Tag: money
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BR340) “The Psychology of Money” Book Review
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel. 3/5 rating. 81 pages. Book #2 of 2024. Read January 15, 2024. This is a short book about why we make the decisions we do about money, and how we can make better ones. I liked a lot of Morgan’s ideas…
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BR13) Think & Grow Rich Book Review
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. 3/5 rating. Book #84 of 2019. Read July 6, 2019. “Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.” This book was a mixture of really great advice about how to improve yourself and situation in order to…
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13) Debt – Choosing a Different Path
Debt is one of those things has become quite ordinary and acceptable in today’s world. Why!?! Why has it become main-stream to continually buy more than you can afford so that you can be forced to work longer and harder in the future to pay it off? I am here to put forth another way…
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10) Looking at Income and Expenses
We have looked in a previous post (Where to Start on Your Finances) about how to look at your net worth by making a personal balance sheet. Now that you have determined where you stand, let’s look next at your income and expenses by making a personal income statement. For this statement, we will look…
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7) Where to Start on Your Finances
So you have decided that you want to get on the right track with your finances. Maybe it’s because you want to travel to Rome and explore Vatican City, or maybe it is just because you are sick of living paycheck to paycheck. Whatever the reason, let me start by congratulating you. This decision is…
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3) My Views on Money
Money is a topic where everyone has something to say. You can find someone who will state adamantly that you should spend every dime (or even more) to make sure that you enjoy life. But it is as easy to find someone stating the opposite: that you should never spend anything in order to save…