When getting started on the road to building wealth, having a plan for your money and making the decision to save for an emergency fund is where it begins. There are different ways to go about deciding how much to contribute to your emergency fund depending on what works for you. There are so many […]
There are a couple of strategies to save money depending on your situation and personality. One way is through self discipline, by being able to manage your money without being tempted to spend before you save or spend what you save. This is more of a manual approach to saving and paying yourself first. If […]
When we see successful people and are in awe of their success, we have a tendency to think, how lucky they are, how talented they are, how gifted they are or whatever simple explanation for their success we can come up with and although some of those things may be a contributing factor to the […]
No matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing, analyzing we do, nothing will change until we take action! It sounds simple enough and we all know it to be true, so what holds us back from doing it? For many of us, the reason we don’t take action has to do with the fear of failure. […]
Whether we like it or not making decisions is something all of us have to do on a daily basis, multiple times a day. We are constantly making decisions and most of the time we probably don’t even put much thought into it. Decision making happens on a few different levels. There are small level […]
It’s too late to prepare for opportunities when they come, that’s why we have to prepare for them before they show up. We often live our lives hoping for that big opportunity to come our way, we dream of what we would or could do if we were given a chance. Many of us may […]
When it comes to striving to achieve success in anything we do, working on our weaknesses is not enough. Not only is it not enough, it’s actually a hindrance to reaching our true fullest potential. Focusing and working to improve our weaknesses is a hindrance in the sense that it takes our time and focus […]
The thoughts and ideas we have going through our minds every day, actually every second of every day is what causes us to make the decisions that we make and the actions that we take in all aspects of our lives. Those thoughts and ideas we have are very much influenced by the things we […]
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 […]
A good part of setting ourselves up for financial freedom comes from being able to leave the past behind us, look past today and envision the future that we want. For a lot of people, visualization comes naturally, but for others, engaging in visual creative thinking is tough. How can we set goals for ourselves […]