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Pay off your credit cards faster with these 4 easy changes | Your Money and Your Mind

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Pay off your credit cards faster with these 4 easy changes | Your Money and Your Mind

TED 03.02.2021 105 312 просмотров 2 009 лайков обн. 18.02.2026

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Whether you want to pay off credit card debt or just prevent yourself from accruing big balances in the first place, there are some simple steps you can take to help achieve your goal, according to behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa. Managing your money can feel scary and complicated, but it doesn't have to be. In this TED series, behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa explains why we spend too much and save too little -- and shares easy steps to help us achieve a more secure financial future. Watch more of Your Money and Your Mind with Wendy De La Rosa here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOGi5-fAu8bENcBPN_-1fxoFKZMFn5kHx Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Become a TED Member: http://ted.com/membership Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com

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0:00 Intro 73 сл.
0:21 Prioritize your payments 250 сл.
1:40 Call your credit card company 223 сл.
2:48 Change your payment date 137 сл.
3:24 Change how often you pay 159 сл.

Intro

Transcriber: If you have credit card debt, you are far from alone. More than half of Americans are currently carrying around some form of credit card debt. And if you're part of that majority or just want to put some preventative measures in place, I have four simple changes that can help you work towards becoming debt free. [Your Money and Your Mind with Wendy De La Rosa] Number one: prioritize your payments

Prioritize your payments

and prioritize them in the right way. So let's say you have two cards, one with a 200 dollar balance and the other with a 1,000 dollar balance. Which one do you pay off first? Well, if you're like most people, when people have debt across multiple credit cards, they tend to pay off the one with a lower balance first because it feels like an easy win. It feels good. We call this the "completion bias." When you give in to completion bias, you feel more productive because you're able to check off quick tasks from your to-do list. And you might even get a rush of dopamine while you're doing it. But rather than looking at the balance -- 200 dollars versus 1,000 dollars -- what you should be looking at is the interest rate instead. If you're busy paying off a credit card with a low interest, while the larger-interest-rate card lingers on and on, you could be in debt for much, much longer. You can still work the completion bias to your advantage. Here's a quick tip: think of that 1,000 dollar debt as a series of smaller, achievable tasks. For instance, you could decide to pay 100 dollars towards that credit card balance each month. And each time you pay that 100 dollars, you're crossing something off your to-do list and achieving that completion high. You'll not only get that completion high but you'll have something to celebrate. Number two: call your credit card company

Call your credit card company

and ask them to lower your interest rate. Get somebody on the phone. Typically, when you apply for a credit card, it's either when you're young or you lack liquidity. And in both instances, your credit score is lower. Your credit score is what lenders and banks and credit card companies use to determine how much of a risk it would be to lend you money. Now, the higher the credit score, the lower the risk, and the lower the interest rate. Conversely, the lower the credit score, the higher your interest rate, and the more money you'll have to pay in interest in the long run. Over time, with on-time payments, your credit score improves. But guess what? Sometimes credit card companies don't lower your interest rate as a result. But what we do know is that if you call, oftentimes, credit card companies will loosen up on their interest rates, given your credit score improvement. We only have a small sample, but in my research, we invited people to come in, call their credit card company and make the case for a lower interest rate. Fifty percent of them were successful. This is a simple way of having a fifty-fifty shot to save yourself thousands of dollars on interest. Now, while you have them on the phone, here's tip number three

Change your payment date

request a change in your payment date. The payment due date is usually a random day that the credit card companies set that doesn't align with your cash flow. Now, I want you to think about when you typically get paid and what time of the month you usually have the most cash on hand. Based on that, pick a payment date that works best for you. I've seen that it's easier for people to pay down their debt when they have more money in their bank account. So if you have credit card debt, choose a new payment date that falls after your usual payday. So if you typically get paid on the 15th, the 16th might be a great day. Here's my last tip. Number four: fundamentally change how often you pay your credit card.

Change how often you pay

So for example, if you usually pay 100 dollars a month towards your credit card debt, there are 12 months in a year, so in a year, you’ll pay 1,200 dollars. Good for you! But if you decide to spread that 100 dollar a month payment into weekly payments of 25 dollars, you'll end up paying more in the long run, because there are 52 weeks in a year. That means you’ll end up paying 1,300 dollars instead of 1,200 dollars. You will also end up paying less on interest. It's a natural calendar hack that you can work to your benefit. And there are even companies that can help you do this automatically. These changes may seem small and subtle, but you'll be pleasantly surprised by the huge difference they'll make, whether you're overcoming debt or just trying to avoid it all together. I'll see you next episode with some more tips. Your future self will thank you.

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