Why Saving Matters

 Nowadays saving money is so important that it could change your life in different ways. You can retire early if you save enough fast, you can help others, and you can have many other positive benefits with your savings. In this blog, I will tell you about three reasons why saving matters. To begin with, saving money is part of a lifestyle. Creating habits to save money and calculate is essential. Also, you never know the future, you could get hurt, or lose your job, so this is another factor why saving is so important. People someday are is a good moment of life financially and sometimes are not. Everybody are vulnerable for up and downs. If you have savings, you probably will find new opportunities to invest or to work on, so save money because you never know when new opportunities will come and better be ready for them

First, habits to save money, what to say about them? That is why it is important to develop a habit when it comes to saving money. The most effective saving habit is known as "pay yourself first".

 

Once you have a lot of savings new possibilities will come to you. For example, buying a house with your savings will allow you to have your own place and not need to pay for rent anymore. You will be able to become financially independent to do whatever you want to do once you save enough and you can enjoy a good life. Possibilities to make more money could appear if you have enough money saved to invest. According to the lifestyle you want, you can pick the best investment to work on and have your own business too. Talking about investment and business we have many possibilities and it will change according on how much you saved too, so it is very variable.

Considering all the factors that I mentioned you can see why it is so important to save money for different reasons. The reasons that I mentioned are only a few, but there are many more reasons to save that I even did not mention. It is about your lifestyle and your choices that will help you to save money or not. Putting on your mind that you will spend only with necessary, essential things, is a way to start saving money without doing math. A good mindset and good habits will make the difference on the numbers at the end and of course it is also important to keep tracking the numbers too. If you spend on everything you want it will be hard to save money even if you have a high income.  The point is to think about what you really need and set goals to have a balance for a living and savings.

Describing A Graphic: Americans Are Streaming Billions of Songs and Videos

“Americans Are Streaming Billions of Songs and Videos”

The graph shows a huge increase in audio and video streaming demonstrating that; the system is changing on how people watch videos and listen to music compared to years before. Since the 1990,, we have change all the time on how we watch videos and listen to music. At that time we used to have discman, cd players, walkman, mp3 and other devices and format to play video and music.

Music industry changes in many ways and streaming is increasing, disc, cds, mp3, smartphone, different softwares and platforms in less than 30 years and we don't to stop to change that because of technology.

Technology is improving and changing industries. The graph reveals information about the changes in streaming since 2013. There has been an increase in streaming of  10 times more in 2019 compared to 2013. Music and video streaming are increasing non stop and the reason could be the softwares and the devices people are using nowadays. We are living times where that we can learn from YouTube by streaming a tutorial video or movies. 

As the graph shows, audio streaming has also been increasing over the years. 

In fact, thanks to apps like Spotify we can play music from any artist in the world anytime we want. The last five years a lot of apps started to appear on the market. Software and applications for video like Youtube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat are software and platforms that are streaming video.

In 2013 there were 106b streams and in 2019 there were 1,147b streams, increasing approximately 10 times more. 

With fast internet, smartphones, and a lot of options to stream video and audio I think we will just continue to increase the numbers of streaming songs and videos. I agree about the data on the graph and we can predict that we will continue to enjoy the convenience on how to watch videos or play music.  Compared to years before, it is more and more easy to watch videos and listen to songs online by streaming from anywhere. Indeed, music streaming increased sharply between 2010 and 2020. I think it was a significant increase in the 2020 due to the pandemic and this industry will continue to see a rapid increase.