Attitude_Live a Frugal Life

LIVE A FRUGAL LIFE

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"Frugal people; they husband their resources very carefully indeed, and only spend money on things which are absolutely essential.“

-Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Freedom and Unity.

By Henry Kazula,

Author: Mtazamo Wako Ni Upi?

                                                                   

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In one of his memorable speech of all time on the first anniversary of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar on 26 April 1965, borrowed from his book “Freedom and Unity”-“Uhuru na Umoja”, J.K.Nyerere alluded to a lesson from China whereby Chinese live a “frugal life”- "they husband their resources very carefully indeed, and only spend money on things which are absolutely essential“...he said.

"Chinese spend resources wisely while saving for National economic development, they are frugal people.“ Nyerere insisted.

It’s a right attitude Nyerere encouraged the government and Tanzanian at large to adopt to attain National development.

I applaud the attitude of living a "frugal life“ as can help you in personal life and our Nation at large to live well with available resources while taking into account spending money on essential things.This’s all about living within a limit of what we have while saving for tomorrow to attain sustainable development.

Stay alerted! spending a lot in nonessential things will make you sell essential things in your life. You will sell for loss the mostly precious resources you have to counter the imbalance.In some cases, this modality of spending is wasteful of resources and inefficient! 

Saving first before spending and spending less in nonessential things is a simple principle of spending wisely. As most economic practitioners argued on spending resources wisely, controlling expenditures and encourage saving first to boost the economic development and creating wealth.I tempted to encourage you to find more bout this principle and wealth creation i.e. living below our means while controlling our expenditures from a book of all time "The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason.

The kind of attitude we have on spending beyond the limit of what we have i.e.spending in nonessential things so that to live as rich do stagnate our development.We need to change that attitude and live our life within the capacity of what we have.It's about attitude adjustments the same to baby steps, later becomes a habit that will change our life.

If our Nation is poor, we cannot deny that! but, we need to accept the situation and start acting accordingly, not as the rich do to alleviate our poverty."We cannot hope to solve our problems by pretending they do not exist.“... said Nyerere during his "Presidential’s Inaugural Address“-10th December 1962  as noted in his book "Freedom and Unity" –"Uhuru and Umoja.“ Evidently, poverty in our Nation and individual life is a problem that we cannot pretend on its existence.

We need to change our attitude, adopt and start living a frugal life for the sake of extending an extra mile in economic development while saving money, and have more fun in life.

You may ask, how can I start living such unprecedented life never used to live? Please follow the easy 11 Tips for Frugal Living.

Published by Jielimishe Kwanza