2. What You Need to Know to Nail Your Saving and Investing Habit
By Michael Gardon of The Simple Dollar So, you’re are ready to start building up a savings plan. Congrats. Most people don’t have any real plan when it comes to saving money. As a former professional trader, tne of the biggest questions I get asked by friends, family, and readers is “what is the best […]
1. Continue to Sort & Organize
As we continue our Awesome Finances Challenge, we’ll continue our daily sessions … and if you haven’t been doing them, let go of guilt and start now! So our focus is to continue tackling the messes, and work on getting things in awesome order. Make a list of the things you’d like to tackle this […]
4. My Experience Getting Out of Debt
Today I’m going to skip the beginning parts, where I was deep in debt, struggling, anxious about my finances all the time, with horrible financial habits, not wanting to look at my debts … … and instead I’ll talk about what I did to dig myself out of the hole, and what it was like. […]
3. A Simple Awesome Finances Plan
OK, don’t freak out … today we’re going to make a financial plan! But it will be simple, and won’t take long. You’re going to need the Power Amount you’ve been working on. If you haven’t done it yet, do it now. You can do it in 10 minutes (for now — add to it […]
2. Awesome Finances: Find a Power Amount
If you read this month’s plan, you know we’re going to be looking this week for a “Power Amount” that will help you with savings and also either debt payments or investments. This Power Amount is the key to the entire plan! Here’s why: With this bit of money, you’ll start increasing savings and either […]
1. Week 2: Start Creating Awesome Finances
Let’s move into Week 2 of our Awesome Finances Challenge — this week we’re going to use our daily session to start setting up our finances in an awesome way. What would awesome finances look like? Some ideas: You’re debt-free or moving in the direction of debt-free. That means creating an amount each month that […]
3. Finish Your Quick Assessment
We won’t do a detailed financial assessment in this challenge, but just get some of the basics down. I’d like you to use your next two sessions to finish up your assessment in small chunks. Here’s how. Day 1 Your action step depending on which track you’re in: Debt reduction: Yesterday you should have at […]
2. Awesome Finances: Start a Quick Assessment
We’ll start our road to Financial Awesomeness with a quick session: today we’ll briefly start our assessment of where we are. It’s hard to make any progress if you don’t know where you are yet, so it’s a great idea to take a few minutes to start to create a picture of your current financial […]