On the road to financial abundance there’s bound to be challenges. While some are hard to foresee others are much more common and predictable. My hard earned experience over the years has helped me identify five real obstacles in building wealth and how to overcome them. I’d love to share them with you here so…
Getting any sort of loan will always include some risk. To help understand the risk of short-term loans, we are joined by Elaine McPartland from ConsolidatedCredit.org who shed some light on the subject. Short-term loans can sound like a great idea when you’re short on cash. You have an emergency, you need cash and there’s…
Recently I talked to you about quitting the gym and riding a bike to work. You will get just as much, if not more, exercise and you will save money while doing so. Since then I ran across this article that outlines how working out regularly can help lead to getting a raise at work. …
Shopping at the mall is one of my least favorite things to do. Unless I absolutely have to, you won’t catch me there. The crowds can be a major pain and the deals are not as great as they make them out to be. That being said, I love online shopping. It allows me to…
A few years ago I ran across this comic. I chuckled at the humor and shared it with my colleagues (I work in a financial services office so we see this sort of thing in real life quite often). I took some time to think about it and behind the humor are some important truths. …
Oh, Mama. I just did the numbers on my budget for the month of May, and I never knew meal planning could drastically cut your food spending each month. Meal planning is something I previously thought only Moms and families did, even my mother only loosely kept a meal plan when I was growing up. As…
Like most people, you probably look forward to the summer. This is the perfect time to hit the beach, spend the day at an amusement park and enjoy other family fun activities. But while the summer is an open invitation for fun, it’s also a time for higher energy bills. Some families see a significant…