{"id":59761,"date":"2022-02-07T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=59761"},"modified":"2022-02-18T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:06:36","slug":"goals-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/goals-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Financially Plan for Goals to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have your life goals changed over the years? Do you have the same goals you did 10 or 20 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fact of life is that goals change over time. However, people often deny this fact and try to plan for the future as if nothing will change. That&#8217;s why Morgan Housel, the author of <em>The Psychology of Money<\/em>, says that you should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-financial-plan\/\">make a financial plan<\/a> that is flexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s why you should have finances that can change with your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-expect-your-future-goals-to-change\"><strong>Expect Your Future Goals to Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Psychology of Money<\/em>, Morgan Housel shares one critical key to developing a long-term strategy you can stick to over decades: <strong>Expect your future goals to change, react quickly when they do, and build flexibility into your financial plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we\u2019ve seen, one major element of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/achieving-financial-success\/\">financial success<\/a> is letting your money sit as long as possible so it accumulates the maximum amount of compound interest. Housel posits that leaving your money alone for this long is difficult partly because people change, but since they\u2019re unable to predict <em>how<\/em> they\u2019ll change, they don\u2019t invest their money in ways that will work for their future selves.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Housel explains that <strong>when<\/strong> <strong>making financial plans, most people fall victim to the end-of-history illusion<\/strong>, a psychological phenomenon where you recognize that you\u2019ve changed significantly from who you were, but you don\u2019t expect to change significantly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-genius\/\">who you are<\/a> now. But in reality, you are likely to change just as much in the future as you did in the past. For example, if you\u2019ve changed your career twice between 20 and 30, you might recognize that you\u2019ve changed significantly since 20, but you expect that you won\u2019t change your career again for the rest of your life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Why do people fall for the end-of-history illusion? The psychologists who discovered the end-of-history illusion (which they also called the end-of-history effect) suggest a few possibilities. One is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/04\/science\/study-in-science-shows-end-of-history-illusion.htm\">believing you don\u2019t change is comforting<\/a>: It\u2019s terrifying to imagine that, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-future-self\/\">your future self<\/a> is so different from your current self that any plans you make now\u2014both financial and otherwise\u2014won\u2019t work for them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you reconcile the reality that you\u2019ll change with the necessity of leaving your money alone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Housel makes two recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-don-t-make-extreme-financial-plans\"><strong>#1 Don\u2019t Make Extreme Financial Plans<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, Housel recommends avoiding any plans that involve extremes in your commute, savings, or personal time, and creating plans that involve moderation in all three areas instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: What exactly counts as extremes in your commute, savings, or personal time? Housel never defines this, and what counts as moderation in all three will likely differ drastically depending on your age, location, and personal location. So instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/self-comparison\/\">comparing yourself to others<\/a> not in your situation, consider going with the options that <em>feel<\/em> moderate to you, even if they don\u2019t align with what is actually average.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why? First, Housel explains, <strong>if you make an extreme financial plan, you may regret your choices.<\/strong> For example, an entrepreneur who devotes 100% of his time to building his company and zero time on his relationships may be happy in his 20s. But he may regret this decision at 45, when he\u2019s financially successful but has no loved ones to share this success with.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: If you do make an extreme financial plan and end up regretting it, one way to ease the pain is to <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/article\/8-ways-to-be-kinder-to-yourself-in-2020-tim-herrera-the-new-york-times\">find the silver lining: Learn something from the regret and apply it to your actions in the future<\/a>. That way, even if you don\u2019t get your new goal, you won\u2019t feel as badly. You\u2019ll also likely feel less stressed about having to work harder for your new goal because you won\u2019t consider the time a total waste.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, Housel states, <strong>if you make an extreme financial plan and change it later, you won\u2019t be able to take full advantage of compound returns. <\/strong>For example, you may believe that you never want to settle in one place and thus happily survive off part-time jobs that pay just enough to let you travel the world cheaply. But if you eventually tire of traveling and want to settle down, you may discover that you can\u2019t afford to retire where you want. Had you taken slightly better-paying jobs and saved some money, you would have a decade\u2019s worth of compound returns\u2014but you can never get that money back now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Remember that you may change your financial plan not because you <em>want <\/em>to but because you <em>have<\/em> to. If this happens, you may be more exposed to financial ruin if you\u2019ve been following an extreme financial plan than if you\u2019d been following a more moderate one. This is because extreme plans can help you <a href=\"https:\/\/money.usnews.com\/money\/personal-finance\/saving-and-budgeting\/articles\/2018-04-24\/the-downsides-to-extreme-personal-finance\">achieve one goal but can leave you vulnerable to things going wrong in other areas of your finances<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-allow-yourself-to-change\"><strong>#2 Allow Yourself to Change<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When your values and goals inevitably do change, Housel recommends, accept this change and adjust your strategy accordingly as soon as possible. In doing so, <strong>you minimize the effects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/sunk-cost-fallacy-example\/\">sunk cost fallacy<\/a><\/strong>: our tendency to stick to choices we made because of the effort we\u2019ve invested in them, even though we can never get that effort back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you fall victim to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-avoid-the-sunk-cost-fallacy\/\">sunk cost<\/a> fallacy, you might, for example, spend years being miserable as a lawyer because you already invested three years in law school. But law school is a sunk cost, or an investment you can\u2019t recuperate: No matter what you do, you\u2019ll never get those three years back. The faster you admit that you\u2019re miserable and change your career plan, the less time you\u2019ll spend being miserable as a lawyer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Refusing to change your current actions due to the sunk cost fallacy doesn\u2019t just affect your finances; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-defining-decade\/finding-love\">it can also lead you to stay in an unsatisfying relationship<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-defining-decade\"><em>The Defining Decade<\/em><\/a>, Meg Jay notes that sunk costs have an especially strong hold over people who\u2019ve chosen to move in together before getting engaged, because it becomes harder to extricate themselves from things like shared bills or pets.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have your life goals changed over the years? Do you have the same goals you did 10 or 20 years ago? A fact of life is that goals change over time. 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