How To Change Your Financial Habits

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…

Arguing About Money

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 more than 1,000 American adults polled, 27 percent of participants said that disagreements over finances were most likely to erupt into an…

Are you worried about money?

If 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 you’re…

Time to adjust or adapt?

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 guilt and shame over having done something “wrong” – like whatever our natural instincts are,…