Category: Money
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For some strange reason this morning and after years of using the same spreadsheet to do a monthly budget, the idea came to me to save each month into one spreadsheet file using 13 different worksheets (1 for annual totals). All this time I’ve been saving each month’s budget as it’s own file.
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I gave SM3 it’s own business accounts. Budgeting and tracking mixed personal and business expenses has been stressing me out.
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Being that so much of my anxiety is stems from financial matters, hiring a financial advisor seems a better choice than hiring therapist.
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How are we still, in 2020, in a world where we don’t educate children on managing money?…Who gives a s*** about outer space?! I don’t care about Saturn! People don’t know how to pay their taxes. Gary Vaynerchuk, The GaryVee Audio Experience podcast, episode Why Entrepreneurship Isn’t For Everyone Something I admire about Gary Vaynerchuk,…
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Today, I thought of an interesting challenge. What if instead of trying to find more ways to make money I tried to live within my means. Specifically, what if I were able to get my monthly expenses low enough for them to be completely covered by my retirement and disability checks. Note: I finally finished…
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This morning, I listened to an episode of Pat Flynn‘s podcast called AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design. A travel blogger and mother of two has had success from her blog, but she has other interests and asks for advice on how to focus that energy without…
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Today in a conversation about past relationships, a friend mentioned the age old adage that ‘money can’t buy happiness.’ I politely disagreed. Experiencing happiness is subjective. This is an absolute, and will always be true. I’ve heard the saying for years and never thought to challenge it. In fact, I think I first heard as…
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There are so many ways to earn income. I try to put on friends and family as often as possible when I find news ways to save or earn money. Most of the ways are passive (via referrals and things like that) or ways that involve what they do day to day regularly. It’s painful…
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I finished Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
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I don’t want to talk about money, but it’s taking up so much room in my thoughts right now. Maybe for a goal, I should set out to be financially secure enough that money is no longer a distraction. That’s probably the goal anyway no matter if I declare it out loud or not. I’m…
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My attorney and I have been pushing forward as much as we can with settling a drawn out divorce. I’m having a pretty serious financial hardship following retirement. Here’s the situation with my divorce. We negotiated over the summer of 2018 and got a document ready to sign on our 27 Sep 2018. When I…