The next is all about how to spend money wisely. But before we go there, I want to wrap up this savings business with a few facts about your future. Here’s the first one: People who don’t learn how to save in their teenage years rarely succeed in doing so as adults.
That’s a scary fact. It’s so frightening that you’d think more adults would warn you about it. Sadly, they don’t. And the adults who do warn you get their message drowned out in the blitzkrieg of advertising pitched at you by every marketer and merchant who’s after your cash.
If you take the advertising’s advice, you’ll abandon your savings goals and spend all your money on piles and piles of stuff—stuff that gives momentary pleasure, some laughs, a few thrills, and maybe an occasional jolt of sillypride as you parade it in front of your envious friends. And two or three years from now, you’ll have a pile of worthless junk and be no further toward your dreams.
To add insult to injury, you’ll have lost this first, best, and only chance to learn how to save. Imagine living the rest of your life unable to attain your dreams. You’ll have your heart set on a decent car but settle for a beat-up old thing that breaks down more than it runs. You’ll dream of going to college, yet when you discover you can’t afford it, you’ll wonder if all that junk you bought was really worth more than a good education. And at the risk of sounding like your parents, I’ll tell you one more broken dream.
One day you’ll want to be married, get a house, raise cool kids, take fun vacations together, make a difference in your world and theirs. But by then you’ll be working two jobs, trying to pay off insane credit card debts, spending every dime on loan interest, and kicking yourself because you didn’t learn a simple thing like how to save money, back when life was so simple.
I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of adults like me tell you about the big, scary future. Here’s our favorite speech: “The decisions you make today will affect you for the rest of your life.” Well, I’ll be honest with you, sometimes that’s true, and sometimes it’s not. I don’t know your situation, and I certainly can’t predict your future, but I do know this. I’ve worked with thousands and thousands of teenagers. I’ve watched hundreds of them grow up. Based upon my observations, I can confidently say that what you decide to do regarding at least these three things will absolutely affect you for the rest of your life:
- faith
- sex
- money
The decisions you make today in these three areas will shape your future. The beliefs and habits you form right now will either haunt you or bless you for the rest of your life. No magazine ad or TV commercial will tell you this fact. You won’t hear a marketer reveal what your future will really look like if you believe everything they say. So I’m telling you instead.
Your future matters. God put you on this planet for a reason. If you fail to learn how to manage your money now and save for your great big future, you’ll be enslaved by money for the rest of your life. God has more important things for you to do.
Get started today. Invest in your future. Take the control of your money away from the marketers and put it back where it belongs—in the future God has planned for you.
By the way, this same advice is true for those other two topics, faith and sex. Take the control of these areas out of the hands of the media, the marketers, and all those who seek to make money at your expense. Let God, not money-hungry grown-ups, be the one who guides your decisions. He’s the only one who can truly see your future, the only one who can shape it right.
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