Tag: financial values
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Every Dollar is a Vote for Your Values
Every dollar we spend is a vote in favor of that item bringing us a degree of happiness. A new haircut, childcare, groceries, take-out, insurance premiums, new brakes for a car. Each of those items has the ability to give us something that gives us a degree of security, happiness, or change. So why do…
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Why You Think You’re Bad With Money
The top comment I hear when I tell women I work in behavioral finance is “I’m not good with money.” The two contenders for a close second are “I don’t know anything about money.” and “I don’t know anything about investing.” I could write a book on why I think women say this to me,…
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Let Your Values Shine Through Your Finances
Your money is one of the best places to start when you are talking about who you want to be. In fact, your money might be the THE best place to start. Your financial behaviors reveal and reinforce your values. The number one area that most of us miss about money is that that “being…
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Identifying Your Underlying Values
There’s a connection between stale cheese crackers and your financial management. Hear me out. We took all four kids to swim in a river on a Sunday afternoon. It was a great time. I packed a cooler with watermelon, water, and an assortment of leftover snacks in the pantry. One of them was a slightly stale…
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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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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…