How to solve your

money problems

Show objectivity

It's also necessary to relativize things, otherwise one would run the risk of not having the indispensable detached attitude and not seeing the situation in its correct and real perspectives.

Your money problems seem important to you, even very important; but do these problems really have the same importance as far as somebody else is concerned? For example, you torture yourself to death because you don't have the means to buy a comfortable car that will permit you to go and spend your weekends in the country; a Chinese farmer would say that your problem is not one, because he doesn't dream of a car for touring around, but simply of a bicycle — even one without brakes, lights, mud or chainguard — which would allow him to carry his products to the market with less pains than on his own shoulders. Your bank account is overdrafted because you have dined out too often, in the company of the opposite sex; a Somalian, who risks starving to death, would think that your problem is completely futile and would even consider it a provocation. You have a stable job, but you're unhappy because it doesn't allow you to move to a more residential quarter; why don't you think of the thousands of people in your own country who have to sleep outdoors?

Try to compare yourself favorably to others every time your money problems are susceptible to discourage or depress you. Be aware that your problems might be considered by other people as wrong problems, futile problems, or even as insolence. If you succeed in adopting a somewhat objective attitude, your problems will lose some of their acuteness, and you'll gain in serenity, courage, and fighting spirit.

In short, don't let yourself be dominated by your money problems, but try to dominate them by a less emotional and more rational comportment.