As a little kid I can remember my grandparents reminiscing about the good old days and how much things used to cost. A pack of candy used to cost a nickel. A new car was a couple thousand dollars and they actually purchased their house for under $20,000.
You really like your job and don’t want to leave. You’re intelligent, motivated, good with people, and have a lot of job skills most employers covet. Problem is, your current position does not pay what you could be making with your skill set.
In my book Cash Uncomplicated, I devote an entire chapter to easy and effortless ways we can save money at the grocery store. I didn’t necessarily intend for it to be a full chapter, but as I was writing it, it became more and more clear that there was plenty of content to make it a whole chapter.
Those of us who watch sports know are a lot of clichés. If you listen to an athlete interviewed before or after a game, you’ll hear a lot of the same things: “We’re taking it one game at a time.” “I’m just going pitch by pitch.” “We have to execute and play our game.”
Over the past several years, I have consistently kept an emergency fund. I’ve been comfortable with about three to four months of expenses in the bank. My wife and I both have consistent sources of income so our strategy has been to hold smaller reserves and invest more aggressively.
For several years now, I’ve had a slogan of sorts. “Win the Month.” In this article, I’ll be applying it to personal finances, but it translates to almost any area of life.
Over the past week, there’s been a lot in the news and social media about stock speculation. GameStop in particular saw their stock prices wildly fluctuate. Wall Street hedge funds, expecting the GameStop stock to fall, have been shorting the stock.
It’s natural to get down on ourselves now and then. We all have moments of negativity. Sometimes it’s a news story that gets us going, other times it might be something that happened at work, or it could be a financial issue that seems impossible to overcome.
Alex is in his late twenties working for a marketing firm. Last year he made a little over 55,000 dollars, an increase of $7,000 from the year before. He hopes to make over 60,000 dollars this year after bonuses. Alex dutifully goes to work every morning and consistently gets good performance reviews.
Several times a week I walk my dog at a local park. I used to do a small loop a little over a mile. It was second nature to do the same loop every time I’d walk the dog. Gradually I began to extend the length of the walk.
“If only I had invested in Amazon, Apple, or Nvidia 15 years ago” or “I knew I should have bought that property 20 years ago
Improving your money habits and systems is the best way to get ahead financially. Set up systems and follow them on a predictable basis. Sounds
Most people want answers. We want money advice to be universal and easily applied. If a billionaire or influencer does this or uses that strategy,
Debt is a tool. Ever heard this? Lots of personal finance experts have made this statement, but it kind of stops at that—leaving many wondering
