高三英语任务型阅读练习

高三英语阅读练习

Few people need to be told not to overspend on credit or debit cards or to curb impulse shopping. You know you shouldn’t, even if you always do. What you need are solutions. Whatever your problems with money, you can change—but it’s going

to take work. After all, you’re trying to break lifelong patterns. Start with these strategies.

Strategy 1

A lot of people set themselves up for failure because t hey have a mindset of

either indulgence (放纵) or deprivation (克制). If you try to deprive yourself of too

much, where you spend almost nothing, then you end up giving up, and you indulge,

and then you overspend. So if you have an unrealistic plan, you’re prob lose control. Good habits happen when planned; bad habits happen on their own.

Strategy 2

Changing your mindset is effective in solving the problem. Take Smith-Acuna

for example. She says she had a couple in therapy who constantly quarreled about

. They would always argue about how

what she feels has become a monetary cliché

much money they were spending at Starbucks. The wife loved capping off each workday with a drink. Ultimately, the wife ended up quitting her Starbucks habit.

Instead of replacing her drink with nothing, she got something else, something free,

in return.

Strategy 3

ood start if you switch from paying for merchandise and services with a It’s a g

easy when you’re using plastic to

debit or credit card to paying with cash. It’s

mindlessly swipe and fall into a pattern of not thinking or noticing how much you

actually spending. You can divide up your money and put it into envelopes, marking

down on the envelopes what each pile of money is for. That can make it easier to see where your money is going.

Strategy 4

Get a receipt for every purchase. Breaking up your expenses into categories like food, clothing, housing, medical care and so on, but also labeling each expense as a

need or a want. Be realistic as to what is really necessary. A need is something where

credit. At the

you would die or go to jail if you didn’t spend the money or ruin your

end of the month, total up all the categories. Do this, and you’ll be more educated about how much money you actually have, and how much you have left over for fun

stuff.

Strategy 5

There is probably a reason you developed bad habits, which are often adopted

on the road easier traveled. So if you’re suddenly balancing your bank accoun day, or you’re regularly putting money into an emergency fund, plan to give yourself some sort of prize for the past two weeks. You’ve been saving money or spending it

more wisely, so you can probably afford it.