Tax season is upon us and so you’ll start seeing some financial fitness tips to help you get ready. This week I published a free tax preparation guide. It provides lot’s of tips and links to articles including a tax preparation checklist, how to get organized, best tax software and more.
I’m also going to start featuring a financial product I think highly of and believe will be helpful to people. One of the articles I wrote this week was a CIT bank savings review. CIT is currently offering a great savings rate, no monthly maintenance fees and just a $100 minimum deposit to get started. Check out the review to get all the details.
Here are the other articles published this week at One Money Design:
- 5 Retirement Costs to Consider and How to Minimize Them in Personal Finance
- 5 Questions to Ask Before Moving Forward with Your Next Business Idea in Business & Entrepreneurship
- 10 Bible Verses About Hope to Help with Life’s Challenges in Christian Financial Stewardship
- Best Ways to Achieve Your Savings Goals this Year in Personal Finance
And here are some of my favorite tips I found this week from other financial bloggers, media and brands…
Personal Finance
Treating Your Savings Like A Monthly Bill (Modest Money) – “Ever since I started treating my savings account like a monthly bill, I have surpassed my emergency fund goal and am working on hitting my “6 months of expenses” goal.”
Do You Have What it Takes to Complete the 52 Week Money Saving Challenge? (PT Money) – “The idea is simple: deposit $1 into your savings account on week one of 2013, followed by $2 on week two, $3 on week three, etc, etc, until you reach week fifty-two where you make your last deposit of $52.”
Tax Deductions to Help Simple Filers Save Money (Turbo Tax) – ”Simple filers have several straightforward opportunities to lower their taxes via tax deductions. They fall into two broad categories…”
Dave Ramsey’s Christian Take on Taxes (Dave Ramsey) -”Michelle wants to know if Dave has been accused of being a non-Christian because of his views on taxes. Dave shares his opinion based on Scripture.”
4 Important Biblical Priorities in Giving (Money Help for Christians) - ”One of the unexpected bonuses of the book is that the authors included a chapter on “Giving and Wisdom”. In that section, they outlined what they believe to be the biblical priorities of giving.”
Career
Resumes 101: Swap a Stale Objective for a Fresh Branding Statement (US News) – “Back in the “old days” resumes began with a now obsolete objective statement.”
4 Tips for Resisting Your Smartphone While on the Clock (US News) – “it may be time to not only re-examine the relationship between you and your handheld friend, but also take these four steps to reassert control over it.”
Business and Entrepreneurship
3 Ways to Turn Your Knowledge into a Business (Money Ning) – “Instead of relying on someone else to ensure that you have the income you need, consider developing income diversity. One way to do this is to start a business.”
Often Overlooked Tax Write-Offs for the Self-Employed (Yahoo Finance) – “If you’re self-employed, are you getting all the tax write-offs you’re entitled to?”
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