This will be a little different post for me but thought it is shows why so many people are in financial trouble right now. My wife, Tracy, is a former teacher and now stay-at-home mom to our two young daughters – Ava, age 7, and Ella, 4. The highest annual salary I have earned as [...]
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Money Lessons Learned
What if you could travel back in time 10 years and give yourself a lesson about money? Certainly, you don’t want to dwell on mistakes today and always think about what could be better if you only had done X. But, perhaps such thoughts could be used in positive light. If you could identify a few lessons learned about money, then [...]
Money Margin: It is No Mirage!
This is the second of two posts based on notes I took during a recent church service on the subject of establishing money margin. The first post discussed the assumptions we have about money when we aren’t letting God drive our thoughts. And this post discusses how our thoughts about money change when God is [...]
3 Pillars for Building Financial Stability
A few years ago, I met with a financial advisor and she informed me that there were 3 pillars of financial stability. With each of these pillars in place, you build your finances with a structured approach. The idea is that if any one of the pillars were knocked out, the structure would not stumble [...]
Start Saving Money For Future Expenses
Just recently I realized there are a lot of expensive items around the house that could need replacement in the next 12 months. That’s never a good thing to realize when you don’t exactly have the cash on-hand today to purchase them. Replacement item examples For example, I’ve noticed the TV transitioning from color to black [...]
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