Celebrate Your Accomplishments!
If I asked you to write a list of your life's accomplishments, how long do you think that list would be? If I asked you to write a list of things in your life that [...]
Can You Pay for Your Christmas Splurge?
You really wanted this year to begin right. To get a better handle on your money – know what comes in, where it goes and have more left over. And yet here we are, the [...]
What Will it Take to Move You Out of Your Comfort Zone?
A comfort zone is a place we like to hang out in because, well, it’s comfortable. These zones are everywhere in our lives, for instance, we get comfortable with the habits we have. They just [...]
5 Bad Money Habits and How to Break Them
We all have habits. Some are good, like exercising regularly and some are not so good, like the biscuit or chocolate bar late in the afternoon to "keep us going." The thing with habits is [...]
Financial Insecurity Makes You Irrational
You know that when you have money worries (or any worries for that matter), they can seem all consuming. You go to bed worrying about money and it's the first thing that pops into your [...]
Not all Dollars are Equal!
If you happen to have cash in your wallet right now, take out a note and have a look at it. It’s just a piece of paper. It has a picture of someone famous on [...]
We Are Not Rational!
Have you ever done something and then afterwards scratched your head and thought, “what on earth was I thinking!?” Welcome to the world of being human. We are not rational and despite our best intentions, [...]
Money Worries Affect Your Intelligence
We know that when we have money worries, they can seem all consuming. If we go to bed worrying about money, when we wake up the next morning and it’s the first thing that pops [...]
Money is Emotional, Even for Children
All our decisions are governed by emotions. Food is a classic example, when we see that sandwich or the chocolate cake or the donuts, we can taste it. Our emotions have told us. Money is [...]
Why is it So Easy to Spend Money?
While this sounds a really simple question, the answer isn’t as straight forward as we would probably like it to be. This simple question actually has two parts to it. The first is why do [...]