How Smartphones Can Help You Reach Your Financial Goals 0
If I think back to the development of cellphones, I can still remember my first mobile phone I bought back in 1998. It had a black and white display, was quite big, and got stolen at university 6 months later. Then I bought the legendary Nokia 5110, then another one. Now, I have a smartphone. Thank God for the existence of Smartphones.
Actually, when I went to my telecom provider to buy a new phone, I was still skeptical about buying a smartphone. I thought they would break easily, and actually I simply felt that a cellphone should be able to phone with, and that’s it. I am glad that I didn’t listen to my rational thinking, but rather decided for the smartphone emotionally, since I just love little gadgets. And I am positively surprised; in fact, my smartphone is directly helping me to reach my financial goals, step by step, and helping me directly with 3 of my 24 commitments.
Time Management
One of the best inventions of the last few years is mobile internet. I admit, I am not carrying my laptop around at all times, but my smartphone allows me to browse the web whenever I need to, or want to. Smartphones can directly help you with time management, in a sense that they allow you to do some ‘work’ when traveling between places, or when a computer is not readily available. If you are traveling between places frequently, even if it is only for 10 or 15 minutes, you can use your smartphone and mobile internet to get updated on the latest news or stock market developments, whenever you would like to. Or, you may want to check your e-mail, or perhaps see what the weather will be like this evening.
Not only will you spend your time useful in situations at which you would have normally wasted your time, but you reduce the time required at another time during the day. For example, if you would normally take half an hour in the morning to watch CNBC or CNN before you start your day, you can use that time to do something else, or get out of the house quicker.
Investing
There are thousands of apps available for about everything. One thing I absolutely love are financially focussed apps. Besides the time management aspects of such apps, I find that they help me to track my investments during the day. Many apps are multi-functional, meaning they will only provide quotes, but they would also show some background statistics on the company, provide a chart with a number of common indicators, or provide the latest news on the company. This information allows me to react quickly when required… especially with highly volatile derivate products this is a great benefit.
Taking notes
The last, but perhaps biggest benefit I get out of my smartphone is to take notes immediately, and when I need it. If you install a notebook app, you can take notes whenever you need it, where ever you are. Perhaps you want to write down the name of a stock with solid profit results, or you may want to write down the name of a headhunter you just heard about. Or how about some crazy business idea… you surely don’t want to forget about that.
I find that smartphones have dramatically changed my life. Some smartphones actually come rather cheap with certain telecom subscriptions. But the benefits are tremendous. And to be honest: I never thought I would have needed one, whereas now I could hardly do without one.
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