Planning for your future is a challenging task. Knowing what you want, and how to get it are hard enough. But to be realistic in your planning you can’t just dream. You need to consider factors like time, money, and how to achieve your goals. When it comes to money, many of us feel underprepared or perhaps undereducated about how to successfully manage it when it comes in our lives. 

Dealing with money for the future can be a stressful affair. However, there are plenty of online resources to help us all become more knowledgeable, including this article! 

We’ve curated some options to help you easily grow your funds. 

At some point in our lives, almost everyone needs a little financial help. This can come in the form of a loan. There is nothing wrong with needing a loan. Despite its almost despised status loans actually help us create long-term growth and keep us all afloat. However for peace of mind, loan collateral should be kept off our essentials when we can avoid it. That’s where securities based lendings, the unsung hero of the financial world, can come into the picture. 

Securities based lending is the ability to use stocks as collateral for your loan. During the time your loan occurs you’re still allowed to collect the earnings on your stock. These loans allow you to feel secure knowing your possessions, or businesses are never on the line. 

Securities based lending is becoming more and more popular every day, and is a modern way to grow your finances without fear of losing your hard earned property and stability. 

When we talk about financial futures, we need to consider how we track whatever we do. You can’t create sustainable growth or change bad habits if you don’t have a clear picture of what’s going on in your current financial situation. 

Financial calendars can have anything you want on them, from upcoming loan payment due dates to intended financial goal milestones. But beyond all your planning on the calendar it should also be a tool for tracking the truth about your finances. 

Tracking things like your past transactions, credit score, and bill history on your financial calendar is essential. Knowing what’s going on both in the moment, and in the months leading up to any changes in your finances is key for creating future financial success. By honestly tracking your past habits, successes, and losses when it comes to money you’ll be able to see where you were right, and where you went wrong.

It can also give you an insight into trends in your own earnings, or even into the broader market. If you see every quarter your credit score is slowly falling or rising, then you can make smarter choices in a way that you just couldn’t if you were being passive.

Additionally, having one financial calendar where you lay out all that is occurring across different parts of your financial life is really beneficial.

Having every part of your data located in one place lets you see what may be linked together. For example, if you see one month a small credit score drop and you know it’s linked to an automatic bill pay turning off, you know you won’t have to worry. But on the other hand, if you see a sustained score credit drop across a few quarters, and in the same period an increase in your debt, you’ll be able to make adjustments accordingly. All in all, a financial calendar will never be the tool that can repair your finances, but it helps you be a more proactive person about your own financial matters.