I got a job this week. Really, I got it a couple weeks ago, but I was in training for two weeks, and this is the first week of regular hours. Herewith are 8 Things About Working for Someone Else. [...]
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3 Budget Buckets for Your Money Saving Dreams
My dream of financial mastery has me thinking about my budget, such as it is. Working on the household budget this week, I realized that I, like most people, have three budget buckets. It’s a form of Getting Things Done for the budget. Deal immediately with what’s critical. Set aside what’s never going to happen. Focus your attention on whatever’s in between. [...]
Dear Money Letter: Part 2
I wrote this two-part Dear Money letter on the inspiration of money coach Meadow DeVor. Meadow suggests writing a letter to your money to get clear about the relationship. And, by the way, 8 Women Dream blogger Lisa Powell Graham and her 100-Day Extraordinary Woman Challenge turned me on to Meadow. Thanks, Lisa and Meadow, for giving me a virtual kick in the patootie toward my dream of financial mastery. [...]
Dear Money Letter: Part 1
I wrote this Dear Money letter on the inspiration of money coach Meadow DeVor. Meadow suggests writing a letter to your money to get clear about the relationship. And, by the way, 8 Women Dream blogger Lisa Powell Graham and her 100-Day Extraordinary Woman Challenge turned me on to Meadow. Thanks, Lisa and Meadow, for giving me a virtual kick in the patootie toward my dream of financial mastery. [...]
Spending Money: The 2000 Dollar Prom Date
Talk about something that slaps my financial freedom dream right in the face — Prom season. Prom spending statistics by USA Today state that the average dollar amount spent nationwide on going to the Prom is almost 1100 dollars, while the northeastern part of the US is expected to spend in upwards of 2000 [...]
Money isn’t Everything Especially if the Government is Spending It
I saw this cool graphic over on Pinterest. It compares the costs of using iPods versus textbooks to deliver educational content. I happened to be finishing up the excellent Steve Jobs biography at the same time, so I had been thinking a lot about innovation. I studied this graphic carefully, and although the bottom line [...]
Great Writing About Money
There are not that many great books about money, and there’s not that much great writing about money. It’s depressing, really. Money is one of the eternal human quests, but the best it can do is play a minor role in some literature, and no role at all in most. Whatever we read about money, and wherever we read it (including in this blog), It all tends to fall into the tactical side of self-help, financial planning, budgeting, and blah blah blah. [...]
Wearing Our Money on Our Sleeve
Guess what? Surfing the web for money stories this week, I discovered that money is emotional. Seriously. One hundred twenty three million search results told me so. News flash: we human beings wear our money on our sleeve. [...]
The 100% Truth About Money and Me
Completely unexpectedly, I have discovered the 100% truth about money and me. And it’s not what I thought it was. Saw the doc yesterday, to get evaluated for Adult ADHD. You might recall from my last two posts that I pegged myself with an executive function disorder, and wondered if I have undiagnosed ADHD. [...]
Making Your Money Dreams Come True – Part 2
Having trouble making your money dreams come true? You try so hard, and you seem to make a little progress, but then you hit a wall, or lose interest, or get interested in some other important project, and pretty soon you’re backsliding. Personally, that’s the story of my life. [...]
Making Your Money Dreams Come True – Part 1
Making your money dreams come true requires exactly the same thing as making any dream come true: healthy executive functioning. Executive functioning does not mean entrepreneurial or management skill in a strict business sense. Rather, it refers to a set of innate skills that is housed in the frontal lobe of the human brain. These [...]
The Secret Language of Price
There’s an inverse relationship between price and cost these days. Does that sound nonsensical? I used to think price and cost meant the same thing, but I don’t think that any more. This post is about the secret language of price. Here’s my thesis. In the modern world, the lower the price, the greater the [...]
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