Personal Finance Blog Post

Unburdened: How to Change Your Future and Your Fortune If you were unburdened, how would your life be different? Would you be more financially successful? Would you have better relationships and more personal success? Would you be an entrepreneur, or a leader in your community?    How would getting out [...]

Why a Sense of Urgency is Essential for Personal Financial Success To reach your most important financial goals, you need a sense of urgency.    When we’re young, we think we have all the time in the world, so we’re prone to procrastination. As we get older, our sense of [...]

How to Develop Healthy Perspectives on Money and Personal Finance Healthy perspectives must be cultivated and constantly nurtured.    For some, it’s innate. We all know the happy and positive person who nothing seems to bother. For the rest of us, myself included, having a healthy perspective requires work. But [...]

Do You Have to Be Self Sacrificing to Become Financially Successful? Is being self sacrificing a requirement for financial success? Yes.    There’s a powerful proverb that nicely sums this up, “Blessed are those who plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.” Here’s the good news; you can [...]

Personal Sovereignty and Your Personal Finances Personal sovereignty means everybody has the right to pursue their desires, and reap the rewards of their efforts.    How does money relate to this? Having money doesn’t automatically give this to you, and it’s not required to have it. But being financially secure [...]

The Four Keys to Accepting Personal Responsibility for Your Finances The four keys to accepting personal responsibility for your finances.   It’s my fault, and no one else’s. All of it.    I own the good, the bad, and the ugly. The choices, the thinking, the money. My past, present [...]

How to Live a Rich Life What is a rich life?   For me, it’s doing the work I want to be doing. Spending time with the people I want to spend time with. And thinking the thoughts I want to think. It’s having the freedom and ability to do [...]

What it Takes to Get Good with Money How do you get good with money? You could have rich parents. Winning the lottery might help. What about playing in the NFL or NBA? Would any of those help you get good with money?    No.   They might bring you [...]

How to Make Change Happen in Your Financial Life in 11 Steps If you’re wondering how to make change happen in your financial life, you’re in good company. Americans are behind with our personal finances, and to get on the right track, we need to change our behaviors.    We [...]