Holiday Budget Worksheet

The Holiday season is here! Yeah! Who doesn’t love a present or three? If you are like me, setting (and sticking to) a budget for the holidays is always a challenge. I regularly do my shopping, wrap my gifts, then decide the pile isn’t big enough and head back out...

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Debt Ruining Your Life? 10 Steps to Paying Off Your Debt Now

Is debt ruining your life? It's an awful feeling when you feel that you have a mountain of debt with no short term fix. When I was in my late 20’s I got divorced. I got the kid, the house I couldn’t sell because the market was in the toilet (and the mortgage that...

5 Common Money Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

I’ve been successfully managing personal finances for over 25 years. Over those years I’ve learned a lot and made lots of mistakes. I want to share five of these common money management mistakes and I how I resolved them to help you avoid them or fix them if you are...

What’s a Budget? Part 3 of a 3 Part Series

Rather watch the video version? You got it! In Part 1 of this mini-course . "What's a Budget?," we talked about what a budget was and I had you create an outline of your budget categories and line items. In Part 2, we talked about the fact that past and future...

What’s a Budget? Part 2 of a 3 Part Series

Rather watch the video version? (and frankly, this week the video is better than the blog) In Part One of our mini-course "What's a Budget," I talked about what a budget is, the categories of a budget, and I had you create an outline of your budget with the...

Whats a Budget? Part 1 of a 3 Part Series

Rather watch the video version? You got it! What’s a budget? You know you need a budget to manage your money. Right? Well I think you have to start by asking the question what exactly is a budget and what does it mean to have one? This is the first of a three-part...

The 4 Worst Money Myths and How to Avoid Them

If you are trying to figure out how to manage your money, or need validation that the way you are doing it has you on track, you are probably feeling a ton of insecurity and fear. The consequence for not figuring it out is not having enough money to live the life...

Ready to learn about money? Where do you start?

So you’re ready to start learning about managing your money, but where the heck do you start?. There are five things you need to understand to be successful. Where you ever taught about money or have you been kind of figuring it out as you go? Chances are good that...