Merging finances is NOT easy, and it’s also not instantaneous. I know a client who took almost a decade to merge their money – it was a second marriage for both of them and they were very cautious. You will never agree completely with your partner on how to go about things. Here are the…
DetailsThe best way to assess your relationship with money is to use the same criteria as you would use with any important relationship…how is your behavior expressed through love and other positive emotions? You can’t enjoy a good relationship with money unless you’re willing to love it–and ACT like you love it–through thick and thin.…
DetailsLast week I suffered the indignity of having my car break down on me! Well, a flat tire… Actually, it wasn’t a bad experience at all…people kept stopping to ask if I needed help; it was a rare, sunny Seattle day; and other than missing a phone appointment I had been looking forward to, nothing…
DetailsToday I am interviewing Bree Daigneault who is a freshman at Western Washington University. The reason why she may be of interest to you is because she fully funded her first year of school herself. That’s right. She worked HARD to make it happen and I couldn’t be more impressed. A few weeks ago we…
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DetailsIf you knew everything was going to be okay, what would you do differently with your money? Now, please don’t take this as everything-is-going-to-be-okay-so- I-bear-no-personal-responsibility-for-anything. I am NOT talking about a universal, get-out-of-jail-free card…I am talking about wisdom. Wisdom is what you acquire when you’ve been around long enough to screw up multiple times, and…
DetailsDo you trust yourself to know what is the right thing to do with your money? Yes, this is why some people choose to consult a financial planner…but what if the financial planner’s advice doesn’t feel right to you? To you trust yourself enough to NOT follow advice? Can you separate another person’s agenda from…
DetailsResolutions always seem judgmental to me. A lot of them are built on the guilt and shame over having done something “wrong” – like whatever our natural instincts are, we’re screwed. So the resolution is supposed to “fix” us or the issue. Maybe that is the wrong way of looking at things…perhaps, if we look…
DetailsYou KNOW people are more likely to meet their goals when they write them down. I don’t need to do a whole blog post about that, right? INSTEAD…use this time you might have spent reading my blog to go write down some stuff! I made a special tool for that – Did you get…
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