Still haven’t taken a step to manage your money? Well you aren’t alone, there are a million waiting for an auspicious day to begin this sacred ritual. So i thought why not do this together? Yes lets all start to manage our money and fix all our financial troubles in this week. Lets take the first step now.

Day 1:

Today is the first day in our ritual. Lets spend half hour and take the most important step. Calculate our personal net worth. All we have to do today is dig up all old documents or if you have  great memory, sit with a diary to write down all your assets, its value and then the value of the liabilities and finally subtract the liability from the assets. Bhoom!!! You have just calculated your net worth.

Yes thats was simple isn’t? Yes thats all we are going to do today. Tomorrow we will take our next step. Till then relax!!! We are surely going to fix your finances in 7 days.

An article in Wired Magazine  mentioned about personal metric devices to improve one’s health like the Nike+ipod kit which could keep track of all the details and the statistics of your capacity to run..For all it measured was the time your foot touched the ground. Now how could that have helped? How could mere statistics help?

Let us be honest. How many of us follow our chores sincerely, or let us say, on a given time when we  are assigned a job ,given a deadline, when we are  getting  no extra incentive for our job, and most important ,when we are  quite sure that there is no one observing us, how many of us do our jobs sincerely?

Well barring just a few I suppose the answer is quite obvious.

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