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Six Easy to Understand Benefits from Better Money Management

Based on classes that I do, seven higher level benefits have emerged because of better money management.  These are like goals as they can drive behavioral changes that lead to improved results. Look them over and see if they would be benefical … Continue reading

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Why You Might Want to Know the Value of Your Home

Your Home is a Big Part of Your Financial Health S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home-price index showed that home prices rose 0.7% in April, compared with March — the first increase in eight months. Prices rose in 13 cities and fell in … Continue reading

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Self Reliance can Increase Your Success and Wealth

Depending on your age, you may have noticed that our society has evolved significanly over the past 50 years. If you are fewer than 35 years old you may have to compare your lifestyle to the way your grandparents lived … Continue reading

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Six Actions which will Prevent You from Becoming Deceptively Poor

I am sure you have heard the proverbial frog and hot water story. The frog when dropped into a pan of very hot water immediately jumps out, but if placed into a pan of water that is slowly heated it … Continue reading

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Budgeting – An Easier and Better Way

Budgeting has to be one of the  least favorite things for mankind to do. Drop the “B” word and a chill goes up  our spines, colors fade into grayness and our mood sinks towards depression. I believe there are three … Continue reading

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This Suprises Most People

Connect the Dots I have yet to talk to someone, except some professional financial advisers, who has connected the dots about the size of your home (and its payment) to your ability to live with less debt and/or to retire … Continue reading

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What Kind of a Money Manager are You? Take this Pop Quiz.

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Supreme Court Justice Here is a financial literacy test from CredAbility, a nationwide credit counseling … Continue reading

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