A short YouTube video by Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim (uploaded April 15, 2024) where the speaker recounts a common financial mistake—paying others before paying oneself—and emphasizes adopting the "pay yourself first" habit to build an emergency fund after a rude awakening from an uncovered emergency.
So in terms of top financial mistakes, I guess mine would be I usually pay others first before paying myself, which actually goes against the rules of saving. And it happened like I had a rude awakening when I had an emergency and I didn't have funds to sort the emergency. But I've learned my lesson, and now I've learned to pay myself first, then sort bills and other things later, because I realized the importance of having your own, you know, sort of financial or emergency fund somewhere in case of emergencies, which can come up anytime.
