December 8, 2023 // All resources---tips // personal-finance
Eating healthier sounds good… until the first time that your friends invite you over for pizza and wings.
Hitting the gym more often can be invigorating for a while… but it’s getting hard to find a treadmill during peak hours.
And when it comes to being a little smarter with our finances, well, sometimes unexpected expenses are out of our control and sometimes, we just have to have something… or at least we feel that way in the moment.
We’ve all surely have had varying success with our New Year’s resolutions over the years. The reality is that it can be hard to modify your lifestyle over something as arbitrary as the date you need to switch out your wall calendar. Small, incremental changes are generally what create the habits that make a successful New Year’s resolution – or any kind of life goal you set, regardless of the time of year.
But something is invigorating about using a new year to start fresh with smarter choices, and when we succeed, it’s motivating to look back at our little wins and use them to continue down a better path.
According to a 2023 Forbes Health/OnePoll survey, the most common New Year’s resolutions are likely the ones you’d expect: improve your mental health, improve your fitness, lose weight, improve your diet, and improve your finances1. And many of those things will tie into each other – a better diet can lead to weight loss, just as improved finances can lead to better mental health.
Improving your finances can mean a lot of things: spending less, saving more, asking for a raise, starting an investment account, or setting a long-term financial plan. For many of us, it’s a combination of all the above. If you can’t figure out where to start, we have a suggestion: start with life insurance.
Of course a life insurance company would recommend that, but think back to your most successful goals: did you make several significant changes all at once, or break it down into more manageable steps? Life insurance can be one part of improving overall financial wellness. Plus, it can provide important financial protection for your loved ones, so you can feel more confident along your path to overall financial wellness knowing you’ve taken a critical first step2.
Life insurance can seem complicated, but when you work with an experienced life specialist, like those at AAA Life, it may be simpler than you think.
There are a variety of life insurance options available to meet any lifestyle and budget, and AAA Life offers resources to help you get started. Or you can take the time to review these three simple steps as a quick way to jumpstart the process.
And that’s it! Once you’re covered, you can feel good about being one of the over 1.6 million policyholders experiencing the AAA Life difference – our promise to be there when you and your family need it most. Not to mention, you’ve checked that first box and can feel better knowing you’re well on your way to meeting that New Year’s resolution.
1Davis, Sarah. New Year’s Resolution Statistics 2023. Forbes. March 9, 2023.
2AAA Life and its agents do not provide legal, financial or tax advice. Therefore, you may wish to consult independent professional advice prior to the purchase of a contract.
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