It's been said that the easiest way to make money is to keep the money you have. Saving money is a sure way to make sure you have it when you need it, yet so many of us waste it on things we want or spending too much on the things we need.
By cutting waste you're...
You'd be hard pressed to find a person who doesn't want to be financially free, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find someone who couldn't tell you what they'd do with that freedom. The day that you become financially free what will really change in your life? Will the angels sing and your problems...
If you've got a mental fixation with the image you're portraying to your neighbors you should probably heed the advice of this article. Stop keeping up with the Joneses, nobody really likes them anyways! They're probably fake, focused only on what you care about, and they don't really have much sense of self. Or maybe I'm...
Have you ever had a love hate relationship? It may be with a person, an object, or perhaps a job... but what about the time value of money? Perhaps I'm a bit odd, but the time value of money and I have a unique relationship in which sometimes I love it... and sometimes I hate its guts,...
Creating wealth is far from rocket science, but it does take discipline, a consistent mindset, and the right set of knowledge. Although I can't instill discipline into anyone reading this post I can give some basic tips for creating wealth to set you in the right direction. If you'd like to create more wealth in your life...
I hear the phrase "a lot of money" well... a lot... but what is a lot of money? Recently I asked what you'd do with an extra $20,000 and to some that was "A lot" of money, but to others it was not a lot of money at all. What gives?
Bringing this topic up reminds me of...
Increasing your net worth is fairly straight forward. Lower your expenses and/or increase your earnings. There's only two ways to accomplish it. Although increasing your earnings has a much higher potential, the easiest way to start saving money is going to be through decreasing your expenses. For me, that means living like a poor person....
If you're like me, you can't walk through Barnes and Noble without stopping by the personal finance section. When I stopped by the store earlier today I again, couldn't resist the tempting lure of personal finance books! There were literally over 200 books about personal finance and after flipping through a few I really started to wonder....
My previous post "Is living on minimum wage possible" brought quite a bit of mixed opinion. In fact a few strongly disagreed with me in the ability to live on minimum wage. Words like "impossible" were thrown out, which actually surprised me a bit. Maybe I'm just picking a fight here, but I think people often...
People do stupid things with their money every day, these people act like money idiots.
Pretend for a moment that I'm your grandpa giving you sage, yet common sense advice. That advice would be
"Don't be an idiot with your money"
or just pretend that you're Dwight via the clip below.
A lot of people run into money trouble because they...
