Financial goals

“You’ll Just Have To Work Until You’re Seventy”

February 17, 2012

During your quest for financial freedom, hearing such a statement as in the title is discouraging, to say the least. Yet that is what one of the leading financial gurus in the U.S. Has said in the last year or so. Is she right? As much as I would like to disagree with her, I’m [...]

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The Magic Number

February 3, 2012

Do you have your number yet? The magic number? That number at which you can proclaim at the top of your lungs, “I AM FINANCIALLY FREE!!”? I had to sit down the other day and assure myself that our number was right. See, Dave Ramsey is wrong. Murphy lives in your house no matter how [...]

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Is Retirement The Ultimate Financial Goal?

December 16, 2011

There is an increasing number of people in the blogosphere declaring a goal of retiring early. I wish they would stop using the word “retirement.” The word wasn’t even part of the English language until sometime in the last 100 years, and it basically means to withdraw from life…or, at the very least, to stop [...]

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The Evils Of Financial Independence

December 9, 2011

It’s likely that you have heard the terms financial freedom and financial independence used interchangeably. And you may have heard others argue that no, they are not interchangeable; each one means something different and don’t you dare ever forget it! Recently, I read another person’s blog post where they were arguing that financial independence should [...]

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SIYB Episode 8: What You’re Missing About Money

November 11, 2011
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This is episode 8, not 9, as I announce at the beginning. Don’t know what I was thinking… Hoping for financial freedom, or do you think it’s a pipe dream? To become financially free is a possibility for everyone who seeks it, but before anyone can find it they have to understand some important principles [...]

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Three Reasons You Should Be Working Toward Financial Independence

September 16, 2010

Financial independence can be thought of in two ways: You work for yourself, or own a small business, and therefore your income depends solely upon your efforts, not on the whims of corporations who decide who to hire and fire, promote and demote. You earn and invest until you have a nest egg in at [...]

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Three Ways To Achieve Your Financial Goals Faster

March 3, 2010

In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of writing down your financial goals. One reader, whose comment apparently got erased when I changed my comment plugin (sorry, Tess), mentioned that even though she has written down her financial goals, they are taking much longer to be fulfilled than she had planned. I–and probably [...]

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Your Financial Goals: Write Them Down!

January 9, 2010

Many people have financial goals. They want to get out of debt. Pay off the car. Save up for a vacation. Start a retirement account. All of these are commendable goals. Unfortunately, most people never reach them. Why? They never write them down. Statistics are clear: only about 5% of people ever achieve the success [...]

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