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The Problem With Ignoring Problems
At the beginning of 2021, I needed to pay almost 5,000 reais in pending fees for the Brazilian Government. Since 2017, I needed to have opened a company to be a self-employed freelance writer in Brazil. Even though I was already living in the UK, I had lots of Brazilian clients.
For more than four years, I ignored the monthly fee I needed to pay to keep this company open, which was very cheap, much less than £10 per month, I never also paid any tax for my Brazilian writing freelance work up to that moment.
I could have kept ignoring this problem, but something has changed last year when I saw myself at the bottom. When you have money problems, the best solution is to be very clear about them and just do the right thing. If I kept ignoring these fees and pending taxes, they would only get bigger and bigger. And I didn’t want to be this person anymore, I wanted to be a person that has their shit together.
When I needed to reevaluate all my financial life, I decided that I wouldn’t run away from problems anymore in any area of my life no matter how costly they are, in money, time and energy.
Ignoring problems is nice. Pretending everything is fine is cool. Nobody likes to be caught up in problems. We all want that beach life where problems don’t exist. (When I am dealing with a problem, I tend to dream with the…
