No Automatic in Personal Finance Sure, you can set up automatic payments for your spending commitments. But should you? Automatic payments are easy to forget. Can you control that? Your personal finance includes income, spending, and saving for investing. That requires your attention to maintain control. Recurring subscriptions are the biggest form of income for […]
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What to Do? In my pursuit of blogging to help you build a better mindset for money I find that matters of the heart can cloud your judgement on occasion. However, though some may hide their emotions, caring is not a weakness. In fact, it is a blessing because caring and giving of time and
A Game You Want to Win As part of my mission to help you build a better mindset for money, I must make sure you know the value of good health. I almost ignored this point early in my life and I know too many that did ignore the need to maintain good health. Perhaps
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What 7 Habits? Since my mission is to help you build a better mindset for money, to aid that mission, I will review some books worth reading. There are many authors who have found success because they have written something that readers have found valuable. One of these authors is Stephen R. Covey, in his
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Innocent Years In my youth, before I got distracted by growing up, I was able to stop and observe insects. I lived on a farm between the ages of 6 and 11, so I had lots of bugs to study. I saw strange looking beetles, caterpillars, honeybees, bumble bees, wasps, grasshoppers, and hills of ants.
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One Plate to Lose Weight I am older and extra weight is harder to lose. So, to help me mentally, I came up with a saying, “One plate to lose weight”, since my biggest issue has been eating too much at each meal. When I was a kid, we seldom had a lot to eat
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Sources Galore to Explore There are many ways to learn. Just as there are many ways to earn money. My hope is that you will make the effort to focus on learning a way to earn a living that you can enjoy. Regardless of what you do now to survive, my goal is to help
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Healthy Roots Some of us were fortunate to be raised in a positive, successful-minded household. I cannot say that I was since my folks both worked hard but barely got by. However, my dad aspired for success, including episodes of raising chinchillas for fur and worms for fishermen. At the end of his life, he
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Know Your Limits Since I hope to help you build a better mindset for money, I want to touch on one of the biggest holes in most people’s budget for both time and money, having fun! We all have limited resources of time and money, but it is hard to draw that line when having
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Eat In or Eat Out? You have many choices when it comes to eating, which is a very important part of your financial life. So important that you should be very thankful if you can afford to eat regularly. In many parts of the world, they struggle to find food, let alone afford it. Your
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