Personal Finance Blog Post

How to Stay Out of Debt   How to stay out of debt is one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves. This is because debt is a killer of dreams and a cause of limitless stress and anxiety, and a driving force behind the demise of relationships. [...]

Steps to Success with Your Money There are steps to success for improving and getting better at anything and everything. It’s not always easy to figure out what the steps are, and once you know, you’ve still got to follow them. This is true for getting good at money.     [...]

Overcoming Inaction Inaction can afflict all of us. It presents itself in our very human desire to put things off. Humans are great at rationalizing inaction and procrastinating.    The problem is, when we procrastinate, nothing happens. Nothing is created. And while individual instances of procrastination can appear innocuous, they [...]

The Way Forward: Your Financial Plans "A goal without a plan is just a wish."  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   To know the way forward, you need to make a plan. And to create a successful plan, we must understand the key elements and recognize what stands in our way.  [...]

Put Yourself First to Own Your Financial Success To get where you want to go with money and in life, you need to put yourself first. As an empathetic and caring person, this probably sounds counterintuitive. But it’s not.    My premise is this; you at 100% is greater than [...]

Your Hero's Journey to Financial Success Your path to success with money may be straightforward, or it could require a heroic effort.    In his famous book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell laid out the Hero’s Journey:   A hero ventures forth from the world of common [...]

How to Live Your Truth with Money You’ve heard the phrase, live your truth, but what does it mean?   For me, it’s knowing who I am, who I want to be, and working every day to close any gaps. When we know what our truth is and we’re living [...]

What is Your Superpower? What is your superpower? Have you ever thought about that?   We (Homo sapiens) have been on top of the food chain for 2 million years, and there are many reasons for this.  We’ve got these amazing opposable thumbs that allow us to grasp and manipulate [...]

Minding Your Own Business: Unlocking Your Financial Success Minding your own business is one key to unlocking your financial success. Your ability to stay focused and to stay on task will determine where you ultimately end up.    Humans love shiny objects. We love novelty and distraction. We carry around [...]