By Lauren Klein via Iris.xyz
If I asked you to make a list of your biggest financial mistakes, what would be on it? Overspending today and not saving for tomorrow? Taking on too much debt? Pulling your money out of a down market, or being guilty of too much hubris when the market was up? Investing in that “sure thing” that wasn’t so sure after all?
No, I’m not psychic (if I were, I’d most certainly have beaten the market into the ground years ago!). The sad truth is that everyone can add at least one of those mistakes to their list at one time or another. Why? Because so many of the most common mistakes stem from the fact that we are hardwired for financial failure. And hardwiring is extremely tough to fight.
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