3 Ways to Trigger Your Financial Wake-Up Call

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Imagine a hypothetical guy who lives a responsible financial life.

He’s focused on meeting his obligations, even though he doesn’t have a big cushion when it comes to his take-home pay.

Things are tight.

He’s not quite living paycheck-to-paycheck, but it’s close.

Then one day, an external shock completely outside his control occurs, and it affects him negatively.

Through no fault of his own, he ends up missing a couple of bills.

These missed payments hit his credit score, and it drops 50 points.

What happens next might surprise you

He uses this experience as a wake-up call.

Things were painful in the short run, with limited access to credit.

But a couple of years later, he’s ahead of where he started before the shock.

In fact, he ends up in a better financial position than his peers who didn’t experience this event.

Though hypothetical, our story gets us really close to an interesting study conducted by Mark Garmaise at University of California, Los Angeles and Gabriel Natividad at Universidad de Piura.

They wanted to know what happened to people living on the edge financially when they experienced an outside shock.

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Arthur