“A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.” – John Rampton A simple financial principle that many people don’t incorporate into their budget is to consider that saving […]
All individuals have habits! A habit is defined as a recurrent, often subconscious pattern of behavior that’s obtained through frequent repetition. To put it simply, it’s repeatedly performing the very same things over and over without thinking about it, like nail biting or snacking on food. Over spending our money can also fall into that […]
When we take a close, hard and honest look at the things that we consider to be needs and wants, the choices and decisions may not, and in some cases, will not be easy. The things we thought were needs and are realized as wants, now have to be put off until we get ourselves […]
If our bills are greater than our income, it’s safe to say…we’re in trouble! It’s when we find ourselves in situations like this, that we’ll only keep adding to our debt whenever we spend more money than we make. The first thing we need to do is we need to get our spending under control. […]
If we stay focused on the health of our financial future by being disciplined with taking care of what we need (which includes paying off debt and not accumulating more) and being patient with our wants in the here and now, once we reach our goal of financial independence we will have the financial means […]
Let’s face it! Every time we get some extra money in our paycheck, we get the urge to spend that extra money. We get a pay raise…let’s finance a new car! We get a bonus…let’s go on vacation! If we get an extra $5 in our pockets…we find something we “want” to spend it on! […]
Living below our means is the basis of financial freedom. Once we learn to live below our means, we can stop getting into debt, begin paying off any debt we currently have and start putting money aside for saving and investing. If we’re living above our means it is going to mean more stress, more […]
There are a couple of ways to go about paying yourself first depending on your situation and personality. If you have the discipline of being able to manage your money without being tempted to spend before you save or spend what you save, then a more manual approach to paying yourself first can work. It’s […]
Believe it or not, much of your money habits are affected by outside influences, like the media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, etc. Each year, companies spend billions of dollars in advertising and marketing, all for the sake of getting you to spend your money to buy their latest and greatest product or service right NOW! […]
A fundamentally crucial part of the journey to financial well being is the principal of spending less than you earn. And although there is no single road to financial well being, that one principal is what sets you up to not only begin creating your wealth, but to also keep what wealth you attain along […]