Why You Will Never Be Financially Free (Video)
Why You Will Never Be Financially Free – 4 Reasons People Stay Broke In the video I share 4 things people do that will make it so they never achieve financial freedom. We want to make sure we are doing the things that will help us achieve financial freedom instead of doing the opposite! Watch…
Irregular Income Budgeting Made Easy
Trying to budget with inconsistent or irregular income can be tricky sometimes. There’s a lot of entrepreneurs or service based jobs that don’t provide that consistent 2-week paycheck. If you don’t know what your income will be each month, the below formula can seem difficult: Income – Expenses = Difference SInce we don’t know what…
Simplify Your Money Process
Life is so much easier when it’s kept simple. Sometimes we don’t realize how much we’re over-complicating things, until we’ve already done it. It’s like when we’re dating someone and we start to analyze everything. He didn’t call me at 5 today, but he did yesterday. He usually texts me at night, but he skipped…
3 Surprising Reasons Budgeting is Fun and Not Fearful
There’s a stigma that goes with budgeting. It’s something people dread doing or are even fearful of doing. People think it’s a waste of time and can’t even stand thinking about budgeting, but really, it’s not that bad (I actually like it, surprise, surprise…). A lot of times people are fearful of the unknown, but…
2 Most Important Expenses Every Budget Should Have That Actually Helps Achieve Wealth
As I mentioned in my previous post, budgeting helps us reach our financial goals. When we tie our budget to our financial goals we can know how much we should be putting where. Tying our budget to our goals is the beginning step. The next step is making sure you are allocating money toward those…
Top 3 Cool Reasons That Will Make You Want to Budget, Plus How to Find Time to Budget
I hear people say, “I don’t have time to budget. It just takes too much time and it’s not really worth it.” This is my response, “I believe we make time for what we want to make time for.” If we are missing the importance of budgeting then we won’t make time for it. Let…
5 Foundational Tips for Creating a Savings
My last post was about why we should be saving, so for this week’s post I want to talk about tips for actually creating a savings. I’ve got 5 foundational tips for creating a savings; hope they’re helpful! Savings Tip #1 – Know What You’re Saving For If we don’t know what we are saving…
4 Important Reasons to Help You Start Saving Money
63% Of Americans don’t have enough savings to cover a $500 emergency (Jan 2016, from Forbes). This stat is nerve racking to me. If someone doesn’t have enough money to cover only $500 worth, that means there must be a lot of Americans worrying about money, living paycheck to paycheck or in a lot of…
5 Painless Wealth-Oriented Steps to Set & Achieve a Short-Term Financial Goal
With the new year coming up and Christmas right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to share with you 5 painless steps to set and achieve a short-term financial goal. Let’s all choose a financial goal we want to achieve within 2 weeks, which will be right before New Years! I’m going…
8 Fabulous Gift Ideas for Mom
In lieu of Mother’s Day coming up, I felt this a helpful, relevant post to create, but these gift ideas for mom can be used for any occasion to celebrate mom. Mom’s are special (probably the most special) in our lives and I know we want to get our mothers something great. I’ve compiled a…
