As you have probably guessed if you have read many of my blog posts, I love quotes. Love, love, love quotes. The right quote can hit you right between the eyes, pierce your heart, or stoke your internal fires. Here’s one that I love from The Best of Success: Overcoming the negative is the price
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One Small Thing = Big Impact
I want 2016 to be amazing and I know you do too. Part of what I am trying to do differently this year to make it so is to take a great book and really focus, week by week, on one thing from the book that I think will make a big difference and actually
2016 – The Year of …
What? What will this year be for you? It is a new year, filled with promise and anything is possible. Oh, the things that we can do with a whole year ahead of us! The goals we can achieve; the adventures we can have! Whether it is making new friends or finding new passions or
5 Bucks Matters
I didn’t start my career as a financial planner, so I bumbled and stumbled my way along my financial journey making LOTS of money mistakes. The worst one was a mindset of “it’s only 5 bucksy; it’s only 10 bucks; it’s only 3 bucks.” It only adds up and up and up, though, and that’s
Creating Better Money Stories Part II
A few weeks ago, I wrote about taking action to overcome fear, uncertainty, anxiety, or guilt around money and your financial situation. This week, I want to expand on that and give you a step-by-step guide to getting into action. Martha Beck, an author, speaker and life coach, talks about our aversion to tasks we perceive as
Interview with Maggie Wray – Creating Unstoppable Kids Event
Maggie Wray, of Creating Positive Futures, hosted an amazing event called Creating Unstoppable Kids. This is my interview with Maggie about helping kids and young adults create positive money futures. I hope you enjoy it.
Investment Blog Series #5 – Investment Risk
As we continue to talk about investing, we need to consider the investment risks. There are all kids of risk inherent in investing. Obviously the risk is that we will lose money on the investment but there are so many factors that cause an investment to lose value, it is hard to evaluate all of
Investing Blog Series #4 – Investment Considerations
Last week, I discussed how to invest so now I want to give you some things to consider before you actually do invest. An excerpt from The Graduate’s Guide to Money: Classification of Mutual Funds There are stock funds and bond funds. There are funds that focus on a particular market segment, such as health
Let Uncle Sam Help You Fund Your Freedom
We all want freedom and we all hate taxes so let’s see how we can use some tax advantages to help fund our “freedom from work” fund. This is a topic I talk about extensively in my book so I thought I would provide you with an excerpt from The Graduate’s Guide to Money to
Investing Blog Series #3 – How to Invest
In the last investing blog post, I talked about inflation as another reason why you must invest. Now we will continue the discussion to talk about how to invest. Except from The Graduate’s Guide to Money: How To Invest At the most basic level, you need an investment account. To get one, you can: Open