Category: Understanding Money
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7 Tips for Persevering on Financial Goals
All great achievements come with a hidden cost: the waiting period to see the vision realized. The waiting period requires perseverance. We have to persevere in the midst of “false starts” and “painful groping.” Persevering is doing what we can today, so we can become someone who is capable of more tomorrow.
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The 4 Ways We Use Money
When we ensure we use our money according to our values, we realize a return that satisfies long past the initial exchange of money.
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Money mindset: Lessons From a Piggy Bank
Teaching our kids how to respond to financial mistakes and look for financial opportunity represents are incredible gift. Unfortunately, many of us were never were taught, or never figured out on our own, how to change our financial mindset. It’s not too late, and if you have children, you can bring them along with you…
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Getting Better With Money
Money is not the main thing we want to get “good at.” We want to get good at life.
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The Hidden Cost Of Stuff
Our dishwasher recently gave up the ghost. It wasn’t a very good dishwasher. We initially purchased it to replace one in our rental, but my husband was able to fix that one. Our dishwasher at the time was several decades older than I was, and although ran better than most of its human contemporaries, had…
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Figuring Out Your Values
How we manage our money is one of the principal ways we express our values in the world. What are our values? Our values are standards that we hold in high regard and live by. Your values may seem difficult to understand, but your standards are fairly easy to capture. If your standard of excellence…