You’ll hear me talk about it all the time.  Well, you won’t likely hear me at all, but read me write about it just doesn’t sound right.   If you want to succeed at your personal finance goals and your personal life goals, you need to continually work towards them.  (Make some if you haven’t [...]

If you would like to start 2012 on the right financial footing and want to do something that is attainable, consider taking a challenge.  Two of my favorite challenges are spending challenges and pantry challenges.  Take either or both of these challenges, and you will find extra money to do with what you please—to save [...]

We’re only a few days into the new year, and chances are that several of you have already broken at least one of your new years’ resolutions.  You’ve eaten way too much food.  You’ve skipped a day at the gym.  You’ve overspent on some key category.  Partially, it’s not your fault.  You probably made resolutions [...]

Financial bloggers, myself included, speak rather frequently about setting goals for your financial life.  Goals are super important.  If you don’t have a goal, you have no direction.  Further, if you don’t have a goal, you have not intention for your money.  You are intention-less. What is your intention for your money?  What purpose should [...]

We can all talk about doing the right thing with our finances all day long.  We can talk about making a budget, spending according to that budget, and living a frugal financial lifestyle.  But, none of that makes any difference if we don’t walk that walk. Sometimes, we can’t do that on our own.  Sometimes [...]