommend keeping a dream journal to practice reaping the gold hidden in your dreams.

So try it out yourself!

16. Writing down at least a rough draft of your imaginary plots

I always have at least one fictional storyline going through my head.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t mastered the discipline and patience actually to bring them to paper.

However, I have started to at least write out small scenes or bullet points with my ideas for future reference.

I don’t even write down something that often, but a surprising amount of ideas has already accumulated at this point.

Every time I rediscover old fanfiction ideas, it makes me incredibly happy and glad that I wrote them down in the past.

17. Keeping the original packaging of tech stuff

If you’ve ever sold your old phone or tablet, you know that the original packaging can bring you quite a lot of extra money.

Therefore, I’ve made it a habit to keep them for as long as I use the device.

Of course, you need the storage room to do so. Perhaps consider storing them on top of cupboards or under your bed.

18. Collecting all relevant receipts of the year

I discovered that as daunting as the task of taxes seems, it can actually be done pretty quickly if you’ve prepared yourself.

By collecting and organizing all relevant receipts in one place, you make it infinitely easier for your future self to get the taxes done and over with.

And hey, who doesn’t like to get money back with little effort.

19. Anticipating recurring expenses

Numerous expenses repeat themselves every year. Sure, the exact amount you have to pay may vary, but usually not by a huge amount.

Even if they do, it’s still better to be prepared to pay something instead of being caught by surprise entirely.

So make a list of recurring expenses like insurance, tuition, etc.

20. Set up automatic backups of your digital devices

Nothing is quite as soul-crushing as losing important or sentimental documents when your laptop, phone, or tablet crashes.

Save your future self from this despair by setting up automatic backups on all your devices.

21. Sort and delete the photos you’ve taken

So, I’m not big on taking photos or selfies.

Still, after a while, I end up with many unnecessary photos taking up storage of my phone and cloud.

Your future self, looking for certain pictures, will be eternally grateful if you make their life easier by deleting what’s not important at regular intervals.

Even better, consider creating folders in which you can organize these images by theme.

22. Trying out many different things

Life is about creating many different experiences.

And thanks to the vast internet we nowadays know just how much there is to experience worldwide.

Do your future self a favor and make memories as you grow older by trying out all kinds of different things.

Try out pottery, ice skating, karting, drifting, wall climbing, virtual reality, surfing, hiking, origami, blogging, horseriding, and countless other amazing things.

Life is about living. So live to the fullest!

23. Avoid too loud music

Loud music may seem like a great idea at the time, but the older you get, the more your hearing is going to suffer if you act recklessly.

Yes, there are hearing aids nowadays. But I’m sure you’d like to be able to hear properly all on your own.

24. Taking the time to find healthy skin and hair care products

Most people are looking for quick fixes. They purchase the product that promises to clear their skin right away or that claims to make their hair shiny with one use.

Your future self will thank you for taking the time to find products with healthy incrediences instead of quick fixes.

25. Keep an eye out for limiting beliefs and negative self-talk and deal with it right away

Overcoming limiting beliefs before they fester is much easier than after they’ve become an integral part of your worldview.

So do your future self a favor and always keep an eye out for negative thoughts that pop up.

26. Write motivational notes/Record a motivational speech

Certain situations trigger us time and time again.

Maybe you always procrastinate on schoolwork until the stress mounts up and you stumble into a panic spiral.

Use the regret of that moment to write or record yourself a note in which you remind yourself of why you shouldn’t repeat this behavior.

Be emotional so that your future self can feel these emotions when reading the note or listening to it.

27. Block a bit of time daily for personal development

If you are reading this post, I don’t have to do much to convince you of the powers of self-improvement.

But truly, working consciously on your personal growth is immensely powerful, especially in the long term.

It might take a while to get the stone rolling, but if you stick with it long enough, you will improve yourself at a rate that your past self would never have anticipated.

And personal growth often does go hand in hand, not only with more happiness but also more success.

28. Make sure to notice when you are being foolishly stubborn and course correct

There is a fine between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness.

Many people have the tendency to jump after every shiny object and lack the discipline to finish what they’ve started.

Those people might end their 20s without a degree to show for 10 years of college because they always switched degrees after a few years.

Others (and I suppose this is where I can find myself) are overly committed. If they started something, they are going to finish it no matter what.

Those kinds of people might find themselves in a midlife crisis when they realize that they absolutely hate their job and should have dropped out of college in their third semester.

Yes, it sucks having ‘wasted’ two years of your life going in the wrong direction. But guess what’s worse? Spending decades being unhappy with your decision.

So, course correct today if that will make your future self happier.

29. Learn a few easy recipes by heart

This can come in handy if you stay at an Airbnb in your holidays or if you spontaneously decide to cook something easy.

30. Know the language of food and wine

This means you should be able to read a menu at a restaurant without having to research every second word you read.

Much of that knowledge comes with age and experience, but you can speed up the learning process and save yourself awkward situations.

31. Have a power bank and charger in your bag

You never know when you’ll strand somewhere and need your phone that’s running out of battery.

32. Create a reusable packing list of all your fundamentals

You might not travel often, still, most likely, you are packing some basic things every time you do travel.

Having a list to quickly rely on will significantly speed up your packing process and reduce your risk of leaving any of these basics behind when you return home.

33. Learn how to wrap gifts properly

Seriously, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought to myself I ought to learn how to wrap presents prettily so that I don’t have to struggle ever again.

Learn it once, and spare yourself the trouble once and for all.

I hope these ideas will make your future life easier.

I hope you will look back and be glad to have found this list.

If you do, please leave a small ‘thank you’ in the comments. It really does mean the world to me. ^^

Until next time!

Sophie

17 Reasons Being Short is Awesome | Advantages of Petites

Blog, Personal Development

There are many reasons why being short is awesome. It’s time we petites remember the blessings in our life!

1. An excess amount of legroom wherever you are

I only really started appreciating this advantage of being short once I noticed how my taller friends were suffering.

One of my friends needs to carefully cross his legs in an ‘X’ shape so that he’ll fit in the tight legroom of airplanes and our really old lecture hall at Uni.

It does look painful, and I couldn’t be happier that I have all the space in the world.

2. Smaller Clothes = More Luggage Space

Uusually the clothing department is one of the biggest disadvantages of being petite. It can be incredibly difficult to find clothes that you not only like but that also fit.

But, being short and having smaller clothes also brings the advantage that they take up less space.

This comes in especially handy when you travel and have to fit thick winter clothing into your luggage.

3. Always Enough Blanket Left To Cuddle Into

There are only a few things that are as annoying as having a too-short blanket or someone not leaving enough for you to cover yourself fully.

Being short is awesome in the sense that you can turn yourself into a blanket burrito with pretty much any blanket out there.

And who doesn’t like cuddling into a cozy blanket on a cold day?

4. Effortless cuteness

Small things are automatically cuter than their normal-sized version. Think about small salt shakers or tiny shoes for babies or small bonsais.

There are endless examples where small equals cute.

Luckily, this seems to apply to many petites, too.

Sure, if you are young and want to be taken seriously, this can be extremely annoying.

But other than that, being effortlessly cute can be a wonderful asset in life.

5. Most likely smaller than your boyfriend/girlfriend

This can be as much an advantage as it can be a disadvantage depending on the person.

While many (not all, of course) women prefer to be smaller than their partners, many men would like to be taller.

So if you are lucky enough to preference taller partners, remember to appreciate your shortness.

6. You can get cheaper shoes from the kids’ section

Frankly, I haven’t done that often. For me, the girls’ shoe section is often way too pink and glittery.

But once in a while, especially when looking for sneakers, you can save quite some money if you get the kids’ shoes.

Keep that in mind the next time you are looking for footwear.

Read also: 9 Fashion Hacks For Petite Women

7. You can wear high heels without towering over people

Many tall women feel insecure wearing high heels because it makes them tower above most of the population.

Considering that high heels can often provide an immense confidence boost and make women feel sexy, it is sad if your height prevents you from wearing them.

Being short is a great blessing in this case.

8. You don’t have to squeeze yourself into sportscars

If you’ve ever watched Top Gear/Grant Tour, you might have seen Jeremy Clarkson folding himself in half to get into supercars.

Well, we petites don’t have that issue.

Now, we only need to be able to afford a sports car. ^^’

(And hope that we can pull the seat far enough to the front.)

9. You often seem younger than you are

I get it; it is always a bit awkward to show your ID when buying alcohol or going to the cinema.

But being seen as younger than you are, gets much more beneficial the older you get. Usually, most people feel flattered to be perceived as more youthful than they actually are.

It is also great to surprise people who underestimated you.

And you get less weird looks if you decide to go crazy on a playground with 18+ (honestly, one is never too old for a playground!).

10. You won’t have anyone breathing into your neck in cramped public transportation

I feel like some people might disagree with me on this one, but I am usually quite glad to be shorter than others when cramped into a bus or train.

It feels like I have a whole level for myself, and often I don’t have to fight for the lower places of the pole to hold on to.

I mean, yes, if you’re unlucky, you’re coming face to face with someone’s sweaty armpit.

But hey, it all depends on what you want to focus on.

11. You’re always going to be on top of a human pyramid!

Random, yes.

But very true ^^

After all, who likes having a hard knee press painfully into their spine?

12. Easier to slip through crowds

There are plenty of times I was glad for being short because it enabled me to smoothly slip in between people without having to wait for them to make space for me.

13. You’re rarely at risk of hitting your head somewhere

It’s always amusing to walk underneath a low-hanging tree branch standing tall while others have to bend to avoid getting the greenery into their faces.

14. You often get the front row place because you don’t obstruct the view

Of course, this can be a disadvantage if people are not considered and don’t let you stand in front of them.

But most often, they will be kind enough to do so if you ask them nicely.

15. Taking photos from above makes you look great, so be glad people have to look down on you

This is also great in terms of acne around your jawline.

People will notice it less because they don’t have such a good view of it looking down on you.

16. You’re part of the petite club – you will instantly bond with petites all over the world!

Weirdly, I always feel instantly sympathetic towards any petite person.

Obviously, they can lose that sympathy if they prove themselves to be rude, but in a way, they do have a headstart compared to taller people.

17. Being petite makes you more unique

I am aware that this can be more of a downside than an upside for some people. Especially teenagers would rather like to fit in than stand out.

I, for example, was annoyed by the attention I got when I was in grades 5 and 6. Everyone would ask me how old and tall I am and what shoe size I have (Seriously, what kind of question is that?).

But nowadays, I do love my height. Being petite is a huge part of my identity, and I like how it makes me more unique.

After all, we don’t celebrate and remember ordinary people. Every great person has been unique in one way or another.

So, embrace being petite! Being short is awesome because it gives you only another characteristic that makes you stand out from the crowd.

That’s it for this blog post.

I’m curious, how tall/short are you? I’m 153cm or five feet tall.

Have you noticed any other benefits of being short?

Until next time, shorty ^^

Sophie

The Richest Man of Babylon Book Review | 11 Lessons + Quotes

Blog, Books, Personal Development

The Richest Man of Babylon has been a classic in financial literature for many years. This book review will show you why.

As always, with these book reviews, you should be aware that they are not a final list of all the lessons one can learn from the book.

Instead, I picked out some of the most important ones I came across. But everybody will come across different smaller lessons in their own subjective reading experience.

So consider reading the book yourself as well.

Reading Experience

The Richest Man of Babylon was … ok, I guess.

It didn’t teach me anything overwhelmingly new, but it did teach some very basic financial lessons that justify it being a classic.

The individual stories about different citizens of Babylon were interesting to read as they painted a good picture of what life could have been like in that unique city.

I have to admit the old writing style was a bit exhausting to read. But then again, English isn’t my first language, so that might have made it a bit more difficult.

Lessons

1. Hard work alone won’t make you wealthy; you need a plan

“Who would believe there could be such a difference in results between following a financial plan and just drifting along.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

There are lots of people who work hard in life. They spend many decades doing this hard work, yet they don’t seem to get wealthier.

Their money comes and goes just as quickly.

The universe won’t simply notice you for your hard work and turn you into a millionaire overnight.

Instead, you need a plan that goes beyond working hard to accumulate more money.

Do you have a plan yet, or are you simply working and waiting?

2. Spend less than you earn

“I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep. And so will you.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

“A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Step one to becoming wealthy is not to spend everything that you earn.

Instead, you need to pay yourself first in the form of saving and investing your money.

Once you get your paycheck, the first thing you should do is transferring a part of the money to a separate bank account that is not to be touched under any circumstances.

Then make do with the rest of your income.

Think about it this way: If you’d suddenly lost your job (which can happen to everyone) and found a new job that pays less, you would also manage to finance your life based on that smaller income, am I right?

From now on, you are simply going to pretend you earn only the amount left after paying your savings.

3. You have to let your money work for you

“If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Now that your savings are slowly but surely growing with each paycheck, you have to take another step.

You have to invest that money in some way to make it earn even more money for you.

One book that helps you get started with investments is Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins.

You can find it in my Reading List for Personal Growth.

4. Always be ready for an opportunity to arise

“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

“The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

“Men of Action are Favored by the goddess of Good Luck.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Despite what most people believe, there are plenty of opportunities for wealth in most of our lives.

Sadly, only a few people recognize them as such, and even fewer take advantage of them when they present themselves.

You should always keep an eye out for opportunities that present themselves.

Having a solid amount of savings will help you to take advantage of them.

5. Practise seeing plans through till the end

“If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

“When I set a task for myself, I complete it. Therefore, I am careful not to start difficult and impractical tasks, because I love leisure.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Nobody succeeds in life by being lazy and falling prey to the shiny object syndrome.

You have to be disciplined enough to pursue one goal until you achieved it, or all your effort will be wasted.

Self-discipline is a habit. The more you are disciplined, the easier it is to be disciplined the next time.

And soon, you will see yourself as a disciplined person that follows through on their plans.

Reaching your financial goals is one of the most important plans you are ever going to make, and it is of utmost importance that you see it through.

So make sure not to plan too big in the beginning.

You should rather save 5% of your income every month and keep up with it, compared to planning to save 30% and falling short after only two months.

Consistency is key.

6. Don’t postpone living a good life in favor of saving

“Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenth of all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion. Live otherwise according to your income and let not yourself get niggardly and afraid to spend. Life is good and life is rich with things worthwhile and things to enjoy.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Saving for the goal of a luxurious and financially free future is a noble pursuit.

However, you shouldn’t take it too far and let it get in the way of you enjoying the present.

You never know what the future beholds, so you should make the most out of the life you have right now.

Allow yourself to go on holiday once in a while. Maybe treat yourself with a massage.

Don’t do anything that would blow your savings account to pieces. But do allow yourself some luxuries.

That way, you won’t feel resentful towards your financial plan, and it will be easier to be consistent.

Also, a happier you is a more motivated and creative you, which can open new opportunities.

7. The greatest success can come from the simplest plan

“Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

Don’t dismiss simple plans as too good to be true.

If someone tries to tell you, you can become a billionaire overnight, then yes, that is most likely too good to be true.

However, the simple plan of saving 10% of your income and investing it over decades until it makes you wealthy relies on the powers of compounding, which are very much real.

We often don’t take the first step because we overcomplicate things.

Allow yourself to keep it simple.

8. Only follow the advice of people who walk the talk

“Consult with wise men. Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold. Let their wisdom protect thy treasure from unsafe investments.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

If you are looking for financial advice, you will find an endless amount of people assuring you that they know best.

Many of these people are so convinced by their advice that we easily want to believe them too.

However, if you look at their finances, the quality of their advice quickly becomes questionable.

You should never take financial advice from someone who doesn’t have the financial success you are aiming for.

After all, you wouldn’t ask a mechanic for health advice or a doctor about tips to fix your car.

Only follow the advice of experts who walk the talk.

9. Prepare early for retirement

“Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

While retirement may seem like a distant spot on the horizon for young people, it can approach much faster than we’d expect.

The benefit of preparing early for retirement is a stark decrease in stress and insecurity.

Also, as pessimistic as it sounds, you should at least consider the possibility that you become unable to work much sooner in your life due to an unfortunate accident.

If you’ve prepared nothing until then, you are going to have an even harder time making ends meet.

So look ahead and set up a simple savings plan that you can follow without much effort, and that’ll guarantee a financially stable retirement.

10. You only need to invest small amounts regularly; compounding will turn it into wealth

“The more gold I accumulate, the more readily it comes to me and in increased quantities.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

It’s easy to think that only big investments will give you a big return.

We fall prey to that belief because we think linearly.

We have a hard time thinking exponentially, but that’s exactly how our investments will develop with the power of compounding.

As long as you start early, stay consistent and reinvest your return, you only have to put in a small portion of your income to achieve extraordinary wealth.

There has been a janitor who became a multi-millionaire by the time of his death through his investments.

11. Help yourself first

“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend’s burdens upon thyself.”
– George S. Clason (The Richest Man of Babylon)

There is no glory in playing the martyr.

The worse off you are in life, the less you can help others.

Instead of trying to help all your friends and family members immediately, sometimes it can be much more effective to help yourself first to lift them more easily from your higher level.

Think about what they teach you in the airplane safety lessons. You should always put on your oxygen mask first before helping others.

There is a reason millions of people are taught that lesson every day. It’s time we apply this lesson in our daily life as well.

What was your favorite lesson from ancient Babylon?

Did you already read the book? What did you think?

I’m curious to hear from you!

Sophie

11 Biggest Mistakes Students Make | Tips for Students

Blog, Success

Being a student is all about growing, both yourself and your knowledge. Here are 11 mistakes students make that you should avoid.

Most of us spend the majority of the first few decades of our life being students. The following tips and my other content will help you to make the most out of that time.

1. Attending lectures that don’t help you out of FOMO

I get it; group pressure is powerful. It is even worse when people outside that group encourage you to follow along.

Of course, teachers and students are right when they say that lectures and classes are valuable.

However, the question you should ask yourself is whether they are more valuable than alternative study methods.

Say you have a lecturer that is just terrible at interestingly conveying the material. Consequently, you always dose off 10 minutes into the lecture, and between daydreaming, you can’t remember what it even was about.

In that case, you might save yourself time by ditching the lecture and using a podcast or just reading the material in a book.

In my experience, there rarely is a lack of information at hand. You can learn the same topic from countless sources, so why force yourself to rely on an ineffective one?

Of course, sometimes the classes require attendance. In that case, you simply have to try and make the best out of it.

2. Creating aesthetic summaries without actually using them

I know, study inspo is awesome.

Nothing is quite as motivating as seeing aesthetic notes and café study sessions on Instagram and Pinterest.

I also know many students that swear by learning through making summaries of the material.

Personally, I’ve discovered that the effort/results ratio of creating these summaries is not worth it for me.

I don’t learn much through copying or rearranging information.

Instead, I learned to make this preparational phase of studying as quick as possible to get into the real study phase faster.

Nowadays, I don’t even bother copying the relevant information onto my flashcards. Instead, I simply reference the place where I can find the information.

3. Studying through reading instead of creating

Many A-students swear that using active recall is the most effective study technique while reading and highlighting are fairly ineffective.

Think of it as a workout. If you want to grow strong biceps, what kind of exercise would you choose?

a. lifting a 1kg weight 200 times while watching Netflix

b. lifting a 5kg weight 40 times with the utmost focus on your posture.

The exercise that makes you break out in a sweat and shake will bring results much quicker than what feels comfortable to do.

Similarly, the comfortable reading and highlighting are much less effective than the mentally exhausting and frustrating remembering of the answer before checking the solution.

If you have all the time in the world, you can go for what’s comfortable.

But if you are on a time limit with a bunch of information to get into your brain and want better grades by studying less, you need to increase the intensity of your study sessions.

4. Not taking advantage of former tests and exams

One of the best ways to prepare for a test is by analyzing and solving the tests of the previous years/semesters.

I’ve made the experience that this can be valuable even if you don’t have the solutions for the questions.

It already helps to see which questions you are struggling to answer and what kind of information your teacher/professor is quizzing you on.

Always try to get hold of these tests. Sometimes, the professor even offers them freely; other times, maybe a friend of yours has an older sibling who took the test a year ago.

5. Thinking quantity equals quality

This applies to your studying just as much as to the actual test.

Just because you got the most study time doesn’t guarantee you will get the best grade in the class.

Study hours and grades are not connected linearly, despite what some teachers want to make you believe.

Yes, of course, you need to put in a certain baseline of hours studying but especially in the range of the highest grades, effectivity counts more than quantity.

The same goes for when you have to write an essay or answer any question for the exam.

The length of your answer doesn’t equal the quality of it. Lots of good answers are concise and on the point.

6. Vomiting irrelevant knowledge onto the paper

Many students who write lengthy answers don’t score that well because they mindlessly vomit their knowledge out of context onto the paper.

Yes, you’ve studied a lot, and yes, you know a whole bunch of information about the topic.

But there is always just so much a professor can quiz you about. He or she doesn’t want you to give them a complete summary of everything they’ve taught you.

They don’t want to search for the relevant information among a sea of irrelevant ones.

Even if everything important was included in that novel of an answer, you probably wouldn’t score full points on it.

7. Not talking to older students

Talking to older students, more in university than in school, has helped me immensely!

They’ve been in your shoes at one point and therefore know exactly what you have to expect.

They can make you aware of important deadlines coming up.

Older students can also give you practical information about certain classes and what to expect in them.

I know it’s not always easy to get a hold of these older students. But maybe some nice students from your year occasionally talk to older students, and they can pass on the information.

Just keep a lookout for these opportunities.

8. Only relying on exercises from your school/college

It is great if your school or college provides you with practice tests. They are most likely very similar to what your teachers or professors ask of you in the actual test.

However, if you have more time on hand and need more practice, you shouldn’t limit yourself to these exercises.

There is a whole market out there with excellent study material to help you ace your tests.

Back in school, these additional books really helped me to prepare myself for math exams, and nowadays, I purchase case books for every law class I have.

9. Thinking short-term

Sometimes students take the lack of importance of a test as permission to just do the bare minimum.

They say they’ll work harder once it’s actually important.

This is dangerous for two reasons:

a. excellence and slacking are both habits. Every time you pick one of them, you increase the likeliness of picking them again next time.

So if you are not used to putting in much effort into studying, you will have a harder time doing so when it counts.

b. Every test gives you a chance to refine and improve your study technique. When you do your best and get a disappointing grade you know you have to do something differently.

If you don’t give it your all, you will always tell yourself that you would have scored better had you actually tried. The bad awakening will then come with the important tests.

So just do your best and try to score high even if it isn’t important for your end grade.

10. Clinging to old plans despite new interests

What are you interested in today? What are your passions and goals?

Do you think ten years ago, you would have been able to anticipate these things?

For me, the answer is a clear ‘NO.’

I’m a very different person with very different goals and interests than I would have expected even four years ago.

Even though the same is true for many people, they still think they should cling to a plan they made in their teens for the rest of their working life.

During your school time, you might have always dreamed of being a doctor, and you’ve worked hard to get into medical school.

But maybe now that you have studied medicine for a few semesters, you realize this isn’t your thing at all.

It’s important to always allow yourself to think again and change the direction of your aim.

Of course, it sucks having spend all this time and effort walking in the wrong direction. But it won’t get better by staying on course for the next few decades.

If this is really not your thing, allow yourself to pursue something else.

11. Giving up once boredom or difficulty hits and jumping to the next shiny object

On the other side of the spectrum are students that enroll in a class to get a certain degree, but once the inevitable excitement fades, they drop out and start something new.

Even the most successful people are often bored and annoyed by their passion.

The key to their success is that they are consistent and work through the boredom.

You are never going to find something that will 100% excite you all the time. There are always going to be ups and downs.

The question is whether or not you can see yourself having a job in this field. If you are not sure, consider doing an internship to get more real-life experience.

What about you? What are you studying currently? Are you in school or college?

Comment down below. I’d love to hear from you!

Sophie

11 Struggles Only Pinterest Marketers Will Understand

Blog, Business

Pinterest marketing can be hard, no matter what some gurus tell us. Here are 11 Pinterest struggles marketers can relate to.

I’m using this blog post to vent my frustration on my lack of Pinterest results after almost two years of effort.

I hope this will lift your mood and will make you feel less alone out there with your Pinterest struggles.

Let’s get into it!

1. You get super frustrated when the aesthetic pin that you’ve poured your passion and creativity into doesn’t even do remotely as well as other people’s ugly pins

Pinterest is a search engine that is heavily focused on visuals. So how can it be that so many ugly as f#ck Pins get ranked so high?!

Yes, I know it’s all about the keywords. But many of these pins are not even keyword-optimized!

I mean, come on! Why do I even bother with trying to make my pins pretty?

Maybe I should try to make the ugly to test if that’ll attract people …

2. You feel incredibly awkward after pinning 2.374.588 fresh pins linking to the same blog post … but like, how much new content are you supposed to produce?!

Honestly, next to pinning pins, there isn’t much more time for me than to write one blog post a week.

However, I do pin five fresh pins a day, which equals 35 fresh pins a week.

Safe to say, I need many pins for the same blog post. And yes, I feel spammy doing that, but what else am I supposed to do?

3. You worry that maybe you started too late with Pinterest marketing, and that’s why you haven’t had much success with it

Every new platform out there (Facebook, Insta, Google, Pinterest) goes through a specific development.

It is incredibly easy to be successful on the platform in the beginning stages because the creators want to attract many users.

As they do so, the obstacles slowly become more difficult because they try to raise the quality of the platform.

And then, at some point, they make it even harder for you because they want users to buy ads from them to make a bigger revenue.

So, with Pinterest seemingly being very much in that last stage already, do we low-budget marketers even have much of a chance?

Sometimes, it doesn’t feel that way, to be honest.

I see other accounts having immense success with their pins while I am celebrating anything above three outbound clicks with one pin.

But then again, what alternative do we have? It’s not like Insta or Facebook are much better.

4. You get passive-aggressive every time you hear about some Pinterest newbie’s traffic explosion after a few short months

How.Do.They.Do.It!?!?!?!??!!?

Is it magic?

Is it destiny?

Is it foul play?

Whatever it is, I’m sick of it!

It’s like back in school when the students that only started studying the night before got better grades than you. -_-

I’m not saying the other Pinterest marketers don’t deserve their success. I just feel like, at this point, I deserve a slice of it as well.

5. You consider writing a few recipe and DIY blog posts simply because they do so damn well on Pinterest

So, your blog niche is not generating the traffic you want from Pinterest?

Maybe you look enviously at all those food bloggers with their thousands of daily Pinterest conversions.

Why not write a few of these Pinterest-y Blog posts yourself so that you can attract more visitors.

Suppose you are just going for traffic numbers, then that might be a reasonable idea. However, if you aim for high-quality traffic to, later on, funnel into one of your products, you need niche-specific traffic.

You will probably not have much luck, should you hope vegan recipe enthusiasts might spontaneously be interested in your meditation course.

6. You dream about the day you can hire a virtual assistant because all you seem to be up to these days is creating Pinterest pins

Creating Pinterest pins takes up a whole chunk of your time.

You need to create or find templates, find stock images, come up with a click-worthy title, proofread them, download them, name them with keywords, upload them into Tailwind, give them a description and link and finally schedule them.

Tools like Tailwind Create can make this process faster and easier, but it still takes a decent amount of time.

And time is something a side-hustler doesn’t have all too much of.

With a virtual assistant for Pinterest marketing, you could spend so much more time with what you’re good at and the core of your business: your content creation.

7. You feel like you’ve seen and used all of the internets stock images already … like seriously? In an image-obsessed world, there have to be more amazing stock images. Maybe you should start googling for some Asian websites …

As mentioned previously, a successful Pinterest marketing strategy requires you to create tons of new pins.

And to keep these pins fresh and make them stand out amongst your competitors, you need tons of new stock images.

Unfortunately, there often comes the point at which you feel like you’ve exhausted your go-to stock image site and need to find a new one.

I mean, yes, you could take your own photos, but it’s not like you already spend too much time on your Pinterest marketing strategy.

8. You HATE group boards

Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t like group boards.

I don’t like remembering which board had which rules.

I also don’t like the disappointment of them not working or being full of uninspiring pins that I have to pin to my boards.

At this point, I prefer Tailwind Communities, although they annoy me too at times.

9. You’re not entirely sure if you should buy ANOTHER Pinterest course or if your niche simply isn’t very Pinterest-y

Success leaves clues, they say. So what do we do? We go out and learn from a successful Pinterest marketer and buy their course.

That’s great and all, until we realize that it didn’t help us all too much with our Pinterest struggles.

So we wallow in self-pity for a while until we bring up the courage to dig deeper into our pockets and purchase another course.

But despite your best hopes, this wasn’t your breakthrough moment either.

So, what now?

Investing even more?

Giving up?

Settling with what you have?

10. You want to use Pinterest ads, but like … you need money for that

When you are on Pinterest, you often come across ads. These Pins stand out to you, and your mouth starts to water when you imagine this being your pin and how many clicks it could gain.

But there is a small problem … ok well, it’s more of a big and essential issue.

Your biggest problem, if you’re honest.

Yep, you’ve guessed it: MONEY.

Seriously, getting a business off the ground without much of a budget is tough work.

But we will manage it. And once we do, we can finally cross out one of our Pinterest struggles and afford those Pinterest ads to skyrocket our traffic!

11. You hear how others complain about the new Pinterest algorithm, but if you’re honest, your traffic is just as frustratingly low as always

This happens to me about every time Pinterest changes its algorithm, and it’s equally as much amusing as it is frustrating.

I mean, what is it saying about my Pinterest strategy that it works equally as much no matter the algorithm?

As much as I am grateful that my results don’t deteriorate, I still would like to figure out how to get my pins working with the algorithm.

But well, I guess I need to be more patient and continue the effort.

What about you?

How long have you been marketing on Pinterest, and what are your results? What Pinterest struggles have you come across?

Feel free to rant down below. Hopefully, it gives you the energy to continue the hustle.

Until next time and good luck!

Sophie

Secrets Of Six-Figure Women Book Review | 17 Lessons + Quotes

Blog, Boss Lady, Success

What are the secrets of six-figure women, and how can you become one of them? Here are lessons and quotes to help you!

Reading Experience

I absolutely adored “Secrets Of Six-Figure Women”!

It was much more interesting than I expected it to be. I actually learned quite a few new aspects about what it takes to succeed.

But what I liked the most were the many stories about six-figure women and their experiences.

With every story I read, I got inspired and excited to soon join their ranks.

“Secrets Of Six-Figure Women” was also eye-opening for me concerning the gender inequality women face on their way to 6-figures.

I’m sure that nowadays, women experience less sexism in their careers, but it surely is still an issue we could encounter. Therefore it felt valuable to learn about how others handled it.

And lastly, “Secrets Of Six-Figure Women” includes exercises and summaries that help to implement the lessons of the book.

All around, “Secrets Of Six-Figure Women” is a fantastic read!

Lessons

1. There is always an opportunity waiting for you

“While everybody’s been fixated on doors that were closing, feeling cynical and resigned about what struggles might lay ahead, high earners were consistently finding, and opening, windows of opportunity.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“While the rest of the world was focusing on adversity, six-figure women (and those destined to become one) were seeing growth potential and opportunity.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

There is so much pessimism in this world. Many people seem to only focus on the bad things that are happening – money they lost, jobs they didn’t get, the economy getting worse, etc.

Six-figure women are not naive. They see these things, too. However, they know that where one door closes, another opens.

Different from their underearning opposites, they actively search for and make themselves available to these open doors.

You will always find what you focus on and look for.

Pessimistic underearners see low paychecks and high bills.

Six-figure women find opportunities and a pay raise.

2. Know your value and expect to be appreciated accordingly

“This, more than anything, is what sets them apart. They acknowledge and appreciate what they bring to the table and expect to be paid appropriately.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“We women have got to stop devaluing ourselves and demand what we’re worth.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Asking for more is an act of self-love. Saying no is a show of self-respect. Refusing to settle is a statement of self-worth. And walking away is a sign of self-trust.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Stop playing small and start getting into the habit of demanding your value.

As an entrepreneur, this means raising your prices.

As an employee, this means demanding a pay raise.

Both are uncomfortable but not as much as being underpaid.

3. Increasing your income goes hand in hand with growing as a person

“Their pursuit of greater profit triggered a personal evolution. Some even referred to it as a spiritual quest of recapturing (or discovering) their dreams, living fuller lives.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

When you work on your personal development, you grow and learn faster than most people. You increase your self-worth, you overcome your weaknesses, you discover new talents, you foster relationships, and much more.

Unsurprisingly this change often leads to a higher income.

However, it works the other way around as well.

Many women have to confront their limiting beliefs around money and their self-worth in pursuing a higher income. Without realizing it at first, they start to work on themselves and not just their bank accounts.

Actionable Idea

Don’t separate the goals of a higher income and being a better version of yourself! They go hand in hand.

This is great because it enables you to always work towards a higher income even while you seem stuck on the financial side of things.

While being stuck, simply redirect your focus towards your personal development.

4. A degree is helpful but not necessary for success

“Financial Success Is Possible in Almost Any Field, and Lack of Education Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“From what I saw, this passion for her work played a much more significant role in a woman’s success than any impressive credential or high-flying career.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Many successful people never were very outstanding in their academics or dropped out of college in the end and still achieved mindblowing things.

Don’t use your bad grades as an excuse for not being the successful boss babe you wish you were.

If others can do it without a degree or a bad one, why shouldn’t you?

5. Hard work is less about long hours and more about intense focus

“But hard work has many faces and, like success itself, means different things to different people. As I came to see, the critical factor is not the number of hours as much as the intensity of focus.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“It was the intensity of focus on their work, not the number of hours they spent doing it, that factored so heavily into these women’s financial success.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Don’t be afraid of having to work 80-100 hour weeks for a high income.

Of course, there are plenty of successful people doing that, but if that’s not your thing, you don’t have to.

Yes, at the beginning of your financial uprising, you might have to work harder than you’d like.

But if you commit to your values and build the right systems or accept suitable jobs, you can spend little time working as long as you work with intense focus during that time.

Actionable Idea

If you are currently still a student, try to cut down your study time by improving your study techniques.

The less you have to study for good grades, the more time you have for your passions or side hustle.

6. Everyone has fears; successful women act despite them

“Their secret is this: Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Here’s the biggest secret to overcoming your past and upping your earnings: You’ve got to be willing to be uncomfortable.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Fear and anxiety are to financial success what labor pains are to childbirth—an unpleasant, but unavoidable, part of the process.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Every successful person has their doubts and fears. Ironically, imposter syndrome is especially bad among the successful.

What’s important is that successful women don’t let their fears and doubts stop them from achieving their goals.

They take all their courage together and march straight ahead into the unknown.

Actionable Idea

Quit using your fears and doubts as to an excuse to hold back.

If you keep waiting for the day, you will fear brave and confident; you will wait your whole life.

Action precedes confidence. It rarely happens the other way around.

7. Underearners complain, 6-figure earners appreciate

“As a whole, six-figure women are a very happy bunch. Their conversations were liberally sprinkled with words like gratitude, fortunate, lucky, and blessed.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“These women demonstrated an indispensable secret for living a prosperous life of genuine wealth: Appreciate Abundance.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“The power of gratitude derives from a universal law: You draw to yourself whatever you dwell on.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Quit being a whiny baby.

You have it tough in life; I get it. I firmly believe that everyone is allowed to feel sorry for themselves, no matter whether others are struggling so much more.

However, what I can’t support are people that do nothing but whining and complaining.

If you are reading this, you are most likely among a small percentage of very privileged people in the world.

There are tons of things for you to appreciate – many more things than the ones you can complain about.

How do you expect to ever attract more abundance into your life if you are hell bend on putting all your attention on the lack?

Actionable Idea

Make gratitude a part of your daily routine.

I always write down three things I am grateful for first thing in the morning.

And throughout the day, I always make sure to appreciate my possessions and other blessings in my life.

8. You won’t earn more as long as you are hating the rich and priding yourself on poverty – you need to give yourself permission to be wealthy

“Underearners believe in the nobility of poverty.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“It’s a universal law: Our state of mind shapes our way of life.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Until you’re able to give yourself permission to pursue prosperity in your own right, as your right, your best intentions will remain mere pipe dreams or, at best, delusions of grandeur with no relationship to reality. Until you see profit as a virtue, not a vice, as a prerogative and not an impropriety, you won’t have a sliver of hope for increasing your earnings.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

You will always unconsciously sabotage yourself if your mindset and goals are not aligned.

You have to decide which one needs changing: your mindset or your goals.

9. Six-figure women know that they have control over their life

“Underearners, typically, are quick to blame someone else—the government, their upbringing, whatever—for their problems. As a rule, underearners believe the world controls them. High earners know they control the world.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Successful women don’t play the blame game.

They know that they have power over the direction their life takes, and they are eager to use it.

Of course, they also acknowledge the role luck plays in any achievement. But since luck without action is useless, these smart women put most of their energy and focus into action-taking so that they’ll be ready for luck to strike.

10. Working more is unlikely to make you richer

“The way out of underearning is rarely by working harder. Chances are taking a second (or third) job, putting in overtime, or finding a scheme to get rich quick will wear you out before it will make you wealthy.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

I’ve seen this in uni as well. Just because I studied more didn’t mean I got better grades.

Far from it, actually. Only once I improved my study strategy and studied less did my grades improve.

It’s the same thing with your finances.

To a certain extent, hard work will get you more money. But there always comes the point where working smarter is the only way to raise your income.

11. Successful women don’t always have a plan to achieve their goals, but they’re always open to receive them

“One of the most hopeful messages I learned from these six-figure women is that we need not fully believe something is possible, much less have a full-blown plan firmly in place. We just have to decide what we want and be willing to do whatever comes next.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

You don’t need a full-fledged action plan on how to achieve financial success.

All you need to do is taking action one step at a time in a direction that seems to get you closer to your goal.

You have plenty of time to overthink your strategy and to course correct.

Most often, you only truly get a sense of direction after you’ve taken some steps.

Action trumps overthinking and procrastinating any day.

13. Successful women let go of what’s holding them back

“You must let go of where you are to get to where you want to go.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Amazing coincidences so often occur as soon as people let go. And there’s a perfectly valid explanation. This is the inevitable outcome of the first two strategies working in tandem. While “intention” is a magnet that attracts what we want, “letting go” provides the space for our desire to manifest.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“We must first empty the container before we can refill it. Similarly, if our minds are full of limiting thoughts, there’s no room for the expansive ones. Success can only come when there’s space for it to enter.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

We all have baggage that’s holding us back. This can be in the form of unsupportive relationships, limiting beliefs, fears, doubts, or the golden handcuffs of a high-paying job.

The things you cling to prevent you from discovering new things. You first have to make space in your life for something new to enter.

Actionable Idea

Letting go can be scary. Often enough, we don’t even realize what we should let go of.

Consider hiring a coach or mentor to help you on your journey. His or her objective view on the situation and no-nonsense support will help you through your struggles.

14. Successful women know failure is inevitable on the path to success

“To six-figure women, losses are as inevitable as ants at a picnic. And they don’t let those losses ruin their plans. They focus on winning and not on defeat. Oddly enough, the object of the game is not winning per se. The whole point is to do your best and go the distance.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Failure is inevitable in the game for success – unless you quit after having a one-time beginner’s luck.

Successful athletes don’t win every competition.

Not every product of a successful business owner is a raging success.

And not every song the most famous singers release to top the charts.

The key is to stay in the game for long enough so that your successes weigh out the losses.

15. Successful women dream impossibly big

“Think big. And then keep thinking bigger and bigger.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Can you imagine what our world would be like if the most successful people in history had stayed ‘realistic’?

The greatest inventions, trends, and changes in our societies come from outlandish dreams.

It’s time you allow yourself to dream about a 5-figure or even 6-figure monthly income!

Actionable Idea

Imagine yourself in the first-person view living your dream life.

Visualize and script about that dream life often.

16. 6-figure women challenge themselves

“A stretch in any area of life, regardless of where, has a ripple effect in other areas as well. If you can’t quite get yourself to volunteer for that tough assignment, try signing up for art class or running a marathon, anything that puts you out of your comfort zone.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“So the next time you find yourself saying, “No way I can do that!” smile knowingly. You are that much closer to becoming a splendid, audacious, six-figure woman.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Unsurprisingly, six-figure women don’t just relax inside their comfort zone.

To grow personally and financially, you have to do things that scare you and take risks.

Most people rather stay comfortable, so not many women reach six figures even though they desire to do so.

Actionable Idea

Keep track of every time you challenged yourself.

Seeing this list grow will make you feel proud and motivated to get uncomfortable more often.

16. Successful women seek support

“In fact, on the six-figure path, seeking support is not an option, but a requirement.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

Sooner or later, every successful woman had to seek out support. This can be in the form of a significant other, friends, or mentors.

Either way, support is important. Many women interviewed for “Secrets Of Six-Figure Women” mentioned the people who supported them as one of the most significant factors for their success.

I don’t think you can forcefully create a support system like this – besides hiring a mentor, of course.

The key is to stay open to these kinds of relationships. Don’t close yourself off due to toxic pride and the belief that you can do it independently.

Instead, keep an eye out for like-minded people who you just click with and whom you feel you can trust.

You might not find them first on your journey towards being a six-figure woman, but I’m sure you’ll eventually find them.

17. Wealthy women invest their money

“It’s not what we have but what we do with what we have that gives us or denies us financial security.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“What wealth building does require is consistent application of the three rules of money. You simply must make the following actions a way of life. You must do all three. There are no exceptions. 1. Spend less than you earn. 2. Pay yourself first. 3. Put your money to work.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

“Wealth doesn’t come from what you make, but from what you don’t spend.”
– Barbara Stanny (Secrets Of Six-Figure Women)

After what happened in 2008, I get it; investing seems like a sure way to lose your money sooner or later.

But there is potential in the financial market even for us normal people that don’t have millions to spend.

The key is to understand that not every investment of yours will be a success.

I’ve learned from “The Psychology of Money” that even the most outstanding investors of our time only score big with a small percentage of their investments.

They make sure that losses like these won’t ruin them because if they keep investing sooner or later, they will hit gold, and that’s at least going to balance out their losses.

So, follow these financially successful people and consider your first investments.

Can you see yourself becoming a six-figure woman? Or perhaps even a 7-figure woman or more?

I sure can, and I am determined to make it happen. That’s what this blog is for.

What is your plan?

Until next time!

Sophie