WHAT is financial planning and what needs are we really meeting? For all our self-importance, we’ve been on this earth for a tiny, tiny fraction of its existence. From our development as homo sapiens over the last 200,000 years, one characteristic is more evident in us than other species. Emotion.
I’m writing this on World Kindness Day but have held it for a week as there were other matters more pressing to deal with last week.
There is a great study on our nine emotional needs by the ‘Human Givens’. You should read it. At the heart of it is the answer to many financial issues that affect our overall happiness and wellbeing, leading to control of debt and spending and an understanding of where we really are financially.
