Personal Finance Blog Post

How to Alleviate Money Anxiety We all experience money anxiety. I have, maybe you are now.    While I know nothing about your situation, I think I can help you break free.    There’s a great quote from the character Trixie on the show Deadwood, “Hard work dispels worry.” I [...]

Why Does Insurance Often Provide Peace of Mind? Why does insurance often provide peace of mind?    Here’s the thing about insurance; I don’t think anything bad is going to happen to you. But if it did, the impact would be catastrophic. Because of that, we buy insurance.  When we [...]

Is it Possible to Crash Proof your Retirement? Is it possible to crash proof your retirement?    While it may not be possible to completely remove all risk from your financial life, there are a lot of things you can do to position yourself for success.    Nobody knows if [...]

What Does it Mean to Pay Yourself First What does it mean to pay yourself first? It means you start putting the needs of you and your loved ones ahead of everyone else- exactly where they should be.    It means before you pay anyone else; you allocate money to [...]

Focus on these 3 Things to Retire Happy I think I can help you retire happy and do the things you want.    Remember that television show, Golden Girls? It was about four women who lived together in a house in Miami. Is that how you envision your golden years? [...]

Debt Free Living: How to Make it Happen I’m glad you’re interested in debt free living, but it will require more than just interest. It will require commitment and sacrifice as well.    Once it happened that a mother brought her young son to see the Dalai Lama. She waited [...]

How Do I Get Ahead Financially? Follow These Six Steps Have you been asking yourself, "How do I get ahead financially?"   How do you think about your finances?  Do you think about them more like a sprint, or a marathon? I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer.  [...]

Tired of Being Broke? Do These Three Things I was tired of being broke, living paycheck-to-paycheck, and drowning in credit card debt. It felt like I was trapped in a recurring nightmare where there was never enough money to go around. And I was right.    Sadly, almost two-thirds of [...]

How To Do Better Financially As someone who is trying to get 1% better every day, I’m always working to do better in every area of my life. How do you think about self-improvement?   An area where I think there's a lot of opportunity to improve is personal finance. [...]