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,…
Part of your overall money mindset is how you feel about issues of self-identity, independence, and feeling powerful. Some people are freaked out by power, so they back away from anything that shines the light on them too brightly. Or, you might not feel powerful at all, so you try to “borrow” someone else’s power…
Financial habits are just as difficult for some people to make and break as any addiction or other bad habit. Yet others can change their habits quite quickly and effectively. Do those people just have more willpower? Are they smarter? Are they somehow better than the rest of us? Nope. In Gretchen Rubin’s book, Better…
All couples argue, but what are couples fighting about the most? According to a survey from the American Institute of CPAs, money is the most common reason married or cohabiting couples fight. Of over 1,000 American adults polled, 27 percent of participants said that disagreements over finances were most likely to erupt into an argument…
Merging finances when you’re part of a couple 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…
A few weeks ago I suffered the indignity of having my car break down on me! 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 in my…
Do 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? Do you trust yourself enough to NOT follow their advice? Can you separate another person’s agenda…
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Still have them? If you do, I bet you’ve been tweaking them as you go, which is a good thing. Resolutions 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…
Part of your money mindset is about being the “real” YOU out in the world. If you’re able to say everything you like and don’t like, and communicate clearly about those things, you save lots of time and money that might otherwise be wasted because you kept your mouth shut, maybe to avoid offending others.…
I’m a big believer in accountability. I’m the kind of person who will never miss a deadline for a client or a work partner, but when it comes to meeting my own deadlines… Yeah, I’m a little more lax. That’s why I know I need some external accountability when it comes to reaching my personal…
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