5 Things To Do When You’re Discouraged About Your Finances As you look back on what you’ve accomplished so far this year, do you cringe? I have some encouragement for you. I want you to keep going! I want to encourage you to be the tortoise in a society filled with hares. But, how? Financially, when things are not going the way you might like, and you feel like you aren’t making the kind of progress you desire, how do you keep moving forward? Let me offer some very simple, but very important things in which you need to keep doing. 1. Keep Looking At The Big Picture This is the overriding principle of this article of encouragement. Just because the last few months might not have gone the way you thought they would, that is no reason to give up. Where were you financially five years ago? What about 10? Each time I look at our money and get a little discouraged, I try to think of where we used to be financially, and the prog