Credit cards. Student loans. Car payments. Mortgages. Interest rates. Investments. We adults sure know how to complicate things, don’t we?

Personal finance blog Christian Personal Finance recently put a post on lessons learned in the first grade that still apply to us today. While it focuses on money, it also speaks to our attitude towards money:

2. It doesn’t matter what other kids are doing

I still remember hearing, “if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you follow them?” in response to my longing to do what my friends were doing. It seems that as adults we play into that crowd-think much like kids. This Keeping Up with the Joneses video illustrates the point so well. At times I have found myself so guilty of seeking to impress others, but it seems that the path that yields the best results is the one less traveled!

The post has links to other posts and videos, and is a very simple, smart piece. Check it out!

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