Tag: Everyday investing

  • Setting Priorities vs. Goals for the New Year

    Setting Priorities vs. Goals for the New Year

    For high achievers, or even moderate ones, the problem is less in setting good goals, as in finding the areas you can commit to that map to both the reality of your year ahead and the trajectory of your ambition. Priorities help.

  • Healthcare Decisions to Preserve Wealth

    Healthcare Decisions to Preserve Wealth

    Medical debt is prevalent in the U.S. Nearly 1 in 10 (9%) owe at least $2,000, according to a recent KFF analysis, and 3 million owe more than $10,000. Here’s a simple opinion: You must get a handle on your plan for handling medical costs. Don’t wait until you have to figure it out. Start…

  • The Magic of Financial Decisions Over Time

    The Magic of Financial Decisions Over Time

    Magic with money, is just someone spending more time deciding how to best use their financial resources than anyone else might reasonably expect. Personal, professional, and financial success is not accidental, but the result of spending more time than others consider reasonable. How you manage your money is one of the principle ways of expressing…

  • Getting Better With Money

    Getting Better With Money

    Money is not the main thing we want to get “good at.” We want to get good at life.

  • How We Grew our Investments Despite Rising Household Costs

    How We Grew our Investments Despite Rising Household Costs

    You probably know you are supposed to invest 10-15% of your gross income annually over 30-40 years in order to secure a comfortable retirement.  If you did not know that, now you do.  Your gross income is the amount you are paid prior to taxes or any other deductions (annual salary or hourly wage).  Over…

  • The Hidden Cost Of Stuff

    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…