CHAPTER 12
BUY NOW, THINK LATER
In the market of life, we are prone to impulsive buying especially when we seem loaded with some extra lucre. Money may be some servant but it has great masterly attributes. You might have had the opportunity to visit the market sometime with the intent of getting something but it happens that something else caught your fancy. You got caught in the web and offered to buy what you never anticipated and then shrieked at how irrelevant what you bought was to you.
Regrets have trailed some persons who lead their lives by acting first before thinking. They let impulse direct their course and they fall out from the intended plan if ever they had a plan. While impulse could direct our path, a half of the time, our impulse often leads us astray. We ask ourselves questions like “why did I buy this?” or “why did I take that action?”
The need to plan our lives cannot be underestimated. From the start of our intended project, we need to outline intended objectives and the route through which we intend to achieve them. The reason is that it helps us focus our minds towards the attainment of our goal however little or great it is. This steers us from distractions even if they are necessary ones.
We don’t have to leave to chance life’s opportunities. We need to create a set down written path that guides us. This will reduce wastage.
Impulse may not be all-bad. Planned impulse often would help. How? Expect life’s opportunities to vary and change. It helps to plan for such variations. This could mean having extra money in your pocket away from the planned so that when impulse leads you to buy; you know it’s from some extra. You could create time for the unexpected so that the unexpected becomes a planned event.
The need for some thought before any action cannot be underestimated. Broadcasters are aware that as much as they may be gifted at speaking, there’s so much difference between their having to go through a script before going on air and having to jump on air on getting a script. Even the most professional of them agree.
The fact that we are faced with a rat raced society where everything is done at thought’s speed does not mean we are to lose our head and self-control. The pace may be fast and so is the increased accident occurrence. You won’t want to be among the statistic of those who hit the road without thinking first that there are other road users only to discover they have gotten it wrong on the hospital bed.
It pays to settle our future action with credible thought process. Do you want to buy a house? Think. Are you about to marry? Think. Are you thinking of delving into a business? Think. How about the school you intend to attend? Think. Everything you intend to do should be allowed some credible thought process. This will enable you decipher the workability of the projects before you jump at it.
Your thinking does not mean you act insanely or waste precious time. The thinking process should be allowed quality time but not all the time that would require the project to come to limelight. Time is precious.
Some persons may not be cool headed enough to think for themselves before jumping at projects. If you are in such category, it pays to listen to some advice from some other person you can count on. Words of advice are very helpful as they guide your steps if they are the right ones. What this means is that, advice could be right or wrong. Listen and filter.
The results from good gainful thoughts are unprecedented. Companies pay employees just for their ability to think. They hold such employees as assets and never let them go. These companies appreciate that good thinking could increase the company’s earnings as much as bad thinking can bring the earnings down.
Before you jump into making that giant decision, think. Don’t make that decision because everybody’s doing so. Everybody isn’t you. Where everybody’s succeeding, you could fail. You are failing because you have not thought through and had a grasp of the secrets that’s making others succeed.
Let your modus operandi be “think now, buy later.”