Do you shudder at the mere mention of the word “budget”? Break out in cold sweat when someone suggests putting together a spending plan? Wish you could get a handle on your money plan, but feel stuck in the fear of facing all those numbers? I hear you. No really! I may be a…
When I went through my coach training, we used various metaphor tools to help illuminate how we felt about different areas of our lives. An example of this would be to consider your answer to the following question: If your money was a person, place or thing to you, what would it be? Click To…
As everything winds down for the holiday season and people start thinking of their New Year resolutions, I want to shift your thinking about how you go about setting goals and resolutions. Because the old way ain’t workin’. Studies show that fewer than 8% of people who set New Year resolutions actually achieve it. But…
Financial planning is meant to help you begin with the end in mind with regard to your personal finance. I spend a lot of time reassuring people that financial planning isn’t “just” for the wealthy…in fact, a financial plan is what puts you on that road, regardless of where you start. And some…
When was the last time you read (or watched) “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”? If you find yourself rushing from store to store, spending more than you can really afford on gifts, disappointed by the reactions of people when you give, and then horrified by your credit card statements come January, it might be worth…
How many times have you sat around the day after Christmas and vowed that next year — next year — you aren’t going to go so far overboard with gifts and STUFF…that you will scale back on gifts? Maybe it’s the environmental guilt you see at the trash bags full of wrapping and packaging out…
Ah, the holidays! Not many people are thinking about how to save money on gift giving; more often, people are thinking of this as the perfect time to practice our generosity and shower our family and friends with gifts. I see gift guides out there that include everyone from the janitor at your kids’ school…
Raise your hand if the holidays can push your buttons. This is me, waving my hand hiiiiiigh in the air (so it seems inconceivable that we could actually make it all the way to financially happy, right?). My dad and sister have never cared about the holidays as much as my mom and I, and…
Ah, Wall Street. Playground of billionaires and the only place in the world where 1+1 can equal 3 or -47. Sometimes on the same day. Is it any wonder that one of the most nerve-wracking tasks of financial planning can be understanding how to invest your 401k, IRA or other account? In fact, I think…
Sometimes I think that we get so caught up in generating new material, we forget to go back and really implement what has come before. So now for something NOT different…here are some of my most-visited blog posts so you can pick your thang…maybe make a chief initiative for your money (or business) for…
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