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In our culture, we are a society of consumers. More is better. Newer is better. And repeat. Newsflash: This is a rollercoaster to nowhere. If your spending money as fast as you are making, if your days and weeks are one big whirlwind of activity, if your are stressed or not satisfied with your life…..…
Have you ever been to London? Riding the subway or the ‘tube’ in London is the most efficient way to get around. Everyone rides it. And on the platform there is a loudspeaker voice that reminds you to “mind the gap” between the platform and the train. It literally repeats every few seconds! It becomes…
One of my favorite things to work with my clients on is value based spending. I truly believe the more we incorporate value-based spending into our lives the happier we will be. As its core, value-based spending is spending money with intention. I think of this in two pieces: * Do I want to support…
Food is a hot button topic on any budget. It’s one of the first areas my clients zero in on to cut back. When you first start tracking, your food totals can be shocking! As a coach, food is also one of the first categories I want to look at with my clients because it’s…
We want our financial lives to be linear. Your salary, savings and net worth continually increasing. But that isn’t real life. Real life is layoffs, jobs you hate, medical issues, and kids. Real life is “I don’t care how much the pizza costs, just order it.” As you ebb and we flow through life, so…
My son Caden turns ONE tomorrow. We are having a family birthday party for him, but this is a lot easier said than done because we have big families. And when we made the invite list of 35+ people all I could see was stress and a lot of work. So my husband and I…
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