Introducing Prue the Shrewd!
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‘The Thrifty Spender’
Your financial attitude is an aspect that determines your financial wellbeing. For the economic empowerment educational program for sex workers, we will be looking at financial attitudes first. You can see what type of financial attitude you have by taking our personality test here.
To illustrate how financial attitudes manifest into one’s life, we created one dimensional renditions that embody a financial attitude. Prue the Shrewd is the character for ‘The Thrifty Spender’.
These characters are simplified renditions of our complex realities. They’re not perfect characters or to be taken too literally. They are used here to help us build the cognitive infrastructure and awareness about what financial attitudes are, how they appear in our lives and how they change over time.
Your financial attitude can be consciously changed through self-awareness, education and experience. To read more about how we’ve framed financial attitudes, you can read this post.
If Prue the Shrewd doesn’t sound exactly like you, that’s normal. Our financial attitudes change over time, and we keep traits of previous financial attitudes, that continue to influence our thoughts and feelings subconsciously. Consciously, we want to draw upon the inherent strengths and talents of Prue the Shrewd, because the occasion may call for it.
The idea is to centre ourselves, and our attitude to be ‘Master-Minded’ like ‘Queen Bae’. What makes Queen Bae the master is that she is able to identify situations, knows herself, and she take actions that aligns with her goals and are within her means.
Being frugal is not necessarily a bad financial attitude to have, however, if you identify with this attitude, it may mean you’re not setting yourself up for long-term financial wealth or wellness. The financial framework changes rapidly everyday, and being frugal might not be consistent with these changes. Think about cryptocurrencies, when they first appeared many felt this currency was a joke and refused to engage with it. However, if you could afford to and had invested even a little bit of money at the beginning, your gamble with cryptocurrency would be up exponentially by now. In these ways, Prue the Shrewd’s can get in their own way.
We will soon investigate ways for Prue the Shrewd’s to improve their financial attitude. If you identify as Prue, think about where your feelings and thoughts around money stem from, and ask yourself whether this approach is applicable or fitting for your present day life.
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