Living A Good Life! #1 How To Turn A Loss Into A Win!

Time to pastor guys.

When you are working in a software company, you need programming skills. When you want to become a doctor, you need to study medicine and learn the required skills for that profession.

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In every area of your life, you need certain skills. Without them, you can't do what you maybe want to.

There are also some skills you can learn to increase the quality of YOUR life. We can call them life hacks. See this life hacks as a programming language for example. The more you deal with it, the better you will get.

The answer is easy because it affects you every day.

And you can influence your life quality.

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Let's start with something easy.
And by the way, most of you already heard about that or are living according to the following principle, but maybe you are not aware of that.

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Let's take something that has to do with money.
Imagine you want to buy a present for your girlfriend, or wife.
And you missed to do it earlier, and now you are under stress.

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You are hustling to the city; you have to hurry because the stores will close soon. You buy something from which you think it would please her.

Now you are coming back to your car, and you find a ticket on your window for false parking. In a hurry, you had no time to look longer for a proper parking place that's why you take the risk to get a ticket.

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I am not recommending this behavior, but I think many of us were sometimes in such a situation.
So you have to pay the fine, money you could use for something else. Maybe you planned already something with the money you have now to use to pay the fine.

What if you would have already some money for exactly this kind of cases? Yes, you heard it right. Imagine somewhere at home or at your bank you reserved each month a certain amount for fines or for other unexpected expenses.

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Or let me ask another question. What if you would find the exact amount of money you need for the fine on the street?

It may sound funny, or even striking and let me say to you that it could be and it serves only as an example.

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People are treating money differently depending on​ where it's coming from.
Your hard earned money from your profession is more worth for you than money you won, or like mentioned above found on the street.

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In psychology this kind of technic or hack, however, you will name it is called mental accounting.
It is considered a classical logical fallacy. Turn a loss into a win!

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You are tricking your mind knowing​ that the money you will use to pay the fine is less worth. Of course, it is not, but your mind think that this is money is not worth crying why?

You already prepared it for that. This money you​ are not including in your financial math. It has only one purpose, one task.

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For example money, you found on the street. As a good a citizen, of course, you would try to find the rightful owner but even then are you treating this money differently as it would be your hard earned money.

Same counts when you had a place which is only for this kind of situation. You would say for example: "Great that I have prepared already money for that type of scenario."

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It will not change the truth that you have to pay your fine, but you are tricking your mind for the sake of your peace. This is Mental accounting. You cant change the fact, but you can change the influence the fact has on you. And this is a big principle. That means that you can turn something that looks​ likes a loss into a win. I am not saying that other people will see it that way but that's not the point because​ we are talking about your life.

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