“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” – Joe Biden Did you ever stop to think about where you get your ideas of what money means to you? What money is to you? And what does it do for you? Believe it or not, the […]
By establishing goals based on our vision, it gives us real targets to shoot for and as we achieve our goals we will move our vision closer and closer to reality. Nothing in our imagination or our vision can ever become reality unless we take the necessary action. What we’ll find as we create our […]
When we think about the idea of wanting to achieve financial success, one of the first questions we probably ask ourselves is, “how are we going to get there?” And where is “there” exactly? Sometimes that thought is so overwhelming that we just don’t know where to start. It is exactly at that point that […]
Having a plan puts us in charge of where we want to go as opposed to circumstances in life aimlessly pushing and pulling us around. We all know that even when we do plan…things don’t always go to plan, but that’s NOT a reason to not have a plan. Even if plans do need to […]
Whenever we hear the F word…okay not that F word, another one…Failure, we always relate it to negative, pessimistic ideas, but why is failure perceived to be bad? Besides the obvious fact that failing doesn’t feel particularly good, we tend to have a fear of failure. The truth is, failure offers us a chance to […]
What if things come true simply because we cannot stop thinking about them? What if we’re afraid that we will never attain the dream we’ve had our entire life? What if the fact that we’re selling ourselves short creates its own kind of twisted reality where that’s exactly what happens? What a shame it would […]
In order to repeatedly practice good habits, we have to first realize that self-discipline is more specifically about being able to control our impulses, behavior and even our emotions. It’s the ability to resist the desire of instant gratification today for the satisfaction of fulfilling our more meaningful, long-term goals of tomorrow. Self-discipline provides us […]
One of the main reasons why we, as young adults should start saving and investing as early as possible would be to reap the rewards of what would be sometimes known as the magic of compounding. Compounding is when we earn returns on past investment returns as well as on our own original capital investment. […]
Reducing and eliminating debt is no easy task, but it’s essential to your financial and even emotional and physical and health. There is nothing better than seeing debt get removed from your balance sheet. No more worrying about that debt, no more bills or calls from lenders and creditors…it’ll just be gone! Just remember, once […]
The thought of setting goals can sometimes be challenging, but it’s necessary if you’re going to achieve financial success. Envisioning what you want your future to look like is the easiest place to start. By beginning with the end in mind, it gives you your direction. That sense of direction is what will keep you […]