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To begin creating effective financial resolutions, it's essential to evaluate your current financial situation. Diwali offers a chance to reflect, analyze spending habits, and pinpoint areas of concern. Each Diwali, you can conduct a financial review to assess your progress and set new financial goals.
Diwali being the festival of renewal and prosperity is the perfect time to usher in short-term and long-term financial objectives. One must set SMART financial goals for the next year-such as saving a percentage of income or paying off a particular debt.
Festivals like Diwali often bring extra costs for gifts, celebrations, and travel. To avoid last-minute financial stress, it's wise to plan ahead and save enough for these activities. Consider opening a dedicated savings account or fund specifically for festival expenses, ensuring you're prepared when the next Diwali arrives.
Unforeseen expenses like a job loss or a medical emergency can disrupt even the best plans one makes. Therefore, it is important for one to have an emergency fund. Contributing to this fund regularly can help it grow and as a result, it will provide financial stability to a person.
For instance, providing and being charitable are also part of Diwali-themed considerations. This can then be translated into monetary resolutions in the form of charity and donations. Save for this line of giving, it offers a balance of spiritual fulfillment and even more tax benefits to increase wealth in line with social welfare.
Diwali can be a great time for an analysis of spending and the elimination of wasteful spending. These include impulse buys and subscriptions that are not necessary, and lifestyle habits that cater for a lot of money. By, tracking expenditures for a month, pinpointing the unnecessary expenses, and promising to curb them during the following year can help.