{"id":1763,"date":"2012-10-31T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:37:52","slug":"every-little-bit-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/every-little-bit-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Little Bit Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of David\u2019s interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid: It\u2019s hard sometimes, especially if you have a young family. The needs of family, and perhaps the families of other people, make it difficult to even save a little bit. Can a little bit help?<\/p>\n<p>David: It can make a big difference. Saving $50 a week, instead of using $200 to go out, can change your outlook. Start with saving, so it is a practice. Most people pay all sorts of expenses and say, \u2018I\u2019ll save whatever is left over.\u2019 Do not try this at home. Your expenses will always expand to your income. Pick a goal, work out how much you need, and set a savings target. Then slash out expenses. First put in bank, and then live on the rest. Play a game called \u2018How to Live on the Rest\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Client: That\u2019s like turning your savings on its head though.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David: It is. Right. \u2018Pay yourself first\u2019, I read once in a book. Put it directly into a bank account. It can be painful to slash expenses, but when you\u2019ve been putting $200 in the bank, and this is what we have to live on, it becomes a game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of David\u2019s interview in Top Coaching Techniques. Ingrid: It\u2019s hard sometimes, especially if you have a young family. The needs of family, and perhaps the families of other people, make it difficult to even save a little bit. Can a little bit help? David: It can make a big difference. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[265,122,320],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}