Motivation to act on your debt
I’m generally not into using scare tactics to motivate. I’m much more of a carrot than a stick type of person. My attitude is that you attract more bees with honey than vinegar. I have an encouragement philosophy when it comes to motivating. Rewards and gold stars are the order of the day.
However every once in a while I tend to go over to the dark side and use scare tactics. I don’t like doing it but I sometimes find it extremely effective. Often when I am trying to motivate myself and others I find that the softly softly approach only gets you so far. The results are much better when I stop being so nice and I focus on getting the job done by whatever means possible.
So now it is your turn.
Up to this point I have been encouraging you to tackle your debts in a nice positive way. Telling you that it will be alright and that everything will be fine if you just tweak your budget a bit. When in reality if you are not moving towards your goal of debt elimination and if you are not taking serious positive action then you are heading for trouble.
They say you have to be cruel to be kind and I think this is definitely one of those situations. I’m not doing this to hurt. I’m doing this to scare you into action.
I want you to read the following articles and imagine the torment these people must be going through. How tough and difficult life has gotten for them. I’m not trying to belittle them in anyway I simply want you to look at their situation and how it got so bad for them. I want to shock you out of your mental paralysis when it comes to your debt. Debt can happen to anyone of us and when the consequences come they tend to come thick and fast.
The Foreclosure Story Number 2: $136,000 a Year Income to Foreclosure.
California town creates parking havens for homeless
Now that you have read the articles I want you to use the fear of those situations to motivate you to take action NOW. Every minute you wait means that it is a minute longer that you have to spend in debt. Make that call, find that bank statement, pay that bill. DO IT NOW.
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