Ideally a young working adult should be able to comfortably save about 10% of his or her income. The individual should then be disciplined enough to save this amount without touching or tapping into it for unnecessary and frivolous expenditure. If this is successfully achieved then the individual would be able to venture into other types of commitments on a long term basis without the probability of defaulting at the first sign of a challenge or trouble.

The Basics

Curbing lifestyles and keeping within a planned budget will also allow the individual to comfortable create a savings plan that will be useful in times of need.

These needs can be when a job is lost, when medical emergencies arise, when a good deal comes along, when opportunity strikes and any other positive venture that might require instant access to considerable funds.

Thus learning to develop the savings attitude will eventually prove to be beneficial both in the present and for future opportunities.
Drawing up a savings plan that can be put into practice over a yearly time frame would eventually help the individual create a very healthy savings amount.

This would then allow the individual to focus better on the needs rather than the wants of the daily requirements of existence. It would also allow the individual to learn how to spend less in order to save more.

There are several tools available to assist an individual in creating and tracking a complete savings plan. These can be monitored periodically depending on the individual‟s preferences.