Handling The Hard Stuff

Tag: Planning

  • Set Goals That Matter

    Any one of us that has tried to better themselves or learn something has set some form of goal – whether formal or not. If you’re anything like me, you’ve broken your own goals plenty of times over. We aim high and then the process of getting from start to finish is too long and…

  • Set It and Forget It Finances

    It’s easy to get overwhelmed by budgets and financial decisions and paying off debt and saving for retirement and all the things you’re supposed to be doing when you’re in the throes of adulting. But when you filter it down just a little there are a few simple things you can set up and take…

  • Free up your free time

    In a world where we are supposed to be immediately accessible at all times because of email and texts and social media, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the noise technology brings to our lives. The flip side is that technology and automation can bring a lot of freedom to our lives if we…

  • Kill Your Ego

    We are socially programmed to want new/better/special things. We want to “keep up with the Jones’s”. We want everyone on social media to know how happy and fun and special our lives are. But when you stop and ask yourself, do you really want these things? Why? What need is it fulfilling? I remember when…

  • Build Your Budget

    Being responsible with your money is tough – for a bunch of reasons. Sometimes it’s because we just don’t have enough to go around. Sometimes it’s because the basics are taken care of so you’re not paying attention. Sometimes it’s because it is hard to think about the future and thinking about tomorrow tomorrow is…

  • Define Your Own “Rich Life”

    Breaking News: We don’t all care about the same things. My closest friends and I value things so incredibly differently. I do NOT care about having a nice car, I care that I don’t have a car payment. My closest friends have brand new cars – a few of them even lease them just so…

  • Legacy Building

    A lot of us are the first in our family to do a thing. For some it’s to complete a certain level of education. For others it’s to have a certain type of job or comfort level. Regardless, you and your ancestors have worked hard to get where you are. Once you have achieved a…

  • Where’s Your Money?

    I recently read an article that says 56% of women married to men leave the financial planning and investment decisions to their husbands. The same article shared the statistic that 80% of women lose their spouse to death or divorce. Regardless of gender, in a lot of relationships there’s one person that “handles the finances”.…

  • I Love Boring

    I have never wanted to be special. I want to be average. I do not need to stand out in any way. Of course virtually nothing about me is average. But I have always been very comfortable being part of a system, just a cog in the wheel. The more we can systematize the more…

  • Everyday Excitement

    We spend so much of our lives living for this vacation or that holiday or that special event. But what about the boring days? In a year we maybe have 30 or so holiday or vacation or special event days. That means 11 months a year are the average everyday life days. I think rather…