How to Optimise 4 Important Aspects of Your Life

Being on your own is fantastic, whether you move into your own flat or a dorm room at university. But it’s also a challenge, because it means assuming responsibility for facets of your life that your parents always used to handle for you. The following are 4 important aspects of your life you’ll need to learn how to manage on your own, along with some helpful resources you can refer to if you need more information and assistance as you work at mastering them.

1. Create a Viable Budget and Master Your Finances

Students are notorious for experiencing money management challenges. The sooner you’re able to learn the basics of personal finance, the sooner you’ll probably be able to overcome those challenges.

The first thing to wrap your head around is the concept of living beneath your means. This means you avoid debt by spending less than you earn. To accomplish this, it is essential to create a budget where you consciously decide where you need to spend your money.

Once you master that, you can move on to some of the finer points of personal finance, like starting and boosting your super. 

 Helpful Resources for Optimising Your Finances:

• Dave Ramsey’s free guide to budgeting 
• Ramit Sethi’s guide to automating your finances

2. Prepare Healthy and Appealing Food

Starving isn’t an attractive option, and one can only eat so many Vegemite sandwiches before they get tiresome. You’ll therefore want to master some basic cooking and food preparation skills.

Resources for Learning to Cook at Home:

• 30 best recipes for beginner chefs 
• Cooking basics for dummies cheat sheet

3. Take Charge of Your Own Health

Good health entails eating a variety of nutritious foods, getting enough exercise and sleeping well for 8+ hours each night. One of the easiest approaches to staying healthy is to develop habits that help to promote optimum health. For example, you can make it a habit to go to the gym or go for a run at the same time each day.

Navigating the Medicare system is one of the top challenges associated with managing your own health. Along with that, it can also be confusing to understand the role of private health insurance and the many reasons you might want to consider paying for it.

Resources for Managing Your Healthcare and Wellness:

• Enrol in Medicare at the Servicesaustralia.gov.au website.
•  Make use of the services offered by the experts at the Compare Health Insurance Online website to understand the various offerings made available by private health funds in Australia.

4. Clean, Organise and Declutter

You can’t wear dirty clothes if you want to have any hope of looking presentable, so learning to do laundry is essential. And if you want to stay on your flatmates’ good side, you’ll need to know how to clean up after yourself and keep things tidy. Decluttering is also a good skill to master; you can’t keep everything forever, so it’s good to get a sense of what you need to hold onto versus what you can safely get rid of.

Resources for Learning How to Maintain a Tidy Household:

• Dana at Aslobcomesclean.com offers methods that really work for tidying up and decluttering.
• Flylady’s free newsletters can help you clean, organise and declutter your home bit by bit every day.

You’ll eventually need to master more than just these 4 things; sooner or later, you’ll probably also need to learn skills such as job hunting, parenting and others not covered above. However, these are 4 of the most important aspects of your life that you’ll want to consider optimising as you mature into adulthood.