Building My Finance Portfolio Vs An Expensive Lifestyle | My Self Denial Journey To Wealth Creation

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Having a huge desires for some certain things is one of the situation we can't escape as a human being, right from the onset, humans desire and want are enormous that if we are to list them out it will be unlimited, every mins/hour we always want to get new things but the major resources to get these things are not readily available and that is the funny part, I do wonder how we want a lot of things but we can't even afford them, back them in school especially doing economic classes, they taught us about humans want and how to prioritise things using scale of preference which we use in listing what we want according to how important they are, I just to laugh in class back then and take this things as joke without knowing I will stay apply them to life matters in future.

Maybe I didn't take the lectures serious back then because I still had a dad that do cater for our needs and I was young so i can easily get some things that I need but realisation set in when the only source of income (as i will call it) is no more and as the first male child, duties fell on me, I had to rethink my life when I knew there is no where to get free things unless I work for them but i realise anytime It is pay day after working for days, once I receive alert, my needs will start popping out from different corners and I will just keep buying them and at times I do check my friends enjoying their life and buying different stuff so I was having this urge to feel among which is very costly, it was now looking like a scenario where you will money today and be broke the next day, it reach some extent I knew I can't keep up with such lifestyle, I had to rethink it and decided to start withdrawing bit by bit and decided to start building my financial life bit by bit by saving and investing more instead of spending.

Most of my friend nothing this new attitude anytime they schedule and outing and i keep giving them one excuse or the other so I won't be able to attend such or anytime I attend, I do limit what I brought, some left why the one that understand my new decision decide to stay and support me in their own little way. Doing this self denial journey, I must say, things weren't easy, inasmuch as the desires keep popping up, and I kept on neglecting them just to fulfil that one goal to build my finance portfolio, I started feeling somehow, having this awkward feeling and was almost depressed at some point but I do lift up my spirit with some online teachings like Pastor Adeyemi and Apostle Joshua Selman which keep pushing me forward and achieving my goal. To achieve this, I actually followed 3 steps which work for me. Firstly I figured out the kind of situation I was (self-awareness), knowing my major issues and having this determination that enjoying an expensive lifestyle is not what I need at that point in time, I couldn't bear having money today and getting broke the next day due to my spending habit. Secondly, I decided to create a goal for myself since I know that is what I need, without a realistic goals, there is nothing like self denial since you have to channel it into something and lastly is the self control aspect because it wasn't an easy task to do, self control and determination help me a lot in this journey and I was able to achieve a lot of things

This is my participation to the recent #hivelearner prompt titled Self-Denial