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How Personal is Personal Finance?
One of the common themes I’ve read this month is about the word personal in personal finance–what it means, how it applies to what we do with our money, and how it affects the general dispensation of...
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What are Your Money Tapes?
This is a fantastic guest post by Gary Foreman. Gary is the editor of The Dollar Stretcher.com website and various enewsletters including Financial Independence. Financial Independence is designed to...
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Stopping Entitlement in Kids
In the past three months, I’ve learned that parenting, to a much greater degree than personal finance, is controlled by an infinite number of variables. With personal finance, we are “in control” of...
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“I Don’t Have Any Money”: Bull (most likely…)
If you’ve ever been in a financial pinch, I can almost guarantee that these poisonous words left your lips: “I don’t have any money.” Stop it. Seriously. That’s complete and utter doo-doo. If you want...
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What Are You Holding Back From?
I want to break away from the typical money topics today and share with you the lyrics to one of my favorite songs of all time, Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying. If you’re not a fan of Country,...
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If You Didn’t Act on It, Don’t Complain About It
I voted today. I voted because I feel it’s my patriotic duty—but I also have more selfish reasons. You see—I can’t justify complaining about politics for the next two years if I hadn’t. By acting on my...
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The Balance Between Doing and Planning
There is a force at the heart of nearly everything we do in life. It tugs on us in two directions (assuming we are not “at rest”)–in one corner is doing, in the other is planning. I guarantee we all...
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Stop Getting Bullied Into Financial Decisions
Along your financial journey, you’ll come up to many people who think they know what’s best for you and your money. Many of them mean well—they might be close friends, family members, or colleagues who...
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4 Reasons We Get Stuck (from Seth Godin)
Seth Godin recently wrote about being stuck. In his post, Seth describes four reasons we run into problems when trying to tackle any kind of project: We don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to do...
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December 21, 2012
“It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine.” – R.E.M. Do you feel fine? No, no, I’m serious–do you feel fine? If what doomsday experts and believers across the world say is true, then...
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