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 […]
We often live our lives like there’s never enough time to accomplish the things we need to get done and for many aspects of our lives that may seem to be true. We feel like we can’t get enough of it and we could always use having more. It’s this dynamic which we encounter on […]
Patience is a virtue. Who hasn’t heard those words before? Those words are deeply rooted in many of our minds, but the behavior, the true practice of patience is just another personality trait which has fallen by the wayside. Our hurried, over-scheduled way of life where everything has to happen instantly is taking its toll […]
No matter how much money we’re paid, our income is limited by the number of hours we can work. We all have the same 24 hours in a day and there is only so much of our time that we can dedicate to working for pay. Trading time for money isn’t an isolated trap to […]
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Consider how simple it is for life to fly by…getting caught up in the rat race, being stuck in our daily routines sprinkled with a vacation or two if we’re lucky enough and all for the sake of just getting through another day. After a while it can get […]
When creating multiple income streams, the goal should be to take advantage of our own potential based on hobbies, interests, experience, talents or passions that we have. Whatever we choose to create our additional income, it should take little to no money to get started. There are so many options and opportunities available, with a […]
One of the most basic, fundamental things we can do is to conserve money. By consistently following a few money saving tips we’ll see a radical rise in the amount of cash we save, which can be used toward paying down debt, saving for emergency funds, saving for that vacation or for investing, depending on […]
Part of our journey to financial well-being is the principal of spending less than we earn. And although there is no single road to financial well-being, that one principal is what sets us up to not only begin creating our wealth, but to also keep what wealth we attain. That principal holds true whether we […]
The challenge as a young adult is seeing and understanding the value of time and compounding when it comes to our financial future. When we’re young, we have our whole life ahead of us to not have to worry about it now or we feel like we don’t have the extra money to save! Often […]
Not only are there small, unsuspecting ways we get ourselves into trouble with debt that slowly and incrementally build up until we eventually find ourselves in over our head. But then we have the big dollar purchases that we have to become aware of also. Such as, that brand new motorcycle, snowmobile, boat or jet-ski […]