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How to Get Money Motivated

Draft a Financial Vision Board, it motivates and helps you to stay on track with your financial goals.
Set specific financial goals stating the reason, the way, numbers and dates.
Adopt a spending mantra, a phrase that serves as a rule of thumb for how you spend.
Love yourself. Taking control of your finances is part of that.
Make bite-size money goals. Make the bigger ones but also small step goals to get there.
Don’t be a financial fatalist, and switch to more positive mantras.
Get your finances and body in shape. The discipline associated with regular exercising translates to managing your money well.
Appreciate what you have now, instead of being a consumerist.
Get a Money Buddy. Studies indicate people pick up good habits from friends with similar traits.

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