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Habits that will sustain you in everlasting poverty

How do we best plan for our salaries?  Personally I used to struggle on my spending habits, being this kind of fellow who spends much more than he earned. Occasionally I would run broke within a few days after end month and as the Kenyan mentality demands for an immediate solution to cub this penny less zone, a quick fix would be employed. Lent money from friends forgetting that this was not grants and that I had started spending my next salary, poor planer indeed. So today lets share on how best we can manage ourselves with even the little salaries that we get, employees endlessly complain of the little salary they get, normally our human wants increase with an increase in income, it just happens automatically, maybe it’s not about the issue of salary being small or big but rather how best we plan for it, certain spending habits must be put on cheek if we wish to make a difference with that little salary we get.

Planning in advance

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