Relationships in some regards are a lot like your own personal finances. Personal relationships take a great deal of work, planning, communication, understanding, goal setting, deposits and withdrawals. Personal finances require the exact same amount of work, planning, understanding, goal setting, deposits and withdrawals. The two are inexplicably linked in many ways and if one encounters some sort of difficulty the other will be adversely affected. Here are a few ways you can manage your money and your relationships and help the two grow strongly together.

GOAL SETTING: Where will you be in 5 or 10 years? This is a perfect Read the rest of this entry

We are faced with this question almost on a daily basis – Should I use paper or plastic to manage my money? Credit cards and debit cards are an incredible source of convenience. Having those items in our wallet probably saves us a few hours each week but they also cost us a lot more than we even realize because of a number of reasons. Are you are still trying to decide what’s better for you? There are pros and cons to both.

 SAFETY:   I’d have to say that cash is almost perfectly safe when compared to credit or debit cards.

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Manage money better. That is what these people wish they did. In the last post I wrote about four people who lost their millions after winning the lottery. Most of them won multiple millions and all were broke a couple of years after winning. This leads me to ask, what is not working? People think winning the lottery will solve their money problems; however, it did not work for these people. In fact, most of the people that win the lottery Read the rest of this entry

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                  If you are in control of money you can go to work because you want to. If money is in control of you then you go to work because you have to. This is a subtle difference in writing, but a big difference in how you live your life. Even in the wealthiest Country’s in the world, 99% of the population is still being controlled by money mostly because they don’t know how to manage money better. The effect is lack of money, the cause is thinking.

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