Are you a Co-Dependent Gift Giver?

What a year, huh? I think I have said that for like three years in a row… Welp, we’re in the home stretch now… and hopefully, people can take some time and regroup for the next few months.  Thinking about the holiday-year-end season, people often think of this as the perfect time of year to…

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Your Early Holiday Idea…

I always re-up this post welllll before Thanksgiving because I want to plant the seed… I think Thanksgiving is the perfect time to check in with family and friends about gift giving for the upcoming season.  Ask them: How many times have you sat around the day after Christmas and vowed that next year —…

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Getting Emotional Does Not Help Your Money

A while ago, I had a prospect say to me, “Mindy, this service is not cheap.  Are you sure this will be worth it for me?” Honestly? Not at all… I can’t promise any kind of particular results when someone works with me on their personal finances, mostly because I’m not their mother and not…

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How To Practice Money Competence

I get asked ALL OF THE TIME for the best personal finance book out there (uh, mine!).  But it really depends on your criteria, doesn’t it? I don’t believe that you can approach personal finance like a topic in school…which is the way a lot of people start out trying to do it. You think…

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How To Align Money Goals with Action

This week, I want to walk you through how to align your financial priorities with action. Why? Because it will completely change how you approach every aspect of your life that has to do with money. See, I firmly believe that the way personal finance is taught these days just sucks — and mostly doesn’t…

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How to Curb the “Spendy” Vibe

You know how you go through phases where you just want to keep eating and grazing? I call that feeling “snacky.” Maybe something is going on internally, externally, whatever… but the point is, you might need to do behavioral things to get yourself OUT of that snacky habit. Same with spending. I have said before,…

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How do you “do” money?

Have you heard the phrase, “How you do one thing is how you do everything”? It might be your outlook on life, or it might be ingrained behaviors, but whatever results or challenges you experience in “real” life might also be showing up in your money life. For example, a person who has a positive,…

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Do you fear having more money?

I am going to pose a scenario. Don’t get caught up in the language… if you aren’t self-employed, or don’t work 1-to-1, just change the language to reflect what you do. Imagine an acquaintance contacts you. They say, “You do That Amazing Thing You Do better than anyone I have come across in recent history…

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How to not fail at moneying

Nobody wants to fail.  Not consciously anyway. But sometimes not changing is easier than changing. We’ve all experienced this, right? It’s easier to stay in bed than get up and go for a run. It’s easier to leave our money in the old company 401k than figure out what to do with it. It’s easier…

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