How Women Can Make Smarter Financial Decisions

This guest post was written by Eloho Onwah. She is one of the most awesome people I know. She works as an investment manager in Lagos.

Here's her advice to young women just starting out professionally on how to secure their financial future and make smarter decisions with their money:

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One day, you are a young professional woman beginning your first job with the promise of your first pay check, next day you are ten years into same with the realization that you are living from paycheck to paycheck. How do we pivot and change this course?

What Are You Living Up To?

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People live up to what they have written down. According to the Harvard Business Review (HBR OnPoint 2001, PN* 7915), once someone puts something in writing, the odds that he or she will fulfill the commitment greatly increases.

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An Important Lesson About Risk Taking

I was having a conversation with a friend one day and she told me this wonderful story. It taught me a vital lesson about risk taking. We are both present-serving corps (NYSC) members and I was telling her about a wonderful idea I had but that could not execute because I was thinking about some things. I had to eventually tell her I had been over-thinking. It was this that prompted her to share her story with me in hopes that I could learn something from it. I did, and I hope you can do so too (the story is written in her words).
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Ingrid by Alexandra (@AlexandraZion)

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She was between a rock and a hard place. The clock seemed to tick louder than usual and the world appeared to move in circles. The task stood gallantly before her and the door of retreat was shut.

‘I’m supposed to be moving forward’ Thoughts ran through her mind; thoughts that could not expressed in words.

Life for Ingrid was likened to being between the devil and the deep blue sea. The letter kept staring at her. It was folded on the table and she saw no reason to read it. Pamela already told her the content and Ingrid could feel sweat coming out from her own hands.